english actor
For early people named Matthew Smith, see Matthew Smith ( disambiguation )
Matthew Robert Smith ( bear 28 October 1982 ) is an english actor. He is best known for his roles as the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC serial Doctor Who and Prince Philip in the Netflix series The Crown, the latter of which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

Smith initially aspired to be a professional football player, but spondylolysis forced him out of the sport. After joining the National Youth Theatre and studying drama and creative publish at the University of East Anglia, he became an actor in 2003, performing in plays including Murder in the Cathedral, Fresh Kills, The History Boys and On the Shore of the Wide World in London theatres. Extending his repertoire into West End theater, he has since performed in the stage adaptation of Swimming with Sharks with christian Slater, followed a year former by a critically applaud performance as Henry in That Face. Smith ‘s first television character came in 2006 as Jim Taylor in the BBC adaptations of Philip Pullman ‘s The Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow in the North, while his beginning major function in television came as Danny in the 2007 BBC series Party Animals. Smith portrayed the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who from 2010 to 2013, becoming the youngest person to portray the character. In film, he starred in Womb ( 2010 ) and portrayed the physical embodiment of Skynet in Terminator Genisys ( 2015 ) .

early on animation [edit ]

Matthew Robert Smith was born in Northampton on 28 October 1982, [ 1 ] the son of Lynne and David Smith. [ 2 ] He has a baby named Laura Jayne, who was one of the dancers featured in the well-known music video for Eric Prydz ‘s 2004 song “ Call on Me “. [ 3 ] Smith attended Northampton School for Boys. His grandfather had played football for Notts County and Smith had besides planned to play football, having played for the young person teams of Northampton Town, Nottingham Forest, and Leicester City, [ 4 ] becoming master of the latter ‘s youth team. [ 5 ] A serious back injury resulted in spondylolysis, and he was unable to continue with a footballing career. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Smith ‘s play teacher introduced him to acting by signing him up for theatrical productions without his consent. After failing to participate on the first two occasions, [ 5 ] his teacher arranged for him to play the tenth juror in an adaptation of Twelve Angry Men. Although he took partially, he refused to attend a drama festival for which his teacher had besides signed him up, as he saw himself as a football player and believed acting would damage his social life. [ 7 ] His drama teacher persisted, finally persuading him to join the National Youth Theatre in London. After leaving school, Smith studied Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, graduating in 2005. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] With the National Youth Theatre, he played Thomas Becket in Murder in the Cathedral and Bassoon in The Master and Margarita. His character in the latter earned him an agent and his first base professional jobs, Fresh Kills and On the Shore of the Wide World, which led him to seek an agreement with his university thus that he could graduate without attending lectures in his concluding class. [ 9 ]

career [edit ]

television receiver [edit ]

early on bring [edit ]

Smith ‘s beginning television receiver role was as Jim Taylor in the BBC adaptations of the Sally Lockhart quartet books The Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow in the North. [ 10 ] His first major television receiver role came in the television series Party Animals, a BBC play series about fictional parliamentary advisors and researchers. Smith portrayed Danny Foster, a parliamentary research worker who was described as an intelligent but timid “ politics geek ” who should have moved on from researching at his long time. [ 11 ] In an interview in 2007, Smith summarised the character as having a romantic mentality of the political world while being cynical elsewhere. He talked about his quality ‘s emotional and intellectual maturity ; emotionally, he lacks confidence around women, though Smith portrays him as a care and sensitive but “ dry, sarcastic, [ and ] witty ” amatory. intellectually, Danny is portrayed as heedful and possessing a impregnable work ethic. [ 12 ] Smith auditioned for the role of Will McKenzie in the drollery series The Inbetweeners, with the character finally being given to actor Simon Bird. This was revealed in an interview in 2009 by the picture ‘s writer Iain Morris, who said, “ We auditioned literally 1,000 people … he was brilliant—down to the survive two for Will, I think. I think he was a bite besides dashing ! ”

Doctor Who [edit ]

Doctor Who in March 2010 Smith and Karen Gillan promotingin March 2010

“ The Doctor is a identical special part, and it takes a very special actor to play him. You need to be old and youthful at the lapp time, a boffin and an action hero, a brash schoolboy and the judicious old man of the population. arsenic soon as Matt walked through the door, and blew us away with a bold and trade name newly lead on the Time Lord, we knew we had our man. ”

