Peter Capaldi
Peter Capaldi | |
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Born | Peter Dougan Capaldi 14 April 1958 |
Occupation(s) | Actor, film director |
Years active | 1982–present |
Spouse | Elaine Collins (1991–present) |
Peter Dougan Capaldi (born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor and film director. He has played numerous roles in film and television, but is best known for his role as Malcolm Tucker, a spin doctor in the BBC comedy series The Thick of It and its follow-up film In the Loop. In 1995, his short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. Starting in 2013, he will portray the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who.[1]
Early life
Capaldi was born in Glasgow. His mother's family was from Killeshandra, County Cavan, Ireland, and his father's family was from Picinisco, Italy.[2] He was educated at St Teresa's Primary School in the city's Possilpark district,[3] St Matthew's Primary School in Bishopbriggs,[3] and at St Ninian's High School, Kirkintilloch,[4] before attending the Glasgow School of Art.
Capaldi displayed an early talent for performance by putting on a puppet show in primary school. While at high school, he was a member of the Antonine Players, who performed at the Fort Theatre in Bishopbriggs. As an art student, he was the lead singer in a punk rock band called Dreamboys, whose drummer was future comedian Craig Ferguson.[5][6]
Career
Capaldi has appeared in over 40 films and television shows since his appearance as Danny Oldsen in Local Hero (1983). He had a role in The Lair of the White Worm (1988) and Dangerous Liaisons (1988), and was featured as Ozzy in a 1985 episode of Minder. In 1995, Capaldi won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film for his film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life, which was tied with fellow nominee Trevor, leading to both films being announced as joint winners. He also wrote Soft Top, Hard Shoulder, which won the audience award at the London Film Festival, and wrote and directed Strictly Sinatra. He voiced Chief Petty Officer Grieves in the BBC Radio Ministry of Defence comedy Our Brave Boys. Capaldi's first starring role on television was as Luke Wakefield, a closeted gay man who imagines he has witnessed a crime, in the BBC drama series Mr Wakefield's Crusade. He played fictional Songs of Praise producer Tristan Campbell in two episodes of the sitcom Vicar of Dibley, and a transvestite in ITV's Prime Suspect 3. In the 1999 Channel 4 series "Psychos", he played a mathematician with bipolar disorder.[7]
Capaldi made an appearance as a university professor in the sitcom Peep Show, and played a prime suspect in the 2007 series of Waking the Dead. In Neil Gaiman's gothic fantasy Neverwhere, he portrayed the angel Islington. He is best known for his role as spin doctor Malcolm Tucker in the BBC sitcom The Thick of It, which he played from 2005 to 2012. Tucker is said to be largely, if loosely, based upon Tony Blair's right-hand man Alastair Campbell. Capaldi has said that he based his performance more on Hollywood power players, such as the often abrasive Harvey Weinstein.[8] In 2006, Capaldi was nominated for the BAFTA and RTS Best Comedy Actor Awards. He won the 2010 BAFTA Television Award for Male Performance in a Comedy Role.[9] He also won the 2010 British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actor.[10] A film spin-off from The Thick of It, entitled In the Loop, was released in 2009.
In 2007, Capaldi appeared as Mark Jenkins (Sid's dad) in the E4 teen comedy drama series Skins. He returned for a second series in 2008, only to be killed off in the third episode. He appeared in the Midsomer Murders episode "Death in Chorus" and ITV1's Fallen Angel. He also appeared in the 2007 British comedy film Magicians. He played a fictional version of Caecilius in "The Fires of Pompeii", a 2008 episode of the science-fiction series Doctor Who.[11] He returned to the Doctor Who franchise in 2009, playing civil servant John Frobisher in Torchwood: Children of Earth.[12]
He appeared as King Charles I in the Channel 4 series The Devil's Whore, aired in 2008. Capaldi provided his voice for the animated film Haunted Hogmanay in 2006. He directs the BBC Four sitcom Getting On, one episode of which he appeared in as a doctor. Later that year, he wrote and presented A Portrait of Scotland, a documentary detailing 500 years' history of Scottish portrait painting.[13] He played Balthazar, one of the Biblical Magi, in the 2010 BBC adaptation of The Nativity.[14]
Capaldi is also an audio book narrator, and his many titles include several of the works of Iain Banks. He starred as Rory in the television version of Banks' The Crow Road. In November 2011, he began playing Professor Marcus in The Ladykillers at the Liverpool Playhouse, then transferred to the Gielgud Theatre in London. The original run closed at the Gielgud on 14 April 2012. He appeared in The Field of Blood as Dr. Pete, for which he received a BAFTA Scotland nomination in the TV actor/actress category; he was beaten by his co-star Jayd Johnson. He had a small role as a therapist in Big Fat Gypsy Gangster, written by and starring his Getting On co-star Ricky Grover. In 2012, Capaldi played Randall Brown, the new Head of News, on the BBC2 drama The Hour. He appeared in World War Z (2013),[15] and will play King Kinloch in Maleficent (2014). In 2013, Capaldi will direct Born to be King, which he also wrote.[16] He will be star in Inside the Mind of Leonardo, a documentary about Leonardo da Vinci.[17] He will also be portraying Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian in The Fifth Estate. In 2014 he will be starring in a new adaptation of The Three Musketeers as Cardinal Richelieu.[18]
On 4 August 2013, it was announced in a live special that Capaldi would become the twelfth actor to portray the Doctor on Doctor Who, succeeding Matt Smith.[1] At the age of 55, he is the second oldest actor to portray the character after William Hartnell, who began playing the First Doctor in 1963, also at the age of 55.
