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David Tennant

David Tennant

Birthday: 1971-04-18 | Place of Birth: Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, UK

David John Tennant (born 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. He is best known for his roles as the tenth incarnation of The Doctor in Doctor Who (2005–2010), Giacomo Casanova in Casanova (2005), the title prince in the RSC's 2009 adaptation of Hamlet, Barty Crouch, Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), DI Alec Hardy in Broadchurch (2013–2017), and Kilgrave in Jessica Jones (2015–2019). He made his professional acting debut in a staging of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1991). He also made an early television appearance in the Scottish TV sitcom Rab C Nesbitt (1993). He was awarded his first major TV role in the BBC Scotland drama series Takin' Over the Asylum (1994), but one of his earliest big-screen roles was in Jude (1996). In 2003, he appeared in the film Bright Young Things, and since, he began to appear on television more prominently, when he appeared in a dramatisation of He Knew He Was Right (2004), Blackpool (2004), Casanova (2005), and The Quatermass Experiment (2005), and later that same year, he appeared as Barty Crouch Jr. in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. He was also in the early December 2005 ITV drama Secret Smile. He replaced Christopher Eccleston as The Doctor in Doctor Who in 2005 throughout three series, finishing in 2010. Later, he was replaced by Matt Smith. He starred in the ITV detective series Broadchurch as DI Alec Hardy between 2013 and 2017. He also filmed the US remake of Broadchurch, re-titled Gracepoint. He portrayed the villainous Kilgrave in Jessica Jones. Also in 2017, he became the voice of Scrooge McDuck for Disney XD's DuckTales reboot. In 2018, he played Simon Yates in There She Goes. He played Crowley in the miniseries Good Omens; alongside his co-star, Michael Sheen in Good Omens, he played himself in Staged (2020). Description above is from the Wikipedia article David Tennant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2023
The Amazing Maurice

as    Dangerous Beans (voice)

2021
Around the World in 80 Days

as    Phileas Fogg

2020
Staged

as    David

2020
Des

as    Dennis Nilsen

2020
The Real Des: The Dennis Nilsen Story

as    Narrator (voice)

2020
Deadwater Fell

as    Tom Kendrick

2019
Good Omens

as    Crowley

2018
Bad Samaritan

as    Cale Erendreich

2018
You, Me and Him

as    John

2018
Mary Queen of Scots

as    John Knox

2018
The Highway Rat

as    The Highway Rat (voice)

2018
Camping

as    Walt

2017
Ferdinand

as    Angus (voice)

2017
Spy in the Wild

as    Himself - Narrator

2017
DuckTales: Woo-oo!

as    Scrooge McDuck

2017
DuckTales

as    Scrooge McDuck (Voice)

2014
What We Did on Our Holiday

as    Doug McLeod

2014
Gracepoint

as    Emmett Carver

2014
Postman Pat: The Movie

as    Wilf (voice)

2013
The Politician's Husband

as    Aiden Hoynes

2013
Broadchurch

as    DI Alec Hardy

2013
Earthflight

as    Himself - Narrator

2013
Spies of Warsaw

as    Jean-François Mercier

2013
The Escape Artist

as    Will Burton