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Christopher Eccleston

May 2024

  • Daisy Ridley in Young Woman and the Sea.

    Young Woman and the Sea review – Disney’s surface-level swimming biopic lacks depth

    Daisy Ridley leads the reductive, if at times stirring, story of the first woman to swim across the English channel
  • Deserving everything they get … eccleston, Fox and McGregor in Shallow Grave.

    Shallow Grave review – Danny Boyle’s Edinburgh noir debut is a triple-crossing treat

    Obnoxious flatmates Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston and Kerry Fox get way more than they bargained for with the arrival of enigmatic Keith Allen and a suitcase full of cash
  • Back in the Tardis!

    The greatest Doctor Who – ranked!

    Tom Baker’s scarf! Jodie Whittaker’s cupboard! David Tennant’s gifs! As Ncuti Gatwa picks up his sonic screwdriver for the new series of Doctor Who, we rate every two-hearted Time Lord so far

January 2024

  • Christopher Eccleston.

    Christopher Eccleston says A-lister falsely accused him of ‘copping a feel’

    Doctor Who and True Detective star says he feared accusation could have ended his career

November 2023

  • Christopher Eccleston at The Old Vic. ‘I’m sure I’m still telling myself I’ll get an Oscar at 80.’

    Christopher Eccleston on class, capitalism, fame and shame: ‘My eating disorder was imprisoning’

    One of Britain’s best actors is back on stage as Scrooge. He reflects on his Salford childhood, his rebirth after a breakdown – and why we need to get the Tories out

April 2023

  • Jodie Whittaker, Peter Davison and Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor

    The best and worst Doctor Who fashion – ranked!

    A new Doctor means new outfits – and there’s been much oohing and aahing over Ncuti Gatwa’s snazzy suits. But which of the 14 Time Lords had the most timeless look?
  • Christopher Eccleston pictured in 2016

    Christopher Eccleston: it would be impossible for me to become an actor today

    Theatres such as now-closed Oldham Coliseum vital for northern working-class people, says actor
  • Christopher Eccleston and Maxine Peake in Encore.

    Last night at Oldham Coliseum: a joyful, funny and furious farewell

    Maxine Peake and Christopher Eccleston among performers as venue put on final show after losing Arts Council funding

December 2022

  • Christopher Eccleston

    Huge decline of working class people in the arts reflects fall in wider society

    Study shows the proportion of musicians, writers and artists with working-class origins has shrunk by half since the 1970s

April 2022

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    Dodger: the Oliver Twist prequel that’s scary, starry and totally irresistible TV

    This Dickens spin-off claps along like The Goonies and is so ace it’s been promoted from CBBC to BBC One. No wonder Christopher Eccleston and Julian Barratt were lining up to star

December 2021

  • Christopher Eccleston. London. Photograph by David Levene 20/1/20

    This much I know
    Christopher Eccleston: ‘I am anything but macho’

  • Connie Nielsen Close To Me Series 1 Episode 6 © Channel Four Television Corporation

    TV review
    Close to Me review – Christopher Eccleston’s hairdo says it all in amnesia thriller’s finale

November 2021

  • Connie Nielsen in Close to Me

    TV review
    Close to Me review – Christopher Eccleston arouses suspicion in a deliciously dark binge-watch

    After a catastrophic head injury, Connie Nielsen’s Jo must piece her life back together – and figure out whether her husband can be trusted. You’re sure to be hooked

August 2021

  • Nicole Kidman in The Others.

    The Others at 20: the haunted house movie that reinvigorated the genre

    Alejandro Amenábar helped to reinvigorate the subgenre with help from Nicole Kidman in a film that owes a great debt to the classics

January 2021

  • Christopher Eccleston, Gina McKee, Mark Strong and Daniel Craig in Our Friends in the North

    Why Our Friends in the North still thrills 25 years on

    An incredible cast – from Daniel Craig to Gina McKee – and Shakespearean narrative add up to make a modern classic

August 2020

  • Christopher Eccleston will star again as Doctor Who in a new series of audio adventures

    Christopher Eccleston to return as Doctor Who in new audio adventures

    After 15-year absence, Shallow Grave and Our Friends in the North actor will reprise role that relaunched series to global success

June 2020

  • Pete Postlethwaite as Macbeth in 1997

    Foul is fair: stunning shots of Shakespeare's Macbeth – in pictures

    As the RSC’s production starring Christopher Eccleston is broadcast on BBC Four, take a look back at some of the most arresting stagings of the ‘Scottish play’

May 2020

  • Morven Christie, Max Vento and Christopher Eccleston in The A Word.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: The A Word, Isolation Stories, The Eddy; Trying; Homeland – review

  • Heather (Julie Hesmondhalgh) and Joe (Max Vento) in The A Word.

    TV review
    The A Word review – autism drama shows the weight of change on us all

February 2020

  • Christopher Eccleston. London, 2020

    The G2 interview
    Christopher Eccleston: ‘I really felt that I was going to die’

    After depression, the collapse of his marriage and decades of anorexia, the actor spent his 52nd birthday on a psychiatric ward. He talks about how he found his way back
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