Paul McGann

1959 (66) • Acting

Born: 11/14/1959 (66) in Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK

Known for: Acting

Paul McGann

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

Alien³

64%

Golic

1992

Luther

79%

Mark North

2010

Queen of the Damned

61%

David Talbot

2002

The Three Musketeers

64%

Girard / Jussac

1993

Withnail & I

72%

...& I

1987

Agatha Christie's Poirot

82%

Dr. Peter Lord

1989

Lesbian Vampire Killers

52%

Vicar

2009

Doctor Who

62%

The Doctor

1996

The Marbles

Lord Byron (voice)

2025

Bookish

64%

Mr. Kind

2025

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

51%

The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

2025

Doctor Who at the Proms

72%

The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2024

Churchill’s Forgotten War

80%

Narrator (voice)

2024

The Day of the Sun Dog

Jaggers

2023

The Undertaker

57%

Arthur

2023

Talking Doctor Who

50%

Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)

2023

Mia and the Dragon Princess

63%

Walsh

2023

Doctor Who Am I

48%

Self

2022

Swallow Your Dreams

100%

James

2022

Anne

71%

Malcolm Thornton MP

2022

Annika

70%

Jake Strathearn

2021

Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

39%

Self - Narrator

2021

The Big Night In

90%

Self

2020

McDonald & Dodds

76%

Archie Addington

2020

The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years

20%

2019

Victorian Sensations

Self - Presenter

2019

The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On

76%

Self

2019

Swans: Mystery of the Missing

100%

Self - Narrator (voice)

2019

Picasso's Last Stand

Narrator

2018

Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land

Himself

2018

Perplexed Music

Man

2017

Brakes

57%

Peter

2017

Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence

80%

Narrator (voice)

2017

Nero's Sunken City

50%

Narrator (English Voice)

2017

B&B

63%

Josh

2017

Wildest Europe

Narrator

2017