The gorgeous young lady, Cecily Lasnet was born to David Lasnet and Stella Tennant. LONDON (Reuters) - Stella Tennant, one of Britain's top models, has died at the age of 50, British media reported on Wednesday. The film is co-produced by Tennant's wife, Georgia, and had originally been due to co-star his father-in-law, Peter Davison; however, Davison withdrew from the film in October 2016 due to a scheduling clash. 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. She was always Scottish first, born the youngest child of Tobias Tennant of the Glenconner family, which had made its fortune developing bleach for cotton cloth, and Lady Emma Cavendish, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire (born Deborah Mitford). She was a second cousin of artist Daphne Guinness, through their great-grandparents, Sydney and David . Learners was broadcast on BBC One on 11 November 2007. [22] He began to appear on television more prominently in 2004 and 2005, when he appeared in a dramatisation of He Knew He Was Right (2004), Blackpool (2004), Casanova (2005), and The Quatermass Experiment (2005). [10] He also starred in the 2003 London production of Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman. [39], On 25 February 2007, Tennant starred in Recovery, a 90-minute BBC One drama written by Tony Marchant. We do not have the related information on Cecily Lasnet's boyfriend and her dating life. [16] During filming of Takin' Over the Asylum he met comic actress and writer Arabella Weir. Photo: David Fisher/Shutterstock. [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. He was nominated for Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for his performance in Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero. Tennant, who lived in Duns, a town in the Scottish borders, died on 22 December . Tennant attended Arts Educational Schools (ArtsEd) for . 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. Is Stella Tennant related to Colin Tennant? The film was released in December 2009. When asked by Collider if there's ever been a television show he's watched and wished he was a part of, Tennant copped to being a huge fan . 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 . [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. Fashion. She was well liked, warm and friendly. Tennant leaves behind four children, Iris, 15, Jasmine, 17, Cecily, 20, and Marcel, 22, who she shared with husband David Lasnet. [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. Stella Tennant, a British supermodel who rose to fame in the '90s, has died days after her 50th birthday. Iris Lasnet was welcomed by David and Stella, in 2004. . [133][134] At the age of two, Olive had a cameo as John Barrowman's daughter in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. He began filming the new series of Doctor Who in late July 2005. 'Stella was a wonderful woman and an inspiration to us all. 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. 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 . "Stella really lifted me out of it without knowing. Tennant has worked extensively on stage, including a portrayal of the title character in a 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet that was later adapted for television. [16] She also appeared in numerous other advertising campaigns, including Calvin Klein, Herms, and in 2002 in an influential campaign for Burberry. [63] Between April and June, he filmed Spies of Warsaw for BBC Four, in the lead role of Jean-Franois Mercier. 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. 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. [72], Tennant starred in the ITV detective series Broadchurch as DI Alec Hardy between 2013 and 2017. Meisel and the Vogue team invited her to Paris the next week to model for a Versace campaign (Tennant recalled I thought, well, OK, that sounds fun), and a resulting Meisel shot made the cover of Italian Vogue. They had been married for over two decades and were in the process of splitting. [116], Tennant is an ambassador for Worldwide Cancer Research. In an Adventure with Scientists! The pair were in the process of divorce after being married for 21 . He made his directorial debut on the Doctor Who Confidential episode that accompanies Steven Moffat's episode "Blink", entitled "Do You Remember The First Time? [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. [87], In 2017, Tennant appeared in writer/director Daisy Aitkens' first feature film, You, Me and Him. [11] In 2010, she starred in L.K.Bennett's Spring Summer campaign photographed by Tim Walker. [111] Tennant's popularity has led to impersonations of him on various social networking sites, leading the BBC to issue a statement making it clear that Tennant does not use any of these sites and any account or message purporting to be from him is fake. From an unconventional aristocratic family, she worked with Helmut Lang, Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Alexander McQueen, and Gianni Versace. The photographer, who is now trilingual, said:'I went through a period of depression from the age of 18 to 20-something. 