Paul McGann
{{Short description|English actor (born 1959)}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2018}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Paul McGann
| image = Paul McGann 2015.jpg
| caption = McGann at the 2015 Florida Supercon
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1959|11|14}}
| birth_place = Kensington, Liverpool, England
| known_for = Eighth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1982–present
| education = Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
| spouse = {{marriage|Annie Milner|1992}}
| partner = Susannah Harker (2006–2008)
| children = {{flatlist|
}}
| relatives = {{ubl|Joe McGann (brother)|Mark McGann (brother)|Stephen McGann (brother)|Heidi Thomas (sister-in-law)}}
}}
Paul John McGann ({{IPAc-en|m|ə|ˈ|ɡ|æ|n}} {{respell|mə|GAN}};As pronounced by McGann in his [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLUZQWQOvG4&t=04s 2009 Talksport interview]. born 14 November 1959) is an English actor. He came to prominence for portraying Percy Toplis in the television serial The Monocled Mutineer (1986), then starred in the dark comedy Withnail and I (1987), which was a critical success and developed a cult following. McGann later became more widely known for portraying the eighth incarnation of the Doctor in the 1996 television film Doctor Who, and its audio drama continuations. He is also known for playing Lieutenant William Bush in the TV series Hornblower (1998–2003).
Early life
Paul John McGann was born in Liverpool on 14 November 1959,{{cite web |url= http://www.filmreference.com/film/37/Paul-McGann.html |title=Paul McGann Biography (1959–) |work=filmreference.com |year=2014 |access-date=8 September 2014}} into a Roman Catholic family. His ancestors immigrated from Ireland in the mid-19th century, having left due to the Great Famine.{{cite interview| first =Paul |last =McGann |url= http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/actor-paul-mcgann-enters-his-second-act-29453891.html | title=Actor Paul McGann enters his second act |work=Irish Independent |interviewer-first =Emily|interviewer-last =Hourican|date = 29 July 2013 |access-date=25 October 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://drwhointerviews.wordpress.com/tag/paul-mcgann/ |title=Paul McGann | Doctor Who Interview Archive |publisher=Drwhointerviews.wordpress.com |date=25 August 2009 |access-date=25 June 2013}} His mother, Clare, was a teacher, and his father Joe, a soldier on Gold Beach during D-Day,{{Cite web |last=McGann |first=Paul |title=D-Day: The Tide Turns "8. Suicide Squad" |url=https://open.spotify.com/episode/03xmS57TB8Cipwy9CApI8K?si=D1A_g-bCSjO41lOlcwbFnw |access-date=2024-07-28 |website=D-Day: The Tide Turns}} who died in 1984, was a metallurgist.{{Cite web|last=Shennan|first=Paddy|date=30 July 2017|title=Surviving famine, the Titanic and D-Day - the amazing story of the McGanns|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/surviving-famine-titanic-d-day-13406784|access-date=19 March 2021|website=Liverpool Echo|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Dwyer|first=Ciara|date=21 August 2017|title=McGann: 'I have their blood in my veins - but I own my story'|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/mcgann-i-have-their-blood-in-my-veins-but-i-own-my-story-36046761.html|access-date=19 March 2021|website=Independent Ireland|language=en}}{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/37/Paul-McGann.html |title=Paul McGann Biography (1959–) |publisher=Filmreference.com |date=14 November 1959 |access-date=10 October 2012}} His cousin, Ritchie Routledge, was in the 1960s band The Cryin' Shames.{{cite news|last1=Jones|first1=Catherine|title=Liverpool actor Paul McGann talks about his 30-year stage and screen career ahead of Club Geek Chic In Conversation appearance at St George's Hall|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-actor-paul-mcgann-talks-3354175|work=Liverpool Echo|date=8 May 2013}} He has an older brother, Joe, and three younger siblings: brothers Mark and Stephen and sister Clare. All three of his brothers are also actors and the four of them played brothers in the 1995 TV serial The Hanging Gale. That same year, McGann also played Grigori Potemkin in the television film Catherine the Great alongside Mark and Stephen.
