The very opposite of a social butterfly, quite unstarry, and all the more popular in the community for it, one of them said yesterday. [14], Tennant made his professional acting debut while still in secondary school. She will be greatly missed. From then on, everything got better.'. Jessica Jones for Netflix", "David Tennant sets Radio 4 Just a Minute record", "Did you know David Tennant was in Just Cause 3? News of her death was confirmed only months after their split and just five days after her 50th birthday. The film was released in December 2009. She announced her first retirement from modelling before she was 30, when she married (dressed by favourite designer Helmut Lang) in the local kirk with no celebs invited. Tennant, 50, was found dead on December 22. David's career began in theater and small TV roles. David Lasnet is a French photographer while Stella Tennant was a British model. [11][18], Tennant married French photographer and osteopath David Lasnet in the village of Oxnam, Roxburghshire, on 22 June 1999. 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. It . [27], He previously had a small role in the BBC's animated Doctor Who webcast Scream of the Shalka. Blanche hides the fact she has lost her job and slowly develops a mental break with reality and comes . But that was the only thing that gave the impression she wasnt completely happy.. 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. [110], Tennant was ranked the 24th most influential person in the British media on 9 July 2007, according to MediaGuardian. [109], In 2008, Tennant was voted "Greenest Star on the Planet" in an online vote held by Playhouse Disney as part of the Playing for the Planet Awards. Karl Lagerfeld. Her death is considered sudden, but police say there are no suspicious circumstances. "It's exciting in part," she told Vogue, "but it can be excruciatingly dull.". When his mother married Scottish actor David Tennant in 2011, whom she had met in 2008, Tennant adopted Ty, who gained Tennant's surname. [19] In 2003 Tennant appeared in the film Bright Young Things. Tobias William Tennant. British model Stella Tennant has died at the age of 50, her family have said. [52] From August to November 2008 he appeared at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon as Hamlet, playing that role in repertory with Berowne that October and November. Over the years she appeared in advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein, Chanel, Herms and Burberry. In December 2008, he was named as one of the most influential people in show business by British theatre and entertainment magazine The Stage, making him the fifth actor to achieve a ranking in the top 20 (in a list typically dominated by producers and directors). Despite much of his work being television work, Tennant has described theatre work as his "default way of being". British supermodel Stella Tennant took her own life last month, her family has confirmed, saying the pioneering 90s star "felt unable to go on." Tennant, who shunned traditionally feminine . [91] Tennant also plays Crowley in the miniseries Good Omens,[92] which was released in full on Amazon Prime Video on 31 May 2019 and was released on BBC Two on 15 January 2020. In this May 22, 1999 file photo, Stella Tennant with French born David Lasnet on their wedding day in Oxnam, on the Scottish Borders. McLeod was descended from tenant farmers from the Isle of Mull. The episode showed Tennant apparently predicting future events correctly by using automatic writing. Tobias Tennant, son of the 2nd Baron Glenconner, and his wife, Lady Emma Cavendish. And it's very easy to destroy something. He rose to fame for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who (20052010; 2013), returning to the show as the fourteenth incarnation of the character in 2022. Stella Tennant (17 December 1970 - 22 December 2020) was a British model and fashion designer, [2] who rose to fame in the early 1990s and had a career that spanned almost 30 years. [51] He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), to play Hamlet with Patrick Stewart and Berowne in Love's Labours Lost in 2008. Stella's mother was Lady Emma Cavendish, daughter of Andrew Cavendish, the 11th Duke of Devonshire, whose seat is the famous Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. Her groom was David Lasnet, assistant to the photographer Mario Testino; they had met on a shoot. Stella Tennant, model, born 17 December 1970, died 22 December . Tennant was born David John McDonald in Bathgate on 18 April 1971, the son of Helen (ne McLeod; 19402007) and Alexander "Sandy" McDonald (19372016). [84][85] In autumn 2015, Tennant's name was announced for Scottish feature film I Feel Fine, a thriller set in Glasgow in the 1980s. [64] Tennant auditioned for the role of Hannibal Lecter in NBC's Hannibal; he was narrowly beaten for the part by Mads Mikkelsen. Related Topics. Stella Tennant, model and designer, born 17 December 1970; died 22 December 2020, Model who rose to fame in the 1990s, capturing the attention of Karl Lagerfeld and gracing the pages of Vogue, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. [103][104][105][106], In December 2022, Tennant starred as Alexander Litvinenko in the ITV1 dramatisation Litvinenko. 