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David Tennant

January 18, 2023

For other people named David Tennant, see David Tennant (disambiguation).

David John Tennant (né McDonald; born 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. He rose to fame for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor (2005–2010 and 2013) in the BBC science-fiction TV show Doctor Who, reprising the role from 2022 to 2023 as the fourteenth incarnation. Other notable roles include Giacomo Casanova in the BBC comedy-drama serial Casanova (2005), Barty Crouch Jr. in the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Peter Vincent in the horror remake Fright Night (2011), DI Alec Hardy in the ITV crime drama series Broadchurch (2013–2017), Kilgrave in the Netflix superhero series Jessica Jones (2015–2019), Crowley in the Amazon Prime fantasy series Good Omens (2019–present), and Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days (2021).

David Tennant
Tennant at GalaxyCon Raleigh in 2019
Born
David John McDonald

(1971-04-18) 18 April 1971 (age 51)
Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland
OccupationActor
Years active1987–present
Spouse
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(m. 2011)​
Children5, including Ty
Parent
Relatives
AwardsFull list

Tennant has worked on stage, including a portrayal of the title character in a 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet, later filmed for television. He has also worked as a voice actor in The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2011), Ferdinand (2017), Final Space (2018–2021), gen:LOCK (2019–present), the How to Train Your Dragon films (2010–2019), and as Scrooge McDuck in DuckTales (2017–2021). In 2015, he received the National Television Award for Special Recognition.

Early life

Tennant was born David John McDonald in Bathgate, West Lothian on 18 April 1971, the son of Helen (née McLeod; 1940–2007) and Alexander "Sandy" McDonald (1937–2016),[1] a minister who served as the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.[2][3] He grew up with his brother Blair and sister Karen in Ralston, Renfrewshire,[4] where his father was the local minister.[5][6] Two of his maternal great-grandparents, William and Agnes Blair, were Northern Irish Protestants from County Londonderry who were among the signatories of the Ulster Covenant in 1912. William was also a member of the Orange Order. Tennant's maternal grandfather, footballer Archie McLeod, met William and Agnes' daughter Nellie while playing for Derry City FC. McLeod was descended from tenant farmers from the Isle of Mull.[7][8]

At the age of three, Tennant told his parents that he wanted to become an actor because he was a fan of Doctor Who,[9] but they encouraged him to aim for more conventional work.[4] He later said that he was "absurdly single-minded" in pursuing an acting career. He watched almost every Doctor Who episode for years and once spoke to Fourth Doctor actor Tom Baker at a book-signing event in Glasgow.[4] He was educated at Ralston Primary School and Paisley Grammar School and acted in various school productions.[10] His talent was noticed by actress Edith MacArthur, who told his parents that she believed he would become a successful theatre actor after she saw him perform when he was 10 years old.[11]

Tennant attended Saturday classes at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, which was then known as the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.[10] At age 16, he passed an audition for the Academy, becoming one of their youngest students and studying there between the ages of 17 and 20. After discovering that there was another David McDonald already represented by the actor's union Equity, he took his stage name from Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant.[12][13] He later had to legally change his surname to meet the American Screen Actors Guild's rules.[14]

Career

Early work

Tennant made his professional acting debut while still in secondary school. When he was 16, he acted in an anti-smoking film made by the Glasgow Health Board which aired on television and was also screened in schools.[11] The following year, he played a role in an episode of Dramarama. 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.[10] He also made an early television appearance in the Scottish TV sitcom Rab C Nesbitt as a transgender barmaid called Davina. In the 1990s, he appeared in several plays at the Dundee Repertory Theatre.[15]

Tennant was awarded his first major TV role as Campbell Bain in the BBC Scotland drama series Takin' Over the Asylum (1994), after impressing director David Blair during filming of another drama – Strathblair (1992). As Tennant recalled from the audition, "they needed someone who could believably act 19 and bonkers".[16] During filming of Takin' Over the Asylum he met comic actress and writer Arabella Weir. When he moved to London shortly afterwards, he lodged with Weir for five years[10] and became godfather to her youngest child. He has subsequently appeared with Weir in many productions: as a guest in her spoof television series Posh Nosh, in the Doctor Who audio drama Exile (during which Weir played an alternative version of the Doctor), and as panellists on the West Wing Ultimate Quiz on More4 (Weir later guest-starred on Doctor Who itself after Tennant left the series). 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.