McGann attended Cardinal Allen Grammar School in the Liverpool suburb of West Derby. He was 17 and working in a shoe shop when he acted on the advice of one of his teachers and successfully auditioned for a place on the acting course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In 1980, the Principal of RADA, Hugh Cruttwell, selected a scene from an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, which McGann co-wrote with Bruce Payne, to be performed in front of Queen Elizabeth II in one of her rare visits to the academy. Kenneth Branagh performed a soliloquy from Hamlet at the same event.The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1980) An Entertainment, 19 November 1980 programme, GBS Theatre: London.
Career
=Early work and breakthrough=
McGann's breakthrough role was in Give Us a Break, devised by Geoff McQueen, McGann played a good snooker player who got into scrapes with Robert Lindsay, who played his wideboy manager. The series was a comedy drama in the vein of the popular ITV series of the time, Minder. The series only lasted for one season and it was concluded by a one-off special. His first major dramatic role was the British World War I deserter and criminal Percy Toplis in the 1986 BBC serial The Monocled Mutineer. The film was based on the 1978 book of the same name, written by William Alison and John Fairley.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/aug/03/paul-mcgann-actor|title=Portrait of the artist: Paul McGann, actor|last=Barnett|first=Laura|date=August 3, 2009|website=The Guardian|access-date=May 9, 2018}}
The serial garnered controversy from British right-wing media,{{cite book|last=Badsey|first=Stephen| title=The Media and International Security|publisher=Routledge|year=2000|pages=83–84|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fKtBLkjm83AC|isbn=0-7146-4848-5}} though McGann's performance garnered acclaim.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2012/feb/29/next-box-set-monocled-mutineer |title=Your next box set: The Monocled Mutineer|website=The Guardian|date=29 February 2012 |access-date=18 March 2023 |last1=Hogan |first1=Michael }} In 1986, he was cast as the anonymous main character (Marwood) in Bruce Robinson's cult film, Withnail and I. He also starred as Anton Skrebensky in Ken Russell's 1989 adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow. McGann's other early film appearances include The Monk, Dealers, Tree of Hands and the epic war film Empire of the Sun. McGann and other young British actors who were becoming established film actors such as Tim Roth, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Bruce Payne were dubbed the 'Brit Pack'.{{cite web|url=http://www.brucepayne.de/press/articles/facearticle1987.html |title=The Brit Pack |publisher=Brucepayne.de |access-date=10 October 2012}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OXRBBAAAQBAJ&dq=bruce+payne+brit+pack&pg=PA198 |first=Alan |last=Kistler |title=Doctor Who: A History |year=2013 |access-date=20 November 2021 |page=198 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9781493000166}}
Since 1989, McGann has concentrated primarily on television work, including Nice Town and Nature Boy for the BBC, and The One That Got Away and the second series of Hornblower for ITV. However, he has had small roles in a number of high-profile American films like The Three Musketeers and Alien 3. His role in Alien 3 was originally larger, but much of it was edited out of the final print. The cut footage can be seen in the extended version of the film.{{cn|date=September 2023}}
In 1992, he was cast as Richard Sharpe, the lead character in the Sharpe series of made-for-TV films based on Bernard Cornwell's novels. However, he injured his knee while playing football just days into filming Sharpe's Rifles in Ukraine and was replaced by Sean Bean in the role.
