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'''David Tennant''' (born '''David John McDonald''';<ref name="DTProfile">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/characters/doctor10|title=he Tenth Doctor Profile|publisher=[[BBC]]|accessdate=2008-04-03}}</ref> 18 April 1971) is a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[actor]]. Already a well-known theatre actor, Tennant achieved wider fame for his TV role as the [[Tenth Doctor]] in [[BBC]]'s ''[[Doctor Who]]'' as well as in ''[[Casanova (2005 TV serial)|Casanova]]'', and his film role as [[Death Eater#Barty Crouch, Jr|Barty Crouch, Jr.]] in ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]''.

==Early life==
Tennant was born in [[Bathgate]], [[West Lothian]]<ref name="DTProfile" /> and grew up in [[Ralston]], [[Renfrewshire]], where his father (the [[Alexander McDonald (Moderator)|Reverend Alexander ("Sandy") McDonald]]) was the local [[Church of Scotland]] [[Minister of religion|minister]] (and [[Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]] in 1997). Tennant was educated at Ralston Primary and [[Paisley Grammar School]] where he enjoyed a fruitful relationship with English teacher Moira Robertson, who was among the first to realise his true potential.<ref>{{cite news | last=Scott | first=Marion | publisher=The Sunday Mail | url=http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16418493&method=full&siteid=64736&headline=the-secret-diary-of-dr-who--aged-14-3--4--name_page.html | date=2005-11-27 | title=The Secret Diary or Dr Who, aged 14 3/4 | accessdate=2007-11-08 }}</ref>
He also attended the [[Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama]], where he was friends with [[Louise Delamere]].

At the age of three, Tennant told his parents that he wanted to become an actor because he was a fan of ''Doctor Who''.<ref>{{cite news |first=Roger |last=Foss |title=Partners in Time |url=http://www.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=649 |work=What's On Stage |page=15 |date=July/August 2008 |accessdate=2008-07-06 }}</ref> Although such an aspiration might have been common for any British child of the 1970s, Tennant says he was "absurdly single-minded" in pursuing his goal. He adopted the professional name "Tennant" &mdash; inspired by [[Neil Tennant]], of the [[Pet Shop Boys]]<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article331665.ece | title=David Tennant: His days of blissful anonymity are numbered | first=Sarah | last=Shannon | work=[[The Independent]] | date=2005-12-07}}</ref> &mdash; because there was another David McDonald already on the books of the [[British Actors' Equity Association|Equity]] union. His second choice for a stage name was David Brandon and his third choice was Chris McDonald.

==Career==
===Early work===
Tennant's first professional role upon graduating from drama school was in a staging of ''[[The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui]]'' co-starring [[Ashley Jensen]], one of a few plays in which he performed as part of the [[agitprop]] [[7:84|7:84 Theatre Company]]. Tennant also made an early television appearance as a transsexual barmaid in ''[[Rab C Nesbitt]]''.

Tennant met comic actress and writer [[Arabella Weir]] during the making of the BBC's ''[[Takin' Over The Asylum]]'' in which they both appeared. When he moved to [[London]] shortly afterwards he lodged with her 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'' [[radio drama|audio drama]] ''[[Exile (Doctor Who audio)|Exile]]'' and as panelists on the ''West Wing Ultimate Quiz'' on [[More4]].

Tennant developed his career in the British theatre, frequently performing with the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] for whom he specialised in comic roles such as [[Touchstone]] in ''[[As You Like It]]'', Antipholus of Syracuse in ''[[The Comedy of Errors]]'' (a role he recorded for the 1998 [[Arkangel Complete Shakespeare]] production of the play) and Captain Jack Absolute in ''[[The Rivals]]'', although he also played the tragic role of [[Romeo]] in ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''. (He also appeared the Arkangel series as Launcelot Gobbo in ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' and Mercutio in ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', both in his natural accent.) It was announced in 2007 that he would return to the RSC as Hamlet and Berowne, for which [[#RSC (2008-2009)|see below]].

In 1995, Tennant appeared at the [[Royal National Theatre]], London, playing the role of Nicholas Beckett in [[Joe Orton]]'s ''[[What the Butler Saw (play)|What the Butler Saw]]''. The plot required Tennant to appear near-naked on stage, wearing nothing but a police hat.

During the [[Christmas]] season of 2002, Tennant also starred in a series of television commercials for ''[[Boots Group| Boots the Chemists]]''.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk46gt9Nu8M Boots Advert starring David Tennant]on [[YouTube]]</ref>.

Tennant appeared in several high-profile dramas for the BBC, including ''[[Takin' Over the Asylum]]'' (1994), ''[[Anthony Trollope#Trollope's works on television|He Knew He Was Right]]'' (2004), ''[[Blackpool (television)|Blackpool]]'' (2004), ''[[Casanova (2005 TV serial)|Casanova]]'' (2005) and ''[[The Quatermass Experiment (2005)|The Quatermass Experiment]]'' (2005). In film, he has appeared in [[Stephen Fry]]'s ''[[Bright Young Things]]'', and as [[Barty Crouch Jr.]] in ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]''. One of his earliest big screen roles was in ''[[Jude (film)|Jude]]'' (1996), in which he shared a scene with his ''Doctor Who'' predecessor [[Christopher Eccleston]], playing a drunken [[undergraduate]] who challenges Eccleston's Jude to prove his intellect.

===''Doctor Who'' (2005–2010)===<!--2010 departure date has been officially announced, so this does not violate [[WP:CRYSTAL]]-->
Tennant's name was put forward as a possible candidate for the role of the [[Ninth Doctor]] in 2004, although the role eventually went to [[Christopher Eccleston]]. With Eccleston's announcement on 31 March 2005 that he would not be returning for a second series, the BBC confirmed Tennant as his replacement in a press release on 16 April 2005. He made his first, brief appearance as the [[Tenth Doctor]] in the episode "[[The Parting of the Ways]]" (2005) after the regeneration scene, and also appeared in a special [[Doctor Who: Children in Need|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 [[Tenth Doctor|Doctor]] was a sixty-minute special, "[[The Christmas Invasion]]", first broadcast on Christmas Day 2005.

Tennant has expressed enthusiasm about fulfilling his childhood dream. He remarked to an interviewer for [[GWR FM]], "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]].<ref name ="best">{{cite news |title=David Tennant named 'best Dr Who' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6211584.stm |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2006-12-06 |accessdate=2007-02-25 }}</ref> In 2007, Tennant's Doctor was voted the "coolest character" on UK television in a [[Radio Times]] survey.<ref>[http://news.sky.com/skynews/picture_gallery/picture_gallery/0,,15410-1257958-1,00.html TV's Coolest (Sky News)]</ref>

Tennant had 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 [[Radio drama|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. In 2004 Tennant played a lead role in the Big Finish audio play series ''[[The Exterminators (Doctor Who audio)|Dalek Empire III]]''. He played the part of Galanar, a young man who is given an assignment to discover the secrets of the [[Dalek]]s. 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 (Doctor Who audio)|Sympathy for the Devil]]''. He also played an unnamed [[Time Lord]] in another Doctor Who Unbound play ''[[Exile (Doctor Who audio)|Exile]]''. ''UNIT: The Wasting'', was recorded between Tennant getting the role of the Doctor and it being announced. He also 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]]. Tennant is close friends with actress [[Billie Piper]].

