[80] He is the narrator on Xbox One video game Kinect Sports Rivals, released in 2014. 'And that's how I met Stella,' he recalled in an interview with the New York Times Magazine in 2011. Lasnet asked Stella to have children with him within two months of their relationship starting. British supermodel Stella Tennant died on December 22 at the age of 50. RELATED ARTICLES. [113], In December 2005, The Stage placed Tennant at No. David Tennant surprised Doctor Who fans as he reprised his role as the Time Lord - with the actor set to star in three special episodes before handing over control of the Tardis next Christmas. David Lasnet also credited the model with 'lifting him out of depression' early in their marriage but said she did not know the depths of the support she had given him. But Tennant at Chanel gave up grunge other than her Sam McKnight spiked coiffure. In this May 22, 1999 file photo, Stella Tennant with French born David Lasnet on their wedding day in Oxnam, on the Scottish Borders. Where is Glen in the Scottish Borders? [5], In 2016, she co-designed a collection with Lady Isabel Cawdor for the Chanel owned London-based brand, Holland & Holland, she also ran Tennant & Son, a line of hand-knitted cashmeres and a luxury homewares company with her sister. Stella's father, Tobias William Tennant, meanwhile, was the son of the 2nd Baron Glenconner, and younger brother of Colin Tennant, the 3rd Baron Glenconner, who bought the Caribbean island of . LONDON Stella Tennant took her own life last month, . Three years ago, Tennant decided to go on Reddit to allow fans to ask him whatever they wanted. September 28, 2020 - 09:33 BST Gemma Strong. However, he was pleased to be able to use his own accent in one episode, when the Doctor briefly masquerades as "Dr. James McCrimmon" of Edinburgh in Tooth and Claw a nod to the Second Doctor's companion Jamie McCrimmon. [11][21], In 2016, Tennant and Lady Isabella Cawdor premiered a new ready to wear collection they designed for the gunmaker and clothing retailer Holland & Holland. The three-part series aired on BBC One in October and November 2013. 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. Karl Lagerfeld offered her bigger money in 1996, to replace Claudia Schiffer as the face, and thinner body, of Chanel. 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'David was sitting opposite me. They moved to the 18th-century house from New York in the US where Lasnet had forged a successful career as a photographer while Stella excelled as a model. On 13 March 2009, he presented Red Nose Day 2009 with Davina McCall. [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. Previous; 1; 2; . It was good, and it was smart, and it played perfectly with the boundaries of the format it was in. Tennant in a Linton tweed overcoat and two-tone desert boots, raking her fingers through her choppy hair, was classic Chanel. [16], Tennant appeared on fashion catwalks for Shiatzy Chen, Bill Blass, Dior and Chanel. (At art college she imitated favourite photographer Cindy Shermans technique of posing as stereotypes, and got them out of her system.). He played the title role in Big Finish's adaptation of Bryan Talbot's The Adventures of Luther Arkwright (2005). Tennant was awarded his first major TV role as Campbell Bain in the BBC Scotland drama series Takin' Over the Asylum (1994), after impressing director David Blair during filming of another drama Strathblair (1992). David Fisher/Shutterstock. Stella Tennant stepping down the aisle with French born David Lasnet in the small parish church of Oxnam / PA In 1993, aged 23, Mrs Tennant broke into modelling, posing for magazines such as . The drama was based on the 10-year fight of Marina Litvinenko and the London police force as they work to prove the guilt and release the names of those responsible for the 2006 poisoning of Litvinenko. Lambing and ewes, blood and guts and sex.. The film was released in December 2009. [124], Tennant is married to English actress Georgia Moffett, making him the son-in-law of actress Sandra Dickinson and Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison. He remarked in a radio interview: "Who wouldn't want to be the Doctor? Tennant and Lasnet separated earlier this year. Tobias Tennant, son of the 2nd Baron Glenconner, and his wife, Lady Emma Cavendish. Later, at 10 years old, she made her debut in Kenneth Branagh's film Belfast. [23] The family lived near Duns, in the small village of Edrom in Berwickshire, also in the Scottish Borders. He won the National Television Awards award for Most Popular Actor in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010. Neighbours were shocked at the news saying that, since the separation, David had seemingly moved to Edinburgh, where the couple had a mews house, and continued working as an osteopath while Stella had taken up riding. She liked the small, close teams of the 90s, and learning at fittings about clothing crafts. This does mean viewers should be wary of assuming Tennant is playing the same Tenth Doctor character. The fashion designer attributed to her resemblance to Coco Chanel. [14] In August 2020, Tennant and Lasnet announced they had separated. She made a video and became one of the faces of its campaign titled Turn Up the Style, Turn Down the Heat. They couple shared lunch after the shoot. Tennant won VH1/Vogue Model of the Year Award in 2001, Model of the Year at the 2011 British Fashion Awards and the Contribution to British Fashion award at the Harper's Bazaar Women of the Year 2016 awards; she was also inducted into the Scottish Fashion Awards Hall of Fame as Model of the Year in 2012. From October 2009, he hosted the Masterpiece Contemporary programming strand on the American Public Broadcasting Service. Tennant was a top supermodel for over 30 years and was regarded as a muse for many designers . Stella Tennant was born on 17 December 1970 in London, England,[9][10] the youngest of three children to the Hon. [99] For his performance, he won the International Emmy Award for Best Actor. 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. [10] His talent was noticed by actress Edith MacArthur, who told his parents that she believed he would become a successful theatre actor after she saw him perform when he was 10 years old. His other notable roles include Giacomo Casanova in the BBC comedy-drama serial Casanova (2005), Barty Crouch Jr. in . [100], In 2020 and 2021 he starred in the TV series Staged, with Michael Sheen. He also starred as the Doctor in another animated six-part Doctor Who series, Dreamland. 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. [27], He previously had a small role in the BBC's animated Doctor Who webcast Scream of the Shalka. British model Stella Tennant has died at the age of 50, her family have said. 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. Secret Smile might just be one of David Tennant's most underappreciated projects to date. He was voted 16th Sexiest Man in the World by a 2008 Cosmopolitan survey. He was open and up for it, and I got a good reaction. [96][97][98], In September 2020, he portrayed Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen in Des, a three-part miniseries on ITV. Answer: Stella Tennant: Model Dies Days After 50th Birthday English model Stella Tennant has passed on at 50 years old, her family have said. She came from a completely different background and was super-supportive of me always. The couple then moved to an 18th-century house on the . . She was the granddaughter of Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire and his wife Deborah Mitford, the youngest of the Mitford sisters. He and their children survive her. [90], Tennant played psychopathic villain Cale Erendreich in the thriller film Bad Samaritan (2018), written by Brandon Boyce and directed by Dean Devlin. Fashion. His roles include a reprisal of his Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, as well as Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice, Edgar in King Lear, and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, all of which he performs in his natural accent. [87], In 2017, Tennant appeared in writer/director Daisy Aitkens' first feature film, You, Me and Him. Stella's father, Tobias William Tennant, meanwhile, was the son of the 2nd Baron Glenconner, and younger brother of Colin Tennant, the 3rd Baron Glenconner, who bought the Caribbean . . [133][134] At the age of two, Olive had a cameo as John Barrowman's daughter in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. A friend arranged for Tennant to send passport pictures to an assistant at British Vogue, Plum Sykes, then working with the stylist Isabella Blow on a shoot called Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, with the US grunge look modelled by some ruined-looking English roses. A show source explained: "There have been two David Tennant Doctor Whos technically and with John Hurt playing another Doctor in the film, it basically means he can't regenerate again .