=''Doctor Who''=
McGann played the eighth incarnation of the Doctor, in the Doctor Who 1996 television film. The television film also starred Eric Roberts, Daphne Ashbrook and featured the outgoing Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy. McGann's brother, Mark McGann, also auditioned for the title role.{{cite web |title=The Changing Face of Doctor Who - How the BBC recast TV's Time Lord |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/changingwho/10303.shtml?page=16 |website=BBC Archive |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100416181521/https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/changingwho/10303.shtml?page=16 |archive-date=16 April 2010 |url-status=dead}}
The Doctor Who television film was a joint venture between the BBC, Universal Studios and the Fox Broadcasting Network. McGann had signed a contract to appear as the Eighth Doctor in a new Doctor Who television series, if Fox or Universal exercised their option. Thus, the television film was supposed to be a "back door pilot" in that, if it obtained respectable ratings, the new series would continue to be produced. The film was shown on 14 May 1996 in the US and on 27 May 1996 in the UK. Although it had 9.08 million viewers and was very successful in the UK, ratings were very low in the United States. As a consequence, Fox did not exercise its option to pick up the series and Universal could not find another network interested in airing a new Doctor Who series. Thus no new series was produced until 2005, after all the contractual rights had returned to the BBC.
McGann gave permission for his likeness to be used on the covers of the BBC's Eighth Doctor novel and he has reprised the role of the Eighth Doctor in an extensive series of audio plays by Big Finish Productions. A number of these plays have also been broadcast on BBC Radio 7 (later BBC Radio 4 Extra).
After months of speculation, on 14 November 2013 (coincidentally McGann's birthday), as part of the show's 50th Anniversary celebrations, McGann finally reprised his role as the Eighth Doctor, in the mini-episode "The Night of the Doctor". In this appearance his incarnation of the Doctor finally regenerates, 17 years after his first television appearance, into a previously unknown Doctor played by John Hurt. Additionally, McGann briefly appeared in the anniversary comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot."[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lv3mj The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot]", BBC programmes, retrieved 26 November 2013.
He made his first appearance on the main television series in a cameo in the 2022 special "The Power of the Doctor", alongside other past Doctors.{{Cite web |last=Belam |first=Martin |date=2022-10-23 |title=Jodie Whittaker exits Doctor Who with surprise regeneration twist |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/oct/23/jodie-whittaker-david-tennant-ncuti-gatwa-doctor-who-power-of-the-doctor-bbc-centenary-special |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=the Guardian |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Jeffery |first=Morgan |date=2022-10-23 |title=Doctor Who brings back classic Doctors for centenary special |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-classic-doctors-centenary-newsupdate/ |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=Radio Times |language=en}} He also featured in the documentary film Doctor Who Am I, supporting TV movie director Matthew Jacobs' embrace of the Doctor Who fandom and its conventions.{{Cite web |last=Astley |first=Sabastian |date=2022-10-27 |title=Paul McGann: 'I thought Doctor Who was finished - and I was responsible' |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/paul-mcgann-doctor-who-am-i-big-rt-interview/ |access-date=2022-10-27 |website=Radio Times |language=en}}
=Later career=
In the years following his appearance as the Doctor, McGann continued to diversify his acting portfolio with the television and film roles he accepted. In 1997 he appeared as a concerned father in the film FairyTale: A True Story and later that same year as Rob in Downtime, then in 1998 he appeared as Capt. Greville in The Dance of Shiva.
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In the 2000s McGann's film appearances began to increase with films like My Kingdom (2001), Listening (2003) and Gypo (2005). Perhaps his most iconic role since Doctor Who came in 2002, when McGann appeared in the film adaptation of the third story from Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles, Queen of the Damned. McGann played the part of David Talbot, a member of the secret organisation the Talamasca, which researches and investigates the supernatural. Talbot has appeared in many of Rice's novels and has become a central character over the years. The film also starred Stuart Townsend, Marguerite Moreau and R&B singer Aaliyah. McGann has also been in demand for voice-over work in Britain in recent years, particularly on television documentaries and commercials.
He also gained acclaim for his portrayal of William Bush in the final four instalments of the ITV/A&E television series Hornblower, based on the Horatio Hornblower books by C.S. Forrester. He initially appears in the 2001 episode "Mutiny", with Bush being the 2nd Lieutenant of HMS Renown (and Hornblower's superior). In the 7th episode, "Loyalty", he agrees to join Hornblower as his 1st Lieutenant when Hornblower takes command of HMS Hotspur. McGann again portrays Bush in the 2003 finale of the series, "Duty".