Awards
- 1995: Academy Award for Live Action Short Film.
- 2010: British Comedy Award for Best Television Actor, British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance.
- 2012: British Comedy Award for Best Television Actor.
Personal life
Capaldi is a patron of the Association for International Cancer Research and the Scottish children's charity, the Aberlour Child Care Trust.[19] He lives in Crouch End with his wife, Elaine Collins, and their daughter, Cecily.[20]
Filmography
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1984 | Crown Court | Eamonn Donnelly | Episode: "Big Deal" |
1985 | Minder | Ozzy | Series 6, Episode 2: "Life in the Fast Food Lane |
1985 | Travelling Man | Series 2, Episode 6: "Blow-Up" | |
1985 | John and Yoko: A Love Story | George Harrison | |
1986 | C.A.T.S. Eyes | Series 2, Episode 2: "Powerline" | |
1989 | Rab C. Nesbitt | Preacher | Episode: "Rab C. Nesbitt's Seasonal Greet" |
1989 | Shadow of the Noose | Robert Wood | |
1989 | Dramarama | British Ambassador | Series 7, Episode 7: "Rosie the Great" |
1990 | Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Zeno Vedast | 3 episodes |
1991 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Claude Langton | Series 3, Episode 4: "Wasps' Nest" |
1991 | Selling Hitler | Thomas Walde | |
1991 | Titmuss Regained | Ken Cracken | 3 episodes |
1992 | Mr Wakefield's Crusade | Luke Wakefield | |
1992 | Early Travellers in North America | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
1993 | The Comic Strip Presents... | John | Series 5, Episode 6: "Jealousy" |
1993 | Stay Lucky | Robin | Series 4, Episode 2: "The Driving Instructor" |
1993 | Prime Suspect | Vera Reynolds | Series 3 |
1994 | Chandler & Co | Larry Blakeson | |
1994 | The All New Alexei Sayle Show | Time Traveller | "Drunk in Time" |
1994–1996 | The Vicar of Dibley | Tristan Campbell | 2 episodes |
1996 | Delta Wave | Dinsdale Draco | "The Light Fantastic: Parts 1 & 2" |
1996 | Neverwhere | Islington | Episodes 2 - 6 |
1996 | The Crow Road | Rory McHoan | 4 Episodes |
1997 | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | Lord Fellamar | 3 episodes |
1999 | Psychos | Mark Collins | 1 episode |
2001 | High Stakes | Michael Calderwood | Series 1, Episode 6: "Dream Team |
2003 | In Deep | Jeremy | Series 3, Episode 7: "Character Assassination: Part 1" |
2003 | Fortysomething | Dr. Ronnie Pilfrey | 5 episodes |
2003 | Judge John Deed | Alan Roxborough, MP | Series 3, Episode 3: "Conspiracy" |
2004 | Sea of Souls | Gordon Fleming | Episode: "Seeing Double" |
2004 | My Family | Colin Judd | Series 5, Episode 10: "Dentist to the Stars" |
2004 | Foyle's War | Raymond Carter | Series 3, Episode 4: "War of Nerves" |
2004 | Peep Show | Professor MacLeish | Series 2, Episode 4: "University Challenge" |
2005 | The Afternoon Play | Billy Shannon | Series 3, Episode 5: "The Singing Cactus" |
2005–2012 | The Thick of It | Malcolm Tucker | British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance British Comedy Award for Best Television Actor |
2006 | Donovan | Dr. Angus Baldwin | Series 1, Episode 3 |
2006 | Midsomer Murders | Lawrence Barker | Series 9, Episode 5: "Death in Chorus" |
2006 | Pinochet in Suburbia | Andy McEntee | TV film |
2007 | Waking the Dead | Lucien Calvin | Episode: "The Fall" |
2007 | Coming Up | Joe | Episode: "Brussels" |
2007 | Fallen Angel | Henry Appleton | |
2007–2008 | Skins | Mark Jenkins | 3 episodes |
2008 | Doctor Who | Caecilius | Series 4, Episode 2: "The Fires of Pompeii" |
2008 | Midnight Man | Trevor | |
2008 | Glendogie Bogey | Jeff Wylie | Voice |
2008 | The Devil's Whore | King Charles I | |
2009 | Torchwood: Children of Earth | John Frobisher | |
2009 | Getting On | Doctor | 1 episode Director of series |
2009 | A Portrait of Scotland | Himself | Writer |
2010 | Ten Minute Tales | The Man | |
2010 | Accused | Frank Ryland | Series 1, Episode 3 |
2010 | The Nativity | Balthazar | BBC adaptation 4 episodes |
2011 | The Penguins of Madagascar | Uncle Nigel | 1 episode |
2011 | The Suspicions of Mr Whicher | Samuel Kent | ITV adaptation |
2011 | The Field of Blood | Dr. Pete | |
2012 | Cricklewood Greats | Peter Capaldi | Writer |
2012 | The Hour | Randall Brown | Series 2 Nominated – British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor |
2013 | Inside the Mind of Leonardo | Leonardo da Vinci | Documentary |
