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Paul McGann (born November 14, 1959) is an actor
who made his name on the BBC serial The Monocled
Mutineer, in which he played the lead role.
Following on from that part, he was cast as the
eponymous "I" in Bruce Robinson (writer)|Bruce
Robinson's cult film comedy, Withnail and I
(1987). He also starred as Anton Skrebensky in Ken
Russell's 1989 adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's The
Rainbow.



Since then his career has concentrated on
television work including the Horatio
Hornblower|Hornblower series and playing the
eighth incarnation of The Doctor (Doctor Who)|the
Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who television Doctor
Who (Enemy Within)|movie. He has had small roles
in a number of high-profile American films
including Alien 3 and Queen of the Damned.
Coincidentally, his co-star in Withnail, actor
Richard E. Grant, also played the Doctor in the
2003 animated webcast Scream of the Shalka. 

Although McGann played the Doctor on screen only
once, he has reprised the role of the Eighth
Doctor in an extensive series of audio plays by
Big Finish Productions and was treated as the
"current" Doctor by the majority of fandom until
Christopher Eccleston assumed the role in 2005.
This makes McGann the longest-serving "official"
Doctor, his approximately 9-year tenure surpassing
the 7 years accorded Tom Baker and Sylvester
McCoy. McGann's audio work as the Eighth Doctor is
expected to continue despite the change of current
actors.

He was born in Liverpool.  His brothers Mark, Joe,
and Stephen are also actors; the four of them
starred together (as four brothers) in the 1995
television miniseries The Hanging Gale. They also
formed the pop quartet "The McGanns", releasing
the single "Everything But The Boy".

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== External links==
* imdb name|id=0001524|name = Paul McGann
* http://www.mcgannlibrary.net The McGann Library
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