In 2006, he appeared in the television drama Tripping Over. In 2007, McGann starred alongside Dervla Kirwan, Lorraine Ashbourne and David Bradley in BBC One drama True Dare Kiss, written by Debbie Horsfield. In 2010, McGann played a major role in a feature-length episode of long-running BBC mystery series Jonathan Creek, as well as appearing as a regular in the crime drama Luther. In 2011, McGann played a major role as an Assistant Commissioner with something to hide in the final episode of Waking the Dead and also featured in Simon Gray's Butley alongside Dominic West at the Duchess Theatre in London.{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/feb/20/dominic-west-play-butley-revival |title=Dominic West to revive classic stage role |work=The Guardian|access-date=4 May 2011|location=London|first=Vanessa|last=Thorpe|date=20 February 2011}}{{cite web|last1=Bishop|first1=Caroline|title=Paul McGann|url=http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/backstage-pass/article/item116528/paul-mcgann/|website=Official London Theatre|date=29 June 2011}}
In 2017, McGann joined the cast of the long-running BBC series Holby City, playing neurosurgeon John Gaskell. In 2021, he hosted the British Podcast Awards Gold-winning Noiser podcast production Real Dictators, a history show about the up to date facts on dictators of the past.
=Audio books and voice work=
McGann is also known for audiobook narration having read several Pat Barker and Bernard Cornwell novels. He narrated the abridged audiobook of Jeff Noon's 1993 cyberpunk classic Vurt.
McGann continues to play the Eighth Doctor on audio. McGann's first Big Finish audio play appearance was in 2001 in the story Storm Warning. It was through the Big Finish audio plays that McGann's Doctor faced many classic Doctor Who villains like the Daleks (in various different audio plays, the first of which being The Time of the Daleks) and the Cybermen (first encountered by the Eighth Doctor on audio in Sword of Orion).
Five Eighth Doctor dramas were broadcast in BBC 7's The 7th Dimension slot between August 2005 and January 2006. They were in release order, starting with Storm Warning, although Minuet in Hell was judged unsuitable for the timeslot, and skipped. Two more Eighth Doctor audios, Shada and The Chimes of Midnight, were broadcast in December 2005 and January 2006. All six of these stories were rebroadcast on BBC7 beginning in July 2006. In 2007 and 2008, a series of audio plays starring McGann as the Eighth Doctor and Sheridan Smith as companion Lucie Miller was broadcast on BBC7.
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His voice featured in the 1997 video game Ceremony of Innocence, together with those of Isabella Rossellini and Ben Kingsley.
After hearing him sing in The Monocled Mutineer, composer Bernard J. Taylor invited McGann to create the role of Benedict in the concept studio recording of the Much Ado, a musical based on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
McGann portrayed Ambassador Durian in The Minister of Chance, a fantasy audio drama released in six parts from 2011 to 2013. The series is a spin-off of the Doctor Who audio drama Death Comes to Time, but has no official connection to the franchise. In February 2014, a crowdfunded short film based on the first instalment of The Minister of Chance was released to those who had helped fund it.{{cite web |title=Pilot for Unofficial Doctor Who Spin-off: Minister of Chance |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-minister-of-chance/29306/pilot-for-unofficial-doctor-who-spin-off-minister-of-chance |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301222603/https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-minister-of-chance/29306/pilot-for-unofficial-doctor-who-spin-off-minister-of-chance |archive-date=2014-03-01 |access-date=2024-08-16}}
McGann portrays antagonist Noah Shackleton in the audio drama adaptation of The Phoenix Files. The Australian production is the largest audio drama ever produced in Australia with a cast of 42 actors. McGann appears in all three instalments of the science-fiction dystopian thriller series.{{cite web|url=http://www.preachrspodcast.net/Preachrs_Podcast_-_OnLine_and_OnStage/The_Phoenix_Files.html|title=The Phoenix Files|website=Preachrs Podcast|access-date=26 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510152354/http://www.preachrspodcast.net/Preachrs_Podcast_-_OnLine_and_OnStage/The_Phoenix_Files.html|archive-date=10 May 2017|url-status=dead}}
McGann has done audio narration for BBC documentaries, including the 2014 BBC Scotland production, Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03ny8wk|title=Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting|website=BBC Four|access-date=21 February 2019}}
McGann is chief narrator in the popular A short history of… podcast series, which explores various historical topics in easily accessible episodes.
