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This article is about the Scottish actor. For the Cape Colony politician, see David Tennant (Cape politician). For the English goalkeeper, see Dave Tennant. For the founder of the Gargoyle Club, see David Tennant (aristocrat).

David Tennant
Tennant at Comic-Con 2009
Born
David John McDonald

(1971-04-18) 18 April 1971 (age 53)
Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland
Occupation(s)Actor, voice actor, narrator
Years active1987–present
Spouse(s)Georgia Moffett
(m. 2011–present)
Children3
Parent(s)Alexander McDonald
Helen McDonald (deceased)[1]

David Tennant (born David John McDonald; 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor known for his roles as the Tenth Doctor in the British television series Doctor Who, as Giacomo Casanova in the TV serial Casanova (2005) and as Barty Crouch, Jr. in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). In addition to his appearances on screen Tennant has worked as a voice actor and appeared in a critically acclaimed stage production of Hamlet.[2][3]

Early life and education

Tennant was born in Bathgate, West Lothian to Essdale Helen (née McLeod; now deceased) and the Very Rev. Dr. Alexander McDonald (born 1937).[4] He grew up with his brother Blair and sister Karen[5] in Ralston, Renfrewshire, where his father was the local Church of Scotland Minister and former Moderator.[6][7][8] Tennant's maternal great-grandparents, William and Agnes Blair, were staunch Protestants from County Londonderry, Ulster, the northern province of Ireland, and were among the signatories of the Ulster Covenant in 1912. William Blair was a member of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland. Tennant's maternal grandfather, footballer Archie McLeod, met William and Agnes's daughter Nellie while playing for Derry City. McLeod's parents were from the Isle of Mull in the Scottish Highlands and are descended from tenant farmers.[9][10]

At the age of three, Tennant told his parents that he wanted to become an actor because he was a fan of Doctor Who,[11] but they tried to encourage him to aim for more conventional work.[5] He watched almost every Doctor Who episode for years, and he spoke to Tom Baker at a book-signing event in Glasgow.[5] Tennant says he was "absurdly single-minded" in pursuing an acting career. Tennant was educated at Ralston Primary and Paisley Grammar School, where he enjoyed a fruitful relationship with English language teacher Moira Robertson, who was among the first to recognise his potential.[12] He acted in school productions throughout primary and secondary school.

Tennant's talent at this young age was spotted by Scottish actress Edith MacArthur. After seeing young David's first performance at age 11, she told his parents he would become a successful stage actor.[13] Tennant also attended Saturday classes at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama; at 16, he passed an audition for the Academy, one of their youngest students, and studied there between the ages of 17 and 20, taking his stage name from the Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant[14] after reading a copy of Smash Hits magazine[15] because there was another David McDonald already on the books of the Equity union. Tennant has stated that he later had to legally change his name to Tennant in order to meet Screen Actors Guild rules.[16]

Career

Early work

Tennant made his professional acting debut while still in secondary school. When he was 16, he acted in an anti-smoking film made by the Glasgow Health Board which aired on television and was also screened in schools.[13] The following year, he played a role in an episode of Dramarama. Tennant's first professional role upon graduating from drama school was in a staging of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui costarring Ashley Jensen, one of a few plays in which he performed as part of the agitprop 7:84 Theatre Company. Tennant also made an early television appearance in the Scottish TV sitcom Rab C Nesbitt as a transsexual barmaid called Davina. In the 1990s, Tennant appeared in several plays at the Dundee Repertory Theatre.[17]

Tennant's first major TV role was as the manic depressive Campbell in the Scottish drama series Takin' Over the Asylum (1994). During filming, Tennant met comic actress and writer Arabella Weir. When he moved to London shortly afterwards he lodged with Weir for five years and became godfather to her youngest child. He has subsequently appeared alongside Weir in many productions; as a guest in her spoof television series Posh Nosh, in the Doctor Who audio drama Exile (during which Weir played an alternate version of the Doctor), and as panellists on the West Wing Ultimate Quiz on More4 (Weir later guest starred on Doctor Who itself after Tennant left the series). One of his earliest big screen roles was in Jude (1996), in which he shared a scene with Christopher Eccleston, playing a drunken undergraduate who challenges Eccleston's Jude to prove his intellect. Coincidentally, Eccleston portrayed the incarnation of The Doctor immediately preceding Tennant's. He developed his career in the British theatre, frequently performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company. His first Shakespearean role for the RSC was in As You Like It (1996); having auditioned for the role of Orlando, the romantic lead, he was instead cast as the jester Touchstone, which he played in his natural Scottish accent.[18] He subsequently specialised in comic roles, playing Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors and Captain Jack Absolute in The Rivals, although he also played the tragic role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. [citation needed]

Tennant contributed to several audio dramatisations of Shakespeare for the Arkangel Shakespeare series (1998). His roles include a reprisal of his Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, as well as Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice, Edgar/Poor Tom in King Lear, and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, all of which he performs in his natural accent. In 1995, Tennant appeared at the Royal National Theatre, London, playing the role of Nicholas Beckett in Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw. In television, Tennant appeared in the first episode of Reeves and Mortimer's revamped Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) in 2000, playing an eccentric artist. This is one of his few TV roles in his native Scottish accent. During the Christmas season of 2002, he starred in a series of television advertisements for Boots the Chemists.[19] He began to appear on television more prominently in 2004 and 2005, when he appeared in a dramatisation of He Knew He Was Right (2004), Blackpool (2004), Casanova (2005), and The Quatermass Experiment (2005). In film, he appeared in Bright Young Things (2003), and later that same year appeared as Barty Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Doctor Who (2005–2010, 2013)