6 in its "Top Ten" list of the most influential British television artists of the year, citing his roles in Blackpool, Casanova, Secret Smile, and Doctor Who. Later that same year, he appeared as Barty Crouch Jr. in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. [32], In October 2015, Big Finish Productions announced that Tennant would return to the role of the Tenth Doctor alongside Catherine Tate as his former companion Donna Noble in three new stories from Big Finish. Tennant's maternal grandfather, footballer Archie McLeod, met William and Agnes' daughter Nellie while playing for Derry City FC. They couple shared lunch after the shoot. Between January and May 2014, Tennant also filmed the US remake of Broadchurch, re-titled Gracepoint. Totally Tennant. The Scot made her name in the early 1990s on catwalks for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, and on the covers . [1] His father was a minister who served as the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Born in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage. [4] He later said that he was "absurdly single-minded" in pursuing an acting career. He follows a non-vegetarian diet. His other notable roles include Giacomo Casanova in the BBC comedy-drama serial Casanova (2005), Barty Crouch Jr. in . She came from a completely different background and was super-supportive of me always. [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. He is student Cody Tennant, still just 19, who three years ago launched a legal bid to challenge his eccentric grandfather Lord Glenconner's will in the High Court of St Lucia. In 2015, he received the National Television Award for Special Recognition. The English-language version of the film has dialogue written by Simon Pegg, who also starred in it as a main voice actor. [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. Read more. Biography, news, photos and videos . (Her farmer father offered to lead her round his bull pen.). Stella Tennant - a life in pictures The model married the photographer David Lasnet in 1999, after meeting him on a shoot. [66][67] Tennant also presented the new comedy quiz show Comedy World Cup, in 2012 which ran on Saturday nights for seven episodes. [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. England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008. [41] Tennant was the "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" on Top Gear in December 2007, where he claimed to have unsuccessfully auditioned for a role on Taggart 26 times. Later, at 10 years old, she made her debut in Kenneth Branagh's film Belfast. Karl Lagerfeld offered her bigger money in 1996, to replace Claudia Schiffer as the face, and thinner body, of Chanel. Much Ado About Nothing (Production) by William Shakespeare . 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. [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. Secret Smile might just be one of David Tennant's most underappreciated projects to date. Tennant split from her husband of two decades, earlier this year. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Her groom was David Lasnet, assistant to the photographer Mario Testino; they had met on a shoot. When his mother married Scottish actor David Tennant in 2011, whom she had met in 2008, Tennant adopted Ty, who gained Tennant's surname. Mrs Tennant also appeared in numerous advertising campaigns for the likes of Calvin Klein, Chanel, Hermes, and Burberry before retiring in 1998 as she was pregnant with her first child. [28], In August 2014, Tennant was one of 200 celebrities who signed a letter to The Guardian newspaper expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue. Karl Lagerfeld. Tennant called in former Vogue stylist Isabella Cawdor as partner, and over the course of five years they created a range: their criterion was, whatever the garment, You have to be able to climb over a barbed-wire fence in it.. Tennants appeal had been prefigured in the release that year of Sally Potters film of the Virginia Woolf fantasy novel Orlando, its hero/heroine (nothing so simple as androgynous) played by Tilda Swinton; pipe-cleaner thin, tall, pale, unpainted, with a body language both male and female, and an ever-unready smile. In 1995, Tennant appeared at the Royal National Theatre, London, playing the role of Nicholas Beckett in Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw. 