Paul McGann. He was in the attempted mid-90s revival of Doctor Who. It was a single TV movie that aired on Fox. It was pretty good, but since there was an attempt to make the show attractive to American audiences (Fox funded it), there was quite a bit of exposition since there's a ton of backstory that was totally unfamiliar to Americans.
It's still a pretty good Doctor Who, and in many ways, it is a love note to Doctor Who fandom, particularly in the TARDIS design.
McGann had signed a contract to appear as the Eighth Doctor in a new Doctor Who series, if Fox or Universal exercised their option. Thus, the television movie was supposed to be a "back door pilot" in that, if it obtained respectable ratings, the new series would continue to be produced. The movie aired on May 14, 1996 in the US and on May 27, 1996 in the UK. Although it earned 9.08 million viewers and was very successful in the UK, ratings were very low in the United States. As a consequence, Fox did not exercise its option to pick up the series and Universal could not find another network who was interested in airing a new Doctor Who series. Thus no new series was produced until 2005, after all the contractual rights had returned to the BBC,
Yes, the EVIL FUCKING FOX NAZIS prevented the Doctor Who revival from happening for nearly a decade