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 (1996); having auditioned for the role of Orlando, the romantic lead, he was instead cast as the jester Touchstone, which he played in his natural Scottish accent.[17] He subsequently specialised in comic roles, playing Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors and Captain Jack Absolute in The Rivals, although he also played the role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet.[10] He also starred in the 2003 London production of Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman.[18]

Tennant contributed to several audio dramatisations of Shakespeare for the Arkangel Shakespeare series (1998). 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 in King Lear, and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, all of which he performs in his natural accent. In 1995, 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 2000, playing an eccentric artist. During the Christmas season of 2002, he starred in a series of television advertisements for Boots the Chemists.[19] In 2003 Tennant appeared in the film Bright Young Things. He was nominated for Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for his performance in Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero.[20] The UK première was staged at the Donmar Warehouse, in previews on April 4, opening April 10 and closing on May 4, 2002. The cast also included Charlotte Randle (Dawn), with Dominic Rowan (Bill), and Gary McDonald (William), and was again directed by Mark Brokaw.[21] This production transferred to the New Ambassadors Theatre from June 26 (opening July 1) to August 10, 2002.[22] He began to appear on television more prominently in 2004 and 2005, when he appeared in a dramatisation of He Knew He Was Right (2004), Blackpool (2004), Casanova (2005), and The Quatermass Experiment (2005). Later that same year, he appeared as Barty Crouch Jr. in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.[23]

Doctor Who

See also: Tenth Doctor and Fourteenth Doctor
 
Tennant with Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies (left), regular director Euros Lyn (centre right), and executive producer Julie Gardner (right) at San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2009

Doctor Who returned to British screens in March 2005, with Christopher Eccleston playing the role of the Ninth Doctor in the first series. Tennant replaced him as of the second series, making his first, brief appearance as the Tenth Doctor in the episode "The Parting of the Ways" (2005) at the end of 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 60-minute special, "The Christmas Invasion", first broadcast on Christmas Day 2005. 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,[24] both castmates and crew became aware of the speculation surrounding Tennant; in the live broadcast Jason Flemyng (Quatermass) changed his first line to Tennant's Dr. Briscoe from "Good to have you back, Gordon" to "Good to have you back, Doctor" as a deliberate reference.[25]

Tennant has expressed enthusiasm about fulfilling his childhood dream. He remarked in a radio interview: "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.[26] 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 "touring the regions", using Estuary English instead. 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 "Dr. James McCrimmon" of Edinburgh in Tooth and Claw – a nod to the Second Doctor's companion Jamie McCrimmon.[27]

He previously had a small role in the BBC's animated Doctor Who webcast Scream of the Shalka. 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 2004 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 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. 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 (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.[28]

He made his directorial debut on 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". He later performed alongside Davison's daughter, Georgia Moffett (as "Jenny") in the 2008 episode "The Doctor's Daughter". Georgia Moffett later became David Tennant's wife.

Tennant featured as the Doctor in an animated version of Doctor Who for Totally Doctor Who, The Infinite Quest, which aired on CBBC. He also starred as the Doctor in another animated six-part Doctor Who series, Dreamland.[29] Tennant guest starred as the Doctor in a two-part story in Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures, broadcast in October 2009.[30] He continued to play the Tenth Doctor into the revived programme's fourth series in 2008. However, on 29 October 2008, he announced that he would be stepping down from the role after three full series.[31] He played the Doctor in four special episodes in 2009, before his final episode aired on 1 January 2010, where he was replaced by the Eleventh Doctor, portrayed by Matt Smith.

Tennant and Billie Piper returned to Doctor Who for the 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor" broadcast on 23 November 2013, with then-stars Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman and guest star John Hurt. The same month, he also appeared in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot directed by Peter Davison.[32]

In October 2015, Big Finish Productions announced that Tennant would return to the role of the Tenth Doctor alongside Catherine Tate as his former companion Donna Noble in three new stories from Big Finish. 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 were released in May 2016.[33]

In November 2017, three new audio dramas were released by Big Finish Productions with Tennant once again starring as the Tenth Doctor, alongside Billie Piper as Rose Tyler.[34] Tennant also returned to the role on 13 July 2018, as part of the live Muppets show The Muppets Take the O2 in London (in which the Tenth Doctor appeared onstage as part of a live Pigs in Space sketch).

