Acting
Paul McGann
Nov 14, 1959 (66 years) 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
6.4
Alien³
Golic
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Dr. Peter Lord
7.9
Luther
Mark North
7.5
Empire of the Sun
Lieutenant Price
6.1
Queen of the Damned
David Talbot
6.4
The Three Musketeers
Girard / Jussac
7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
Dickie Erskine
5.8
Holby City
John Gaskell
7.4
Ripper Street
Stanley Bone
7.1
The Musketeers
St Pierre
8.2
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
7.2
Withnail & I
...& I
7.3
New Tricks
D.C.I. James Larson
5.2
Lesbian Vampire Killers
Vicar
7.5
Horizon
Himself
Filmography
6.4
Bookish
2025 · Mr. Kind
5.1
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025 · The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
7.4
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024 · The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
6.3
Mia and the Dragon Princess
2023 · Walsh
6.0
Talking Doctor Who
2023 · Self / The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
5.7
The Undertaker
2023 · Arthur
7.1
Anne
2022 · Malcolm Thornton MP
4.8
Doctor Who Am I
2022 · Self
7.0
Annika
2021 · Jake Strathearn
3.9
Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
2021 · Self - Narrator
7.6
McDonald & Dodds
2020 · Archie Addington
9.0
The Big Night In
2020 · Self
7.6
The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On
2019 · Self
6.3
B&B
2017 · Josh
5.7
Brakes
2017 · Peter
5.0
Nero's Sunken City
2017 · Narrator (English Voice)
8.0
Egypt's Great Pyramid: The New Evidence
2017 · Narrator (voice)
China: Between Clouds and Dreams
2016 · Commissioning Editor
8.0
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015 · The Doctor (8) (picture) (uncredited)
8.2
Shark
2015 · Himself - Narrator
7.8
Wild Sri Lanka
2015 · Paul McGann
8.7
China - Treasures of the Jade Empire
2015 · Narrator
7.1
The Musketeers
2014 · St Pierre
9.4
Secrets of the Castle
2014 · Narrator (Voice)
5.9
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
2014 · Himself
8.6
Wildest Indochina
2014 · Narrator (voice)
7.4
Cosmonauts: How Russia Won the Space Race
2014 · Narrator (Voice)
8.5
Wildest Middle East
2014 · Narrator
8.2
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013 · The Doctor (8) (archive footage)
7.8
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013 · Self