David Tennant
Highest Rated: 100% Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special: The Day Of The Doctor (2013)
Lowest Rated: 10% Free Jimmy (Slipp Jimmy fri) (2006)
Birthday: Apr 18, 1971
Birthplace: Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, UK
His grandfather, Archie McLeod, was a professional soccer player with Derry City F.C. in Northern Ireland during the 1930s, and Tennant is a member of the club's supporters. His father, a retired minister, is a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. As a teenager in the 1980s, wanted to join the actors' union Equity, which already had a person registered with his birth name (David McDonald); he adopted the stage surname Tennant, after Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys. Cut his acting teethwithScotland's political 7:84 Theatre Group and had several starring roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company (Romeo and Juliet; As You Like It). In 2005, became the tenth incarnation of themysterious time travelerin the sci-fi cult favorite Doctor Who,the show that made him want to be an actor (when Tom Baker was playing the role in the 1970s). In 2007,under his birth name, was addedto the 159th edition of Who's Who, the United Kingdom's oldest biographical yearbook. Has provided voices for the audio-book versions of Cressida Cowell's How to Train Your Dragon series. Supports the Association for International Cancer Research and Headway Essex, a brain-injury charity.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | Spy in the Snow | Actor | — | 2019 |
| 62% | Mary Queen of Scots | John Knox | — | 2018 |
| 53% | Bad Samaritan | Cale Erendreich | — | 2018 |
| 64% | Mad to Be Normal | R.D. Laing | — | 2018 |
| 45% | You, Me and Him | John | — | 2018 |
| 71% | Ferdinand | Angus | $70.5M | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | The Highway Rat | Actor | — | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | Home Invasion | Director | — | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman | Actor | — | 2015 |
| 73% | What We Did on Our Holiday | Doug | $2.7M | 2015 |
| 43% | Postman Pat: The Movie | Wilf | $1.7M | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | Doctor Who 2d + Wings 3D | Actor | — | 2014 |
| 100% | Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special: The Day Of The Doctor | Actor | $1.6M | 2013 |
| 36% | Nativity 2 | Donald Peterson | $5.2M | 2013 |
| 86% | The Pirates! Band of Misfits | Charles Darwin | $31.1M | 2012 |
| 23% | The Decoy Bride | James Neil Arber | $542 | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | The Pirates! An Adventure With Scientists | Charles Darwin | — | 2012 |
| 72% | Fright Night | Peter Vincent | $18.3M | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | We Are Astronomers | Actor | — | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | United | Jimmy Murphy | — | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | Lennon Naked | Actor | — | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | Polar Bears: Spy on the Ice | Narrator | — | 2010 |
| 14% | St Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold | Sir Piers Pomfrey | — | 2009 |
| 46% | Glorious 39 | Hector | — | 2009 |
| 100% | Hamlet | Hamlet | — | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | Einstein and Eddington | Arthur Eddington | — | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | Doctor Who: Time Crash | Actor | — | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | Learners | Chris | — | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | Doctor Who: The Infinite Quest | Actor | — | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | Recovery | Alan Hamilton | — | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | Doctor Who: The Empty Child | Actor | — | 2006 |
| 10% | Free Jimmy (Slipp Jimmy fri) | Hamish (English language version) | — | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | Secret Smile | Brendan | — | 2005 |
| 88% | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Barty Crouch Junior | $290M | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | The Quatermass Experiment | Actor | — | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | Doctor Who: A New Dimension | Actor | — | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | Casanova | Actor | — | 2005 |