See also: Tenth Doctor
Tennant with Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies (left), regular director Euros Lyn (centre right), and executive producer Julie Gardner (right) at San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2009

Doctor Who returned to British screens in 2005, with Christopher Eccleston playing the role of the Ninth Doctor in the first series. Tennant replaced him as of the second series, making his first, brief appearance as the Tenth Doctor in the episode "The Parting of the Ways" (2005) at the end of the regeneration scene, and also appeared in a special 7-minute mini-episode shown as part of the 2005 Children in Need appeal, broadcast on 18 November 2005. He began filming the new series of Doctor Who in late July 2005. His first full-length outing as the Doctor was a 60-minute special, "The Christmas Invasion", first broadcast on Christmas Day 2005. Tennant had been formally offered the role of the Doctor during rehearsals for The Quatermass Experiment. Although the casting was not officially announced until later in April,[20] both castmates and crew became aware of the speculation surrounding Tennant; in the live broadcast Jason Flemyng (Quatermass) changed his first line to Tennant's Dr Briscoe from "Good to have you back Gordon" to "Good to have you back Doctor" as a deliberate reference.[21]

Tennant has expressed enthusiasm about fulfilling his childhood dream. He remarked in a radio interview: "Who wouldn't want to be the Doctor? I've even got my own TARDIS!" In 2006, readers of Doctor Who Magazine voted Tennant "Best Doctor" over perennial favourite Tom Baker.[22] In 2007, Tennant's Doctor was voted the "coolest character on UK television" in a Radio Times survey. [citation needed] When Tennant was cast as Eccleston's successor, he had wanted to use his native Scottish accent and become "the first kilted Doctor" according to an interview in the Daily Star, but writer Russell T Davies did not want the Doctor's accent "touring the regions", so he used Estuary English instead.[23] Tennant was able to use his Scottish accent during his time on the series, however, when the Doctor briefly masquerades as "Dr Jamie McCrimmon" of Edinburgh in Tooth and Claw - a nod to the Second Doctor's companion.

He previously had a small role in the BBC's animated Doctor Who webcast Scream of the Shalka. Not originally cast in the production, Tennant happened to be recording a radio play in a neighbouring studio, and when he discovered what was being recorded next door managed to convince the director to give him a small role. This personal enthusiasm for the series had also been expressed by his participation in several audio plays based on the Doctor Who television series which had been produced by Big Finish Productions, although he did not play the Doctor in any of these productions. His first such role was in the Seventh Doctor audio Colditz, where he played a Nazi lieutenant guard at Colditz Castle. In 2004 Tennant played a lead role in the Big Finish audio play series Dalek Empire III as Galanar, a young man who is given an assignment to discover the secrets of the Daleks. In 2005, he starred in UNIT: The Wasting for Big Finish, recreating his role of Brimmicombe-Wood from a Doctor Who Unbound play, Sympathy for the Devil. In both audio productions Tennant worked alongside Nicholas Courtney, who reprised the character of Sir Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. He also played an unnamed Time Lord in another Doctor Who Unbound play Exile. UNIT: The Wasting, was recorded between Tennant getting the role of the Doctor and it being announced. He played the title role in Big Finish's adaptation of Bryan Talbot's The Adventures of Luther Arkwright (2005). In 2006, he recorded abridged audio books of The Stone Rose by Jacqueline Rayner, The Feast of the Drowned by Stephen Cole and The Resurrection Casket by Justin Richards, for BBC Worldwide. [citation needed]

He made his directorial debut on the Doctor Who Confidential episode that accompanies Steven Moffat's episode "Blink", entitled "Do You Remember The First Time?", which aired on 9 June 2007. In 2007, Tennant's Tenth Doctor appeared with Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor in a Doctor Who special for Children in Need, written by Steven Moffat and entitled "Time Crash". He later performed alongside Davison's daughter, Georgia Moffett (as "Jenny") in the 2008 episode "The Doctor's Daughter".

Tennant featured as the Doctor in an animated version of Doctor Who for Totally Doctor Who, The Infinite Quest, which aired on CBBC. He also starred as the Doctor in another animated six-part Doctor Who series, Dreamland.[24] Tennant guest starred as the Doctor in a two-part story in Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures, broadcast in October 2009.[25] Tennant continued to play the Tenth Doctor into the revived programme's fourth series in 2008. However, on 29 October 2008, Tennant announced that he would be stepping down from the role after three full series.[26] He played the Doctor in four special episodes in 2009, before his final episode aired on 1 January 2010. The Daily Mirror reported that Tennant was forbidden from attending Doctor Who fan conventions while playing the role. This was done to avoid the chance that Tennant could accidentally let slip any plot points during filming of the series.[27]

Tennant and Billie Piper returned to Doctor Who for the 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor" broadcast on 23 November 2013, alongside current stars Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman and guest star John Hurt. The same month, he also appeared in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Rebootdirected by Peter Davison.[28]

Other television roles (2005–present)

While playing the Doctor, Tennant was also in the early December 2005 ITV drama Secret Smile. His performance as Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger at the Theatre Royal, Bath and Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh was recorded by the National Video Archive of Performance for the Victoria and Albert Museum Theatre Collection. He revived this performance for the anniversary of the Royal Court Theatre in a rehearsed reading. In January 2006, he took a one-day break from shooting Doctor Who to play Richard Hoggart in a dramatisation of the 1960 Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial, The Chatterley Affair. The play was written by Andrew Davies and directed by Doctor Who's James Hawes for the digital television channel BBC Four. Hoggart's son, Simon, praised Tennant's performance in The Guardian newspaper.[29]

