He has also been a voice actor in The Pirates! "Stella had been unwell for some time," a spokesperson for Tennant said. And yet that photo in 1993 kicked off a 27-year career, a longevity enjoyed by only a few top models, most of whom earn the sobriquet "super" for their trouble. All about Stella Tennant. In May 2022, in relation to the show's 60th anniversary, it was announced that Tennant would once again return to the show, alongside Tate, who would reprise her role as Donna Noble. News of her death was confirmed only months after their split and just five days after her 50th birthday. [14][15] He is reported to have thought her reminiscent of Coco Chanel. The three-part series aired on BBC One in October and November 2013. Stella Tennant, a British supermodel who rose to fame in the '90s, has died days after her 50th birthday. [81], Tennant also portrayed the villainous Kilgrave in Jessica Jones, a television series from Marvel and Netflix. From an unconventional aristocratic family, she worked with Helmut Lang, Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and Gianni Versace. She has died suddenly, shortly after her 50th birthday. [96][97][98], In September 2020, he portrayed Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen in Des, a three-part miniseries on ITV. The Scot made her name in the mid 1990s on catwalks for planners like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, and on the covers Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. By [42] Tennant is the voice behind the 2007 advertising campaign for catalogue retailer Argos, and appeared in adverts for The Proclaimers' 2007 album and learndirect in June 2008. In this May 22, 1999 photo, Stella Tennant with French born David Lasnet on their wedding day in Oxnam, on the Scottish Borders. Furthermore, Cecily Lasnet was born to her parents David Lasnet (Father) who is a French photographer, and Stella Tennant (Mother) who was a British model. In November 2008, Tennant played Sir Arthur Eddington in the BBC and HBO biographical film Einstein and Eddington, which was filmed in Cambridge and Hungary. Death More from News. The first series was filmed in Clevedon, North Somerset, and Bridport, Dorset, between August and November 2012, and aired in March 2013. He is student Cody Tennant, still just 19, who three years ago launched a legal bid to challenge his eccentric grandfather Lord Glenconner's will in the High Court of St Lucia. Stella Tennant, the iconic British model famed for her statuesque beauty and inimitable personal style, has passed away at the age of 50. [27] She also supported initiatives aimed at reducing fashion's effect on the environment,[17] including Oxfam's "Second Hand September". It was love at first sight, she recalled. [7] Her family announced the following month that she had died by suicide after being unwell for a prolonged period of time.[8]. The film was released in September 2014. Although the circumstances of her death are unknown, it was claimed that the model was concerned about the impact of Covid on the fashion industry and had concerns she would not work again. [79] One advert was voluntarily withdrawn after a complaint lodged by BBC Worldwide, which believed that the advert broke the corporation's guidelines by featuring references to Doctor Who that appeared to be a commercial endorsement of the service. "Omg, David Tennant back as the doctor, best regeneration ever," one person wrote on Twitter. (2011), Ferdinand (2017), Final Space (20182021), gen:LOCK (2019present), the How to Train Your Dragon films (20102019), and as Scrooge McDuck in DuckTales (20172021). Biography, news, photos and videos . Karl Lagerfeld named Tennant the face of Chanel in 1996, and she was cited by several designers as their . I'm not going to dye my hair I don't want to pretend to be something that I'm not,' she said. ", which aired on 9 June 2007. I was so nervous that the rice kept falling off my fork. "Stella was Gianni Versace's muse for many years and friend of the family. 'I'm incredibly glad to be where I am. In 2005, he starred in UNIT: The Wasting for Big Finish, recreating his role of Brimmicombe-Wood from a Doctor Who Unbound play, Sympathy for the Devil. Unusually for a fashion star, Tennant stayed faithful to her home territory. After Stella Tennant's sudden death at the age of 50, fashion designers and photographers paid tribute to the iconic model on social media. Stella Tennant and David Lasnet married at a parish church in the Scottish Borders in 1999 Credit: PA . [114] In January 2006, readers of the British gay and lesbian newspaper The Pink Paper voted him the "Sexiest Man in the Universe". She had had a unique look since childhood chopped her own black hair urchin-tousled, flaunted the punk clothes her older sister forwarded from London and