Personal life
In 1992, McGann married Annie Milner. They had two children: music producer Joseph and voice actor Jake.
Between 2006 and 2008, McGann was in a relationship with actress Susannah Harker.
Acting credits
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" | |||
| Year | Title | Role | class="unsortable"|Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| rowspan=2 | 1987 | Withnail and I | "I" | |
| Empire of the Sun | Lt. Price | ||
| rowspan=4 | 1989 | Tree of Hands | Barry | |
| Streets of Yesterday | Yosef Raz | ||
| The Rainbow | Anton Skrebensky | ||
| Dealers | Daniel Pascoe | ||
| rowspan=2 | 1990 | The Monk | Father Lorenzo Rojas | |
| Paper Mask | Matthew Harris | ||
| 1991 | Afraid of the Dark | Tony Dalton | |
| 1992 | Alien 3 | Golic | |
| 1993 | The Three Musketeers | Girard / Jussac | |
| 1995 | Catherine the Great | Grigory Potyomkin | |
| rowspan=2 | 1997 | FairyTale: A True Story | Arthur Wright | |
| Downtime | Rob | ||
| 1998
|The Dance of Shiva |Capt. Greville |Short film | |||
| 2001 | My Kingdom | Dean | |
| 2002 | Queen of the Damned | David Talbot | |
| rowspan=2|2003 | Listening | The Man | Short film |
| Otherworld | King Matholwch | Voice role | |
| 2005 | Gypo | Paul | |
| 2006
|Poppies | Tony Hudson | ||
| rowspan="2" |2007
|Always Crashing in the Same Car |Bill Mackinnon |Short film | |||
| Voice from Afar | Actor | ||
| 2009 | Lesbian Vampire Killers | Vicar | |
| 2010 | Godard & Others | Torrence | |
| 2011 | Moving Target | Mr. Johnson | |
| 2012
|Notes from the Underground | Photographer | ||
| rowspan="2" |2013 | Art Is... | Lulu's Dad | |
| A Little Place Off the Edgware Road
|James Craven | rowspan="3" |Short film | |||
| 2014 | The Minister of Chance | Ambassador Durian | |
| 2015
|Absence |Man | |||
| rowspan=2|2016 | Brakes | Peter | |
| Letters from Baghdad | Henry Cadogan | Voice role | |
| rowspan="2" |2017 | B&B | Josh | |
| Perplexed Music
|Man | rowspan="2" |Short film | |||
| 2021
|Swallow Your Dreams |James | |||
| rowspan="2" |2023
|Mia and the Dragon Princess |Walsh | |||
| The Undertaker
|Arthur Morel |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" | |||
| Year | Title | Role | class="unsortable"|Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | Norman | Whistling Wally | |
| 1983
|Gaskin |Graham Gaskin |TV film | |||
| 1983–1984 | Give Us a Break | Mo Morris | 8 episodes |
| rowspan=2 | 1986 | The Importance of Being Earnest | John Worthing | TV film |
| The Monocled Mutineer | Percy Toplis | 4 episodes | |
| 1990 | Screen Two | Colin | Episode: "Drowning in the Shallow End" |
| 1992 | Nice Town | Joe Thompson | 3 episodes |
| rowspan="2" |1995
|TV film | |||
| The Hanging Gale | Liam Phelan | 4 episodes | |
| rowspan="3" |1996
| rowspan="3" |TV film | |||
| The One That Got Away | |||
| The Merchant of Venice | |||
| 1998 | Our Mutual Friend | Eugene Wrayburn | 4 episodes |
| 1999 | Forgotten | Ben Turner | 3 episodes |
| rowspan=2 | 2000 | Nature Boy | Steve Witton | 4 episodes |
| Fish | Jonathan Vishnevski | 6 episodes | |
| rowspan=2 | 2001 | Hotel! | Ben Carter | TV film |
| Sweet Revenge | Patrick Vine | 2 episodes | |