On 25 February 2007, Tennant starred in Recovery, a 90-minute BBC One drama written by Tony Marchant. Tennant played Alan, a self-made building site manager who attempted to rebuild his life after suffering a debilitating brain injury. His costar in the drama was friend Sarah Parish, with whom he had previously appeared in Blackpool and an episode of Doctor Who. She joked that "we're like George and Mildred – in 20 years' time we'll probably be doing a ropey old sitcom in a terraced house in Preston."[30] Later that same year he starred in Learners, a BBC comedy drama written by and starring Jessica Hynes (another Doctor Who costar, in the episodes "Human Nature", "The Family of Blood" and "The End of Time"), in which he played a Christian driving instructor who became the object of a student's affection. Learners was broadcast on BBC One on 11 November 2007. Tennant had a cameo appearance as the Doctor in the 2007 finale episode of the BBC/HBO comedy series Extras alongside Ricky Gervais. In November 2008 Tennant played Sir Arthur Eddington in the BBC and HBO biopic Einstein and Eddington, which was filmed in Cambridge and Hungary.[31]

In 2009, he worked on a TV film version of the RSC's 2008 Hamlet for BBC Two. From October 2009, he hosted the Masterpiece Contemporary programming strand on the American Public Broadcasting Service.[32] In December 2009, he filmed the lead in an NBC pilot, Rex Is Not Your Lawyer, playing Rex, a Chicago lawyer who starts to coach clients to represent themselves when he starts suffering panic attacks.[33] The pilot was not picked up and the project was shelved.[34][35] In October 2010 he starred as Dave, a man struggling to raise five children after the death of his partner, in the British drama Single Father. For this role he was nominated as Best Actor at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2010. In 2011, he starred in United, about the Manchester United "Busby Babes" team and the 1958 Munich air disaster, playing coach and assistant manager Jimmy Murphy.[36] In September 2011, he appeared in a guest role in one episode of the comedy series This is Jinsy, and also started filming True Love, a semi-improvised BBC One drama series, on location in Margate, Kent; the series aired in June 2012.

In April 2012, Tennant played lead in a one-off drama The Minor Character for Sky Arts.[37] Between April and June, he filmed Spies of Warsaw for BBC Four, in the lead role of Jean-François Mercier. This drama series shot in Poland is an adaptation of Alan Furst's novel The Spies of Warsaw.[38] Tennant auditioned for the role of Hannibal Lecter in NBC's Hannibal; he was narrowly beaten for the part by Mads Mikkelsen, but show developer Bryan Fuller has indicated that he was sufficiently impressed by Tennant that he would like to cast him in another role in the series.[39] On 9 June 2012, he started filming the 3-part political drama series The Politician's Husband for BBC Two, playing an ambitious cabinet minister who takes drastic action when his wife's career starts to outshine his.[40][41] Also in June it was announced that Tennant would star in the new ITV detective series Broadchurch. The series was filmed in Clevedon, North Somerset and Bridport, Dorset between August and November 2012, and aired in March 2013 .[42] Tennant also presented the new comedy quiz show Comedy World Cup, in Autumn 2012 which ran on Saturday nights for seven episodes.[43]

Between late January and March 2013, Tennant filmed The Escape Artist for BBC One. Tennant plays a talented, junior barrister who is yet to lose a case. The three-part series aired on BBC One in October and November 2013.[44] Between January and May 2014, Tennant filmed the US remake of Broadchurch, re-titled Gracepoint.[45] Tennant will film the second series of Broadchurch during summer 2014.[46][47]

Other work (2007–present)

Tennant was the "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" on Top Gear in December 2007, where he claimed to have unsuccessfully auditioned for a role on Taggart 26 times.[48] Tennant is the voice behind the 2007 advertising campaign for catalogue retailer Argos, and appeared in adverts for The Proclaimers' 2007 album and learndirect in June 2008 (using his natural Scottish accent in both). Tennant also lent his voice to adverts for Tesco Mobile, Nintendo Wii, and American Express.

Tennant appeared in Derren Brown's Trick or Treat.[49] In the 26 April – 2 May issue of TV & Satellite Week, Brown is quoted as saying: "One of the appeals of Doctor Who for David is time travel, so I wanted to give him that experience. He was open and up for it, and I got a good reaction. He's a real screamer!" The episode aired on Channel 4 on 16 May 2008, and showed Tennant apparently predicting future events correctly by using automatic writing. Tennant also returned for the final episode of the series with the rest of the participants from the other episodes in the series to take part in one final experiment.

Tennant at Stratford-upon-Avon

Tennant appeared in the 2008 episode "Holofile 703: Us and Phlegm" of the radio series Nebulous (a parody of Doctor Who) in the role of Doctor Beep, using his Lothian accent. Also in 2008, Tennant voiced the character of Hamish the Hunter in the 2008 English language DVD rerelease of the 2006 animated Norwegian film, Free Jimmy, alongside Woody Harrelson. The English-language version of the film has dialogue written by Simon Pegg, who also starred in it as a main voice actor. In early 2009, Tennant narrated the digital planetarium space dome film "We are Astronomers"[50] commissioned by the UK's National Space Centre. On 13 March 2009, he presented Red Nose Day 2009 with Davina McCall. He joined Franz Ferdinand onstage to play the guitar on their song "No You Girls" on a special Comic Relief edition of Top of the Pops. In summer 2009, Tennant filmed St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold. The film was released in December 2009.

In November 2009, Tennant co-hosted the Absolute Radio Breakfast Show with Christian O'Connell for three consecutive days.[51] He returned to cohost the show for one day in October 2010[52] and again in September 2011. Tennant also provides the narration and all the character voices for the audio book versions of the Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III stories by Cressida Cowell such as How to Train Your Dragon. In these audio books, Tennant employs his vocal skills to create a vast cast of recognisably distinct voices. Some of his most memorable characterisations include the Norfolk yokel of Norbert the Nutjob, the broad Glaswegian of Gobber the Belch, the hissing and whining Cockney of Toothless the Dragon and the sly insinuations of Alvin the Treacherous. He also played the role of Spitelout in the recent animated film adaption of said books.