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. Is Stella Tennant related to Colin Tennant? ", which aired on 9 June 2007. (2011), Ferdinand (2017), Final Space (20182021), gen:LOCK (2019present), the How to Train Your Dragon films (20102019), and as Scrooge McDuck in DuckTales (20172021). [115] In October 2006, he was named "Scotland's most stylish male" in the Scottish Style Awards. Her first shoot made the cover of British Vogue in December 1993, which Mrs Tennant later said came about 'by accident', and at the end of that day's work she was asked to do a Versace campaign in Paris, which ended up as the cover of the Italian edition. In TV & Satellite Week (26 April 2 May issue), the host of the show, Derren Brown, is quoted as saying: "One of the appeals of Doctor Who for David is time travel, so I wanted to give him that experience. Tennant developed his career in the British theatre, frequently performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company. [48] He returned to cohost the show for one day in October 2010. [12][13] He later legally changed his surname to comply with rules set by the American Screen Actors Guild (which was later merged into SAG-AFTRA). [20] During the Closing Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, Tennant, along with Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss, was one of the British models wearing fashions created by British designers specifically for the event. He was hired as a set assistant after declining the designer's offer to model for him, instead asking for a job behind the camera. [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]. He made the coments in a candid interview about their marriage nine years before her death. Model Stella Tennant dies aged 50. Lasnet asked Stella to have children with him within two months of their relationship starting. [38], While playing the Doctor, Tennant was also in the early December 2005 ITV drama Secret Smile. Supermodel Stella Tennant 's family has confirmed her cause of death. 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. England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008. [24], Tennant died on 22 December 2020, aged 50,[17][25] in Duns, Scottish Borders, Scotland. [22] She continued to sculpt, and with her sister, a gilder, operated a luxury homewares company, Tennant & Tennant. When David Tennant was cast as the Doctor in 2005, one of the biggest creative decisions regarding his incarnation involved what accent he would use. [9] Stella was the great niece of the flamboyant socialite Stephen Tennant, and was directly descended from Bess of Hardwick, a notable figure of Elizabethan English society,[9] and a fourth cousin, once removed, to Diana, Princess of Wales. However, on 29 October 2008, he announced that he would be stepping down from the role after three full series. [54][55] In 2009, he worked on a TV film version of the RSC's 2008 Hamlet for BBC Two. In 2007, Tennant's Tenth Doctor appeared with Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor in a Doctor Who special for Children in Need, written by Steven Moffat and entitled "Time Crash". [12], In 1993, Tennant sent photographs of herself to a high fashion magazine, and a friend introduced her to fashion writer Plum Sykes (Victoria Rowland). [70] Tennant repeated his performance as Richard II in the RSC's 'King and Country' cycle in 2016, starting at the Barbican Theatre in London[71] before transferring to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. She was well liked, warm and friendly. The character when interacted with makes a number of references to Doctor Who. The play follows the story of two sisters, Blanche and Stella, and Stella's husband Stanley. I've even got my own TARDIS!" Tennants manner was so fresh that she soon had an agent, a flat in New York, and the unofficial record for being in the most catwalk shows, 75, in a season. [39], On 25 February 2007, Tennant starred in Recovery, a 90-minute BBC One drama written by Tony Marchant. The first series was filmed in Clevedon, North Somerset, and Bridport, Dorset, between August and November 2012, and aired in March 2013. FILE In this May 22, 1999 file photo, Stella Tennant with French born David Lasnet on their wedding day in Oxnam, on the Scottish Borders. (Lasnet later retrained as an osteopath.) 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[10] Hamlet transferred to the Novello Theatre in London's West End in December 2008, but Tennant suffered a prolapsed disc during previews and was unable to perform from 8 December 2008 until 2 January 2009, during which time the role was played by his understudy Edward Bennett. All about Stella Tennant. 