David Tennant

David Tennant
Born	David John McDonald
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1988–present
Awards	Critics 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

David Tennant (born David John McDonald; 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. Already a theatre actor, Tennant is also known for his roles in Doctor Who as the Doctor, in Casanova, and as Barty Crouch, Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Early life

Tennant was born David John McDonald on 18 April 1971 in Bathgate, West Lothian 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 potential. He then earned a bachelor's degree from 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. 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 which he found looking through a copy of Smash Hits Magazine. — 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, as Edgar/Poor Tom in King Lear, and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, all 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.

He appeared in the first episode of Reeves and Mortimer's re-vamped Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) in 2000, playing an eccentric artist. This is one of his few roles in his native Scottish accent.

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

Tennant appeared in several 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 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 candidate for the role of the Ninth Doctor in 2004, although the role 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. In 2007, Tennant's Doctor was voted the "coolest character" on UK television in a Radio Times survey.

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. Also he was featured as the "Doctor" in a animated version of Doctor Who for Totally Doctor Who which was aired on CBBC.

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 three full series. He will play the Doctor in four special episodes to be broadcast in 2009. The Daily Mirror reported that Tennant is forbidden from attending Doctor Who fan conventions while playing the role. He said at the Children in Need concert that his favourite Doctor Who story is Genesis of the Daleks.

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 in a Doctor Who special for Children in Need, written by Steven Moffat and entitled "Time Crash". This was the first "multi-Doctor" story in the series since The Two Doctors in 1985. Tennant also later performed alongside Davison's daughter in the 2008 episode The Doctor's Daughter with her taking the title role as "Jenny".

Tennant will guest as the Doctor in a two-part story in Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures, to be broadcast in autumn 2009.

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 Hoggart praised Tennant's performance in The Guardian newspaper.

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." 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.

In 2009 he worked on a filmed version of the RSC's 2008 Hamlet for BBC 2.

He is set to appear in Taggart and from October 2009, he will host the Masterpiece Contemporary programming strand on the American Public Broadcasting Service.

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's voice can most recently be heard on Tesco Mobile adverts.

Tennant appeared in Derren Brown's Trick or Treat. 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 (an parody of Doctor Who) in the role of Doctor Beep, using his Lothian accent.

On the March 13, 2009, Tennant presented Comic Relief with Davina McCall. He mimed playing guitar with band Franz Ferdinand on a special Comic Relief edition of Top of the Pops.

In 2009 he will work on St. Trinian's, The Legend of Fritton's Gold in which he plays the antagonist, Pomfrey.

Royal Shakespeare Company (2008-2009)

Despite his recent focus on television work, Tennant has described theatre work as his "default way of being". It was announced on 30 August 2007 that he would join the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), to play Hamlet (alongside Patrick Stewart) and Berowne (in Love's Labours Lost) during 2008. 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. 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. 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. 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". In October 2006, Tennant was named as "Scotland's most stylish male" in the Scottish Style Awards. 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.

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

In December 2008 Tennant 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). 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".

Personal life

Tennant has a brother, Blair, and a sister, Karen. His mother, Helen McDonald, died on 15 July 2007 of cancer. 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 in the Orange Order. The programme revealed that Archie McLeod, the husband of Nellie Blair who once played with Derry City, was Tennant's grandfather. Tennant is now a member of the club's Exiles Supporters Club.

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. On Top Gear on 23 December 2007, David said 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; 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.