| rowspan=2 | 2002 | Blood Strangers | DC David Ingram | 2 episodes |
| The Biographer | Andrew Morton | TV film | |
| 2001–2003 | Hornblower | Lieutenant Bush | 4 episodes |
| 2003 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Dr. Peter Lord | Episode: "Sad Cypress" |
| 2004 | Lie With Me | Gerry Henson | 2 episodes |
| 2005 | Kidnapped | Colonel MacNab | 2 episodes |
| rowspan=2 | 2005 | Fables of Forgotten Things | Clarence | TV short film |
| Agatha Christie's Marple | Dickie Erskine | Episode: "Sleeping Murder" | |
| rowspan="3" | 2006 | Tripping Over | Jeremy | 6 episodes |
| Sea of Souls | Christopher Chambers | Episode: "Rebound" | |
| If I Had You
|Philip Andrews |TV film | |||
| 2007 | True Dare Kiss | Nash McKinnon | 6 episodes |
| 2009 | Collision | Richard Reeves | 5 episodes |
| 2010 | Jonathan Creek | Hugo Doré | Episode: "The Judas Tree" |
| 2010–2011, 2019 | Luther | Mark North | 10 episodes |
| rowspan=2 | 2011 | Waking the Dead | ACC Tony Nicholson | Episodes: "Waterloo", Parts 1 & 2 |
| New Tricks | DCI James Larson | Episode: "Object of Desire" | |
| rowspan="2" |2012
|Save Our Souls: The Titanic Inquiry |TV film | |||
| A Mother's Son | David | 2 episodes | |
| rowspan=2 | 2013 | Ripper Street | Stanley J. Bone | Episode: "The Good of This City" |
| Moving On | Phil | Episode: "Blood Ties" | |
| 2013, 2022 | Doctor Who | Eighth Doctor | Episodes: "The Night of the Doctor" (minisode) & "The Power of the Doctor" (cameo) |
| 2013 | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Self | TV film |
| 2014 | The Bletchley Circle | John Richards | Episode: "Blood on Their Hands: Part 1" |
| rowspan="2" |2016
|Moving On |{{N/a|None}} |Directed episodes "Passengers" and "Zero" | |||
| The Musketeers | St. Pierre | Episode: "The Queen's Diamonds" | |
| 2017–2018 | Holby City | John Gaskell | 40 episodes |
| 2021, 2023 | Annika | Dr. Jake Strathearn | 6 episodes |
| rowspan=2 | 2022 | Anne | Sir Malcolm Thornton | Episode: #1.2 |
| McDonald & Dodds | Archie Addington | Episode: "A Billion Beats" | |
| 2024 | Bookish | Mr Kind | 2 episodes |
=Stage=
| class="wikitable sortable" | |||
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984-5
|Loot |Dennis | |||
| 1987
|Frankie | |||
| 1995
|Father and Son: Son and Father | |New Vic, Bristol | |||
| 1996 | Much Ado About Nothing | Dogberry | Horseshoe, Basingstoke |
| 1997 | Loot | Dennis | Ambassadors |
| 1998 | The Seagull | Constantine | rowspan="2" | Royal Court Theatre |
| 1999 | A Lie of the Mind | Frankie | |
| 2003 | The Little Black Book | Jean-Jaques | Riverside Studios |
| 2003-4 | Captain Adam Brant | National Theatre | |
| 2005 | The Gigli Concert | Jimmy | Finborough Theatre |
| 2009 | Helen | Menelaus | Shakespeare's Globe |
| 2011 | Butley | Reg | Duchess Theatre |
| 2013 | Major Barbara | Undershaft | Abbey Theatre |
| 2014 | Three Sisters | Alexander Vershinin | Southwark Playhouse |
| 2017 | Gabriel | Von Pfunz | Theatre 6 |
| 2022 | The Forest | Man 2 | Hampstead Theatre |
| 2024 | The River | The Man | Greenwich Theatre |
=Narration=
= Audio =
| class="wikitable sortable" | ||
| Year | Title | Role
