Christopher Eccleston Net Worth

Christopher Eccleston's Quotes

• I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.
• A year later, and I'm average again.
• Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.
• Culturally, we've always felt it important to express the life of the country, and working class comes into that.
• I came out of school in '79 when unemployment was really starting to bite, went back and redid my O-levels, there was a play going on and I was corralled into it.

Interesting Facts about Christopher Eccleston

1. He is the youngest of three sons of Ronnie and Elsie Eccleston.
2. He was the first actor to play the title character in a Doctor Who (2005) story to be born after the show first commenced in November 1963.
3. He follows in a long line of well-known actors to have portrayed the character of the Doctor from Doctor Who on screen: William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy all played the role in the original television series, while Paul McGann played the role in the 1996 television movie and Peter Cushing played it in two films made in the 1960s.
4. He has retained his Lancashire accent.
5. Although he admitted in interviews that he was never a "fan" or even a keen viewer of Doctor Who (1963), he did see some episodes and his earliest memory of seeing it was Second Doctor Patrick Troughton in the black-and-white episodes of the late 1960s.
6. He was cast in Terry Gilliam's The Man who Killed Don Quixote, but did not film any scenes before production closed down. In the documentary Lost in La Mancha (2002), his photograph appears on a pin-board featuring photos of the cast.
7. He emailed his old friend, the writer and producer Russell T. Davies, and asked to be put on the list of possibles for the title role in the revival of Doctor Who (2005) series. He has claimed in interviews that he was not a fan of the original Doctor Who (1963) and was really attracted to take the part because of his admiration for Davies as a writer.
8. The BBC admitted that they announced his departure from Doctor Who (2005) too early. It was agreed in the January that he would only do one series and a Christmas special. The announcement of his departure should have be made about halfway through the new series run.
9. He turned down a role in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998).
10. He is one of three "Doctor Who" actors who portrayed The Doctor on television to appear in an episode of Casualty (1986). The others are Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy.
11. Of the twelve actors to play the Doctor in Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who (1996) and Doctor Who (2005), he, Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi are the only ones who never worked with the late Nicholas Courtney, who played Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart in the former from 1968 to 1989 as well as in numerous Big Finish audio dramas.
12. He is the younger brother of twins Alan Eccleston and Keith Eccleston.
13. He is the uncle of Peter Eccleston and Rebecca Eccleston, who acted with him in Let Him Have It (1991).
14. He often collaborates with Phyllida Lloyd on stage.
15. One of his co-stars in Let Him Have It (1991) was Mark McGann, who is the younger brother of Paul McGann, his immediate predecessor as the Doctor.
16. According to an interview with Eccleston in the August 2010 issue of Mojo magazine, his favorite album is "What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye.
17. Eccleston married in 2010, and became a father to his first child, Albert, in February 2012. His wife's name has never been made public, but Eccleston spoke movingly about her and his son at a talk at the National Theatre in July 2012, comparing her to his own beloved mother.
18. He is a supporter of Manchester United Football Club.
19. He is a supporter of the British Red Cross Society.
20. He has two children, a son Albert born 2012, and a daughter Esme born 2014.