On 7 March 2010, he also appeared as George in a one-part BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Of Mice and Men in the Classic Serial strand.[53] He appeared alongside former costar Catherine Tate in the Shakespeare comedy Much Ado About Nothing at London's Wyndham's Theatre from 16 May 2011 to 3 September 2011.[54] For his performance as Benedick he won the BroadwayWorld UK Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play.[55]

In September 2011, it was announced that Tennant would voice a character in the movie adaptation of Postman Pat named You Know You're the One with a planned 3D theatrical release for spring 2013.[56] In October 2011, Tennant started shooting the semi-improvised comedy film, Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger in Coventry.[57][58] He played dual roles: the main character, put-upon teacher Mr Peterson, and his "golden boy" twin brother and rival.[59] He appeared in a multi-million-pound campaign for Virgin Media. One advert was voluntarily withdrawn after a complaint lodged by BBC Worldwide, which believed that the advert broke the corporation's guidelines by featuring references to Doctor Who that appeared to be a commercial endorsement of the service.[60]

Tennant starred alongside Rosamund Pike in a BBC/Origin Pictures film, What We Did on Our Holiday, a semi-improvised comedy from the writers of the popular BBC sit-com Outnumbered; shooting took place from 17 June to 30 July 2013 in Scotland. The film was released in September 2014.[61] He is the narrator on Xbox One video game Kinect Sports Rivals.[62]

Royal Shakespeare Company (2008–present)

Despite his recent focus on television work, Tennant has described theatre work as his "default way of being".[63] He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), to play Hamlet (alongside Patrick Stewart) and Berowne (in Love's Labours Lost) during 2008.[citation needed] From August to November 2008 he appeared at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon as Hamlet, playing that role in repertory with Berowne that October and November.[citation needed]

Hamlet transferred to the Novello Theatre in London's West End in December 2008, but Tennant suffered a prolapsed disc during previews and was unable to perform from 8 December 2008 until 2 January 2009, during which time the role was played by his understudy Edward Bennett.[64] He returned to his role in the production on 3 January 2009, and appeared until the run ended on 10 January. On 12 April 2011, a photograph of Tennant as Hamlet featured on a stamp issued by the Royal Mail to mark the RSC's fiftieth anniversary.[65]

In January 2012, Tennant was appointed to the Royal Shakespeare Company board, to be on the selection committee interviewing and choosing the new artistic director.[66] It was announced on 23 January 2013 that Tennant would return to the RSC for the company's 2013 winter season, playing the title role in Richard II at Stratford-upon-Avon (from 10 October to 16 November) and transferring to the Barbican Centre in London (from 9 December to 25 January 2014).[67]

Personal life

From 2005 to 2007, Tennant dated actress Sophia Myles, with whom he acted in Foyle's War and the Doctor Who episode "The Girl in the Fireplace".[68] He married actress Georgia Moffett on 30 December 2011,[69] having met her when they co-starred in the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter". They have two children together,[70][71][72] and Tennant is also the step-father of Moffett's child from a previous relationship.[73] Tennant does not discuss his personal life or relationships in interviews,[74] stating in 2009 that "relationships are hard enough with the people you're having them with, let alone talking about them in public".[75] He believes that religion "must have" shaped his character, and he is an occasional churchgoer.[76]

In 2008, Tennant was voted "Greenest Star on the Planet" in an online vote held by Playhouse Disney as part of the Playing for the Planet Awards.[77] Later that year, he underwent surgery for a prolapsed disc. He is a supporter of the Labour Party and appeared in a party political broadcast for them in 2005; in 2010, he declared his support for then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown.[78] In April 2010, he lent his voice to a Labour Party election broadcast. In 2012, he introduced Labour leader Ed Miliband at the Labour Party Conference.[79] He is a patron of the Association for International Cancer Research.

In December 2005, The Stage placed Tennant at No. 6 in its "Top Ten" list of the most influential British television artists of the year, citing his roles in Blackpool, Casanova, Secret Smile, and Doctor Who.[80] In January 2006, readers of the British gay and lesbian newspaper The Pink Paper voted him the "Sexiest Man in the Universe".[81] A poll of over 10,000 women for the March 2006 issue of New Woman magazine ranked him 20th in their list of the "Top 100 Men".[82] In October 2006, he was named "Scotland's most stylish male" in the Scottish Style Awards.[83]