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 standing down from the role after four full series.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7698539.stm]David Tennant quits as Doctor Who</ref> He will continue to play the Doctor for four special episodes, due to be broadcast in 2009. The ''Daily Mirror'' has also reported that Tennant is forbidden from attending ''Doctor Who'' fan conventions while playing the role.<ref>{{cite news | first=Cameron | last=Robertson | title=BEEB IN DR WHO FAN BAN | url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17638616%26method=full%26siteid=94762-name_page.html | work=[[Daily Mirror]] | date=2006-08-28 | accessdate=2006-08-28}}</ref> He said at the [[Children in Need]] concert that his favourite ''Doctor Who'' story is ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]''. He has also stated that his favourite monsters are the [[Zygons]].

He made his directorial debut directing the ''[[Doctor Who Confidential]]'' episode that accompanies [[Steven Moffat]]'s episode "[[Blink (Doctor Who)|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]], at age 56, in a ''Doctor Who'' special for [[Children in Need]], written by [[Steven Moffat]] entitled "[[Time Crash]]". This was the first "multi-Doctor" story in the series since ''[[The Two Doctors]]'' in 1985.<ref>{{cite news |first=Sara |last=Nathan |authorlink=Sara Nathan (journalist) |title=Dr Peter is back in the Tardis|url=http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2001320029-2007380654,00.html |publisher=[[The Sun (newspaper)|The Sun]] |date=2007-08-21 |accessdate=2007-08-22}}</ref> Tennant also later performed alongside Davison's [[Georgia Moffett|daughter]] in the 2008 episode "the Doctor's Daughter" with her taking the title role as "Jenny".

===Other television roles (2005–present)===
<!---Acting roles--->
Tennant's casting in ''Doctor Who'' has not prevented him from taking on other roles. He was seen in early December 2005 in [[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 (writer)|Andrew Davies]] and directed by ''Doctor Who'''s [[James Hawes]] for the [[digital television]] channel [[BBC Four]]. Hoggart's son [[Simon Hoggart]] praised Tennant's performance in ''[[The Guardian]]'' newspaper.<ref>
{{cite news
| url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2006/jan/14/politicalcolumnists.politics
| title = Alcoholic? Not the Kennedy I knew
| first = Simon
| last = Hoggart
| authorlink = Simon Hoggart
| work = Simon Hoggart's week
| publisher = [[The Guardian]]
| date = 2006-01-14
| accessdate = 2008-07-05
| quote = Dad is played by the wonderful David Tennant (Blackpool, Casanova) who has carefully prepared his appearance by watching old interviews, even studying newspaper pictures of the time and having a picture of Dad on his mobile phone. He's extremely convincing - the suit, the hair, the Yorkshire accent, and trickiest of all, the speech rhythms. The only thing wrong is his sideburns. To do this film he had to take 24 hours off from making Doctor Who in Cardiff and, as he explained, the sideburns wouldn't grow back in a day.
}}
</ref>

On 25 February 2007, Tennant starred in ''[[Recovery (TV drama)|Recovery]]'', a 90-minute [[BBC1]] drama written by [[Tony Marchant (playwright)|Tony Marchant]]. Tennant played Alan, a self-made building site manager who attempted to rebuild his life after suffering a debilitating brain injury. His co-star in the drama was friend [[Sarah Parish]], with whom he had previously appeared in ''[[Blackpool (television)|Blackpool]]'' and [[The Runaway Bride (Doctor Who)|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]]."<ref>
{{cite news
| url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2007/feb/21/features11.g21
| title = Scissor sister
| first = Sarah
| last = Dempster
| publisher = [[The Guardian]]
| date = 2007-02-21
| accessdate = 2008-07-05
}}
</ref> Later in 2007 he starred in ''[[Learners]]'', a BBC comedy drama written by and starring [[Jessica Hynes]] (another ''Doctor Who'' co-star, in the episodes "[[Human Nature (Doctor Who episode)|Human Nature]]" and "[[The Family of Blood]]"), 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 (TV series)|Extras]]'' alongside [[Ricky Gervais]]. In 2008 Tennant played [[Sir Arthur Eddington]] in the [[biopic]] ''[[Einstein and Eddington]]'' filmed in [[Cambridge]] and [[Hungary]] a [[BBC]] and [[HBO]] [[co-production]], with [[Andy Serkis]] depicting [[Albert Einstein]].<ref> It was first broadcast in the UK on 2008-11-22.
{{cite news
| url = http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i0d15554c06ac16b895b2cd47ef9baca7?imw=Y
| title = HBO, BBC discover 'Einstein' project
| first = Nellie
| last = Andreeva
| format = subscription required
| publisher = [[The Hollywood Reporter]]
| date = 2007-03-27
}}
</ref>

===Other work (2007-present)===
<!---For non-theatre work, tv voice-work and tv appearances as himself--->
Tennant is the voice behind the 2007 advertising campaign for catalogue retailer [[Argos (retailer)|Argos]], although he uses an [[Estuary English]] accent as in his role as the Doctor and not his natural [[Scottish accent|Scottish]] voice, but for adverts for [[The Proclaimers]] 2008 album and [[learndirect]]'s in June 2008 he uses his own accent.

Tennant appeared in [[Derren Brown]]'s ''[[Trick or Treat (TV series)|Trick or Treat]]''.<ref>
{{cite news
| title = Who's a foolish Doctor?
| url = http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/article1050897.ece
| publisher = [[The Sun]]
| date = 2008-04-17
| accessdate = 2008-04-17
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</ref> In the 26 April&ndash;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 appeared in the 2008 episode [[List of Nebulous episodes#Third series|"Holofile 703: Us and Phlegm"]] of the radio series ''[[Nebulous]]'' (an affectionate parody of ''Doctor Who'') in the role of Doctor Beep, using his Lothian accent.

===RSC (2008-2009)===
Despite his recent focus on television work, he has described theatre work as his "default way of being".<ref>
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| title = Catherine Tate interviewing David Tennant
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| series = Chain Reaction
| serieslink = Chain Reaction (radio)
| airdate = 2008-02-21
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| number = 1
| network = [[BBC Radio 4]]
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</ref> It was announced on 30 August 2007 that he would join the Royal Shakespeare Company, to play [[Hamlet]] (alongside [[Patrick Stewart]]) and Berowne (in ''[[Love's Labours Lost]]'') during 2008.<ref>{{cite news | first=Baz | last=Bamigboye | title=Doctor Who David Tennant poised to play Hamlet | url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/bazbamigboye.html?in_page_id=1794&in_article_id=466506 | work=[[Daily Mail]] | date=2007-07-12 | accessdate=2007-09-03}}</ref> 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. ''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 (actor)|Edward Bennett]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/jan/08/theatre|title=Return of the prince - Tennant bounces back after slings and arrows|first=Charlotte|last=Higgins|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=9 January 2009}}</ref>. He returned to his role in the production on 3 January 2009, and appeared until the run ended on 10 January.

