David Tennant - Wikipedia. David Tennant (born David John Mc. Donald; 1. 8 April 1. Scottish actor known for his roles as the Tenth Doctor in the British television series Doctor Who, Alec Hardy in Broadchurch, Giacomo Casanova in the TV serial Casanova, Kilgrave in Jessica Jones, and Barty Crouch, Jr. In addition to his appearances on screen, he has worked as a voice actor and in theatre, including a critically acclaimed stage production of Hamlet.
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William Blair was a member of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland. Tennant's maternal grandfather, footballer Archie Mc. Leod, met William and Agnes's daughter Nellie while playing for Derry City. Mc. Leod's parents were from the Isle of Mull and are descended from tenant farmers. Tennant was educated at Ralston Primary and Paisley Grammar School. After seeing his first performance at age 1.
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Tennant has stated that he later had to legally change his name to Tennant to meet Screen Actors Guild rules. When he was 1. 6, he acted in an anti- smoking film made by the Glasgow Health Board which aired on television and was also screened in schools.
Tennant's first professional role upon graduating from drama school was in a staging of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui costarring Ashley Jensen, one of a few plays in which he performed as part of the agitprop. Theatre Company. In the 1. Dundee Repertory Theatre. During filming, he met comic actress and writer Arabella Weir.
When he moved to London shortly afterwards, he lodged with Weir for five years. He has subsequently appeared with Weir in many productions: as a guest in her spoof television series Posh Nosh, in the Doctor Whoaudio drama. Exile (during which Weir played an alternate version of the Doctor), and as panellists on the West Wing Ultimate Quiz on More.
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Weir later guest- starred on Doctor Who itself after Tennant left the series). One of his earliest big- screen roles was in Jude (1. Christopher Eccleston, playing a drunken undergraduate who challenges Eccleston's Jude to prove his intellect. Coincidentally, Eccleston portrayed the incarnation of The Doctor immediately preceding Tennant's. Tennant developed his career in the British theatre, frequently performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company. His first Shakespearean role for the RSC was in As You Like It (1.
Orlando, the romantic lead, he was instead cast as the jester. Touchstone, which he played in his natural Scottish accent. His roles include a reprisal of his Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, as well as Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice, Edgar/Poor Tom in King Lear, and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, all of which he performs in his natural accent. In 1. 99. 5, Tennant appeared at the Royal National Theatre, London, playing the role of Nicholas Beckett in Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw.
In television, he appeared in the first episode of Reeves and Mortimer's revamped Randall and Hopkirk in 2. This is one of his few TV roles in his native Scottish accent. During the Christmas season of 2. Boots the Chemists. In film, he appeared in Bright Young Things (2. Barty Crouch Jr. Tennant replaced him as of the second series, making his first, brief appearance as the Tenth Doctor in the episode . He began filming the new series of Doctor Who in late July 2.
His first full- length outing as the Doctor was a 6. Tennant had been formally offered the role of the Doctor during rehearsals for The Quatermass Experiment. Although the casting was not officially announced until later in April. He remarked in a radio interview: ? I've even got my own TARDIS! Writer Russell T Davies made the decision not to use Tennant's own Scottish accent for the character as he did not want the Doctor's accent .
Tennant has gone on record as saying that, contrary to tabloids reports, he was not upset at not being able to play the role in his own accent and in fact had never wanted to. However he was pleased to be able to use his own accent in one episode, when the Doctor briefly masquerades as .
Not originally cast in the production, Tennant was recording a radio play in a neighbouring studio, and when he discovered what was being recorded next door convinced the director to give him a small role. This personal enthusiasm for the series had also been expressed by his participation in several audio plays based on the Doctor Who television series which had been produced by Big Finish Productions, although he did not play the Doctor in any of these productions. His first such role was in the Seventh Doctor audio Colditz, where he played a Nazi lieutenant guard at Colditz Castle.