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. Tennant, the aristocratic British model who was a muse to . "Stella was Gianni Versace's muse for many years and friend of the family. [14][15] He is reported to have thought her reminiscent of Coco Chanel. By Reuters. David Tennant is dying to work with Aaron Sorkin. The cast also included Charlotte Randle (Dawn), with Dominic Rowan (Bill), and Gary McDonald (William), and was again directed by Mark Brokaw. 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[80] He is the narrator on Xbox One video game Kinect Sports Rivals, released in 2014. [127][128] They have five children,[129][130] including actor Ty Tennant, Moffett's child from a previous relationship whom Tennant adopted. (At art college she imitated favourite photographer Cindy Shermans technique of posing as stereotypes, and got them out of her system.). Cecily is the eldest of three sisters. 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 2006, he recorded abridged audio books of The Stone Rose by Jacqueline Rayner, The Feast of the Drowned by Stephen Cole and The Resurrection Casket by Justin Richards, for BBC Worldwide.[28]. She replied 'not just yet'. 'Stella taught me English'. [119] In 2012, he introduced Labour Party leader Ed Miliband onstage at the Labour Party Conference. In a statement shared with The Telegraph, the model . [113], In December 2005, The Stage placed Tennant at No. David Fisher/Shutterstock. And it's very easy to destroy something. Her family announced Tennant's death in a statement to The Guardian on Wednesday. Stella Tennant Enfants.Stella Tennant est ne le 17 dcembre 1970. Lambing and ewes, blood and guts and sex.. [54][55] In 2009, he worked on a TV film version of the RSC's 2008 Hamlet for BBC Two. She will be greatly missed. "Omg, David Tennant back as the doctor, best regeneration ever," one person wrote on Twitter. [40] Later that same year he starred in Learners, a BBC comedy drama written by and starring Jessica Hynes (another Doctor Who costar, in the episodes "Human Nature", "The Family of Blood" and "The End of Time"), in which he played a Christian driving instructor who became the object of a student's affection. David Fisher/Shutterstock Stella Tennant at the UK Fashion Awards in 2019. [35][36] Previously thought to be returning as the Tenth Doctor, in October 2022, the ending of the special episode "The Power of the Doctor" revealed that Tennant would return as the Fourteenth Doctor, a role previously thought to be played by Ncuti Gatwa, who would follow on as the Fifteenth Doctor instead. By [114] In January 2006, readers of the British gay and lesbian newspaper The Pink Paper voted him the "Sexiest Man in the Universe". I was so nervous that the rice kept falling off my fork. 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. 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. Her unconventional . Stella Tennant with Karl Lagerfeld in 2011. David loves surfing and skate boarding in his leisure time. He has also been a voice actor in The Pirates! The pair split in August Stella Tennant died this week just weeks after her 50th . Lasnet asked Stella to have children with him within two months of their relationship starting. Tennant and Lasnet separated earlier this year. Stella Tennant was a Scottish-English model and fashion designer. [76], Between late January and March 2013, Tennant filmed The Escape Artist for BBC One in which he played a talented junior barrister who had yet to lose a case. In television, he appeared in the first episode of Reeves and Mortimer's revamped Randall and Hopkirk in 2000, playing an eccentric artist. His first such role was in the Seventh Doctor audio Colditz, where he played a Nazi lieutenant guard at Colditz Castle. [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. David Lasnet is a French photographer while Stella Tennant was a British model. Despite much of his work being television work, Tennant has described theatre work as his "default way of being". [18], Tennant contributed to several audio dramatisations of Shakespeare for the Arkangel Shakespeare series (1998). McLeod was descended from tenant farmers from the Isle of Mull. 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 . The couple married in 1999 Credit: PA:Press . Death More from News. [17] He subsequently specialised in comic roles, playing Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors and Captain Jack Absolute in The Rivals, although he also played the role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. And indeed, Tennant took the time to quench fans . The couple's move across the Atlantic inspired Lasnet to retrain and he studied to be an osteopath - a profession choice he recalls was sparked by his son Marcel developingwhooping cough as a toddler. On 13 March 2009, he presented Red Nose Day 2009 with Davina McCall. During the Christmas season of 2002, he starred in a series of television advertisements for Boots the Chemists.
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