==Popularity==
In December 2005, ''[[The Stage]]'' newspaper listed Tennant at No.6 in its "Top Ten" listing of the most influential UK television artists of the year, citing his roles in ''[[Blackpool (TV serial)|Blackpool]]'', ''Casanova'', ''[[Secret Smile]]'' and ''[[Doctor Who]]''.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/tvten/ | title=The Stage 100 :: TV Ten | publisher=[[The Stage]] | date=2005-12-29 | accessdate=2006-01-03}}</ref>
In January 2006, readers of the British gay and lesbian newspaper ''The Pink Paper'' voted Tennant the "Sexiest Man in the Universe" over [[David Beckham]] and [[Brad Pitt]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.gaynz.com/news/default.asp?dismode=article&artid=3115 | title=Dr Who Voted Sexiest Gay Icon|publisher=GayNZ.com|date=2006-01-17 | accessdate=2006-01-18}}</ref>
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".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article342631.ece|title=Introducing world's sexiest men: Bloom, Pitt...and Cameron|date=2006-02-02|accessdate=2006-02-02|author=Arifa Akbar and Elisa Bray|publisher=[[The Independent]]}}</ref>
In October 2006, Tennant was named as "Scotland's most stylish male" in the Scottish Style Awards.<ref>{{cite news |first=Shân |last=Ross |title=Top Scots chosen for putting on the style |url=http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1595632006 |publisher=[[The Scotsman]] |date=2006-10-28 |accessdate=2007-01-24 }}</ref> He was named "Coolest Man on TV" of 2007 in a Radio Times survey. He also won the [[National Television Awards]] award for Most Popular Actor in 2006, 2007 and 2008. He was voted 16th Sexiest Man In The World by a 2008 Cosmopolitan survey.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/men/cosmopolitan-25-sexiest-men/85364/gallery|title=Cosmo’s 25 sexiest men|last=March|first=Bridget|date=2008-10-07|publisher=[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]|accessdate=2008-12-11}}</ref>

He was ranked the 24th most influential person in the [[United Kingdom|British]] media, in the 9 July 2007 ''MediaGuardian'' supplement of ''[[The Guardian]]''. Tennant also appeared in the paper's annual media rankings in 2006.

In December 2008 Tennant was named as one of the most influential people in showbusiness by British theatre/entertainment magazine [[The Stage]], making him only the fifth actor ever to achieve a ranking in the top 20 (in a list typically dominated by producers and directors). One of the editors for The Stage said that Tennant placed highly on the list because he was "the biggest box office draw in recent memory".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1103325/Doctor-demand-David-Tennant-biggest-stage-draw-Britain.html|title=Doctor in Demand: David now the biggest stage draw in Britain|last=Thomas|first=Liz|date=2008-12-31|publisher=[[Daily Mail]]|accessdate=2009-01-04}}</ref>

==Personal life==

Tennant has a brother, Blair, and a sister, Karen. His mother, Helen McDonald, died on 15 July 2007 of [[cancer]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a66786/david-tennants-mother-passes-away.html |title=David Tennant's mother passes away |publisher=Digital Spy |date=2007-07-19}}</ref> His father, [[Alexander McDonald (Moderator)|Sandy McDonald]], appeared in a cameo non-speaking role as a footman in the ''Doctor Who'' episode "[[The Unicorn and the Wasp]]". Tennant traced his family tree in an episode of [[BBC One]]'s popular [[genealogy]] series ''[[Who Do You Think You Are?]]'', broadcast on 27 September 2006. His episode explored both his Scottish ancestry and that from [[Northern Ireland]], against the backdrop of [[the Troubles]] in the latter. Tennant's maternal great-great-grandfather, James Blair, was a prominent [[Ulster Unionist]] member of [[Derry City Council]] after the partition of Ireland. Tennant displayed discomfort after learning of his great-great-grandfather's membership of the [[Orange Order]].<ref name="genealogy">{{cite episode|title=David Tennant|series=[[Who Do You Think You Are?]]|credits=Producer - Lucy Carter|network=[[BBC One]]|airdate=2006-09-27}}</ref> The programme also revealed that [[Archie McLeod]], the husband of Nellie Blair who once played with [[Derry City F.C.|Derry City]], was Tennant's grandfather.<ref>"[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/get_started/wdytya_celeb_gallery_04.shtml WDYTYA? Series Three: Celebrity Gallery]", ''BBC''.</ref> Tennant is now a member of the club's Exiles Supporters Club.<ref>"[http://www.derrycityfc.net/fans/comment/viewcomment.php?id=3 Walk a million miles...]", ''CityWeb''</ref>

According to an interview in issue 375 of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', Tennant drove a [[Škoda Auto|Škoda]] in which he was caught twice on the same day on the [[M4 motorway|M4]] for speeding while returning to [[London]] from [[Cardiff]] in October 2006.<ref>{{cite news |first=Ben |last=Todd |title=Dr Whoosh |url=http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/tm_headline=dr%2D-whoosh%26method=full%26objectid=18046787%26siteid=62484-name_page.html |work=[[Sunday Mirror]] |date=2006-11-05 |accessdate=2007-02-25 }}</ref> However, on ''[[Top Gear (current format)|Top Gear]]'' on 23 December 2007, David admitted that his Škoda had been taken in for servicing, and it was no longer financially viable, and by the time the episode had aired, he had traded it in. Tennant drives a [[Toyota_Prius#2004-2008_Prius_.28model_NHW20.29|Toyota Prius]]<ref>http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3688463.ece</ref>; a supporter of ecologically friendly technologies, in 2008 Tennant was voted "Greenest Star on the Planet" in an online vote held by [[Playhouse Disney (UK & Ireland)|Playhouse Disney]] as part of the Playing for the Planet Awards.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tennant voted planet's greenest star |url=http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=262420&in_page_id=7&in_a_source= |work=[[Metro (Associated Metro Limited)|]] |publisher=[[Associated Newspapers Ltd]] |date=2008-08-13 |accessdate=2008-08-15 }}</ref>

Tennant has been a supporter of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] and appeared in a [[Party political broadcast]] for them in 2005. He is a celebrity patron of the [[Association for International Cancer Research]].

In December 2008, Tennant underwent surgery for a [[prolapsed disc]].

