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Biography: Christopher Eccleston [Top] Christopher Eccleston is a British stage, television & film actor, best known for his roles in several high profile prestige films & television series. As a child his ambition was to play football for his beloved Manchester United, but he found himself to be a much better actor than he was a footballer & inspired by television dramas such as Boys from the Blackstuff, he took to acting as his profession. He trained at the Central School of Speech & Drama & first came to public attention as Derek Bentley in the 1991 film Let Him Have It, based on true events. However, it was a regular role in the TV series Cracker – culminating in his characters dramatic death in the second series – that made him a recognisable figure in the UK. He appeared in the low-budget Danny Boyle film Shallow Grave in 1994, in which he co-starred with another up-and-coming young British actor by the name of Ewan McGregor.
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