In 2. 00. 4 Tennant played a lead role in the Big Finish audio play series Dalek Empire III as Galanar, a young man who is given an assignment to discover the secrets of the Daleks. In 2. 00. 5, he starred in UNIT: The Wasting for Big Finish, recreating his role of Brimmicombe- Wood from a Doctor Who Unbound play, Sympathy for the Devil. In both audio productions, he worked alongside Nicholas Courtney, who reprised the character of Sir Alastair Gordon Lethbridge- Stewart. He also played an unnamed Time Lord in another Doctor Who Unbound play Exile. UNIT: The Wasting, was recorded between Tennant getting the role of the Doctor and it being announced.
He played the title role in Big Finish's adaptation of Bryan Talbot's The Adventures of Luther Arkwright (2. In 2. 00. 6, 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. In 2. 00. 7, 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 . He later performed alongside Davison's daughter, Georgia Moffett (as .
He also starred as the Doctor in another animated six- part Doctor Who series, Dreamland. However, on 2. 9 October 2. The Daily Mirror reported that Tennant was forbidden from attending Doctor Who fan conventions while playing the role, to avoid the chance that he could accidentally let slip any plot points during filming of the series.
The same month, he also appeared in the one- off 5. The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot directed by Peter Davison. The stories feature current and previous Doctor Who actors, including Strax actor Dan Starkey, former Davros actor Terry Molloy, and many veterans of Big Finish, including Niky Wardley, who portrayed Eighth Doctor companion Tamsin.
The three stories will be released in May 2. 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 2. 00. Doctor Who to play Richard Hoggart in a dramatisation of the 1. Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial, The Chatterley Affair. The play was written by Andrew Davies and directed by Doctor Who's James Hawes for the digital television channel BBC Four. Hoggart's son, Simon, praised Tennant's performance in The Guardian newspaper. He played Alan, a self- made building site manager who attempted to rebuild his life after suffering a debilitating brain injury.
His costar in the drama was friend Sarah Parish, with whom he had previously appeared in Blackpool and an episode of Doctor Who. Learners was broadcast on BBC One on 1. November 2. 00. 7. Tennant had a cameo appearance as the Doctor in the 2. BBC/HBO comedy series Extras with Ricky Gervais. In November 2. 00.
Tennant played Sir Arthur Eddington in the BBC and HBO biographical film Einstein and Eddington, which was filmed in Cambridge and Hungary. From October 2. 00. Masterpiece Contemporary programming strand on the American Public Broadcasting Service. For this role he was nominated as Best Actor at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2. In 2. 01. 1, he starred in United, about the Manchester United .
This drama series shot in Poland is an adaptation of Alan Furst's novel The Spies of Warsaw. The series was filmed in Clevedon, North Somerset, and Bridport, Dorset, between August and November 2. March 2. 01. 3 . He plays a talented, junior barrister who is yet to lose a case. The three- part series aired on BBC One in October and November 2. All 1. 3 episodes were released on 2.
November 2. 01. 5. In February 2. 01. Mad to be Normal (previously titled Metanoia), a biopic of the renowned Scottish psychiatrist R.
D. Laing, produced by Gizmo Films. The film is co- produced by Tennant's wife, Georgia Tennant, and will co- star his father- in- law, Peter Davison.
The film is written by Brandon Boyce, and directed by Dean Devlin. On 1. 2 April 2. 01. Tennant as Hamlet featured on a stamp issued by the Royal Mail to mark the RSC's fiftieth anniversary. Tennant also lent his voice to adverts for Tesco Mobile, Nintendo. Wii, and American Express. Tennant appeared in Derren Brown's Trick or Treat.
He was open and up for it, and I got a good reaction. He's a real screamer! 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 2. Also in 2. 00. 8, he voiced the character of Hamish the Hunter in the 2.
English language DVD re- release of the 2. Norwegian film, Free Jimmy, alongside Woody Harrelson. The English- language version of the film has dialogue written by Simon Pegg, who also starred in it as a main voice actor. In early 2. 00. 9, Tennant narrated the digital planetarium space dome film .
On 1. 3 March 2. 00. Red Nose Day 2. 00. Davina Mc. Call. He joined Franz Ferdinand onstage to play the guitar on their song . In summer 2. 00. 9, Tennant filmed St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold. The film was released in December 2. In November 2. 00.
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