Christopher Eccleston

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Christopher Eccleston (16 February 1964 - )

A British stage, television, and film actor, Eccleston was born in Salford, Lancashire. His childhood ambition was to play football for Manchester United but, finding he was better in drama, studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

He has played numerous roles in movies, on the radio, in television, and in the theatre [[1]]. In 2002 he played the title role n Hamlet at the West Yorkshire Plahouse. In 2006 he was the nominated for the BFTA Cymru Best Actor Award, for his role in Doctor Who.

In a 16 February 1964 BBC interview, he said,

• I'm an atheist. My mother is very religious, a churchgoer. She would often encourage me to go to church as well, but never forced it upon me, which I thought was quite decent of her.
• There was no definining moment in which I decided there was no god for me. It was more of a growing process. I do feel that whatever religious beliefs I had as a child were foisted upon me. It's like when you ask where Grandma went when she died, and you'd be told that she went to heaven. I wouldn't necessarily view that as a bad thing, but it was stuff like that which I think hindered my intellectual development. Now that I've grown, I prefer a different interpretation.

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