Christopher Eccleston
Acting • Born 1964-02-16
Biography
Christopher Eccleston (born 16 February 1964) is an English stage, film and television actor. His films include Let Him Have It, Shallow Grave, Elizabeth, 28 Days Later, Gone in 60 Seconds, The Others, and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. In 2005, he became the ninth incarnation of The Doctor in the British television series Doctor Who.
Filmography
132 credits
28 Days Later
Movie • 2002
Major Henry West
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
Movie • 2007
The Rider
The Others
Movie • 2001
Charles Stewart
eXistenZ
Movie • 1999
Seminar Leader
Elizabeth
Movie • 1998
Duke of Norfolk
Revengers Tragedy
Movie • 2002
Vindici
Death and the Compass
Movie • 1992
Schartach / Zunz / Gryphius
Jude
Movie • 1996
Jude Fawley
Amelia
Movie • 2009
Fred Noonan
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Movie • 2000
Raymond Calitri
Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story
Movie • 2021
Self
Shallow Grave
Movie • 1994
David Stephens
I Am Dina
Movie • 2002
Leo Zhukovsky
Lennon Naked
Movie • 2010
John Lennon
Set the Night on Fire: The Story of Ewan MacColl
Movie • 2021
Self
The Hour
Movie • 2020
Himself
Heart
Movie • 1999
Gary Ellis
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Movie • 2009
McCullen / Destro
A Price Above Rubies
Movie • 1998
Sender Horowitz
Roots
Movie • 1992
Frankie Bryant
Let Him Have It
Movie • 1991
Derek Bentley
Continental Drift
Movie • 1992
(Business with Friends)
The Invisible Circus
Movie • 2001
Wolf
The Borrowers
Movie • 2011
Pod Clock
Thor: The Dark World
Movie • 2013
Malekith
The King and Us
Movie • 2002
Anthony
Strumpet
Movie • 2001
Strayman
Song for Marion
Movie • 2012
James
Anchoress
Movie • 1993
Priest
Othello
Movie • 2001
Ben Jago
Sunday
Movie • 2002
Major Gen. Robert Ford
The Importance of Being Morrissey
Movie • 2003
Narrator
The Second Coming
Movie • 2003
Stephen Baxter
Young Woman and the Sea
Movie • 2024
Jabez Wolffe
My Name Is Leon
Movie • 2022
Mr. Devlin
With or Without You
Movie • 1999
Vincent Boyd
New Orleans, Mon Amour
Movie • 2008
Henry
The Kemps: All Gold
Movie • 2023
Luke Dunmore
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
Movie • 2013
The Doctor (9) (archive footage)
Dodger Special: Coronation
Movie • 2023
Fagin
Dodger Special: Train
Movie • 2022
Fagin
Dodger Special: Christmas
Movie • 2022
Fagin
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
Movie • 2023
Fagin
Legend
Movie • 2015
Leonard 'Nipper' Read
When Wrestling Was Golden: Grapples, Grunts and Grannies
Movie • 2012
Narrator
Emily
Movie • 2013
James
Perfect Parents
Movie • 2006
Stuart
When Coal Was King
Movie • 2013
Narrator
Flesh and Blood
Movie • 2002
Joe Broughton
Hillsborough
Movie • 1996
Trevor Hicks
An Angel on Oxford Street
Movie • 2024
Saul (voice)
Doctor Who: A New Dimension
Movie • 2005
Self
24 Hour Party People
Movie • 2002
Boethius (uncredited)
Where Hands Touch
Movie • 2018
Heinz
The Happiness Salesman
Movie • 2010
Salesman
Einstein's Big Idea
Movie • 2005
Narrator (voice)
Muse of Fire
Movie • 2013
Self
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
Movie • 2013
Rachel's Dream
Movie • 1992
Man in Dream
Dockers: Writing the Wrongs
Movie • 1999
Narrator (voice)
Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)
Movie • 2018
Harvey
Manchester: 100 Days After The Attack
Movie • 2017
Voice
Lucan
Movie • 2013
John Aspinall
King Lear
Movie • 2018
Oswald
RSC Live: Macbeth
Movie • 2018
Macbeth
A Year in the Life of a Year 2019
Movie • 2020
Himself
The Flu That Killed 50 Million
Movie • 2018
Narrator
National Theatre Live: Antigone
Movie • 2012
Creon, King of Thebes
Best Ever Muppet Moments
Movie • 2006
Self
Tony Adams - Drunk And Dry
Movie • 2002
Narrator
Richard III: The New Evidence
Movie • 2014
Narrator
Endless
Movie • 2020
The Kemps: All True
Movie • 2020
Self
Doctor Who at the Proms
Movie • 2024
The Doctor (9) (archive footage)
Hear Me Roar
Movie
Michael Bellinger
Doctor Who: The Next Doctor
Movie • 2008
The Doctor (9) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
Movie • 2015
The Doctor (9) (picture) (uncredited)
The Dark Side of Porn: Porn Shutdown
Movie • 2005
The Last Miners
Movie • 2016
Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
Movie • 2025
Doctor Who (archive footage) (uncredited)
Chasing Millions
Movie
Whispers of Freedom
Movie • 2024
Herbert Köfer
Color Your Hurt
Movie
James
The Hoster
Movie • 2026
Cracker
TV • 1993
David Bilborough
Top Gear
TV • 2002
Self
Heroes
TV • 2006
Claude
Performance
TV • 1991
Frankie Bryant
Inspector Morse
TV • 1987
Terrence Mitchell
The Second Coming
TV • 2003
Stephen Baxter
Our Friends in the North
TV • 1996
Nicky Hutchinson
Chancer
TV • 1990
Radio
What's Your Problem?
TV • 2002
GMTV
TV • 1993
Self
Blackout
TV • 2012
Daniel Demoys
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Doctor (9)
The Shadow Line
TV • 2011
Joseph Bede
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Doctor Who
The Last Miners
TV • 2016
Narrator (Voice)
The Leftovers
TV • 2014
Matt Jamison
Lucan
TV • 2013
John Aspinall
Rachel's Dream
TV • 1992
Man in Dream
Close to Me
TV • 2021
Rob Harding
Safe House
TV • 2015
Robert
Danger Mouse
TV • 2015
J. Woolington Sham (voice)
The A Word
TV • 2016
Maurice Scott
Casualty
TV • 1986
Stephen Hills
The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama
TV • 2020
Self
Dodger
TV • 2022
Fagin
Cuentos de Borges
TV • 1993
Alonso Zunz
Hearts and Minds
TV • 1995
Drew Mackenzie
Cracker
TV • 1993
Bilborough
Come Home
TV • 2018
Greg Farrell
Doctor Who Confidential
TV • 2005
Self
Linda Green
TV • 2001
Tom/Neil
Ambulance
TV • 2016
Self - Narrator
Friday on My Mind
TV • 1992
Sean
The Read
TV • 2022
Narrator
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV • 1989
Frank Carter
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
TV • 2013
Self
The Guilty Innocent with Christopher Eccleston
TV • 2024
Presenter
Fortitude
TV • 2015
Professor Charlie Stoddart
Bible Mysteries
TV • 2004
Narrator
The Sarah Silverman Program.
TV • 2007
Dr. Lazer Rage
Accused
TV • 2010
Willy Houlihan
Out of the Dust
TV
Mr Phillps
Timeshift
TV • 2002
self
True Detective
TV • 2014
Captain Ted Connelly
The Paul O'Grady Show
TV • 2004
Doctor Who 9: Christopher Eccleston
TV • 2005
Doctor Who
Remembers…
TV • 2022
Self
Blue Peter
TV • 1958
Self