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 . Totally Tennant. [57], In 2011, he starred in United, about the Manchester United "Busby Babes" team and the 1958 Munich air disaster, playing coach and assistant manager Jimmy Murphy. [117], Tennant is a supporter of the Labour Party and appeared in a party political broadcast for them in 2005. Tennant also lent his voice to adverts for Tesco Mobile, Nintendo Wii, and American Express. At the time, Tennant herself was a graduate in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, who, realising she did not have enough to say to become an artist, had tried and failed to monetise her near 6ft height and remarkable bones in modelling. [10] He also made an early television appearance in the Scottish TV sitcom Rab C Nesbitt as a transgender barmaid called Davina. Stella Tennant Enfants.Stella Tennant est ne le 17 dcembre 1970. 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. [25], Tennant has expressed enthusiasm about fulfilling his childhood dream. It was love at first sight, she recalled. [16][17] She also modelled frequently for other influential fashion photographers of the 1990s, including Mario Testino, David Sims and Mark Borthwick. [7][8], At the age of three, Tennant told his parents that he wanted to become an actor because he was a fan of Doctor Who,[9] but they encouraged him to aim for more conventional work. "Its that . [8][26], In 2009, Tennant worked with green lifestyle organisation Global Cool to promote using less energy at home. In an Adventure with Scientists! According to her family, she died by suicide after struggling with her mental health. Model Stella Tennant walks the runway at the Ralph Lauren fashion show during New York Fashion Week: The Shows at Skylight Clarkson Sq on September 14, 2016, in New York . Fashion. Her groom was David Lasnet, assistant to the photographer Mario Testino; they had met on a shoot. He appeared in the paper's annual media rankings in 2006. Stella Tennant at the UK Fashion Awards in 2019. [113], In December 2005, The Stage placed Tennant at No. [7] Her family announced the following month that she had died by suicide after being unwell for a prolonged period of time.[8]. Tennant, who maintained her edge throughout her lengthy career in fashion, died this week at age 50, Vogue reported. The pair split in August Stella Tennant died this week just weeks after her 50th . [135] In 2013, Tennant and Moffett had a son named Wilfred. 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. (Her farmer father offered to lead her round his bull pen.). In 1995, Tennant appeared at the Royal National Theatre, London, playing the role of Nicholas Beckett in Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw. She was a muse of the designers Karl Lagerfeld,[18] Gianni Versace,[17][19] Alexander McQueen, Nicolas Ghesquire, Riccardo Tisci and Victoria Beckham. By When asked for the secret to the longevity of their marriage, Lasnet said: 'Well, I think we want to make it work, you know? Moreover, Cecily Lasnet is not on social media platforms including Instagram and Twitter. Tennant was a top supermodel for over 30 years and was regarded as a muse for many designers . Born David John McDonald in 1971, David Tennant had always wanted to be an actor. I had to give up eating,' she recalled. British model Stella Tennant has died at the age of 50, her family have said. 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. The pair were in the process of divorce after being married for 21 . Tennant's performance of Hamlet was critically acclaimed. David Tennant's Time Lord also used up an extra regeneration to save himself in an episode called Journey's End. 'The first six months were very dampened by our capacity to communicate with each other,' he said previously. . Iris Lasnet was welcomed by David and Stella, in 2004. . Later in September 2011, it was announced that Tennant would voice a character in the movie adaptation of Postman Pat named You Know You're the One with a planned 3D theatrical release for spring 2013. [69] It was announced on 23 January 2013 that Tennant would return to the RSC for the company's 2013 winter season, playing the title role in Richard II at Stratford-upon-Avon (from 10 October to 16 November) and transferring to the Barbican Centre in London (from 9 December to 25 January 2014). 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. [138], For other people named David Tennant, see. She found she had style, and just what that style was, wandering the hills in unsuitable footwear and smoking rebel cigarettes round the back of fathers barn. 