Paul McGann

Acting · Born 1959-11-14 · Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK

Biography

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

• Good Behaviour (2026)
• Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War (2025)
• The Marbles (2025)
• Doctor Who at the Proms (2024)
• Churchill’s Forgotten War (2024)
• Mia and the Dragon Princess (2023)
• The Day of the Sun Dog (2023)
• The Undertaker (2023)
• Talking Doctor Who (2023)
• Swallow Your Dreams (2022)
• Doctor Who Am I (2022)
• The Big Night In (2020)
• The Doctors: The Paul McGann Years (2019)
• Swans: Mystery of the Missing (2019)
• The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On (2019)
• Picasso's Last Stand (2018)
• Oi For England's Green and Pleasant Land (2018)
• Nero's Sunken City (2017)
• Brakes (2017)
• B&B (2017)
• Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence (2017)
• Perplexed Music (2017)
• Unfinished: The Making of Massive Attack (2016)
• Super Powered Owls (2015)