==List of credits==
===Television===
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| '''Year''' || '''Title''' || '''Role''' || '''Other notes'''
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| Unknown || ''Only Human'' || Tyler || Pilot
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| 1988 || ''[[Dramarama (TV series)|Dramarama]]'' || Neil McDonald || Season 6, Episode 13, ''The Secret of Croftmore''
|-
| 1993 || ''[[Rab C Nesbitt]]'' || Davina || Season 3, Episode 2, ''Touch''
|-
| 1993 || ''[[The Tales of Para Handy]]'' || John MacBryde ||
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| Unknown, pre-1994 ||''Strathblair''|| Hiker 2 ||
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| 1994 || ''[[Takin' Over the Asylum]]'' || Campbell Bain ||
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| 1995 || ''[[The Bill]]'' || Steve Clemens || Season 11, Episode 128, ''Deadline'', opposite [[Honeysuckle Weeks]], who he would also appear alongside in ''Foyle's War''
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| 1996 || ''A Mug's Game'' || Gavin || Season 1, Episode 4
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| 1997 || ''Holding the Baby'' || Nurse || Season 1, Episode 2
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| 1998 || ''Duck Patrol'' || Simon "Darwin" Brown ||
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| 1999 || ''[[The Mrs Bradley Mysteries]]'' || Max Valentine || Season 2, Episode 1, [[The Mrs Bradley Mysteries#1999 .284 episodes.2C approximately 60 minutes.29|''Death at the Opera'']]. Appeared alongside [[Peter Davison]], one of his predecessors in ''Doctor Who''. Both would feature in a ''Children In Need'' special episode, "[[Time Crash]]"
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| 2000 || ''[[Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)]]'' || Gordon Stylus || Season 1, [[Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)#Series 1|Episode 1]]
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| 2001 || ''[[People Like Us]]'' || Rob Harker || Season 2, Episode 4
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| 2002 || ''[[Foyle's War]]'' || Theo Howard || Season 1, Episode 3, [[Foyle's War Series One#"A Lesson in Murder"|"A Lesson in Murder"]]
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| 2003 || ''[[Posh Nosh]]'' || Jose-Luis || Season 1, Episodes 3 and 8, ''Paella'' and ''Comfort Food''
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| 2003 || ''Trust'' || Gavin MacEwan || Season 1, Episode 6
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| 2003 || ''Spine Chillers'' || Dr. Krull || Season 1, Episode 1
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| 2004 || ''The Deputy'' || Christopher Williams ||
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| 2004 || ''[[He Knew He Was Right (TV serial)|He Knew He Was Right]]'' || Rev Gibson ||
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| 2004 || ''Traffic Warden'' || The [[Traffic Warden]] ||
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| 2004 || ''Old Street'' || Mr. Watson ||
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| 2004 || ''[[Blackpool (TV serial)|Blackpool]]'' || DI Carlisle || 6 Episodes (60 mins each)
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| 2005 || ''[[Casanova (2005 TV serial)|Casanova]]'' || [[Giacomo Casanova]] || 3 Episodes
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| 2005 || ''[[The Quatermass Experiment (2005)|The Quatermass Experiment]]'' || Dr Gordon Briscoe ||
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| 2005 - 2010 || ''[[Doctor Who]]'' || [[Tenth Doctor]] ||
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| 2005 || ''[[Secret Smile]]'' || Brendan Block ||
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| 2006 || ''The Romantics'' || Jean-Jacques Rousseau ||
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| 2006 || ''[[The Chatterley Affair]]'' || Richard Hoggart ||
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| 2006 || ''[[Who Do You Think You Are?]]'' || Himself ||
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| 2007 || ''[[Recovery (TV drama)|Recovery]]'' || Alan Hamilton ||
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| 2007 || ''[[Comic Relief (charity)#2007 event|Comic Relief]] Sketch'' || Mr Logan/[[Tenth Doctor]] || Appeared alongside Doctor Who co-star [[Catherine Tate]]<ref>Note:Current as of Series 4</ref><ref>BBC Doctor Who Profile, 1 May 2008, http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/characters/donna.shtml</ref>
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| 2007 || ''[[Dead Ringers (comedy)|Dead Ringers]]'' || [[Regeneration (Doctor Who)|Regenerated]] [[Tony Blair]] ||
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| 2007 || ''[[The Friday Night Project]]'' || Guesthost ||
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| 2007 || ''The Graham Norton Show'' || Himself || Appeared alongside Jo Brand
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| 2007 || ''The Human Footprint'' || Narrator ||
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| 2007 || ''[[Live Earth]]'' || Himself ||
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| 2007 || ''[[Learners]]'' || Chris ||
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| 2007 || ''[[Top Gear (current format)|Top Gear]]'' || Himself || Star in a Reasonably Priced Car
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| 2007 || ''[[Extras (TV series)|Extras]] Christmas Special'' || Himself/[[Tenth Doctor]] ||
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| 2008 || ''[[Einstein and Eddington]]'' || [[Arthur Stanley Eddington|Sir Arthur Eddington]] ||
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| 2008 || ''[[The Friday Night Project]]'' || Guesthost ||
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| 2008 || ''[[Friday Night with Jonathan Ross]]'' || Himself || Appeared alongside co-star Catherine Tate
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| 2008 || ''[[Derren Brown]]'s [[Trick or Treat (TV series)|Trick or Treat]]'' || Himself ||
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| 2008 || ''[[The Andrew Marr Show]] '' || Himself ||
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| 2008 || ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' || [[Tenth Doctor]] || '' Archive footage from Doctor Who ''
|}

===Film===
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| 1996 || ''[[Jude (film)|Jude]]'' || Drunk Undergraduate || Appeared alongside [[Christopher Eccleston]], whom Tennant would succeed in the role of the Doctor in Doctor Who.
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| 1997 || ''Bite'' || Alastair Galbraith ||
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| 1998 || ''[[L.A. Without a Map]]'' || Richard || Plays lead opposite Vinessa Shaw. Also features Johnny Depp
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| 1999 || ''The Last September'' || Captain Gerald Colthurst ||
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| 2000 || ''Being Considered'' || Larry ||
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| 2001 || ''Sweetnight Goodheart'' || Peter || A short film.
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| 2003 || ''Nine 1/2 Minutes'' || Charlie || A short film.
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| 2003 || ''[[Bright Young Things]]'' || Ginger Littlejohn || Appeared alongside [[James McAvoy]], who is the current husband of Tennant's Ex-girlfriend.
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| 2005 || ''[[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]'' || [[Barty Crouch Jr.]] || A [[Death Eater]] and son of [[Barty Crouch Sr.]] <sup>[[HP4]]</sup>, played by [[Roger Lloyd-Pack]], who later appeared alongside Tennant on Doctor Who (episodes "Rise of the Cybermen"/"The Age of Steel").
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| 2006 || ''[[Free Jimmy]]'' || [[Hamish]] (voice) ||
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| 2009 || ''[[1939 (film)|1939]]'' || Hector ||
|}

===Radio and CD audio drama===
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| '''Year''' || '''Title''' || '''Role''' || '''Radio Station/Production Company'''
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| 2001 || ''[[Much Ado about Nothing]]'' || Benedick || [[BBC Radio 4]]
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| 2001 || ''[[Colditz (Doctor Who audio)|Doctor Who: Colditz]]'' || Feldwebel Kurtz || [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]
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| 2001 || ''[[Dr. Finlay's Casebook (TV & radio)|Dr Finlay: Adventures of a Black Bag]]'' || Jackson || [[BBC Radio 4]]
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| 2002 || ''[[Dr. Finlay's Casebook (TV & radio)|Dr Finlay: Further Adventures of a Black Bag]]'' || McKellor || [[BBC Radio 4]]
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| 2002 || ''Double Income No Kids Yet'' || Daniel || [[BBC Radio 4]]
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| 2003 || ''[[Sympathy for the Devil (Doctor Who audio)|Doctor Who: Sympathy For The Devil]]'' || Col. Brimmecombe-Wood || [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]
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| 2003 || ''[[Exile (Doctor Who audio)|Doctor Who: Exile]]'' || [[Time Lord]] # 2/Pub Landlord || [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]
|-
| 2003 || ''Caesar! - Peeling Figs for Julius'' || Caligus || [[BBC Radio 4]]
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| 2003 || ''[[Scream of the Shalka|Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka]]'' || Caretaker || [[BBC Red Button|BBCi]]
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| 2003 || ''[[The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents]]'' || Dangerous Beans || [[BBC Radio 4]]
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| 2003 || ''[[Pompeii (novel)|Pompeii]]'' || Narrator || [[BBC Radio 4]]
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| 2004 || ''[[The Exterminators (Doctor Who audio)|Dalek Empire III]]'' || Galanar || [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]
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| 2004 || ''[[Medicinal Purposes|Doctor Who: Medicinal Purposes]]'' || Daft Jamie || [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]
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| 2004 || ''[[Quite Ugly One Morning]] by Christopher Brookmyre'' || Narrator || [[Time Warner]]
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| 2005 || ''[[UNIT: The Wasting]]'' || Col. Brimmecombe-Wood || [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]
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| 2005 || ''[[Dixon of Dock Green]]'' || PC Andy Crawford || [[BBC Radio 4]]
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| 2005 || ''The Adventures of Luther Arkwright'' || Luther Arkwright || [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]]
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| 2006 || ''The Virgin Radio Christmas Panto'' || Buttons || [[Virgin Radio]]
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| 2006 || ''[[The Stone Rose]]'' || Narrator || [[BBC Audio]]
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| 2006 || ''[[The Resurrection Casket]]'' || Narrator|| [[BBC Audio]]
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| 2006 || ''[[The Feast of the Drowned]]'' || Narrator|| [[BBC Audio]]
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| 2007 || ''The Wooden Overcoat'' || Peter || [[BBC Radio 4]]
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| 2008 || ''Dixon of Dock Green'' || Andy Crawford || [[BBC Radio 4]]
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| 2008 || ''[[Pest Control (Doctor Who audio)|Pest Control]]'' || Narrator || [[BBC Audio]]
|}''