!class="unsortable" style="width:26em"|Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2001–2021
|Doctor Who: The Monthly Adventures |36 episodes | ||
| 2003-present
|Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor Adventures |Eighth Doctor |152 episodes | ||
| 2011–2013
|Durian |6 episodes | ||
| 2015
|Eighth Doctor |Episode: "The Rulers of the Universe" | ||
| 2019
|You're the Boss |Bill |Track 5 on "Shuffle" by Jamie Lenman, reading of a scene from "Always Crashing in the Same Car" (2007) | ||
| 2019–2020
| rowspan="4" |Eighth Doctor |Series 3, 5 (4 episodes) | ||
| 2020
|Episode: "The Shoreditch Intervention" | ||
| rowspan="2" | 2023
|Episode: "The Final Hour" | ||
| The Paternoster Gang
|Episode: "Till Death Us Do Part" |
=Video games=
| class="wikitable" | |||
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Ceremony of Innocence | Griffin Moss | rowspan="2" | Voice role |
| rowspan="2" | 2015 | Anno 2205 | Virgil Drake | |
| Lego Dimensions
|Archive Audio | |||
| 2023 | Mia and the Dragon Princess | Walsh |
=Web=
| class="wikitable sortable" | ||||
| Year
! Title ! Role !Notes ! class="unsortable" | {{Tooltip|Ref.|Reference}} | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | The Doctors Say Thank You | Himself |
Awards and nominations
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year !Award !Category !Work !Result ! class="unsortable" |{{Abbr|Ref.|References}} |
| 1987
|British Academy Television Awards | {{Nominated}} | style="text-align: center;" |{{Cite web |title=Paul McGann: Awards |url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001524/awards |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=IMDb}} |
| 1990
|Barcelona Cinema Festival |Best Actor |{{Won}} |
| 1996
|{{Nominated}} |
| 2006
|Torino Gay & Lesbian Film Festival |Special Mention (shared with the cast) |Gypo |{{Won}} |
| 2013
|Best Supporting Actor |{{Nominated}} |
| 2017
|Horrible Imaginings Film Festival |Best Actor in a Feature Film | rowspan="2" |B&B |{{Won}} |
| 2018
|Global Independent Film Awards |Best Ensemble Cast (shared with the cast) |{{Won}} |
| 2021
|Liverpool Film Festival |Best Actor |Swallow Your Dreams |{{Won}} | style="text-align: center;" |{{Cite web |date=2021-12-13 |title=LIVIFF2021 best actor Paul McGann in Swallow Your Dreams |url=https://twitter.com/liviff/status/1470357144721633283 |access-date=2022-10-03 |website=Twitter |publisher=Liverpool Film Fest |language=en}} |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|1524}}
- {{Screenonline name|584233}}
- [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6751591.stm Talking Shop: Paul McGann interview at the BBC News website]
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| title = Doctor Who leading actor
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| after = Christopher Eccleston
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Category:Male actors from Liverpool
Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Category:English male film actors
Category:English male television actors
Category:20th-century English male actors
Category:21st-century English male actors