Fashion house Versace paid tribute to Tennant on Twitter, saying: "Versace is mourning the death of Stella Tennant. Stella Tennant was a Scottish-English model and fashion designer. Elle est ne Londres, au Royaume-Uni. Her groom was David Lasnet, assistant to the photographer Mario Testino; they had met on a shoot. December 23, 2020. [136] In November 2015, Tennant announced that they had recently had a daughter named Doris. [122], Tennant rarely discusses his private life in interviews,[10] citing his belief that "relationships are hard enough with the people you're having them with, let alone talking about them in public". From then on, everything got better.'. [6], Raised on a 1,500-acre (6km2) sheep farm that her parents ran at Newcastleton, in the Scottish Borders,[7] Tennant went to the local primary then attended St Leonards School in St Andrews[9] followed by Marlborough College[11] before completing a degree in sculpture at the Winchester School of Art. [25], Tennant has expressed enthusiasm about fulfilling his childhood dream. [87], In 2017, Tennant appeared in writer/director Daisy Aitkens' first feature film, You, Me and Him. Totally Tennant. In this May 22, 1999 file photo, Stella Tennant with French born David Lasnet on their wedding day in Oxnam, on the Scottish Borders. The same month, he also appeared in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot directed by Peter Davison. Stella was born in Hammersmith, London, England, the daughter of Lady Emma Cavendish and The Hon. When he was 16, he acted in an anti-smoking film made by the Glasgow Health Board which aired on television and was also screened in schools. . David John Tennant (n McDonald; born 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. David Tennant returned to Doctor Who last night as the 14th Doctor after a 12-year hiatus and the Good Omens star . [3] She worked for haute couture names like Valentino, and Dior by John Galliano and with photographers Steven Meisel, Bruce Weber, Paolo Roversi, and Tim Walker. British supermodel Stella Tennant took her own life after being "unwell for some time", her family have confirmed. Mark Gatiss, Trevor Hampton, David Tennant, Alison Willett (2005). 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). Tennant was married to photographer David Lasnet for . [29] Tennant guest starred as the Doctor in a two-part story in Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures, broadcast in October 2009. Tennant and Lasnet separated earlier this year. As Tennant recalled from the audition, "they needed someone who could believably act 19 and bonkers". LONDON - Stella Tennant, one of Britain's top models, has died at the age of 50, British media reported on Wednesday. I mean, what else is there really?'. Arrangements for a memorial service will be announced at a later date.'. The iconic supermodel rose to runway superstardom in the '90s serving as a muse for brands including Versace, Chanel and Alexander McQueen Tennant has gone on record as saying that, contrary to tabloids reports, he was not upset at not being able to play the role in his own accent and in fact had never wanted to. [66][67] Tennant also presented the new comedy quiz show Comedy World Cup, in 2012 which ran on Saturday nights for seven episodes. Furthermore, Cecily Lasnet was born to her parents David Lasnet (Father) who is a French photographer, and Stella Tennant (Mother) who was a British model. She came from a completely .
She made a video and became one of the faces of its campaign titled Turn Up the Style, Turn Down the Heat. . He won the National Television Awards award for Most Popular Actor in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010. David loves surfing and skate boarding in his leisure time. 'And that's how I met Stella,' he recalled in an interview with the New York Times Magazine in 2011. In Hamlet, David Tennant, whose own RSC performance was a huge hit, meets other actors who have played the role - from the legendary David Warner in the 1960s to the recent Jude Law. [81], Tennant also portrayed the villainous Kilgrave in Jessica Jones, a television series from Marvel and Netflix. Lasnet recalled that his mental health also contributed to the realtionship getting off to a rocky start. DAVID Lasnet is the husband of the late model Stella Tennant. [29], In June 2012, Tennant was inducted as Model of the Year into the Scottish Fashion Awards Hall of Fame at its annual awards event.