===Theatre===
*''[[The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui]]'' (1991 - [[7:84|7:84 Theatre Company Scotland]] - Scottish tour)
*''Shinda the Magic Ape'' (1991/2 - Royal Lyceum Theatre Company at the [[Royal Lyceum Theatre|Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh]]).<ref name=UniTheatreCatalogue>University of Glasgow [http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/STA/search/resultspe.cfm?NID=39005&EID=25139&DID=&AID= "Scottish Theatre Archive Catalogue"], Retrieved on 2009-02-04</ref>
*''Jump the Life to Come'' (1992 - [[7:84|7:84 Theatre Company Scotland]] - Scottish tour).<ref name=UniTheatreCatalogue/>
*''Scotland Matters'' (1992 - [[7:84|7:84 Theatre Company Scotland]] - Scottish tour)
*''[[Hay Fever]]'' (1992 - Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh) as Simon.<ref name=UniTheatreCatalogue/>
*''[[Tartuffe]]'' (1992 - [[Dundee Repertory Theatre]]) as Valere
*''Merlin'' (1992/3 - UK tour) as [[King Arthur|Arthur]]
*''[[Antigone (Sophocles)|Antigone]]'' (1993 - [[7:84|7:84 Theatre Company Scotland]] - Scottish tour).<ref name=UniTheatreCatalogue/>
*''[[The Princess and the Goblin]]'' as Curdie (1993 - [[Dundee Repertory Theatre]]).<ref>"Panto Listings", ''[[The Stage]]'', 1993-12-09.</ref>
*''The Slab Boys Trilogy'' (1994 - [[Young Vic]]) as Alan
*''[[What the Butler Saw (play)|What the Butler Saw]]'' (1995 - Royal National Theatre) as Nick
*''An Experienced Woman Gives Advice'' (1995 - [[Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester]]) as Kenny
*''[[The Glass Menagerie]]'' (1996 - [[Dundee Repertory Theatre]]) as Tom
*''[[Long Day's Journey Into Night]]'' (1996 - [[Dundee Repertory Theatre]]) as Edmund
*''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf]]'' (1996 - [[Dundee Repertory Theatre]]) as Nick
*''[[As You Like It]]'' (1996 - [[Royal Shakespeare Company]]) as Touchstone
*''The General From America'' (1996 - Royal Shakespeare Company) as Hamilton
*''The Herbal Bed'' (1996 - Royal Shakespeare Company) as Jack Lane
*''Hurly Burly'' (1997 - [[Old Vic]]/[[Queen's Theatre]]) as Mickey
*''[[The Real Inspector Hound]]''/ ''[[Black Comedy]]'' (1998 - [[Comedy Theatre]]) as Moon/ Brinsley Miller
*''[[Maxim Gorky|Vassa — Scenes from Family Life]]'' (1999 - [[Albery Theatre]]) as Pavel
*''[[Edward III (play)|Edward III]]'' as (1999 - [[Shakespeare's Globe]], staged reading) as [[Edward, the Black Prince]]
*''[[King Lear]]'' (1999 - Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester) as Edgar
*''[[The Comedy of Errors]]'' (2000 - Royal Shakespeare Company) as Antipholus of Syracuse
*''[[The Rivals]]'' (2000 - Royal Shakespeare Company) as Jack
*''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' (2000 - Royal Shakespeare Company) as Romeo
*''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' (2001-03-21 - Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican) as Lysander and Flute.<ref name=RSCCatalogue>[http://calm.shakespeare.org.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqCmd=index.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqApp=Archive "The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Archive Catalogue"], Retrieved on 2009-02-04</ref>
*''[[Comedians (play)|Comedians]]'' (2001 - UK tour) as Gethin Price
*''Push-Up'' (2002 - [[Royal Court Theatre]]) as Robert
*''Lobby Hero'' (2002 - [[Donmar Warehouse]]/[[Ambassadors Theatre]]) as Jeff
*''[[The Pillowman]]'' (2003 - [[Royal National Theatre]]) as [[Katurian]]
*''[[Look Back in Anger]]'' (2005 - [[Theatre Royal, Bath]]/ [[Royal Lyceum Theatre]], Edinburgh) as Jimmy Porter
*''[[Look Back in Anger]]'' (2006 - Royal Court Theatre, rehearsed reading) as Jimmy Porter
*''[[Hamlet]]'' (2008 - Royal Shakespeare Company/[[Novello Theatre]], London) as Hamlet
*''[[Love's Labour's Lost]]'' (2008 - Royal Shakespeare Company) as Berowne
*''The Ghost of Benji O'Neill''
*''[[Twelve Angry Men]]''

==Nominations and Awards==
===Awards nominated===
{{Refimprove|section Awards nominated|date=February 2009}}
* 1996 - Nominated for Theatre Management Association Best Actor Award: for ''The Glass Menagerie'' and ''An Experienced Woman Gives Advice''
* 2000 - Nominated for [[Ian Charleson Award]] (Best classical actor under 30): ''The Comedy of Errors''
* 2003 - Nominated for [[Olivier Award]] as Best Actor: ''Lobby Hero''
* 2006 - Nominated for Broadcasting Press Guild Best Actor award for ''Casanova'', ''Secret Smile'' and ''Doctor Who''
* 2008 - Nominated for Best Actor in the Royal Television Society Programme Awards for ''Recovery'' and ''Doctor Who''
* 2008 - Nominated for [[Satellite Award for Best Actor - Television Series Drama|Best Actor in a Drama Series]] for the role of the Doctor in ''Doctor Who'' at the [[Satellite Awards]] given by the [[International Press Academy]]