In May 2022, in relation to the show's 60th anniversary, it was announced that Tennant would once again return to the show, alongside Tate, who would reprise her role as Donna Noble.[35][36] Previously thought to be returning as the Tenth Doctor, in October 2022, the ending of the special episode "The Power of the Doctor" revealed that Tennant would return as the Fourteenth Doctor, a role previously thought to be played by Ncuti Gatwa, who would follow on as the Fifteenth Doctor instead.[37] The three 60th anniversary special episodes will air in November 2023.[38]

2005–2010

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, praised Tennant's performance in The Guardian newspaper.[39]

On 25 February 2007, Tennant starred in Recovery, a 90-minute BBC One drama written by Tony Marchant. 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. 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".[40] Later that same year he starred in Learners, a BBC comedy drama written by and starring Jessica Hynes (another Doctor Who costar, in the episodes "Human Nature", "The Family of Blood" and "The End of Time"), 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 with Ricky Gervais. In November 2008, Tennant played Sir Arthur Eddington in the BBC and HBO biographical film Einstein and Eddington, which was filmed in Cambridge and Hungary.[41] Tennant was the "Star in a Reasonably Priced Car" on Top Gear in December 2007, where he claimed to have unsuccessfully auditioned for a role on Taggart 26 times.[42] Tennant is the voice behind the 2007 advertising campaign for catalogue retailer Argos, and appeared in adverts for The Proclaimers' 2007 album and learndirect in June 2008. Tennant also lent his voice to adverts for Tesco Mobile, Nintendo Wii, and American Express.[citation needed]

 
Tennant at San Diego Comic Con 2009

Tennant featured in an episode of Trick or Treat on Channel 4 in May 2008. The episode showed Tennant apparently predicting future events correctly by using automatic writing. In TV & Satellite Week (26 April – 2 May issue), the host of the show, Derren 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!". 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 2008 episode "Holofile 703: Us and Phlegm" of the radio series Nebulous (a parody of Doctor Who) in the role of Doctor Beep, using his Lothian accent. Also in 2008, he voiced the character of Hamish the Hunter in the 2008 English language DVD re-release of the 2006 animated 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.[citation needed]

In early 2009, Tennant narrated the digital planetarium space dome film "We Are Astronomers"[43] commissioned by the UK's National Space Centre. On 13 March 2009, he presented Red Nose Day 2009 with Davina McCall. He joined Franz Ferdinand onstage to play the guitar on their song "No You Girls" on a special Comic Relief edition of Top of the Pops. In summer 2009, Tennant filmed St. Trinian's II: The Legend of Fritton's Gold. The film was released in December 2009. From October 2009, he hosted the Masterpiece Contemporary programming strand on the American Public Broadcasting Service.[44] In December 2009, he filmed the lead in an NBC pilot, Rex Is Not Your Lawyer, playing Rex, a Chicago lawyer who starts to coach clients to represent themselves when he starts suffering panic attacks.[45] The pilot was not picked up and the project was shelved.[46][47] In November 2009, he co-hosted the Absolute Radio Breakfast Show with Christian O'Connell for three consecutive days.[48] He returned to cohost the show for one day in October 2010.[49] On 7 March 2010, he also appeared as George in a one-part BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Of Mice and Men in the Classic Serial strand.[50] In October 2010 he starred as Dave, a man struggling to raise five children after the death of his partner, in the British drama Single Father. For this role he was nominated as Best Actor at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2010.

Despite much of his work being television work, Tennant has described theatre work as his "default way of being".[51] He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), to play Hamlet with Patrick Stewart and Berowne in Love's Labours Lost in 2008.[52] 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.[10] 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.[53] He returned to his role in the production on 3 January 2009, and appeared until the run ended on 10 January. Tennant's performance of Hamlet was critically acclaimed.[54][55] In 2009, he worked on a TV film version of the RSC's 2008 Hamlet for BBC Two.[56] On 12 April 2011, a photograph of Tennant as Hamlet featured on a stamp issued by the Royal Mail to mark the RSC's fiftieth anniversary.[57]

