Paul McGann

English actor

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2025 Paul McGann co-narrates the 'Ancient Civilizations' podcast with John Hopkins
2025 Paul McGann is involved in the 'Titanic: Ship of Dreams' podcast project
2024 Cast in Bookish as Mr Kind in a 2-episode arc
2024 Cast as The Man in 'The River' at Greenwich Theatre
2023 Appeared in two films: 'Mia and the Dragon Princess' as Walsh and 'The Undertaker' as Arthur Morel
2023 McGann appeared as the Eighth Doctor in two episodes: 'The Final Hour' in 'The Robots' and 'Till Death Us Do Part' in 'The Paternoster Gang'
2022 McGann makes a cameo appearance in the television special 'The Power of the Doctor', reuniting with other past Doctors.
2022 Appeared in two different TV series: as Sir Malcolm Thornton in Anne and as Archie Addington in McDonald & Dodds
2022 McGann continued the podcast series 'Short History Of...' (Series 2, totaling 41 episodes)
2022 Played 'Man 2' in 'The Forest' at Hampstead Theatre
2021 Played James in the short film 'Swallow Your Dreams'
2021 McGann was involved in the documentary 'Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World' and started the podcast series 'Short History Of...' (Series 1)
2021 McGann hosted the British Podcast Awards Gold-winning Noiser podcast production Real Dictators.
2020 McGann narrated the podcast series 'Real Dictators', Series 1
2020 McGann starred as the Eighth Doctor in the 'Susan's War' episode 'The Shoreditch Intervention'
2019 McGann read a scene from 'Always Crashing in the Same Car' on track 5 of Jamie Lenman's 'Shuffle' album titled 'You're the Boss'
2019 McGann returned as the Eighth Doctor in 'The War Master' series, appearing in 4 episodes across Series 3 and 5
2018 McGann won Best Ensemble Cast at the Global Independent Film Awards for the film 'B&B', sharing the award with the cast
2017 Portrayed the character Von Pfunz in 'Gabriel' at Theatre 6
2017 Acted in two films: 'B&B' as Josh and 'Perplexed Music' as the Man (a short film)
2017 McGann joined the cast of Holby City, playing neurosurgeon John Gaskell.
2017 McGann won Best Actor in a Feature Film at the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival for the film 'B&B'
2016 Directed episodes of Moving On and appeared as St. Pierre in an episode of The Musketeers
2016 Appeared in two films: 'Brakes' as Peter and 'Letters from Baghdad' in a voice role as Henry Cadogan
2016 McGann worked on documentaries 'Wild Sri Lanka' (on Disney+) and 'Wildest Islands of Indonesia', and appeared in the TV series 'Eden' (Series 1–2)
2015 Starred as the Man in the short film 'Absence'
2015 Paul McGann provided archive audio for his Eighth Doctor character in Lego Dimensions
2015 McGann was involved in documentaries 'Shark' and 'Hunt for the Arctic Ghost Ship'
2015 Paul McGann voiced the character Virgil Drake in the video game Anno 2205
2015 McGann reprised his role as the Eighth Doctor in the River Song episode 'The Rulers of the Universe'
2014 Played Ambassador Durian in the short film 'The Minister of Chance'
2014 Guest starred in The Bletchley Circle as John Richards in an episode titled 'Blood on Their Hands: Part 1'
2014 Performed as Alexander Vershinin in 'Three Sisters' at the Southwark Playhouse
2014 Provided audio narration for BBC Scotland documentary 'Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting'.
February 2014 Released a crowdfunded short film based on the first instalment of The Minister of Chance.
2013 Paul McGann was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Crime Thriller Awards for his role in 'A Mother's Son'
2013 Appeared in two films: 'Art Is...' as Lulu's Dad and 'A Little Place Off the Edgware Road' as James Craven (a short film)
2013 Appeared in multiple TV shows including Ripper Street as Stanley J. Bone, Moving On as Phil, and starred in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot as himself
2013 McGann hosted/narrated two documentaries: 'Wildest Islands Vancouver Islands: Rivers of Life' and 'Extraordinary People: The Boy with the Incredible Brain'
2013 McGann played the role of Undershaft in 'Major Barbara' at the Abbey Theatre
November 14 2013 McGann reprises his role as the Eighth Doctor in the mini-episode 'The Night of the Doctor' during the show's 50th Anniversary celebrations, where his Doctor regenerates into a previously unknown Doctor played by John Hurt.
2012 McGann portrayed the Photographer in 'Notes from the Underground'
2012 Portrayed Sir Rufus Isaacs in Save Our Souls: The Titanic Inquiry TV film and played David in a 2-episode arc of A Mother's Son
2011 Paul McGann performed in the play 'Butley' as the character Reg at the Duchess Theatre
2011 Paul McGann played Mr. Johnson in the film 'Moving Target'
2011 McGann played ACC Tony Nicholson in Waking the Dead and DCI James Larson in New Tricks
2011 McGann began portraying Ambassador Durian in The Minister of Chance, a fantasy audio drama released in multiple parts.
2011 Paul McGann appeared in the documentary 'Britain's Greatest Codebreaker'
2011 McGann played an Assistant Commissioner in the final episode of Waking the Dead and featured in Simon Gray's Butley at the Duchess Theatre in London.
2010 McGann played a major role in a feature-length episode of Jonathan Creek and appeared as a regular in the crime drama Luther.

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