Executive producer Steven Moffat on Smith ‘s project. [ 13 ]
Smith was revealed as the Eleventh Doctor in the british science-fiction television series Doctor Who in January 2009 [ 14 ] to replace David Tennant, who announced his deviation in October 2008. [ 15 ] Smith was a relatively strange actor compared to the actors then speculated about possibly taking on the character, who included Paterson Joseph, David Morrissey, Sean Pertwee, James Nesbitt, Russell Tovey, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Robert Carlyle, and Billie Piper. [ 16 ] Smith was foremost named as a possible successor less than a day before he was announced as the Eleventh Doctor, on edition of 3 January 2009 of BBC Breakfast, among the names speculated about. [ 17 ] His obscurity prompted the news headline “ Doctor Who ? “, a riff on the show ‘s title. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Smith was one of the earliest actors to audition for the function, performing on the first day. The production team, consisting of incoming producer Steven Moffat and BBC Wales Head of Drama and executive producer Piers Wenger, immediately singled him out based on his operation. [ 14 ] Smith additionally auditioned for the function of John Watson in the Moffat-created Sherlock, undergo auditions at the same time ; he was unsuccessful, as Moffat believed his eccentric acting style was closer to Holmes, a function that had already been given to Benedict Cumberbatch. [ 20 ] At 26 years old, Smith was three years younger than Peter Davison was at the time of his draw as the Doctor in 1981, making him the youngest repair and the youngest actor to be suggested for the function. [ 14 ] [ 21 ] After three weeks of auditions, Moffat and Wenger agreed that it had “ always been Matt ” and approached him to accept the role. [ 14 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ]
Smith in July 2012 Smith made his debut as the Doctor in the episode “ The Eleventh Hour “ in April 2010. [ 25 ] The BBC were cautious about casting Smith because they felt that a 26-year-old could not play the Doctor adequately ; Wenger shared the lapp opinion but thought Smith had proven his acting choice in Party Animals, which Wenger thought highlighted Smith ‘s “ erratic qualities ”. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Some fans of the show believed that Smith was inexperienced and excessively young for the function, while others supported him by citing his attest acting ability. [ 26 ] For his operation in his first series, he was nominated in the Outstanding Drama Performance Category of the National Television Awards. [ 27 ] Smith is the first actor in the character to garner a nomination for a british Academy Television Award for Best Actor. [ 28 ] Smith said of his character, “ The Doctor is excited and fascinated by the bantam of things. By everything. By every single matter. That ‘s what ‘s fantastic about him as a character. It ‘s why children like him, I think. Because he does n’t dismiss anything. He ‘s not cynical. He ‘s loose to every single facet of the population. ” [ 29 ] In June 2010, Smith appeared on stage with Orbital, and performed with them a version of the Doctor Who theme, at the Glastonbury Festival. [ 30 ] Smith hosted the Doctor Who Prom at the Royal Albert Hall on 24–25 July 2010. [ 31 ] On the good morning of 26 May 2012, Smith carried the Olympic flashlight in Cardiff, an natural process which was noted by Doctor Who fans for its resemblance to a 2006 episode of the express in which the Doctor carried the torch. [ 32 ] On 1 June 2013, the BBC announced that Smith would be leaving Doctor Who at the end of the 2013 Christmas particular. [ 33 ] He was succeeded by Peter Capaldi. [ 34 ] Reflecting upon his decision to leave in a 2016 interview, he expressed regret for not staying longer, stating that he wanted to work long with co-star Jenna Coleman. [ 35 ] In 2018, while appearing on Desert Island Discs, he revealed that he closely turned down the function of the Doctor. [ 5 ]

Post- Doctor Who cultivate

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In June 2015, Smith was cast as Prince Philip in the Netflix imperial drama The Crown. [ 36 ] He played the character for the series ‘ first two seasons, [ 37 ] garnering a nominating speech for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2018. [ 38 ] Smith will appear as Daemon Targaryen in the series House of the Dragon, a prequel to the fantasy play series Game of Thrones. [ 39 ] In May 2021, Smith appeared in the music television for the song “ We ‘re On Our way now ” by Noel Gallagher ‘s High Flying Birds. [ 40 ]

film [edit ]