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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 . Mrs Tennant was the granddaughter of Andrew Cavendish, the 11th Duke of Devonshire and Deborah Mitford, one of the well-known aristocratic siblings, who died in 2014. They couple shared lunch after the shoot. Between January and May 2014, Tennant also filmed the US remake of Broadchurch, re-titled Gracepoint. [11], Tennant attended Saturday classes at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland before passing an official audition at age 16, becoming one of their youngest students and studying there between the ages of 17 and 20. He remarked in a radio interview: "Who wouldn't want to be the Doctor? Tennant was summoned to London from a Highlands holiday, travelled by sleeper train, arriving late on location in Spitalfields, and was immediately spotted as the newest face by the-then hottest photographer, Steven Meisel, despite that face being obscured by panda black eyepaint as well as the nose ring. . He played the title role in Big Finish's adaptation of Bryan Talbot's The Adventures of Luther Arkwright (2005). [27] She also supported initiatives aimed at reducing fashion's effect on the environment,[17] including Oxfam's "Second Hand September". Tennant, who maintained her fashionable edge throughout her lengthy career in the industry, died by suicide on December 22, 2020, at the age of 50. [116], Tennant is an ambassador for Worldwide Cancer Research. 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', 'When we moved here, Stella's mom watched me cutting down trees and said: 'Yeah, it takes 10 minutes to chop down a tree and 10 years to see it grow.'. 06:05 EST 24 Dec 2020 'Stella really lifted me out of it without knowing. [14][15] He is reported to have thought her reminiscent of Coco Chanel. His costar in the drama was friend Sarah Parish, with whom he had previously appeared in Blackpool and an episode of Doctor Who. It marked the start of a relationship that would span more than 20 years and give them four children, Marcel, Cecily, Jasmine, and Iris, now aged between 15 and 22. David Fisher/Shutterstock. Stella Tennant - the iconic British model who was known for her blunt pixie haircut, androgynous features, commanding 5-foot-11 presence and piercing stare - changed the fashion industry by helping usher in an era of androgyny in the 1990s. Stella Tennant was a Scottish-English model and fashion designer. When he was 16, he acted in an anti-smoking film made by the Glasgow Health Board which aired on television and was also screened in schools. But it took a while for them to get together as a couple due to the language barriers between French-born Lasnet and aristocratic Brit Tennant. The Pirates! David Tennant 's wife Georgia has taken to Instagram with a very sweet snapshot of her family. [5][6] Two of his maternal great-grandparents, William and Agnes Blair, were Northern Irish Protestants from County Londonderry who were among the signatories of the Ulster Covenant in 1912; William was also a member of the Orange Order. Tennant in a Linton tweed overcoat and two-tone desert boots, raking her fingers through her choppy hair, was classic Chanel. Stella met David while at the height of her fame, when he was a dashing French photographer assigned to a New York shoot with her. Stella Tennant Family With Daughter,Son and Husband David Lasnet 2020 https://youtu.be/9CFNdHxAtAoReal Name : Stella TennantBorn : 17 December 1970Died : 22 . Her famil. [56] On 12 April 2011, a photograph of Tennant as Hamlet featured on a stamp issued by the Royal Mail to mark the RSC's fiftieth anniversary. Tennant is survived by her four children, her husband David Lasnet, her parents Tobias Tennant and Lady Emma Cavendish, a brother and a . Rest In Peace." In 1993, aged 23, Mrs Tennant broke into modelling, posing for magazines such as French, British and . [96][97][98], In September 2020, he portrayed Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen in Des, a three-part miniseries on ITV. Ki Price/Getty Images. 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. [50] In October 2010 he starred as Dave, a man struggling to raise five children after the death of his partner, in the British drama Single Father. . [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. Karl Lagerfeld named Tennant the face of Chanel in 1996, and she was cited by several designers as their . Doctor Who BBC Studios screen grab. She was the granddaughter of Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire and his wife Deborah Mitford, the youngest of the Mitford sisters. Death More from News. [3] She worked for haute couture names like Valentino, and Dior by John Galliano and with photographers Steven Meisel, Bruce Weber, Paolo Roversi, and Tim Walker. He was voted the third best dressed man in Britain in GQ reader's poll for 2013. 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. [137] In 2019, they had another daughter named Birdie. Tennant was born into the Scottish aristocracy.
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