Popularity

Tennant was named "Coolest Man on TV" of 2007 in a Radio Times survey. He won the National Television Awards award for Most Popular Actor in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010. He was voted 16th Sexiest Man in the World by a 2008 Cosmopolitan survey.[84] Tennant was ranked the 24th most influential person in the British media, in the 9 July 2007 MediaGuardian supplement of The Guardian. He appeared in the paper's annual media rankings in 2006. In December 2008, he was named as one of the most influential people in show business by British theatre and entertainment magazine The Stage, making him the fifth actor to achieve a ranking in the top 20 (in a list typically dominated by producers and directors). He was voted the third best dressed man in Britain in GQ reader's poll for 2013.[85] Tennant's popularity has led to impersonations of him on various social networking sites, leading the BBC to issue a statement making it clear that Tennant does not use any of these sites and any account or message purporting to be or from him is fake.[86] In the expansion EverQuest: Seeds of Destruction for the game EverQuest, a character was introduced called Tavid Dennant, named after David Tennant. The character when interacted with makes a number of references to Doctor Who.[87]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1993 Spaces Vinny[88] Short film
1996 Jude Drunken undergraduate
1997 Bite Alastair Galbraith[89] Short film
1998 L.A. Without a Map Richard
1999 The Last September Captain Gerald Colthurst
2000 Being Considered Larry
2001 Sweetnight Goodheart Peter Short film
2002 Nine 1/2 Minutes Charlie Short film
2003 Bright Young Things Ginger Littlejohn
2004 Traffic Warden Traffic warden Short film
2004 Old Street Mr. Watson Short film
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Barty Crouch Jr.
2006 Free Jimmy Hamish Voice only
2009 Glorious 39 Hector
2009 St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold Sir Piers Pomfrey
2010 How to Train Your Dragon Spitelout[90] Voice only
2011 The Decoy Bride James Arber[91]
2011 Fright Night Peter Vincent[92]
2011 The Itch of the Golden Nit News announcer / Stretchy McStretch[93] Voice only
2012 The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists Charles Darwin Voice only
2012 Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger Donald Peterson / Roderick Peterson[57][58]
2014 Postman Pat: The Movie — You Know You're the One Wilf[94][95] Voice only
2014 What We Did on Our Holiday Doug

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1987 Anti-smoking film Jim[13] Glasgow Health Board PSA
1988 Dramarama Neil McDonald Series 6, Episode 13: "The Secret of Croftmore"
1992 Strathblair Hiker Series 1
1992 Bunch of Five Policeman Series 1, Episode 5: "Miles Better"
1993 The Brown Man Ventriloquist[96]
1993 Rab C Nesbitt Davina Series 3, Episode 2: "Touch"
1994 Takin' Over the Asylum Campbell Bain
1995 The Bill Steve Clemens Series 11, Episode 128: "Deadline"
1995 The Tales of Para Handy John MacBryde Series 2, Episode 2: "Para Handy's Piper"
1996 A Mug's Game Gavin Series 1, Episode 4
1997 Holding the Baby Nurse Series 1, Episode 2
1997 Conjuring Shakespeare Angelo[97] Episode 6: "Like a Virgin" (appeared in a scene from Measure for Measure)
1998 Duck Patrol Simon "Darwin" Brown
1999 The Mrs Bradley Mysteries Max Valentine Series 2, Episode 1: "Death at the Opera"
1999 Love in the 21st Century John Episode 1: "Reproduction"
2000 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) Gordon Stylus Series 1, Episode 1: "Drop Dead"
2001 People Like Us Rob Harker Series 2, Episode 4: "The Actor"
2001 High Stakes Gaz Whitney Series 2, Episode 1: "The Magic Word"
2001 Only Human Tyler Pilot
2002 Foyle's War Theo Howard Series 1, Episode 3: "A Lesson in Murder"
2002 Boots UK advert Husband
2003 Terri McIntyre Greig Millar Series 2
2003 Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka Caretaker 1 Episode
2003 Trust Gavin MacEwan Series 1, Episode 6
2003 Posh Nosh Jose-Luis Series 1, Episodes 3 and 8: "Paella" and "Comfort Food"
2003 Spine Chillers Dr. Krull Series 1, Episode 1
2004 The Deputy Christopher Williams
2004 He Knew He Was Right Rev Gibson
2004 Blackpool DI Carlisle
2005 The Quatermass Experiment Dr. Gordon Briscoe
2005 Casanova Giacomo Casanova
2005 Secret Smile Brendan Block
2005 Doctor Who: A New Dimension Narrator Doctor Who Confidential pilot
2006 Who Do You Think You Are? Himself Series 3, Episode 4
2006 Ready Steady Cook Himself 1 episode
2005–2010
2013		 Doctor Who The Doctor Series 2, 3, 4, 2008-2010 Specials
50th Anniversary Special[98][99]
2006 The Romantics Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2006 The Chatterley Affair Richard Hoggart
2007 Recovery Alan Hamilton
2007 Comic Relief Sketch Mr Logan / The Doctor Appeared alongside Doctor Who co-star Catherine Tate
2007 Dead Ringers Regenerated Tony Blair
2007 Doctor Who:The Infinite Quest The Doctor
2007 Learners Chris
2007 Extras Himself / The Doctor Christmas Special
2007 The Friday Night Project Guest host Series 4, Episode 1
2007 The Human Footprint Narrator
2007 Top Gear Himself Series 10, Episode 10
2008 Everest ER Narrator
2008 What Makes Me Happy Poetry reader[100] Series of short films that include poetry
2008 Trick or Treat Himself[49] Series 2, Episodes 3 and 6
2008 The Friday Night Project Guest host Series 6, Episode 2
2008 Einstein and Eddington Sir Arthur Eddington
2009 The Sarah Jane Adventures The Doctor[25] Series 3, Episodes 5 and 6: "The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith"
2009 Rex Is Not Your Lawyer Rex Alexander[33] NBC pilot
2009 Dreamland The Doctor 6 episodes
2009 The Catherine Tate Show Ghost of Christmas Present "Nan's Christmas Carol"
2009 Hamlet Prince Hamlet
2009 Swarm: Nature's Incredible Invasions Narrator
2009 Comic Relief 2009 Presenter
2009 Doctor Who: Tonight's the Night Himself
2009 Troubled Young Minds Narrator[101]
2009 QI Himself QI Christmas Special
2009 Never Mind the Buzzcocks Guest host Series 23, Episode 12
2009 Alan Carr: Chatty Man Guest Series 2, Episode 7
2009–2010 Masterpiece Contemporary Host
2010 Single Father Dave Tiler
2010 Caught in the Web – A Newsround Special Narrator[102]
2010 Eddie Izzard: Marathon Man Narrator
2010 My Life Narrator Episode: "Karate Kids"
2010 Diet or My Husband Dies Narrator[103]
2010 Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide Himself[104]
2010 Stealing Shakespeare Narrator
2010 Ask Rhod Gilbert Authenticator Series 1, Episode 5
2010 Paul O'Grady Live Guest Series 1
2010 Chris Moyles' Quiz Night Himself Regular slot: "David Tennant's Celebrity Impressions"
2010 Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice Narrator BBC Wildlife Specials
2011 United Jimmy Murphy
2011 This is Jinsy Mr. Slightlyman[105] Series 1, Episode 1
2011 The Father of Australia Narrator[106]
2011 Starlight: For the Children Narrator[107] Narrated episodes 5–10
2011 The TA & The Taliban Narrator[108]
2011 Gerry Rafferty: Right Down the Line Narrator[109]
2011 Shrek: Once Upon a Time Narrator[110]
2011 Earthflight Narrator[111]
2011 Laughing at the... Himself[112] Series 1, Episode 2: "Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties"
2011–2012 Twenty Twelve Narrator Series 1 and 2
2012 Playhouse Presents Will[37] Series 1, Episode 1: "The Minor Character"
2012 True Love Nick[113] Series 1, Episode 1
2012 Star Wars: The Clone Wars Huyang[114]
2012 Tree Fu Tom Twigs[115]
2012 Wild About Pandas Narrator[116]
2012 We Won't Drop the Baby Narrator[117]
2012 Discovering Hamlet Himself[118]
2012 Shakespeare Uncovered - Hamlet Himself[119]
2012 Virgin Media adverts Himself
2012 Comedy World Cup Presenter
2012 Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell Narrator
2012–2013 Dragons: Riders of Berk Spitelout Series 1, Episode 12, "Thawfest" and Series 2, Episode 5, "Race to Fireworm Island"
2013 Penguins - Spy in the Huddle Narrator[120]
2013 Comic Relief 2013 Presenter
2013 Fish Hooks Oscar's Brain Series 3, Episode 3, "Live at the Hamsterwood Bowl"
2013 Spies of Warsaw Jean-François Mercier[38]
2013 Broadchurch DI Alec Hardy
2013 The Politician's Husband Aiden Hoynes
2013 The Escape Artist Will Burton[44]
2013 The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot Himself
2014 Gracepoint Emmett Carver U.S. remake of Broadchurch
2014 Dolphins - Spy in the Pod Narrator[121] BBC Wildlife Specials
2014 W1A Narrator Five part series