===Awards won===
* 2005 - Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland, Best Male Performance: Jimmy Porter in ''Look Back in Anger''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scottishtheatreawards.org/Winners/2004-05winners.html |title=2004-05 Winners - Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland |accessdate=2009-02-16 |work= |publisher= |date=2006-10-31 }}</ref>
* 2006 - [[TV Quick]] and TV Choice Award, Best Actor: ''Doctor Who''<ref>{{cite news|title = Doctor Who ands three TV awards
|url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5314890.stm
|work = [[BBC News]]
|date = [[2006-09-05]]
|accessdate = 2006-09-05
}}</ref>
* 2006 - National Television Award, Best Actor: ''Doctor Who''<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6104048.stm |title=Dr Who scores TV awards hat-trick |accessdate=2009-02-16 |work= |publisher=BBS News |date= }}</ref>
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* 2007 - Welsh BAFTAs, Best Actor, ''Doctor Who''<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/6604115.stm |title=Dr Who sweeps Bafta Cymru board |accessdate=2009-02-16 |work= |publisher=BBS News |date=2007-04-28 }}</ref>
* 2007 - [[The Constellation Awards]], Best Male Performance in a 2006 Science Fiction Television Episode: ''Doctor Who: The Girl In The Fireplace''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://constellations.tcon.ca/2007.shtml |title=The 2007 Constellation Awards |accessdate=2009-02-16 |work= |publisher= |date= }}</ref>
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* 2007 - TV Quick and TV Choice Award, Best Actor: ''Doctor Who''<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.merrymedia.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4767&Itemid=196 |title=2007 TV Quick & TV Choice Award Winners |accessdate=2009-02-16 |work=Gina Walker |publisher=www.merrymedia.co.uk |date=2007-07-04 }}</ref>
* 2007 - [[National Television Awards]], Most Popular Actor<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metro.co.uk/fame/article.html?in_article_id=73923&in_page_id=7&in_a_source= |title=National Television Awards in pictures |accessdate=2009-02-16 |work= |publisher=www.metro.co.uk |date=2007-11-01 }}</ref>
<!-- * 2007 - David Tops Most Eligible Men List in Scotland on Sunday.The paper lists him at No.1 in a list of 100. this is trivial -->
* 2007 - [[Glenfiddich]] Spirit of Scotland Award, screen award<ref>{{cite news |first=Tim |last=Cornwell |title=Top Scot dedicates award to his 'little angel' |url=http://living.scotsman.com/spiritofscotland/Top-Scot-dedicates-award-to.3545628.jp |work=[[The Scotsman]] |date=2007-11-30 |accessdate=2009-2-15 }}</ref>
* 2008 - [[The Constellation Awards]], Best Male Performance in a 2007 Science Fiction Television Episode: ''Doctor Who: Human Nature/The Family Of Blood''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://constellations.tcon.ca/w.shtml#C1 |title=The 2007 Constellation Awards |accessdate=2009-02-16 |work= |publisher= |date= }}</ref>
*2008 - TV Quick and TV Choice Award, Best Actor: ''Doctor Who''<ref>{{cite news |url=http://entertainment.uk.msn.com/tv/galleries/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=6027654 |title=TV Quick/TV Choice Awards 2008 |accessdate=2009-02-16 |work=By Lorna Cooper, TV Editor |publisher=entertainment.uk.msn.com |date=2007-04-28 }}</ref>
*2008 - National Television Award, Outstanding Drama Performance: ''Doctor Who''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.whatsontv.co.uk/drama/national-tv-awards-2008/about-the-show |title=National TV Awards 2008 |accessdate=2009-02-16 |work= |publisher=www.whatsontv.co.uk |date= }}</ref>
*2009 - Critics' Circle Award for Best Shakespearean Performance for his role as Hamlet. He will share the award with Sir Derek Jacobi for his performance as Malvolio in ''The Twelfth Night''.<ref>{{cite news
|title = Tennant's Shakespearean triumph
|url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7853273.stm
|work = [[BBC News]]
|date = [[2009-02-15]]
|accessdate = 2009-02-16
}}</ref>
*2009 - Theatregoers' Choice Awards, The AKA Theatre Event of the Year for his performance in Hamlet<ref>{{cite news
|title = Tennant named theatregoers' pick
|url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7891352.stm
|work = [[BBC News]]
|date = [[2009-02-15]]
|accessdate = 2009-02-16
}}</ref><ref>[http://awards.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=849 The AKA Theatre Event of the Year, David Tennant returning to the stage in Hamlet for the RSC]
</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*Goodall, Nigel (2008). ''David Tennant: A Life in Time and Space''. London: John Blake Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1844546365

==External links==
{{wikinews|David Tennant announces exit from Doctor Who}}
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*{{imdb name|0855039|David Tennant}}
*[http://www.partyfortennant.moonfruit.com Party for TEN-nant] Party for TEN-nant Website
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4396961.stm "David Tennant Conquers TV"] - BBC News Article (16 April 2005)
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/faces/david_tennant.shtml Profile] at the BBC website




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David Tennant
Tennant at the premiere of the new Doctor Who series, 2007
Born
David John McDonald
OccupationActor
Years active1988-present
AwardsCritics Award for Theatre in Scotland – Best Male Performance
2005 Look Back in Anger – Jimmy Porter

TV Quick and TV Choice Award – Best Actor
2006 Doctor Who
2007 Doctor Who
2008 Doctor Who

National Television Award – Best Actor
2006 Doctor Who

The Constellation Awards – Best Male Performance in a Science Fiction Television Episode
2006 Doctor Who: The Girl In The Fireplace
2007 Doctor Who: Human Nature/The Family Of Blood

Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award – Screen Award
2007 Doctor Who

National Television Award – Outstanding Drama Performance
2008 Doctor Who

Critics' Circle Award – Best Shakespearean Performance
2009 Hamlet
Websitehttp://www.david-tennant.com

David Tennant (born David John McDonald;[1] 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. Already a well-known theatre actor, Tennant achieved wider fame for his TV role as the Tenth Doctor in BBC's Doctor Who as well as in Casanova, and his film role as Barty Crouch, Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Early life

Tennant was born in Bathgate, West Lothian[1] and grew up in Ralston, Renfrewshire, where his father (the Reverend Alexander ("Sandy") McDonald) was the local Church of Scotland minister (and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1997). Tennant was educated at Ralston Primary and Paisley Grammar School where he enjoyed a fruitful relationship with English teacher Moira Robertson, who was among the first to realise his true potential.[2] He also attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, where he was friends with Louise Delamere.

At the age of three, Tennant told his parents that he wanted to become an actor because he was a fan of Doctor Who.[3] Although such an aspiration might have been common for any British child of the 1970s, Tennant says he was "absurdly single-minded" in pursuing his goal. He adopted the professional name "Tennant" — inspired by Neil Tennant, of the Pet Shop Boys[4] — because there was another David McDonald already on the books of the Equity union. His second choice for a stage name was David Brandon and his third choice was Chris McDonald.

Career

Early work

Tennant's first professional role upon graduating from drama school was in a staging of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui co-starring 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 as a transsexual barmaid in Rab C Nesbitt.

Tennant met comic actress and writer Arabella Weir during the making of the BBC's Takin' Over The Asylum in which they both appeared. When he moved to London shortly afterwards he lodged with her 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 and as panelists on the West Wing Ultimate Quiz on More4.

Tennant developed his career in the British theatre, frequently performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company for whom he specialised in comic roles such as Touchstone in As You Like It, Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors (a role he recorded for the 1998 Arkangel Complete Shakespeare production of the play) and Captain Jack Absolute in The Rivals, although he also played the tragic role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. (He also appeared the Arkangel series as Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, both in his natural accent.) It was announced in 2007 that he would return to the RSC as Hamlet and Berowne, for which see below.

In 1995, Tennant appeared at the Royal National Theatre, London, playing the role of Nicholas Beckett in Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw. The plot required Tennant to appear near-naked on stage, wearing nothing but a police hat.

During the Christmas season of 2002, Tennant also starred in a series of television commercials for Boots the Chemists.[5].

Tennant appeared in several high-profile dramas for the BBC, including Takin' Over the Asylum (1994), He Knew He Was Right (2004), Blackpool (2004), Casanova (2005) and The Quatermass Experiment (2005). In film, he has appeared in Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things, and as Barty Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. One of his earliest big screen roles was in Jude (1996), in which he shared a scene with his Doctor Who predecessor Christopher Eccleston, playing a drunken undergraduate who challenges Eccleston's Jude to prove his intellect.

Doctor Who (2005–2010)

Tennant's name was put forward as a possible candidate for the role of the Ninth Doctor in 2004, although the role eventually went to Christopher Eccleston. With Eccleston's announcement on 31 March 2005 that he would not be returning for a second series, the BBC confirmed Tennant as his replacement in a press release on 16 April 2005. He made his first, brief appearance as the Tenth Doctor in the episode "The Parting of the Ways" (2005) after 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 sixty-minute special, "The Christmas Invasion", first broadcast on Christmas Day 2005.

Tennant has expressed enthusiasm about fulfilling his childhood dream. He remarked to an interviewer for GWR FM, "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.[6] In 2007, Tennant's Doctor was voted the "coolest character" on UK television in a Radio Times survey.[7]

Tennant had 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. In 2004 Tennant played a lead role in the Big Finish audio play series Dalek Empire III. He played the part of 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. 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 also 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. Tennant is close friends with actress Billie Piper.

