
Paul McGann
Acting
Born 1959-11-14 · Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
Paul McGann (born November 14, 1959) is an English actor who made his name on The Monocled Mutineer, in which he played the lead role. He is also known for his role in Withnail and I, and for portraying the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie as well as other media that features his incarnation of the character.
Known for

Holby City
1999 · TV

Fish
1977 · TV

Luther
2010 · TV

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited
2013 · TV

Wildest Islands
2012 · TV

Bible Mysteries
2004 · TV

Give us a Break
1983 · TV

Annika
2021 · TV

Zero Hour
2004 · TV

True Dare Kiss
2007 · TV

Natural World
1983 · TV

Secrets of the Castle
2014 · TV

Wildest Middle East
2014 · TV

Wildest Indochina
2014 · TV

Wildest Latin America
2012 · TV

Wildest Islands of Indonesia
2016 · TV

Collision
2009 · TV

Hornblower
1998 · TV

Tripping Over
2006 · TV

Our Mutual Friend
1998 · TV

The Monocled Mutineer
1986 · TV

Nature Boy
2000 · TV

Anne
2022 · TV

The Hanging Gale
1995 · TV

Wildest Europe
2017 · TV

Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · TV

Shark
2015 · TV

Wild Sri Lanka
2015 · TV

Forgotten
1999 · TV

The Foreign Legion: Tougher Than the Rest
2007 · TV

Kidnapped
2005 · TV

Waking the Dead
2001 · TV

Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
2021 · TV

Bookish
2025 · TV

A Mother's Son
2012 · TV

Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · TV

Play for Today
1970 · TV

Horizon
1964 · TV

New Tricks
2004 · TV

Ripper Street
2012 · TV

McDonald & Dodds
2020 · TV

Moving On
2009 · TV

The Musketeers
2014 · TV

Sea of Souls
2004 · TV

The Bletchley Circle
2012 · TV

Twisted Tales
2005 · TV

Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996 · TV

Victorian Sensations
2019 · TV