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
Unknown, pre-1994	Strathblair	Hiker 2
1988	Dramarama	Neil McDonald	Series 6, Episode 13, "The Secret of Croftmore"
1993	Rab C Nesbitt	Davina	Series 3, Episode 2, "Touch"
	The Tales of Para Handy	John MacBryde
1994	Takin' Over the Asylum	Campbell Bain	Played a mental patient
1995	The Bill	Steve Clemens	Series 11, Episode 128, "Deadline", opposite Honeysuckle Weeks, who he would also appear alongside in Foyle's War
1996	A Mug's Game	Gavin	Series 1, Episode 4
1997	Holding the Baby	Nurse	Series 1, Episode 2
1998	Duck Patrol	Simon "Darwin" Brown
1999	The Mrs Bradley Mysteries	Max Valentine	Series 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	Series 1, Episode 1, "Drop Dead"
2001	People Like Us	Rob Harker	Series 2, Episode 4, "The Actor"
2002	Foyle's War	Theo Howard	Series 1, Episode 3, "A Lesson in Murder"
2003	Posh Nosh	Jose-Luis	Series 1, Episodes 3 and 8, "Paella" and "Comfort Food"
	Trust	Gavin MacEwan	Series 1, Episode 6
	Spine Chillers	Dr. Krull	Series 1, Episode 1
2004	The Deputy	Christopher Williams
	He Knew He Was Right	Rev Gibson
	Traffic Warden	The Traffic Warden
	Old Street	Mr. Watson
	Blackpool	DI Carlisle
2005	The Quatermass Experiment	Dr Gordon Briscoe
	Casanova	Giacomo Casanova
	Doctor Who: A New Dimension	Narrator
2005 - 2010	Doctor Who	The Doctor
2005	Secret Smile	Brendan Block
2006	The Romantics	Jean-Jacques Rousseau
	The Chatterley Affair	Richard Hoggart
	Who Do You Think You Are?	Himself	Series 3, Episode 4
2007	Recovery	Alan Hamilton
	Comic Relief Sketch	Mr Logan/The Doctor	Appeared alongside Doctor Who co-star Catherine Tate
	Dead Ringers	Regenerated Tony Blair
2007, 2008	The Friday Night Project	Guest host	Series 4, Episode 1 and Series 6, Episode 2
2007	The Human Footprint	Narrator
	Learners	Chris
	Extras	Himself/The Doctor	Christmas Special
2008	Einstein and Eddington	Sir Arthur Eddington
	Everest ER	Narrator	Appeared in Australia on ABC1 in January 2009
2009	Comic Relief 2009	Presenter
	The Sarah Jane Adventures	The Doctor	Series 3, episodes 5 and 6

Film

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
1996	Jude	Drunk Undergraduate	Appeared alongside Christopher Eccleston, whom Tennant succeeded 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.
	Bright Young Things	Ginger Littlejohn
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	Glorious 39	Hector
2009	St. Trinian's, The Legend of Fritton's Gold	Pomfrey

Radio and CD audio drama

Year	Title	Role	Radio Station/Production Company
2000	Henry VI, Part 1	Henry VI	Arkangel Shakespeare
	Henry VI, Part 2	Henry VI	Arkangel Shakespeare
	Henry VI, Part 3	Henry VI	Arkangel Shakespeare
2001	Much Ado about Nothing	Benedick	BBC Radio 4
	Doctor Who: Colditz	Feldwebel Kurtz	Big Finish
	Dr Finlay: Adventures of a Black Bag	Jackson	BBC Radio 4
2002	Dr Finlay: Further Adventures of a Black Bag	McKellor	BBC Radio 4
	Double Income, No Kids Yet	Daniel	BBC Radio 4
2003	Doctor Who: Sympathy For The Devil	Col. Brimmecombe-Wood	Big Finish
	Doctor Who: Exile	Time Lord # 2/Pub Landlord	Big Finish
	Caesar! - Peeling Figs for Julius	Caligus	BBC Radio 4
	Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka	Caretaker	BBCi
	The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents	Dangerous Beans	BBC Radio 4
	Pompeii	Narrator	BBC Radio 4
2004	Dalek Empire III	Galanar	Big Finish
	Doctor Who: Medicinal Purposes	Daft Jamie	Big Finish
	Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre	Narrator	Time Warner
2005	UNIT: The Wasting	Col. Brimmecombe-Wood	Big Finish
	Dixon of Dock Green	PC Andy Crawford	BBC Radio 4
	The Adventures of Luther Arkwright	Luther Arkwright	Big Finish
2006	The Virgin Radio Christmas Panto	Buttons	Virgin Radio
	The Stone Rose	Narrator	BBC Audio
	The Resurrection Casket	Narrator	BBC Audio
	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
	Pest Control	Narrator	BBC Audio

