Paul Marc Davis

Paul Marc Davis (born 1974) is a British actor who has appeared on Doctor Who (the episode "Utopia") and two of its spin-off series, Torchwood ("Exit Wounds") and The Sarah Jane Adventures (as recurring villain "The Trickster"). He was also an executive producer on Sports Day 3D.

Life and career

Davis was born in London. He studied Fine Art and was a professional Sculptor for 12 years.

He is best known for his design of the Gramophone International Classical Music Award, an award regarded as the highest accolade for Classical Music and has Luciano Pavarotti among its recipients. Paul was awarded The Association of British Artists Award for Sculpture in 1996 and was shortlisted for The National association of British Sculptors award in 1998.

In 2001, after a chance meeting, he was offered the lead in a Channel Four film about the life of Casanova. In the same year he played the ghost of the Cavalier in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Over the next few years Paul played leads in many independent films and in 2007 was cast in Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood. Other roles include playing alongside Colin Farrell in Woody Allen's 'Casandra's Dream'.

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Marc Davis (astronomer)

Marc Davis (born 1947) is a Professor of Astronomy and Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Davis received his bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969, his Ph.D from Princeton University in 1973 and has been elected to both the National Academy of Sciences (1991) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992). Davis taught for a year at Princeton, 1973–74, then served on the Astronomy faculty at Harvard from 1975 to 1981. Since 1981 he has been on the faculty of the Department of Astronomy and Physics at the University of California at Berkeley.

Davis' work has been in physical cosmology and he has done a number of significant projects. While at Harvard, Davis led the CfA (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) galaxy survey, the first redshift survey of galaxies, which motivated his interest in N-body simulations of the Universe. In the 1980s, Davis, now at Berkeley, was part of a collaboration—with George Efstathiou, Carlos Frenk, and Simon White—that established the validity of the "cold dark matter" theory for the formation of galaxies and other cosmic structures, now the accepted interpretation in cosmology. In a classic series of papers, that collaboration—often called DEFW by their peers—used computer code to simulate the growth of the universe and resolve disputes among theoretical models.

Marc Davis (athlete)

Marc Davis (born December 17, 1969 in Oceanside, California) is a retired American track and field athlete, who mainly competed in distance races like the men's 3000 metres steeplechase and 5000 metres. His personal bests are 13:32.58 in the 5000 m set in 1989 and 8:14.26 in the steeplechase set in 1993.

Davis first gained fame while running for San Diego High School (the same alma mater as American distance star Meb Keflezighi), winning the Foot Locker Cross Country Championships, the equivalent of national championships, on his home course before a national TV audience.

Next Davis ran for the University of Arizona, winning the 1992 3000 m Steeple Chase NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

At the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships he won the 1993 steeplechase and in 1998 he won the 5000 metres. On the roads he won the 1997 National 5K Championship.

At the 1996 Summer Olympics, Davis won his semi-final in the steeplechase, before finishing 12th in the final.