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 standing down from the role after four full series.[8] He will continue to play the Doctor for four special episodes, due to be broadcast in 2009. The Daily Mirror has also reported that Tennant is forbidden from attending Doctor Who fan conventions while playing the role.[9] He said at the Children in Need concert that his favourite Doctor Who story is Genesis of the Daleks. He has also stated that his favourite monsters are the Zygons.

He made his directorial debut directing 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, at age 56, in a Doctor Who special for Children in Need, written by Steven Moffat entitled "Time Crash". This was the first "multi-Doctor" story in the series since The Two Doctors in 1985.[10] Tennant also later performed alongside Davison's daughter in the 2008 episode "the Doctor's Daughter" with her taking the title role as "Jenny".

Other television roles (2005–present)

Tennant's casting in Doctor Who has not prevented him from taking on other roles. He was seen in early December 2005 in 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 Hoggart praised Tennant's performance in The Guardian newspaper.[11]

On 25 February 2007, Tennant starred in Recovery, a 90-minute BBC1 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 co-star 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."[12] Later in 2007 he starred in Learners, a BBC comedy drama written by and starring Jessica Hynes (another Doctor Who co-star, in the episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood"), 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 2008 Tennant played Sir Arthur Eddington in the biopic Einstein and Eddington filmed in Cambridge and Hungary a BBC and HBO co-production, with Andy Serkis depicting Albert Einstein.[13]

Other work (2007-present)

Tennant is the voice behind the 2007 advertising campaign for catalogue retailer Argos, although he uses an Estuary English accent as in his role as the Doctor and not his natural Scottish voice, but for adverts for The Proclaimers 2008 album and learndirect's in June 2008 he uses his own accent.

Tennant appeared in Derren Brown's Trick or Treat.[14] 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 appeared in the 2008 episode "Holofile 703: Us and Phlegm" of the radio series Nebulous (an affectionate parody of Doctor Who) in the role of Doctor Beep, using his Lothian accent.

RSC (2008-2009)

Despite his recent focus on television work, he has described theatre work as his "default way of being".[15] It was announced on 30 August 2007 that he would join the Royal Shakespeare Company, to play Hamlet (alongside Patrick Stewart) and Berowne (in Love's Labours Lost) during 2008.[16] 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. 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[17]. He returned to his role in the production on 3 January 2009, and appeared until the run ended on 10 January.

Popularity

In December 2005, The Stage newspaper listed Tennant at No.6 in its "Top Ten" listing of the most influential UK television artists of the year, citing his roles in Blackpool, Casanova, Secret Smile and Doctor Who.[18] In January 2006, readers of the British gay and lesbian newspaper The Pink Paper voted Tennant the "Sexiest Man in the Universe" over David Beckham and Brad Pitt.[19] 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".[20] In October 2006, Tennant was named as "Scotland's most stylish male" in the Scottish Style Awards.[21] He was named "Coolest Man on TV" of 2007 in a Radio Times survey. He also won the National Television Awards award for Most Popular Actor in 2006, 2007 and 2008. He was voted 16th Sexiest Man In The World by a 2008 Cosmopolitan survey.[22]

He was ranked the 24th most influential person in the British media, in the 9 July 2007 MediaGuardian supplement of The Guardian. Tennant also appeared in the paper's annual media rankings in 2006.

In December 2008 Tennant was named as one of the most influential people in showbusiness by British theatre/entertainment magazine The Stage, making him only the fifth actor ever to achieve a ranking in the top 20 (in a list typically dominated by producers and directors). One of the editors for The Stage said that Tennant placed highly on the list because he was "the biggest box office draw in recent memory".[23]

Personal life

Tennant has a brother, Blair, and a sister, Karen. His mother, Helen McDonald, died on 15 July 2007 of cancer.[24] His father, Sandy McDonald, appeared in a cameo non-speaking role as a footman in the Doctor Who episode "The Unicorn and the Wasp". Tennant traced his family tree in an episode of BBC One's popular genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?, broadcast on 27 September 2006. His episode explored both his Scottish ancestry and that from Northern Ireland, against the backdrop of the Troubles in the latter. Tennant's maternal great-great-grandfather, James Blair, was a prominent Ulster Unionist member of Derry City Council after the partition of Ireland. Tennant displayed discomfort after learning of his great-great-grandfather's membership of the Orange Order.[25] The programme also revealed that Archie McLeod, the husband of Nellie Blair who once played with Derry City, was Tennant's grandfather.[26] Tennant is now a member of the club's Exiles Supporters Club.[27]

According to an interview in issue 375 of Doctor Who Magazine, Tennant drove a Škoda in which he was caught twice on the same day on the M4 for speeding while returning to London from Cardiff in October 2006.[28] However, on Top Gear on 23 December 2007, David admitted that his Škoda had been taken in for servicing, and it was no longer financially viable, and by the time the episode had aired, he had traded it in. Tennant drives a Toyota Prius[29]; a supporter of ecologically friendly technologies, 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.[30]

Tennant has been a supporter of the Labour Party and appeared in a Party political broadcast for them in 2005. He is a celebrity patron of the Association for International Cancer Research.

In December 2008, Tennant underwent surgery for a prolapsed disc.

List of credits

Television

Year Title Role Other notes
Unknown Only Human Tyler Pilot
1988 Dramarama Neil McDonald Season 6, Episode 13, The Secret of Croftmore
1993 Rab C Nesbitt Davina Season 3, Episode 2, Touch
1993 The Tales of Para Handy John MacBryde
Unknown, pre-1994 Strathblair Hiker 2
1994 Takin' Over the Asylum Campbell Bain
1995 The Bill Steve Clemens Season 11, Episode 128, Deadline, opposite Honeysuckle Weeks, who he would also appear alongside in Foyle's War
1996 A Mug's Game Gavin Season 1, Episode 4
1997 Holding the Baby Nurse Season 1, Episode 2
1998 Duck Patrol Simon "Darwin" Brown
1999 The Mrs Bradley Mysteries Max Valentine Season 2, Episode 1, Death at the Opera. Appeared alongside Peter Davison, one of his predecessors in Doctor Who. Both would feature in a Children In Need special episode, "Time Crash"
2000 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) Gordon Stylus Season 1, Episode 1
2001 People Like Us Rob Harker Season 2, Episode 4
2002 Foyle's War Theo Howard Season 1, Episode 3, "A Lesson in Murder"
2003 Posh Nosh Jose-Luis Season 1, Episodes 3 and 8, Paella and Comfort Food
2003 Trust Gavin MacEwan Season 1, Episode 6
2003 Spine Chillers Dr. Krull Season 1, Episode 1
2004 The Deputy Christopher Williams
2004 He Knew He Was Right Rev Gibson
2004 Traffic Warden The Traffic Warden
2004 Old Street Mr. Watson
2004 Blackpool DI Carlisle 6 Episodes (60 mins each)
2005 Casanova Giacomo Casanova 3 Episodes
2005 The Quatermass Experiment Dr Gordon Briscoe
2005 - 2010 Doctor Who Tenth Doctor
2005 Secret Smile Brendan Block
2006 The Romantics Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2006 The Chatterley Affair Richard Hoggart
2006 Who Do You Think You Are? Himself
2007 Recovery Alan Hamilton
2007 Comic Relief Sketch Mr Logan/Tenth Doctor Appeared alongside Doctor Who co-star Catherine Tate[31][32]
2007 Dead Ringers Regenerated Tony Blair
2007 The Friday Night Project Guesthost
2007 The Graham Norton Show Himself Appeared alongside Jo Brand
2007 The Human Footprint Narrator
2007 Live Earth Himself
2007 Learners Chris
2007 Top Gear Himself Star in a Reasonably Priced Car
2007 Extras Christmas Special Himself/Tenth Doctor
2008 Einstein and Eddington Sir Arthur Eddington
2008 The Friday Night Project Guesthost
2008 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross Himself Appeared alongside co-star Catherine Tate
2008 Derren Brown's Trick or Treat Himself
2008 The Andrew Marr Show Himself
2008 The Sarah Jane Adventures Tenth Doctor Archive footage from Doctor Who

