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Christopher Eccleston.

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Christopher Eccleston (/ ˈ ɛ k əl s t ən /; born 16 February ) is an English actor whose work has encompassed Hollywood blockbusters and arthouse films, television dramas, Shakespearean stage performances and science fiction, most notably the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC series Doctor Who ().

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Christopher Eccleston is an English actor best known for portraying the Ninth Doctor in the British television series ‘Doctor Who’, and Matt Jamison in the American drama series ‘The Leftovers’.

Tall and gaunt, with bony, long-nosed features and a deep, resonant voice, Eccleston is suited to playing intense, brooding characters. But he can also bring a quirky saturnine humour to lighter roles, and made an offbeat but effective choice for the ninth incarnation of Doctor Who (BBC, 2005- ).

He was born in Salford, Lancashire, the youngest of three sons in a working-class family, and attended local schools. At 19, inspired to an acting career by hard-hitting TV dramas like Boys from the Blackstuff (BBC, 1982), he completed a two-year performance course at Salford Tech before training at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He made his professional stage debut in 1988 with a support role in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Bristol Old Vic, and landed a couple of parts at the National Theatre, but for a year or two roles were hard to come by. His screen breakthrough came in Let Him Have It (d. Peter Medak, 1991), playing the ill-fated Derek Bentley, hanged for