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{{Infobox Person
| image          = RichardEGrant-as-WalterSimeon-in-TheSnowmen.jpg
| aka            = Richard Grant Esterhuysen
| birth date    = [[5 May]] [[1957]]
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| role          = [[Tenth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|alternate Tenth Doctor]]<br>[[Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)|alternate Ninth Doctor]]<br>[[Walter Simeon|Dr Walter Simeon]]
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| story          = [[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|The Curse of Fatal Death]]''<br>[[Webcast]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]''<br>[[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]''
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| non dwu        =
| imdb          = 0001290
| official site  = richard-e-grant.com
| twitter        =
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'''Richard E. Grant''', born '''Richard Grant Esterhuysen''' [[5 May]] [[1957]] in [[Wikipedia:Mbabane|Mbabane]], [[Wikipedia:Swaziland|Swaziland]], played the [[Tenth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|Tenth Doctor]] in ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death]]'' and voiced an [[Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)|animated version of the Ninth Doctor]], a separate and earlier character from the canonical [[Ninth Doctor]] played by [[Christopher Eccleston]] on television, in the webcast animation ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]''.
'''Richard E. Grant''', born '''Richard Grant Esterhuysen''' [[5 May]] [[1957]] in [[Wikipedia:Mbabane|Mbabane]], [[Wikipedia:Swaziland|Swaziland]], played the [[Tenth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|Tenth Doctor]] in ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death]]'' and voiced an [[Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)|animated version of the Ninth Doctor]], a separate and earlier character from the canonical [[Ninth Doctor]] played by [[Christopher Eccleston]] on television, in the webcast animation ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]''.


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== External links ==
== External links ==
{{imdb name|id=0001290|name=Richard E. Grant}}
{{imdb name|id=0001290|name=Richard E. Grant}}
[Richard-E-Grant.com]
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Revision as of 03:59, 26 December 2012

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Richard E. Grant, born Richard Grant Esterhuysen 5 May 1957 in Mbabane, Swaziland, played the Tenth Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death and voiced an animated version of the Ninth Doctor, a separate and earlier character from the canonical Ninth Doctor played by Christopher Eccleston on television, in the webcast animation Scream of the Shalka.

Grant is one of three actors to have played two separate incarnations of the Doctor, albeit neither in a canonical context. The others were Sylvester McCoy, the Seventh Doctor, who briefly played the Sixth Doctor in TV: Time and the Rani, and Jon Culshaw, who played multiple Doctors on the sketch show Dead Ringers, most notibly the Fourth and Tenth.

Outside the Doctor Who universe, Grant appeared in a tragicomic character Withnail opposite Eighth Doctor actor Paul McGann in the 1987 cult film Withnail and I. He also appared in the films Warlock (1989), Hudson Hawk (1991), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), The Age of Innocence (1993), Prêt-à-Porter (1994), Spice World (1997), The Little Vampire (2000), Gosford Park (2001), Bright Young Things (2003), and Corpse Bride (2005).

Mr. Grant studied English and Drama at University in Capetown, South Africa. He is married to voice coach Joan Washington and has a daughter, Olivia, and a stepson, Tom.

External links

[Richard-E-Grant.com]