Film

Year Title Role Other notes
1996 Jude Drunk Undergraduate Appeared alongside Christopher Eccleston, whom Tennant would succeed in the role of the Doctor in Doctor Who.
1997 Bite Alastair Galbraith
1998 L.A. Without a Map Richard Plays lead opposite Vinessa Shaw. Also features Johnny Depp
1999 The Last September Captain Gerald Colthurst
2000 Being Considered Larry
2001 Sweetnight Goodheart Peter A short film.
2003 Nine 1/2 Minutes Charlie A short film.
2003 Bright Young Things Ginger Littlejohn Appeared alongside James McAvoy, who is the current husband of Tennant's Ex-girlfriend.
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Barty Crouch Jr. A Death Eater and son of Barty Crouch Sr. HP4, played by Roger Lloyd-Pack, who later appeared alongside Tennant on Doctor Who (episodes "Rise of the Cybermen"/"The Age of Steel").
2006 Free Jimmy Hamish (voice)
2009 1939 Hector

Radio and CD audio drama

Year Title Role Radio Station/Production Company
2001 Much Ado about Nothing Benedick BBC Radio 4
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
2003 Doctor Who: Sympathy For The Devil Col. Brimmecombe-Wood Big Finish
2003 Doctor Who: Exile Time Lord # 2/Pub Landlord Big Finish
2003 Caesar! - Peeling Figs for Julius Caligus 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
2004 Dalek Empire III Galanar Big Finish
2004 Doctor Who: Medicinal Purposes Daft Jamie Big Finish
2004 Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre Narrator Time Warner
2005 UNIT: The Wasting Col. 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
2006 The Virgin Radio Christmas Panto Buttons Virgin Radio
2006 The Stone Rose Narrator BBC Audio
2006 The Resurrection Casket Narrator BBC Audio
2006 The Feast of the Drowned Narrator BBC Audio
2007 The Wooden Overcoat Peter BBC Radio 4
2008 Dixon of Dock Green Andy Crawford BBC Radio 4
2008 Pest Control Narrator BBC Audio

Theatre

Nominations and Awards

Awards nominated

  • 1996 - Nominated for Theatre Management Association Best Actor Award: for The Glass Menagerie and An Experienced Woman Gives Advice
  • 2000 - Nominated for Ian Charleson Award (Best classical actor under 30): The Comedy of Errors
  • 2003 - Nominated for Olivier Award as Best Actor: Lobby Hero
  • 2006 - Nominated for Broadcasting Press Guild Best Actor award for Casanova, Secret Smile and Doctor Who
  • 2008 - Nominated for Best Actor in the Royal Television Society Programme Awards for Recovery and Doctor Who
  • 2008 - Nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series for the role of the Doctor in Doctor Who at the Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy

Awards won

  • 2005 - Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland, Best Male Performance: Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger[36]
  • 2006 - TV Quick and TV Choice Award, Best Actor: Doctor Who[37]
  • 2006 - National Television Award, Best Actor: Doctor Who[38]
  • 2007 - Welsh BAFTAs, Best Actor, Doctor Who[39]
  • 2007 - The Constellation Awards, Best Male Performance in a 2006 Science Fiction Television Episode: Doctor Who: The Girl In The Fireplace[40]
  • 2007 - TV Quick and TV Choice Award, Best Actor: Doctor Who[41]
  • 2007 - National Television Awards, Most Popular Actor[42]
  • 2007 - Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award, screen award[43]
  • 2008 - The Constellation Awards, Best Male Performance in a 2007 Science Fiction Television Episode: Doctor Who: Human Nature/The Family Of Blood[44]
  • 2008 - TV Quick and TV Choice Award, Best Actor: Doctor Who[45]
  • 2008 - National Television Award, Outstanding Drama Performance: Doctor Who[46]
  • 2009 - Critics' Circle Award for Best Shakespearean Performance for his role as Hamlet. He will share the award with Sir Derek Jacobi for his performance as Malvolio in The Twelfth Night.[47]
  • 2009 - Theatregoers' Choice Awards, The AKA Theatre Event of the Year for his performance in Hamlet[48][49]

References

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  2. ^ Scott, Marion (2005-11-27). "The Secret Diary or Dr Who, aged 14 3/4". The Sunday Mail. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
  3. ^ Foss, Roger (July/August 2008). "Partners in Time". What's On Stage. p. 15. Retrieved 2008-07-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ Shannon, Sarah (2005-12-07). "David Tennant: His days of blissful anonymity are numbered". The Independent.
  5. ^ Boots Advert starring David Tennanton YouTube
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  8. ^ [1]David Tennant quits as Doctor Who
  9. ^ Robertson, Cameron (2006-08-28). "BEEB IN DR WHO FAN BAN". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 2006-08-28.
  10. ^ Nathan, Sara (2007-08-21). "Dr Peter is back in the Tardis". The Sun. Retrieved 2007-08-22.
  11. ^ Hoggart, Simon (2006-01-14). "Alcoholic? Not the Kennedy I knew". Simon Hoggart's week. The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-07-05. Dad is played by the wonderful David Tennant (Blackpool, Casanova) who has carefully prepared his appearance by watching old interviews, even studying newspaper pictures of the time and having a picture of Dad on his mobile phone. He's extremely convincing - the suit, the hair, the Yorkshire accent, and trickiest of all, the speech rhythms. The only thing wrong is his sideburns. To do this film he had to take 24 hours off from making Doctor Who in Cardiff and, as he explained, the sideburns wouldn't grow back in a day.
  12. ^ Dempster, Sarah (2007-02-21). "Scissor sister". The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
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  19. ^ "Dr Who Voted Sexiest Gay Icon". GayNZ.com. 2006-01-17. Retrieved 2006-01-18.
  20. ^ Arifa Akbar and Elisa Bray (2006-02-02). "Introducing world's sexiest men: Bloom, Pitt...and Cameron". The Independent. Retrieved 2006-02-02.
  21. ^ Ross, Shân (2006-10-28). "Top Scots chosen for putting on the style". The Scotsman. Retrieved 2007-01-24.
  22. ^ March, Bridget (2008-10-07). "Cosmo's 25 sexiest men". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 2008-12-11.
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  31. ^ Note:Current as of Series 4
  32. ^ BBC Doctor Who Profile, 1 May 2008, http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/characters/donna.shtml
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  35. ^ "The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Archive Catalogue", Retrieved on 2009-02-04
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  42. ^ "National Television Awards in pictures". www.metro.co.uk. 2007-11-01. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
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  44. ^ "The 2007 Constellation Awards". Retrieved 2009-02-16.
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  48. ^ "Tennant named theatregoers' pick". BBC News. 2009-02-15. Retrieved 2009-02-16. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  49. ^ The AKA Theatre Event of the Year, David Tennant returning to the stage in Hamlet for the RSC

Further reading

  • Goodall, Nigel (2008). David Tennant: A Life in Time and Space. London: John Blake Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1844546365
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