wore a nose ring. She had recently had her nasal septum pierced, which was an unusual look for models at the time. [22] He began to appear on television more prominently in 2004 and 2005, when he appeared in a dramatisation of He Knew He Was Right (2004), Blackpool (2004), Casanova (2005), and The Quatermass Experiment (2005). David Fisher/Shutterstock Stella Tennant at the UK Fashion Awards in 2019. She joked that "we're like George and Mildred in 20 years' time we'll probably be doing a ropey old sitcom in a terraced house in Preston". Joel Golby of the Guardian described it: "David Tennant and Michael Sheen squabbled over Zoom as exaggerated, frustrated, hyper-thespian versions of themselves, in an actors-playing-actors miniseries with the exact same energy of a late-night Comic Relief sketch; 15-minute episodes where you got to see familiar actors with their off-duty haircuts saying words that seemed real. Tennant was a top supermodel for over 30 years and was regarded as a muse . NHS risks being overwhelmed by cancer as cases set . As previous Doctor Christopher Eccleston had retained his northern tones, then-current showrunner Russell T Davies opted against the idea of having two consecutive Doctors with strong regional . She was the granddaughter of Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire and his wife Deborah Mitford, the youngest of the Mitford sisters. [138], For other people named David Tennant, see. Her parents ran a farm at Newcastleton in the Scottish Borders, where, like older brother Eddy and sister Isabel, she went to the local primary before being sent to St Leonards school in St Andrews. The Scot made her name in the early 1990s on catwalks for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, and on the covers . [1] His father was a minister who served as the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. [60][61] He played dual roles: the main character, put-upon teacher Mr. Peterson, and his "golden boy" twin brother and rival. (Lasnet later retrained as an osteopath.) She was a second cousin of artist Daphne Guinness, through their great-grandparents, Sydney and David . In January 2006, he took a one-day break from shooting Doctor Who to play Richard Hoggart in a dramatisation of the 1960 Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial, The Chatterley Affair. [6], Raised on a 1,500-acre (6km2) sheep farm that her parents ran at Newcastleton, in the Scottish Borders,[7] Tennant went to the local primary then attended St Leonards School in St Andrews[9] followed by Marlborough College[11] before completing a degree in sculpture at the Winchester School of Art. [10] He also made an early television appearance in the Scottish TV sitcom Rab C Nesbitt as a transgender barmaid called Davina. The couple's move across the Atlantic inspired Lasnet to retrain and he studied to be an osteopath - a profession choice he recalls was sparked by his son Marcel developingwhooping cough as a toddler. Tennant has worked extensively on stage, including a portrayal of the title character in a 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet that was later adapted for television. Tennant, the . Iris Lasnet was welcomed by David and Stella, in 2004. . When asked for the secret to the longevity of their marriage, Lasnet said: 'Well, I think we want to make it work, you know? [135] In 2013, Tennant and Moffett had a son named Wilfred. Tennant, the aristocratic British model who was a muse to designers including Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace, has died suddenly at the age of 50, her family said Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. Tennant was invited to set for a photoshoot with Testino in New York and the pair hit it off. His performance as Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger at the Theatre Royal, Bath, and Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, was recorded by the National Video Archive of Performance for the Victoria and Albert Museum Theatre Collection. "[101], In September 2022, Tennant starred as Reverend Harry Watling in BBC1's Inside Man, which was written by Steven Moffat. [78], In 2012 he appeared in a multi-million-pound campaign for Virgin Media, starring in three adverts. Tennant was born David John McDonald in Bathgate on 18 April 1971, the son of Helen (ne McLeod; 19402007) and Alexander "Sandy" McDonald (19372016). Tennant's maternal grandfather, footballer Archie McLeod, met William and Agnes' daughter Nellie while playing for Derry City FC. They were then the money generator, though Tennant worked without demanding supermodel premiums just to get out of bed. He won the National Television Awards award for Most Popular Actor in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010. 