[30]. In February 2016, he began filming Mad to Be Normal (previously titled Metanoia), a biopic of the renowned Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing, produced by Gizmo Films. Anna Wintour is mourning the loss of fashion industry icon Stella Tennant. She later returned to the runway and worked on several campaigns behind the camera. [5] T Magazine; In an interview, he revealed that when he was 18-20 years old, he was suffering from depression, and his wife, Stella Tennant, had helped him in recovering from it. The photographer, who is now trilingual, said:'I went through a period of depression from the age of 18 to 20-something. Joel Golby of the Guardian described it: "David Tennant and Michael Sheen squabbled over Zoom as exaggerated, frustrated, hyper-thespian versions of themselves, in an actors-playing-actors miniseries with the exact same energy of a late-night Comic Relief sketch; 15-minute episodes where you got to see familiar actors with their off-duty haircuts saying words that seemed real. However, he was pleased to be able to use his own accent in one episode, when the Doctor briefly masquerades as "Dr. James McCrimmon" of Edinburgh in Tooth and Claw a nod to the Second Doctor's companion Jamie McCrimmon. In November 2008, Tennant played Sir Arthur Eddington in the BBC and HBO biographical film Einstein and Eddington, which was filmed in Cambridge and Hungary. As previous Doctor Christopher Eccleston had retained his northern tones, then-current showrunner Russell T Davies opted against the idea of having two consecutive Doctors with strong regional . Tennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999 Stella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month. (Lasnet later retrained as an osteopath.) Their relationship appeared idyllic, and they built a happy home in their countryside estate on the Scottish borders. LONDON (Reuters) - Stella Tennant, one of Britain's top models, has died at the age of 50, British media reported on Wednesday. Tennant was invited to set for a photoshoot with Testino in New York and the pair hit it off. They moved to the 18th-century house from New York in the US where Lasnet had forged a successful career as a photographer while Stella excelled as a model. Tennant and Billie Piper returned to Doctor Who for the 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor" broadcast on 23 November 2013, with then-stars Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman and guest star John Hurt. Lagerfeld had shrewdly seen in her a resemblance to the young Coco Chanel, who wore actual mens clothes for sports and larks, underplaying her femininity. . The English-language version of the film has dialogue written by Simon Pegg, who also starred in it as a main voice actor. [10] After discovering that there was another David McDonald already represented by the actor's union Equity, he created his stage name by adopting the surname of Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant, whom he had seen in Smash Hits magazine while deciding on a new name. 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 Tennant Family With Daughter,Son and Husband David Lasnet 2020 https://youtu.be/9CFNdHxAtAoReal Name : Stella TennantBorn : 17 December 1970Died : 22 . [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. Tennant's performance of Hamlet was critically acclaimed. [88] Between March and June 2017 Tennant appeared in Patrick Marber's Don Juan in Soho at the Wyndham's Theatre. . He also received his first credit as an executive producer for the series. Tennant developed his career in the British theatre, frequently performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company. [103][104][105][106], In December 2022, Tennant starred as Alexander Litvinenko in the ITV1 dramatisation Litvinenko. David Fisher/Shutterstock Stella Tennant at the UK Fashion Awards in 2019. On Wednesday, Tennant's family confirmed she died by suicide in a statement shared with The Telegraph. Couple David and Stella were blessed with four children. David Lasnet also credited the model with 'lifting him out of depression' early in their marriage but said she did not know the depths of the support she had given him. [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. Tennant appeared in the 2008 episode "Holofile 703: Us and Phlegm" of the radio series Nebulous (a parody of Doctor Who) in the role of Doctor Beep, using his Lothian accent. [12][13] He later legally changed his surname to comply with rules set by the American Screen Actors Guild (which was later merged into SAG-AFTRA). Karl Lagerfeld. [16][17] She also modelled frequently for other influential fashion photographers of the 1990s, including Mario Testino, David Sims and Mark Borthwick. (At art college she imitated favourite photographer Cindy Shermans technique of posing as stereotypes, and got them out of her system.). Tennant did not intend to keep modelling after the birth of their children, Marcel, Cecily, Jasmine and Iris, but it proved unexpectedly easy to take limited-length gigs, and she remained in demand for the rest of her life for ads, magazine work, regular catwalks, and an appearance in the 2012 Olympics ceremony as a distinctive British asset: I havent found a better part-time job., In 2015, the London gunmakers Holland & Holland, now owned by the Chanel group, asked Tennant to help design their country gear: her own off-duty uniform, from solid wet heather proof shoes through to shepherds plaid wrap, was their ideal. On 13 March 2009, he presented Red Nose Day 2009 with Davina McCall. On Wednesday, Tennant's family confirmed she died by suicide in a statement shared with The Telegraph. The husband of Stella Tennant spoke candidly about their marriage years before her death saying the secret to their 20 year marriage was: 'We want to make it work'.