Wikipedia readers turned to Christopher Eccleston at 46x the usual rate

What this article is

Christopher Eccleston is an English actor. He is known for his work in various social realist television dramas, as well as for playing the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who (2005).

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