| 65% | Bright Young Things | Ginger Littlejohn | $0.9M | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | He Knew He Was Right | Rev. Gibson | — | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | St. Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland | Director | — | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | Sweetnightgoodheart | Actor | — | 2001 |
| 42% | The Last September | Capt. Colthurst | — | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | L.A. Without a Map | Richard | — | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | Bite | Actor | — | 1997 |
| 81% | Jude | Drunk Undergraduate | — | 1996 |
TV
| Credit | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 85% |
Deadwater Fell 2020 |
Tom |
2020 |
| 84% |
Criminal: UK 2019 |
Dr. Edgar Fallon |
2019 |
| 84% |
Good Omens 2019 |
Crowley |
2019 |
| No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With James Corden 2015-2019 |
Guest |
2019 2018 |
| 83% |
Marvel's Jessica Jones 2015-2019 |
Kilgrave |
2019 2018 2015 |
| No Score Yet |
The Graham Norton Show 2007 |
Guest |
2019 2015 2013 2011 2009 2008 2007 |
| 100% |
DuckTales 2017-2019 |
Voice |
2019 2018 2017 1987 |
| 27% |
Camping 2018 |
Walt |
2018 |
| 82% |
There She Goes 2018 |
Simon |
2018 |
| 100% |
Spy in the Wild 2017 |
Narrator |
2017 |
| No Score Yet |
The Late Show With Stephen Colbert 2015 |
Guest |
2017 2016 |
| 92% |
Broadchurch 2013-2017 |
Alec Hardy |
2017 2015 2013 |
| No Score Yet |
Top Gear 2002 |
Guest |
2017 2008 2007 |
| No Score Yet |
Room 101 2005-2018 |
Appearing |
2016 |
| No Score Yet |
Grantchester on Masterpiece 2015 |
Host |
2015 |
| No Score Yet |
Late Night With Seth Meyers 2014 |
Guest |
2015 |
| No Score Yet |
Nature 1982 |
Narrator |
2015 |
| No Score Yet |
Wolf Hall on Masterpiece 2015 |
Host |
2015 |
| No Score Yet |
Mr. Selfridge on Masterpiece (Inactive) 2013 |
Host |
2015 2013 |
| No Score Yet |
Shakespeare Uncovered 2013-2018 |
Host |
2015 2013 |
| No Score Yet |
Masterpiece 1971-2014 |
Host Will Burton Mr. Gibson Younger Casanova Theo Howard |
2015 2014 2013 2011 2010 2009 2006 2005 2003 |
| 64% |
Gracepoint 2014 |
Det. Emmett Carver |
2014 |
| No Score Yet |
Penguins: Spy in the Huddle: A Nature Special Presentation 2014 |
Narrator |
2014 |
| 86% |
The Escape Artist 2013 |
2014 2013 |
|
| No Score Yet |
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited 2013 |
The Doctor |
2013 |
| 71% |
Spies Of Warsaw 2013 |
Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier |
2013 |
| 94% |
Doctor Who 2006 |
Appearing The Tenth Doctor The Doctor Doctor Who |
2013 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 |
| No Score Yet |
Great Performances 2000 |
Performer Hamlet |
2010 |
| No Score Yet |
Doctor Who Confidential 2005 |
Appearing Guest Director |
2010 2009 |
| 25% |
Painkiller Jane 2007 |
Director |
2007 |
| No Score Yet |
Mystery! 1980-2007 |
Max Valentine |
2003 |
| No Score Yet |
Earthflight, A Nature Special Presentation 2013 |
Narrator | |
| No Score Yet |
Foyle's War 2002-2015 |
Theo Howard | |
| 86% |
Gen: Lock 2019 |
Voice | |
| No Score Yet |
True Love 2012 |
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| No Score Yet |
W1A 2014-2017 |
Narrator |
QUOTES FROM David Tennant CHARACTERS
Peter Vincent says: I'm a great date. Get me drunk, and I'll try anything.
Peter Vincent says: Don't do anything I wouldn't do. That doesn't narrow it down. That's like, mini-golf and sushi.
Camilla Fritton says: Who are you?
Lord Pomfrey says: Your worst nightmare.
Camilla Fritton says: But you aren't the Bee Gees or Take That!
James says: We could get married in outer space
James says: We could get married in outer space.
Peter Vincent says: Get me drunk enough and I'll try anything.
Peter Vincent says: Let's kill something.
Jerry says: You have your mother's eyes.
Peter Vincent says: * Shoot *
Peter Vincent says: *shoot*
Jerry says: And the aim of your father
Jerry says: And the aim of your father.
Peter Vincent says: See that? Like a great date--get me drunk and I'll try anything.
Peter Vincent says: Get me drunk and I'll try anything.
Peter Vincent says: See that? Like a great date! Get me drunk and I'll try anything.
Peter Vincent says: Don't expect me to join your little Scooby gang!
Barty Crouch Junior says: I'll show you mine if you show me yours.