Doctor Who Cast: Where Are They Now?
3. Christopher Eccleston
The Role: Although he only played the role for a single series, it is thanks to Christopher Eccleston that the show is back on screen at all, with his gravitas-filled portrayal convincing people there was still life in the old show yet.
Where Is He Now? Famously, Eccleston has seemed very keen to distance himself from the Doctor and so has had a bumper crop of roles since including a recurring character on Heroes in 2007, John Lennon in biopic Lennon Naked (for which, yes, he did appear in the buff) and, like a lot of actors on this list, he's also appeared in a superhero project. In this case, Thor 2: The Dark World as villain Malekith.
This year alone he popped up in Damon Lindelof's The Leftovers and BBC drama Safe House and can currently be caught in cinemas in the Tom Hardy Kray brothers biopic Legend, as the determined detective who's after them.