Stage

Year Title Role Notes
1989 The Ghost of Benjy O'Neil The Ghost[122] Phantom Productions
1990 Fools Leon Steponovitch Tolchinsky[123] Made in Glasgow (RSAMD Student Company), Chandler Studio, RSAMD
1990 Twelve Angry Men Juror 8[124] Theatre Positive Scotland, Arches Theatre, dir Iain Reekie
1991 Mozart from A to Z Mozart[125] RSAMD
1991 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Various characters 7:84 Theatre Company Scotland
1991–1992 Shinda the Magic Ape Kenny[126] Royal Lyceum Theatre
1992 Jump the Life to Come Malcolm[126] 7:84 Theatre Company Scotland
1992 Merlin Arthur Royal Lyceum Theatre
1992 Scotland Matters Various characters 7:84 Theatre Company Scotland
1992 Hay Fever Simon[126] Royal Lyceum Theatre
1992 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Nick[127] Dundee Repertory Theatre
1992 Tartuffe Valere Dundee Repertory Theatre
1992–1993 Merlin the Magnificent and the Adventures of Arthur Arthur Dundee Repertory Theatre
1993 Antigone Haemon[126] 7:84 Theatre Company Scotland
1993–1994 The Princess and the Goblin Curdie[128] Dundee Repertory Theatre
1994 Long Day's Journey into Night Edmund[129] Dundee Repertory Theatre
1994 The Slab Boys Trilogy Alan Young Vic
1995 What the Butler Saw Nick Royal National Theatre
1995 An Experienced Woman Gives Advice Kenny Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
1996 The Glass Menagerie Tom Dundee Repertory Theatre
1996 As You Like It Touchstone Royal Shakespeare Company
1996 The General From America Hamilton Royal Shakespeare Company
1996 The Herbal Bed Jack Lane Royal Shakespeare Company
1997 Hurly Burly Mickey Old Vic
Queen's Theatre
1997 Tamagotchi Heaven Boyfriend Did not appear on stage, only in a filmed segment
1997 Matters of Life and Death - "Blue" Himself Chelsea Theatre
1998 The Real Inspector Hound Moon Comedy Theatre
1998 Black Comedy Brinsley Miller Comedy Theatre
1998 For One Night Only Performer[130] The Other Place
Performed as part of the Stratford-upon-Avon Fringe Festival on 19 July 1998
1999 Vassa – Scenes from Family Life Pavel Albery Theatre
1999 Edward III Edward, the Black Prince Shakespeare's Globe (staged reading)
1999 King Lear Edgar Royal Exchange Theatre
2000 The Comedy of Errors Antipholus of Syracuse Royal Shakespeare Company
2000 The Rivals Jack Royal Shakespeare Company
2000 Romeo and Juliet Romeo Royal Shakespeare Company
2000 Laughter in the Dark Dawid Tenemann[131] The Other Place (in a filmed segment)
2001 A Midsummer Night's Dream Lysander / Flute[132] Royal Shakespeare Company
2001 Comedians Gethin Price
2001 Medea Bodyguard Royal National Theatre (staged reading)
2002 Push-Up Robert Royal Court Theatre
2002 Lobby Hero Jeff Donmar Warehouse
Ambassadors Theatre
2003 London Concert for Peace Performer of Nevertheless Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
2003–2004 The Pillowman Katurian Royal National Theatre
2004 The Fleer Lord Piso[133] Shakespeare's Globe (staged reading at the Globe Education Centre)
2005 Look Back in Anger Jimmy Porter Theatre Royal, Bath
Royal Lyceum Theatre
2006 Look Back in Anger Jimmy Porter Royal Court Theatre
2008 Hamlet Hamlet Royal Shakespeare Company
Novello Theatre
2008 Love's Labour's Lost Berowne Royal Shakespeare Company
2010 Celebrity Autobiography Various characters[134] Leicester Square Theatre
2011 Much Ado About Nothing Benedick[54] Wyndham's Theatre
2013 Richard II Richard II Royal Shakespeare Company

