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Tennant - Hot or Not?
Who do you prefer? Eccleston or Tennant? Or someone else?
Tennant Trivia:
David Tennant is Scottish. He was born on 18 April 1971
Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, UK. That makes him much younger than any previous Doctor actors - born 9 years after the first episode aired.
Tennant was born David McDonald but changed his name as there was an actor with the same name already on the books of Equity. He adopted the professional name "Tennant" — inspired by Neil Tennant, the lead singer of the Pet Shop Boys.
He grew up in Ralston, Renfrewshire, where his father was the local minister, and later a Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
He attended Ralston Primary School, Paisley Grammar and graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
He decided to be an actor at the age of three. Tennant told his parents that he wanted to become an actor because he was mad about Doctor Who.
He was asked to abandon his Scottish accent to play the Time Lord.
He was nominated for a 2003 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actor of 2002 for his performance in "Lobby Hero" performed at the Donmar Warehouse and the New Ambassador's Theatres.
In January 2006, readers of the British gay and lesbian newspaper 'The Pink Paper' voted Tennant the "Sexiest Man in the Universe" over David Beckham and Brad Pitt. A poll of over 10,000 women for the March 2006 issue of 'New Woman' magazine ranked him 20th in their list of the "Top 100 Men".
After moving to London, England in the early 1990s, Tennant lodged with comic actress and writer Arabella Weir, with whom he became close friends and then godfather to one of her children. (He later appeared as a guest in her spoof television series 'Posh Nosh').
As of 2006, Tennant is dating actress Sophia Myles, who appears with him in the upcoming 'Doctor Who' episode 'The Girl in the Fireplace'.