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Tennant's family, including her husband, David Lasnet, and their four children . Elle est ne Londres, au Royaume-Uni. Later that same year, he appeared as Barty Crouch Jr. in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Tennant's performance of Hamlet was critically acclaimed. [29], In June 2012, Tennant was inducted as Model of the Year into the Scottish Fashion Awards Hall of Fame at its annual awards event.[30]. The couple then moved to an 18th-century house on the . Tennant was born Ty Peter Martin-Moffett at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital in the White City area of West London to then 17-year-old actress Georgia Moffett and grew up in Chiswick. The husband of Stella Tennant spoke candidly about their marriage years before her death saying the secret to their 20 year marriage was: 'We want to make it work'. British supermodel Stella Tennant died on Tuesday at the age of 50. [137] In 2019, they had another daughter named Birdie. [44] In December 2009, he filmed the lead in an NBC pilot, Rex Is Not Your Lawyer, playing Rex, a Chicago lawyer who starts to coach clients to represent themselves when he starts suffering panic attacks. [29] Tennant guest starred as the Doctor in a two-part story in Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures, broadcast in October 2009. Tennant has gone on record as saying that, contrary to tabloids reports, he was not upset at not being able to play the role in his own accent and in fact had never wanted to. 6 in its "Top Ten" list of the most influential British television artists of the year, citing his roles in Blackpool, Casanova, Secret Smile, and Doctor Who. He watched almost every Doctor Who episode for years and once spoke to Fourth Doctor actor Tom Baker at a book-signing event in Glasgow. In 2004 Tennant played a lead role in the Big Finish audio play series Dalek Empire III as Galanar, a young man who is given an assignment to discover the secrets of the Daleks. [31] He played the Doctor in four special episodes in 2009, before his final episode aired on 1 January 2010, where he was replaced by the Eleventh Doctor, portrayed by Matt Smith. He joined Franz Ferdinand onstage to play the guitar on their song "No You Girls" on a special Comic Relief edition of Top of the Pops. Tennant's first professional role upon graduating from drama school was in a staging of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui co-starring Ashley Jensen; one of a few plays in which he performed as part of the agitprop 7:84 Theatre Company. In this May 22, 1999 file photo, Stella Tennant with French born David Lasnet on their wedding day in Oxnam, on the Scottish Borders. He later performed alongside Davison's daughter, Georgia Moffett (as "Jenny") in the 2008 episode "The Doctor's Daughter". Over the years she appeared in advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein, Chanel, Herms and Burberry. [95], Tennant stars as a doctor suspected of murdering his family in Deadwater Fell, a Scottish true crime miniseries, which premiered in January 2020 on Channel 4. Tennant and Lasnet separated earlier this year. [18], Tennant contributed to several audio dramatisations of Shakespeare for the Arkangel Shakespeare series (1998). [113], In December 2005, The Stage placed Tennant at No. [37] The three 60th anniversary special episodes will air in November 2023. He played Alan, a self-made building site manager who attempted to rebuild his life after suffering a debilitating brain injury. Read more. (At art college she imitated favourite photographer Cindy Shermans technique of posing as stereotypes, and got them out of her system.). Rest In Peace." In 1993, aged 23, Mrs Tennant broke into modelling, posing for magazines such as French, British and . The English-language version of the film has dialogue written by Simon Pegg, who also starred in it as a main voice actor. [116], Tennant is an ambassador for Worldwide Cancer Research. [34] Tennant also returned to the role on 13 July 2018, as part of the live Muppets show The Muppets Take the O2 in London (in which the Tenth Doctor appeared onstage as part of a live Pigs in Space sketch). He declared his support for then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2010, and labelled David Cameron a "terrifying prospect". [118] In April 2010, he lent his voice to a Labour election broadcast. The pair split in August Stella Tennant died this week just weeks after her 50th . [136] In November 2015, Tennant announced that they had recently had a daughter named Doris. He and their children survive her. Paris-born photographer Mr Lasnet previously described his wife as 'super-supportive' and credited her with improving his mental health after he suffered depression in his 20s. 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