Biography
As a toddler his ambition was to play football for his darling Manchester United, but he noticed himself to exist as the very much better actor than he was the football player, & inspired by television dramas like Boys from the Blackstuff, he took to acting as his profession.

He trained at a Central School of Speech and Drama and first came to public attention when Derek Bentley in the 1991 film Let Him Have It, according to avowedly cases. But, it was the regular role in the TV series Cracker (1993–94) — culminating in his character's striking demise in the 2nd series — that processed him the placeable figure in the UK.

He appeared in the sale-budget Danny Boyle film Shallow Grave in 1994, in which he co-starred sustaining a higher-&-energetic Ewan McGregor. A equivalent season, he won a a portion of Nicky Hutchinson in the heroic BBC drama serial Our Friends in the North, and it was a transmissiin of this production on BBC Two in 1996 that perhaps really mass produced him into the personal title in the UK.

His film career has since taken off by having the kind of high-profile but not — except within a single or even 2 shells — major roles, including area around Elizabeth (1998), eXistenZ (1999), Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000), The Others (2001), 24 Hour Party People (2002) and a second Danny Boyle film, a horror pic 28 Days Later (2002). He has starred alongside ii major Hollywood actresses within smaller independent motion picture, swimming paired Renée Zellweger in A Price Above Rubies (1998) and Cameron Diaz in The Invisible Circus (2001). Despite starring in the car-heist pic Go into Sixty Seconds, he did non actually require his camping trial until January 2004 & is just licenced to cause automatic transmission cars.

Despite his successful film career, he has continued to come out withinside the kind of substantive television roles, racking higher credits in a select few of the virtually all challenging & thought-challenging British television dramas of recent years. These stand involved Clocking Off (2000) and Flesh & Blood (2002) for the BBC and Hillsborough (1996), a modern version of Othello (2002, playing 'Ben Jago', a Iago character) and a religious telefantasy epos The Second Coming (2003, playing Steve Baxter, a boy of God. A select few encountered this ironic when Eccleston is an atheist) for ITV. He besides finds instance for the occasional weak-blithesome role, even so, when his guest appearances inside episodes of the comedy drama Linda Green (2001) and grim sketch indicate The League of Gentlemen (2002) have shown.

around stage, his greatest-profile production has been his starring role in Hamlet at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds in 2002. A West Yorkshire Playhouse occurs as favorite venue of his, & he last returned there in the newly play Electricity, which ran inside March & April 2004.

a super extremely-regarded actor, he has twice been nominated in the Better Actor category at the BAFTA Television Awards, the UK's premier TV awards ceremony. His 1st nomination come inside 1997 for Our Friends in the North, when he wasted bent Nigel Hawthorne (for The Fragile Heart), and he was nominated over againside in 2004 for The Second Coming, this time existence beaten by Bill Nighy (for State of Play). He did, even so, triumph in a Better Actor categories at the 1997 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards & a Royal Television Society Awards, winning for Our Friends north. He won a RTS Better Actor award for another instance inside 2003, this time for his performance around Flesh & Blood.

Inside July 2004 a poll of industry experts, conducted by Radio Times magazine, voted Eccleston the Nineteenth Virtually all Powerful Individual within Television Drama.

Doctor Who
Inside March 2004, it was announced that Eccleston was to play the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in the revival of the legendary BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, which started airing within March 2005. A series executive producer and writer Russell T. Davies has said that Eccleston was the first choice for the part. Despite this, a British tabloid press ran reports that Bill Nighy had been offered the role 1st, however declined.

Eccleston has a distinction of existence a 1st actor to play a Doctor world health organization was actually natural fallowing a begin of a original television series; he was innate fortnight when the far-famed number 1 Dalek story was 1st broadcast in the UK.

In March 30, 2005, a BBC freed the statement, seemingly from either Eccleston, saying that he experienced decided to leave the role when simply a single series, owing to fears that he would be typecast. In April 4, the BBC revealed that Eccleston's "statement" experienced been falsely attributed & freed while forgoing his consent. A BBC admitted that it got broken an agreement processed within January does'nt to disclose publicly a fact that he lof these meant to launder one year. A statement experienced been processed fallowing journalists mass produced question to the click professional.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4410943.stm] Eccleston's 1-annual tenure makes him either a shortest or even 2nd shortest-serving Doctor up to now, based in how else of these numbers a tenure of Paul McGann, who, patch a "official" Doctor for or so nine years, single appeared in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie. Eccleston's role when a Doctor was taken above by David Tennant at the prevent of the survive episode of the 2005 series, The Parting of the Ways.