Radio and CD audio drama

Year Title Role Notes
1993 The Fifty Friends of Simon Goberschmitt Raymond BBC Radio 4
1993 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Policeman BBC Radio 4
1994 Knocking on Heaven's Door Lindsay Lerner BBC Radio 4
1996 Paint Her Well The Son BBC Radio 4
1998 Hemlock and After Eric Craddock BBC Radio 4
1998 The Airmen Who Would Not Die Captain Raymond "Hinch" Hinchliffe BBC Radio 4
1998 The Golden Triangle: The Order of Release John Everett Millais BBC Radio 4
1999 Fire in the Heart Reader BBC Radio 4
2000 Henry VI, Part 1 Henry VI Arkangel Shakespeare
2000 Henry VI, Part 2 Henry VI Arkangel Shakespeare
2000 Henry VI, Part 3 Henry VI Arkangel Shakespeare
2000 The Sea Willy Carson BBC Radio 3
2001 Much Ado about Nothing Benedick BBC Radio 4
2001 Sunday Worship Himself BBC Radio 4
2001 The Long Firm Narrator Whole Story Audiobooks
2001 He Kills Coppers Narrator Whole Story Audiobooks
2001 True Crime Narrator Whole Story Audiobooks
2001 Doctor Who: Colditz Feldwebel Kurtz Big Finish
2001 Dr Finlay: Adventures of a Black Bag Jackson BBC Radio 4
2002 Dr Finlay: Further Adventures of a Black Bag McKellor BBC Radio 4
2002 Double Income, No Kids Yet Daniel BBC Radio 4
2002 Facade William Walton[135] BBC Radio 4
2003 Doctor Who: Sympathy For The Devil Colonel Brimmecombe-Wood Big Finish
2003 Doctor Who: Exile Time Lord No. 2 / Pub landlord Big Finish
2003 Caesar! – Peeling Figs for Julius Caligula BBC Radio 4
2003 Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka Caretaker BBCi
2003 The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Dangerous Beans BBC Radio 4
2003 Pompeii Narrator BBC Radio 4
2003 The Rotters' Club Bill Trotter BBC Radio 4
2003 Mansfield Park Tom Price[136] BBC Radio 4
2003 Strangers and Brothers Donald Howerd BBC Radio 4
2004 Dalek Empire III Galanar Big Finish
2004 Doctor Who: Medicinal Purposes Daft Jamie Big Finish
2004 Quite Ugly One Morning Narrator Time Warner
2004 Starter for Ten Narrator Hodder & Stoughton
2004 Whiteout Narrator Macmillan Digital Audio
2004 The Merchant of Venice Launcelot Gobbo Arkangel Shakespeare
2004 Richard III The Archbishop / Ghost of Henry VI Arkangel Shakespeare
2004 How to Train Your Dragon Narrator Part of the How to Train Your Dragon series
2004 How to Be a Pirate Narrator Part of the How to Train Your Dragon series
2005 UNIT: The Wasting Colonel Brimmecombe-Wood Big Finish
2005 Dixon of Dock Green PC Andy Crawford BBC Radio 4
2005 The Adventures of Luther Arkwright Luther Arkwright Big Finish
2005 The Beasts of Clawstone Castle Narrator Macmillan Digital Audio
2005 Macbeth Porter Arkangel Shakespeare
2005 King Lear Edgar Arkangel Shakespeare
2005 The Comedy of Errors Antipholus of Syracuse Arkangel Shakespeare
2005 Romeo and Juliet Mercutio Arkangel Shakespeare
2006 The Virgin Radio Christmas Panto Buttons Virgin Radio
2006 Doctor Who: The Stone Rose Narrator BBC Audio
2006 Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket Narrator BBC Audio
2006 Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned Narrator BBC Audio
2006 How to Speak Dragonese Narrator Part of the How to Train Your Dragon series
2007 The Wooden Overcoat Peter BBC Radio 4
2007 How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse Narrator Part of the How to Train Your Dragon series
2008 Doctor Who: Pest Control Narrator BBC Audio
2008 Nebulous Doctor Beep BBC Radio 4
2009 Doctor Who: The Day of the Troll Narrator BBC Audio
2009 How to Twist a Dragon's Tale Narrator Part of the How to Train Your Dragon series
2010 Of Mice and Men George Milton[53][137] BBC Radio 4
2010 Murder in Samarkand Craig Murray BBC Radio 4
2010 How to Ride a Dragon's Storm Narrator Part of the How to Train Your Dragon series
2010 Doctor Who: The Last Voyage Narrator BBC Audio
2010 Doctor Who: Dead Air Narrator BBC Audio
2010 Bear Snores On Narrator[138] Simon & Schuster Children's Books
2010 Dogfish Narrator Simon & Schuster Children's Books
2010 How Roald Dahl Shaped Pop Narrator[139] BBC Radio 2
2010 Book at Bedtime – A Night with a Vampire Narrator[140] BBC Radio 4
2011 My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece Narrator[141] Orion Books
2011 Kafka: The Musical Franz Kafka[142] BBC Radio 3
2011 The Gobetweenies Joe[143] BBC Radio 4
2011 Tales of Hans Christian Andersen Narrator[144] BBC Learning
2011 The Purple Land Richard Lamb[145][146] BBC Radio 4
2011 Life and Fate Nikolai Krymov[147] BBC Radio 4
2011 How to Break a Dragon's Heart Narrator Part of the How to Train Your Dragon series
2011 A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons Narrator Part of the How to Train Your Dragon series
2011 Supermarket Zoo Narrator Simon & Schuster
2011 Book at Bedtime – A Night with a Vampire 2 Narrator[148] BBC Radio 4
2011 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again Narrator[149] Macmillan Digital Audio
2011 The Pied Piper of Hamelin Narrator[150][151][152][153] BBC Radio 4
2012 Love Virtually Leo BBC Radio 4
2012 Book at Bedtime – Stonemouth Reader BBC Radio 4
2012 Believe It! Young Richard Wilson BBC Radio 4
2012 Romeo and Juliet Prince Escalus[154][155] BBC Radio 3
2012 Twelfth Night Malvolio BBC Radio 3
2012 Silver: The Return To Treasure Island Narrator[156] Whole Story Audiobooks
2012 How to Steal a Dragon's Sword Narrator Part of the How to Train Your Dragon series
2012 On Her Majesty's Secret Service Narrator[157] BBC Audio
2013 Every Seventh Wave Leo BBC Radio 4
2013 The Great Scott: The Fair Maid of Perth Walter Scott[158] BBC Radio 4