2011–2015

 
Tennant with Jessica Jones star Krysten Ritter in 2015

In 2011, he starred in United, about the Manchester United "Busby Babes" team and the 1958 Munich air disaster, playing coach and assistant manager Jimmy Murphy.[58] In September 2011, he appeared in a guest role in one episode of the comedy series This is Jinsy, and also started filming True Love, a semi-improvised BBC One drama series, on location in Margate, Kent; the series aired in June 2012. Later in September 2011, it was announced that Tennant would voice a character in the movie adaptation of Postman Pat named You Know You're the One with a planned 3D theatrical release for spring 2013.[59] In October 2011, Tennant started shooting the semi-improvised comedy film, Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger in Coventry.[60][61] He played dual roles: the main character, put-upon teacher Mr. Peterson, and his "golden boy" twin brother and rival.[62]

In April 2012, Tennant played lead in a one-off drama The Minor Character for Sky Arts.[63] Between April and June, he filmed Spies of Warsaw for BBC Four, in the lead role of Jean-François Mercier. This drama series shot in Poland is an adaptation of Alan Furst's novel The Spies of Warsaw.[64] Tennant auditioned for the role of Hannibal Lecter in NBC's Hannibal; he was narrowly beaten for the part by Mads Mikkelsen.[65] On 9 June 2012, he started filming the 3-part political drama series The Politician's Husband for BBC Two, playing an ambitious cabinet minister who takes drastic action when his wife's career starts to outshine his.[66][67] Tennant also presented the new comedy quiz show Comedy World Cup, in 2012 which ran on Saturday nights for seven episodes.[68]

In January 2012, Tennant was appointed to the Royal Shakespeare Company board, to be on the selection committee interviewing and choosing the new artistic director.[69] It was announced on 23 January 2013 that Tennant would return to the RSC for the company's 2013 winter season, playing the title role in Richard II at Stratford-upon-Avon (from 10 October to 16 November) and transferring to the Barbican Centre in London (from 9 December to 25 January 2014).[70] Tennant repeated his performance as Richard II in the RSC's 'King and Country' cycle in 2016, starting at the Barbican Theatre in London[71] before transferring to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.[72]

 
Tennant at the 2017 Wizard World Columbus Comic Con

Tennant starred in the ITV detective series Broadchurch as DI Alec Hardy between 2013 and 2017. The first series was filmed in Clevedon, North Somerset, and Bridport, Dorset, between August and November 2012, and aired in March 2013.[73] Tennant filmed the second series of Broadchurch during mid-2014,[74][75] and the third between May and October 2016. Between January and May 2014, Tennant also filmed the US remake of Broadchurch, re-titled Gracepoint.[76]

Between late January and March 2013, Tennant filmed The Escape Artist for BBC One in which he played a talented junior barrister who had yet to lose a case. The three-part series aired on BBC One in October and November 2013.[77] Tennant starred opposite Rosamund Pike and Billy Connolly in What We Did on Our Holiday, a semi-improvised comedy film; shooting took place from 17 June to 30 July 2013 in Scotland. The film was released in September 2014.[78]

In 2012 he appeared in a multi-million-pound campaign for Virgin Media, starring in three adverts.[79] One advert was voluntarily withdrawn after a complaint lodged by BBC Worldwide, which believed that the advert broke the corporation's guidelines by featuring references to Doctor Who that appeared to be a commercial endorsement of the service.[80] He is the narrator on Xbox One video game Kinect Sports Rivals, released in 2014.[81]

Tennant also portrayed the villainous Kilgrave in Jessica Jones, a television series from Marvel and Netflix. All 13 episodes were released on 20 November 2015.[82]

On 9 February 2015, Tennant appeared on the Radio 4 panel show Just a Minute, becoming the show's most successful debut contestant.[83] He also voiced the Propaganda Minister in the 2015 Square Enix video game Just Cause 3.[84][85] In autumn 2015, Tennant's name was announced for Scottish feature film I Feel Fine, a thriller set in Glasgow in the 1980s.[86] However, as of January 2016, the film has been postponed indefinitely.

