June 13

On this day - June 13 1942 - Harrison Ford was born 

Harrison ford is an american actor. He was born in Chicago on this day in 1942. His dad, Christopher Ford had previous to his birth been an actor and his mum, Dorothy worked as a radio actress. Harrison Ford himself became fascinated with acting when he took an drama class in his senior year to get over his shyness. Ford got his first role as an actor in 1966 in the movie "Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-round". His first credited role was in "A Time for Killing" in 1967. Harrison Ford worked as a carpenter in this time to support his family, as he was not able to live of acting. In 1973 played Ford in his first George Lucas film, American Graffiti, and the relationship between the two became important for Ford's later acting carrier. Harrison Ford was originally hired to read lines for the actors auditioning for roles in the Star Wars movie, but Georg Lucas was so impressed with his reading that he offered him the role as Han Solo. He was supposedly payed US 10.000 for his first role as Han Solo and 16 million dollars for his last. With the role as "Indiana Jones" was Harrison Ford's status as an leading actor established and he went on to play in several other more or less successful movies.

April 21st

On this day - April 21st 1926 - Queen Elizabeth II was born 

Today is Queen Elizabeth II's 90th birthday. She was born in London in 1926 by Queen Elizabeth and King George VI and was the oldest of two sisters. She became the Queen in 1952 and she is today Queen of  United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Head of the Commonwealth. She is the worlds oldest reign monarch and the longest-reign Queen in British history. She married prince Philip in 1948 and the couple had their first children in November the same year. They had four children altogether, and Elizabeth have five great grandchildren.

Several items have been created to commemorate the event of Queen Elizabeth IIs birthday. We recommend you to take a look on amazone yourself to see what the most "special" item you can find!  

April 18th

On this day - April 18th 1971 - Scottish Actor David Tennant was born 

David Tennant is an Scottish Actor who was born in Bathgate on this day in 1971. His most famous roles include the 10th Doctor in Doctor Who, Kilgrave in Jessica Jones, Barty Crouch, Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Alec Hardy in Broadchurch. He has also worked as an voice actor and on stage for several plays. His acting debut was for a anti-smoking film in Glasgow at the age of 16. He was offered the role as Doctor Who in 2005, and Tennant has describe this role as his childhood dream. Tennant is married to Georgia Moffett (Actress from the Doctors daughter) and they have four children together. David Tennant was awarded the Special Recognition award at the British National Television Award in January 2015. He is currently filming "Mad to be Normal" and the filming for the third season of Tennant as Alec Hardy in "Broadchurch" will start this summer.

"I’ve been an obsessive Doctor Who fan since I was a child and it persists to this very day."
"When someone brings you a cup of tea, you say ‘thank you’ rather than ‘it’s not warm enough’"

Here are some of the movies/ Tv shows / Stage shows David Tennant have played in. We have seen several of them and would highly recommend the ones we have seen. There is even a David Tennant as Doctor Who bundle for the Doctor Who fans out there! 

 

 Or perhaps you would want a life size cardboard version of David Tennant?

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DAVID TENNANT!