Video games

Year Title Role
2014 Kinect Sports Rivals Narrator[62]

Awards and nominations

Year Work Award Category Result
1995 An Experienced Woman Gives Advice Manchester Evening News Theatre Award[159] Best Actor Nominated
1996 The Glass Menagerie Theatre Management Association[160] Best Actor Nominated
2000 The Comedy of Errors Ian Charleson Award[161] Best Classical Actor Under 30 Nominated
2003 Lobby Hero Olivier Award[162] Best Actor Nominated
2005 Look Back in Anger Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland[163] Best Male Performance Won
2006 Casanova, Secret Smile, and Doctor Who Broadcasting Press Guild[164] Best Actor Nominated
2006 Doctor Who TV Quick and TV Choice Award[165] Best Actor Won
2006 Doctor Who National Television Award[166] Best Actor Won
2007 Doctor Who BAFTA Cymru[167] Best Actor Won
2007 Doctor Who TV Quick and TV Choice Award[168] Best Actor Won
2007 Doctor Who Constellation Awards[169] Best Male Performance in a 2006 Science Fiction Television Episode Won
2007 Doctor Who National Television Award[170] Most Popular Actor Won
2007 - Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award[171] Screen Award Won
2008 Doctor Who Constellation Awards[172] Best Male Performance in a 2007 Science Fiction Television Episode Won
2008 Doctor Who TV Quick and TV Choice Award[173] Best Actor Won
2008 Doctor Who National Television Award[174] Outstanding Drama Performance Won
2008 Doctor Who Satellite Award[175] Best Actor in a Drama Series Nominated
2008 Recovery and Doctor Who Royal Television Society Programme Award[176] Best Actor Nominated
2009 Hamlet Critics' Circle Theatre Award[177] Best Shakespearean Performance Won
2009 Hamlet Theatregoers' Choice Awards[178][179] AKA Theatre Event of the Year Won
2009 Hamlet Standard Theatre Award[180] Best Actor Nominated
2009 Einstein and Eddington and Doctor Who Broadcasting Press Guild[181] Best Actor Nominated
2009 Doctor Who BAFTA Scotland[182][183] Acting Performance in TV (Male) Nominated
2009 Doctor Who Saturn Award[184] Best Actor on Television Nominated
2010 Doctor Who National Television Award[185] Outstanding Drama Performance Won
2010 Doctor Who Constellation Award[186] Best Male Performance in a 2009 Science Fiction Television Episode Won
2010 Hamlet and Doctor Who Broadcasting Press Guild[187] Best Actor Nominated
2011 Single Father TV Choice Award[188] Best Actor Won
2011 Single Father Royal Television Society Programme Awards[189] Best Actor Nominated
2011 Much Ado About Nothing BroadwayWorld UK Awards[55] Best Actor Won
2012 Kafka: The Musical BBC Audio Drama Awards[190] Best Actor Won
2012 Much Ado About Nothing What's on Stage Awards[191] Best Actor Nominated
2012 Star Wars: The Clone Wars 40th Daytime Emmy Awards[192] Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program Won
2013 Broadchurch TV Choice Award[193] Best Actor Won
2014 Broadchurch National Television Award[194] Best TV Detective Nominated
2014 Broadchurch Broadcasting Press Guild Television and Radio Awards[195] Best Actor Nominated

See also

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Further reading

  • Smallwood, Robert (editor) (2000). Players of Shakespeare 4: Further Essays in Shakespearean Performance by Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company, David Tennant on playing Touchstone in As You Like It, pp. 30–44. Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0-521-79416-1
  • Smallwood, Robert (editor) (2005). Players of Shakespeare 5: Further Essays in Shakespearean Performance by Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company, David Tennant on playing Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, pp. 113–130. Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0-521-67698-3
  • Mitchell, Molly (2009). David Tennant. London: Orion Publishing Group; ISBN 978-1-4091-0469-8
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