Sylvester McCoy

Birth Name:

Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith

Birth Place:

Dunoon, Scotland

Profession

Actor

Won a BBC TV60 Award for Best Popular Drama Series along with Peter Davison for "Doctor Who" in 1996
After completing school, he worked at an insurance company in London until the age of 24
His first job in the theater was selling tickets and keeping books in the box office of London's Roundhouse Theatre," which eventually led to him joining a sketch show
Trained to be a priest at Blair's College from the age of 12 to the age of 16, but his application to be a monk was rejected because he was too young, and after starting at a co-ed grammar school, he quickly decided to change his career path
Quote: "Theater is like broad brush painting, where you can go anywhere with your brush․ But film is like painting with one of those little, pointy brushes, a stroke here and a stroke there․ I love that as well․"
Quote: "Time can be a constraint․ But then constraint can sometimes be a good thing I've found․"
Appeared in a musical play written especially for him called "The Pied Piper," performed at the National Theatre
Best known for playing the seventh incarnation of the Doctor on the long-running science fiction series "Doctor Who․"
Loves travel, and has gone to India, China, Hong Kong, Japan, the South Sea Islands, America and Australia
Was one of the final two actors considered for the role of Bilbo in Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy

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