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Theatre/ Notes
unknown	The Ghost of Benji O'Neill
	Twelve Angry Men
1991	The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui		7:84 Theatre Company Scotland
1991-2	Shinda the Magic Ape		Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
1992	Jump the Life to Come		7:84
	Scotland Matters
	Hay Fever	Simon	Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
	Tartuffe	Valere	Dundee Repertory Theatre
1992-3	Merlin	Arthur	UK tour
1993	Antigone		7:84
	The Princess and the Goblin	Curdie	Dundee Repertory Theatre
1994	The Slab Boys Trilogy	Alan	Young Vic
1995	What the Butler Saw	Nick	Royal National Theatre
	An Experienced Woman Gives Advice	Kenny	Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
1996	The Glass Menagerie	Tom	Dundee Repertory Theatre
	Long Day's Journey Into Night	Edmund
	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf	Nick
	As You Like It	Touchstone	Royal Shakespeare Company
	The General From America	Hamilton
	The Herbal Bed	Jack Lane
1997	Hurly Burly	Mickey	Old Vic/Queen's Theatre
1998	The Real Inspector Hound	Moon	Comedy Theatre
	Black Comedy	Brinsley Miller
1999	Vassa — Scenes from Family Life	Pavel	Albery Theatre
	Edward III	Edward, the Black Prince	Shakespeare's Globe (staged reading)
	King Lear	Edgar	Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
2000	The Comedy of Errors	Antipholus of Syracuse	Royal Shakespeare Company
	The Rivals	Jack
	Romeo and Juliet	Romeo
2001	A Midsummer Night's Dream (2001-03-21 - Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican)	Lysander and Flute.
	Comedians	Gethin Price	UK tour
2002	Push-Up	Robert	Royal Court Theatre
	Lobby Hero	Jeff	Donmar Warehouse/Ambassadors Theatre
2003	The Pillowman	Katurian	National Theatre
2005	Look Back in Anger	Jimmy Porter	Theatre Royal, Bath/ Royal Lyceum Theatre
2006	Look Back in Anger	Jimmy Porter	Royal Court Theatre (rehearsed reading)
2008	Hamlet	Hamlet	Royal Shakespeare Company/Novello Theatre London
	Love's Labour's Lost	Berowne	Royal Shakespeare Company

Awards and nominations

Awards

• 2005 Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland, Best Male Performance: Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger
• 2006 TV Quick and TV Choice Award, Best Actor: Doctor Who
• 2006 National Television Award, Best Actor: Doctor Who
• 2007 Welsh BAFTAs, Best Actor, Doctor Who
• 2007 The Constellation Awards, Best Male Performance in a 2006 Science Fiction Television Episode: Doctor Who: The Girl In The Fireplace
• 2007 TV Quick and TV Choice Award, Best Actor: Doctor Who
• 2007 National Television Awards, Most Popular Actor
• 2007 Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award, screen award
• 2008 The Constellation Awards, Best Male Performance in a 2007 Science Fiction Television Episode: Doctor Who: Human Nature/The Family Of Blood
• 2008 TV Quick and TV Choice Award, Best Actor: Doctor Who
• 2008 National Television Award, Outstanding Drama Performance: Doctor Who
• 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.
• 2009 Theatregoers' Choice Awards, The AKA Theatre Event of the Year for his performance in Hamlet

Nominations

• 1996 Theatre Management Association Best Actor Award: for The Glass Menagerie and An Experienced Woman Gives Advice.
• 2000 Ian Charleson Award (Best classical actor under 30): The Comedy of Errors.
• 2003 Olivier Award as Best Actor: Lobby Hero.
• 2006 Broadcasting Press Guild Best Actor award for Casanova, Secret Smile and Doctor Who.
• 2008 Best Actor in the Royal Television Society Programme Awards for Recovery and Doctor Who.
• 2008 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.
• 2009 Broadcasting Press Guild Best Actor award for Einstein and Eddington and Doctor Who. Winners to be announced on 2009-03-27.

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 0521794161
• 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 0521676983
• Goodall, Nigel (2008). David Tennant: A Life in Time and Space. London: John Blake Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1844546365

External links

• David Tennant at IMDb
• "David Tennant Conquers TV" - BBC News Article (16 April 2005)
• Profile at the BBC website

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