 Christopher Eccleston (qv) is the third actor to play the ninth  Doctor, and his ninth Doctor is the third version of the character.  Rowan Atkinson (qv) played the ninth Doctor in the 1999 BBC Comic  Relief charity spoof  _Comic Relief: Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death (1999) (V)_ (qv).  Five years later, Richard E. Grant (qv) voiced a different ninth  Doctor in the BBC web animation  _"Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka" (2003) (mini)_ (qv). Only  Ecclestons ninth Doctor is "canon", or official.