2013– | Doctor Who | The Doctor | |
2014 | The Three Musketeers | Cardinal Richelieu |
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1982 | Living Apart Together | Joe | |
1983 | Local Hero | Oldsen | |
1984 | Turtle Diary | Assistant keeper | |
1987 | The Love Child | ||
1988 | The Lair of the White Worm | Angus Flint | |
1988 | Dangerous Liaisons | Azolan | |
1991 | December Bride | Young Sorleyson | |
1992 | Soft Top Hard Shoulder | Gavin Bellini | |
1994 | Captives | Simon | |
1997 | Bean | Gareth | |
1997 | Shooting Fish | Mr. Gilzean | |
1998 | What Rats Won't Do | Tony | |
1999 | The Greatest Store in the World | Mr. Whiskers | |
2000 | Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War | Derek | |
2002 | Max | David Cohn | |
2002 | Solid Geometry | David Hunter | |
2003 | Shotgun Dave Rides East | Rob | |
2004 | Modigliani | Jean Cocteau | |
2004 | Niceland (Population. 1.000.002) | John | |
2004 | Wild Country | Father Steve | |
2005 | House of 9 | Max Roy | |
2005 | The Best Man | Priest | |
2007 | Magicians | Mike Francis | |
2009 | In the Loop | Malcolm Tucker | Chlotrudis Award for Best Cast Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Central Ohio Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor (2nd place) Nominated — British Independent Film Award for Best Actor Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Evening Standard British Film Awards: Peter Sellers Award for Comedy Nominated — International Cinephile Society Award for Best Supporting Actor (2nd place) [21] Nominated — London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actor of the Year Nominated — Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor (2nd place) Nominated — New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor (3rd place) Nominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor |
2012 | Big Fat Gypsy Gangster | Peter VanGellis | |
2013 | World War Z | WHO doctor | |
2013 | The Fifth Estate | Alan Rusbridger | |
2014 | Maleficent | King Kinloch |
References
- ^ a b "BBC names Peter Capaldi as new 'Doctor Who' lead actor". The Verge. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
- ^ Dalgarno, Paul (5 April 2008). "Thick & Spin". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 5 June 2010.
- ^ a b "Famous People Search - Peter Capaldi". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 5 June 2010.
- ^ "St Ninian's High School - Famous Ex Pupils". Retrieved 14 September 2009.
- ^ Jeffries, Stuart (31 August 2006). "No more Mr Nice Guy". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 26 September 2009.
- ^ Ferguson, Craig: American on Purpose. Harper Collins, 2009.
- ^ Psychos at Channel 4
- ^ Wardrop, Murray. "Peter Capaldi: 'Thick Of It spin doctor Malcolm Tucker was not based on Alastair Campbell'". Telegraph. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^ "Television Awards Winners in 2010". BAFTA. Retrieved 6 June 2010.
- ^ British Comedy Awards Winners DigitalSpy 22-Jan-11
- ^ "Doctor Who sets the controls for Rome, AD 79". What's on TV. 25 September 2007. Retrieved 9 April 2008.
- ^ "Filming under way for new series of Torchwood" (Press release). BBC Press Office. 26 August 2008. Retrieved 26 August 2008.
- ^ Billen, Andrew (8 September 2009). "A Portrait of Scotland; Land Girls; Blue Murder". London: The Times. Retrieved 20 September 2009.
- ^ "Press Office - Stars align for Tony Jordan's Nativity on BBC One this Christmas". BBC. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeio4XGMobs
- ^ "McGregor and Hudson Topline Capaldi Backstage Comedy 'Born To Be King' | Thompson on Hollywood". Blogs.indiewire.com. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
- ^ http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/4794270/Peter-Capaldi-leads-cast-in-doco-about-Leonardo-Da-Vinci.html
- ^ http://www.imediamonkey.com/2013/02/26/peter-capaldi-luke-pasqualino-for-bbc-ones-the-musketeers/
- ^ "Scotland's Children's Charity. Aberlour supports children, young people and families throughout Scotland". Aberlour. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
- ^ "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: Interview with Peter Capaldi". Retrieved 26 October 2012.
- ^ "ICS Accepts the Mystery of a Serious Man". indieWire. 17 February 2010. Retrieved 15 October 2012.
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