Smith was cast in Martin McDonagh ‘s black comedy crime In Bruges ( 2008 ), as the younger version of Ralph Fiennes ‘ quality, but his scenes did not appear in the concluding cut of the film. [ 41 ] He starred in the 2009 abruptly film Together and the 2010 film Womb. [ 42 ] In February 2013, it was reported that Smith had signed up to appear in Ryan Gosling ‘s directorial debut Lost River. [ 43 ] Smith ‘s directorial debut, the shortstop film Cargese, was aired on Sky Arts in May 2013. [ 44 ] [ 45 ] Smith had a back role as the shape of Skynet in Terminator Genisys ( 2015 ) ; [ 46 ] [ 47 ] [ 48 ] he was set to have more shield time in the one-sixth and seventh films in the series. [ 49 ] On 20 November 2014, it was announced that Smith would star in the action-thriller film Patient Zero. [ 50 ] In January 2019, he joined Sony ‘s Spider-Man by-product Morbius. [ 51 ] In February, it was announced that he had joined the frame of Edgar Wright ‘s Last Night in Soho. [ 52 ] [ 53 ]

dramaturgy [edit ]

During Smith ‘s tenure in On the Shore of the Wide World, the play transferred to the Royal National Theatre in London. After finishing the play, he took on the function of Lockwood, a student in the Alan Bennett play The History Boys. After The History Boys, he acted in the adolescent act Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship and with christian Slater in Swimming with Sharks, [ 54 ] the latter being his west end début. [ 7 ] [ 9 ] In 2007, Smith appeared as Henry in the Polly Stenham shimmer That Face at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in Chelsea. The act transferred to the Duke of York ‘s Theatre in the West end in 2008 and became Smith ‘s second function there. That Face focuses chiefly upon alcohol and drug addiction in an upper-middle-class syndicate after the paternal figure in the family leaves. As Henry, Smith portrayed an draw a bead on artist who left school to take concern of his mother. To prepare for the function, the vomit interviewed alcoholics and their families. Smith discussed his character ‘s relationship with his mother in a May 2008 interview with the Evening Standard. [ 7 ]

The thing I find catchy to get my head round is why does n’t he just leave ? An frightful lot of it is codependency. [ … ] With Henry there ‘s a veridical belief—or denial maybe—that he can change his beget. When she is ultimately pulled away from him to go to rehab, his identity collapses. His sacrifice has been for nothing .

The stallion form of the play was nominated for the 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre, [ 55 ] and Smith garnered an Evening Standard Theatre Award nomination for Best Newcomer for his role. [ 56 ] Upon its transfer to the West end, Smith ‘s operation as Henry was highlighted as one of the convinced aspects of the gambling by critics for the Evening Standard, Daily Express, The Guardian, and The Times. [ 57 ] On 7 October 2013, it was announced Smith would play Patrick Bateman in the musical adaptation of American Psycho at London ‘s Almeida Theatre. The show began its range in December 2013. [ 58 ] Smith reunited with his The Crown co-star Claire Foy in a production of the Duncan Macmillan play Lungs at The Old Vic beginning in October 2019. [ 59 ]

personal life [edit ]

Smith was in a relationship with brazilian actress and singer Mayana Moura from 2008 to 2009. [ 60 ] He besides had an on-off kinship with model Daisy Lowe from 2010 to 2014. [ 61 ] [ 62 ] From 2014 to 2019, he was in a relationship with actress Lily James. [ 63 ] [ 64 ] Smith is an atheist [ 65 ] and an avid patron of Blackburn Rovers FC. [ 66 ] [ 67 ] He has cited his darling dance band Radiohead as an inhalation, [ 68 ] and referred to Oasis as “ the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world ”. [ 5 ] In 2015, he was named one of GQ ‘s 50 Best-Dressed british Men. [ 69 ]

Filmography [edit ]

film [edit ]

television [edit ]

phase [edit ]

Video games [edit ]

Short movie [edit ]

Year Title Role Notes
2009 Together Rob
2013 Cargese Director
2021 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds:
We’re on Our Way Now 		Man Music video

Awards and nominations [edit ]

References [edit ]

farther read [edit ]

  • Smith, Oli (2010). Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor: Matt Smith. London: BBC Children’s Books. ISBN 978-1-4059-0687-6.