In June 11 2005 during a BBC radio interview, when asked in case he experienced enjoyed working in Doctor Who, Eccleston responded by saying, "Mixed, but that's a long story." Eccleston's reasons for allowing the a portion prove my point to exist as a subject of discussion within Britain's newspapers: in October 4, 2005 Alan Davies told The Daily Telegraph that Eccleston had been "overworked" per BBC, & got left a role because he was "exhausted" [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/10/04/bvalan04.xml]. Ten years late, Eccleston told The Daily Mirror this was not admittedly, & expressed a few pain at Davies for his comments [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/10/04/bvalan04.xml].

After the Doctor
Inside June 2005 it was announced at the Cannes Film Festival that he experienced signed to come out within a British-processed sci-fi romanticist comedy known as Double Life, all about the human world health organization thinks he loves twin sisters. It has been billed as a tale of love & obsession" and will be set in Budapest. The film will be directed by Joe Ahearne (who directed Eccleston in Doctor Who) and is being produced by author Lynda La Plante's company Cougar Films.

Filmography
28 Days Later (2002) Revengers Tragedy (2002) I Am Dina (2002) 24 Hour Party People (2002) The Invisible Circus (2001) The Others (2001) Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) With or Without You (1999) eXistenZ (1999) Heart (1999) Elizabeth (1998) Jude (1996) Shallow Grave (1994) Anchoress (1993) Death and the Compass (1992) Let Him Have It (1991)

Television
Doctor Who (2005) (The Doctor) The Second Coming (2003) Proof (2003) music video for band I Am Kloot. The King and Us (2002) Sunday (2002) Othello (2002) Flesh and Blood (2002) The League of Gentlemen (2002) Linda Green (2001) Strumpet (2001) Clocking Off (2000) Wilderness Men (2000) Killing Time - The Millenium Poem (1999) Hillsborough (1996) Our Friends in the North (1996) Cracker'' (1993) Business with Friends (1992) Friday On My Mind (1992) Rachel's Dream (1992) ''Poirot (1992) Boon (1991) Chancer (1991) Inspector Morse (1991) Casualty (1990) Blood Rights (1990)

Radio and Narration
E=mc² (Narrator) (2005) A day in the Death of Joe Egg (Joe) (2005) Born to be Different (Narrator) (2005) Sacred Nation (Narrator) (2005) Aspirations (Squaddie) (2005) Cromwell - Warts and All (Narrator) (2003) The Importance of Being Morrissey (Narrator) (2002) Some Fantastic Place'' (Narrator) (2001)

Theatre
Electricity (Jakey) (2004) - West Yorkshire Playhouse Hamlet (Hamlet) (2002) - West Yorkshire Playhouse Miss Julie (Jean) (2000) - Haymarket Theatre Waiting At The Water's Edge (Will) (1993) - Bush Theatre Encounters - National Theatre Studio Aide-Memoire (1990) - Royal Court Theatre Abingdon Square (1990) - National Theatre/Shared Experience Bent (1990)- National Theatre Dona Rosita, The Spinster - Bristol Old Vic The Wonder - Gate Theatre Woyzeck (Woyzeck)- Birmingham Rep A Streetcar Named Desire (Pablo Gonzallez) (1988)- Bristol Old Vic

Selected Awards and Nominations
Film & Television

2005 - Won TV Quick and TV Choice Award for Best Actor for Doctor Who 2005 - Nominated - National Television Awards Best Actor for Doctor Who 2004 - Nominated BAFTA Television Award for Best Actor for The Second Coming 2003 - Won Royal Television Society Award for Best Actor for Flesh and Blood 1997 - Nominated BAFTA Television Award for Best Actor for Our Friends in the North 1997 - Won Broadcasting Press Guild Award Best Actor for Our Friends in the North 1997 - Nominated - Golden Satellite Award Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for Jude''