2016–2019

In February 2016, he began filming Mad to Be Normal (previously titled Metanoia), a biopic of the renowned Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing, produced by Gizmo Films.[87]

 
Tennant at a Good Omens panel at New York Comic Con 2018

In 2017, Tennant appeared in writer/director Daisy Aitkens' first feature film, You, Me and Him. The film is co-produced by Tennant's wife, Georgia, and had originally been due to co-star his father-in-law, Peter Davison; however, Davison withdrew from the film in October 2016 due to a scheduling clash.[88] Between March and June 2017 Tennant appeared in Patrick Marber's Don Juan in Soho at the Wyndham's Theatre.[89] Also in 2017, he became the voice of Scrooge McDuck for Disney XD's DuckTales reboot, replacing the character's longtime voice actor Alan Young, who died in May 2016.[90]

Tennant played psychopathic villain Cale Erendreich in the thriller film Bad Samaritan (2018), written by Brandon Boyce and directed by Dean Devlin.[91] Tennant also plays Crowley in the miniseries Good Omens,[92] which was released in full on Amazon Prime Video on 31 May 2019 and was released on BBC Two on 15 January 2020.[93][94]

In February 2019, Tennant launched his own podcast, titled David Tennant Does a Podcast With... The podcast's episodes feature Olivia Colman, Whoopi Goldberg, Jodie Whittaker, Ian McKellen, Jon Hamm, Gordon Brown, Jennifer Garner, Catherine Tate, Krysten Ritter, James Corden, Samantha Bee, Tina Fey, and Michael Sheen.[95]

2020–present

Tennant stars as a doctor suspected of murdering his family in Deadwater Fell, a Scottish true crime miniseries, which premiered in January 2020 on Channel 4. He also received his first credit as an executive producer for the series.[96][97][98]

In September 2020, he portrayed Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen in Des, a three-part miniseries on ITV.[99] For his performance, he won the International Emmy Award for Best Actor.[100]

In 2020 and 2021 he starred in the TV series Staged, with Michael Sheen. Joel Golby of the Guardian described it: "David Tennant and Michael Sheen squabbled over Zoom as exaggerated, frustrated, hyper-thespian versions of themselves, in an actors-playing-actors miniseries with the exact same energy of a late-night Comic Relief sketch; 15-minute episodes where you got to see familiar actors with their off-duty haircuts saying words that seemed real. It was good, and it was smart, and it played perfectly with the boundaries of the format it was in."[101]

In September 2022, Tennant starred as Reverend Harry Watling in BBC1's Inside Man, which was written by Steven Moffat.[102] The series premiered on 26 September 2022 to mixed reviews from viewers and critics alike.[103][104][105][106]

In December 2022, Tennant starred as Alexander Litvinenko in the ITV1 dramatisation Litvinenko. The drama was based on the 10-year fight of Marina Litvinenko and the London police force as they work to prove the guilt and release the names of those responsible for the 2006 poisoning of Litvinenko.[107][108]

Public image

Tennant was named "Coolest Man on TV" of 2007 in a Radio Times survey. He won the National Television Awards award for Most Popular Actor in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010. He was voted 16th Sexiest Man in the World by a 2008 Cosmopolitan survey.[109]

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.[110]

Tennant was ranked the 24th most influential person in the British media on 9 July 2007, according to MediaGuardian. He appeared in the paper's annual media rankings in 2006. In December 2008, he 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). He was voted the third best dressed man in Britain in GQ reader's poll for 2013.[111] Tennant's popularity has led to impersonations of him on various social networking sites, leading the BBC to issue a statement making it clear that Tennant does not use any of these sites and any account or message purporting to be from him is fake.[112] In the expansion EverQuest: Seeds of Destruction for the game EverQuest, a character was introduced called Tavid Dennant, named after David Tennant. The character when interacted with makes a number of references to Doctor Who.[113]

In December 2005, The Stage placed Tennant at No. 6 in its "Top Ten" list of the most influential British television artists of the year, citing his roles in Blackpool, Casanova, Secret Smile, and Doctor Who.[114] In January 2006, readers of the British gay and lesbian newspaper The Pink Paper voted him the "Sexiest Man in the Universe".[115] In October 2006, he was named "Scotland's most stylish male" in the Scottish Style Awards.[116]

Tennant is an ambassador for Worldwide Cancer Research.[117]

Politics

Tennant is a supporter of the Labour Party and appeared in a party political broadcast for them in 2005. He declared his support for then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2010, and labelled David Cameron a "terrifying prospect".[118] In April 2010, he lent his voice to a Labour election broadcast.[119] In 2012, he introduced Labour Party leader Ed Miliband onstage at the Labour Party Conference. In 2015, he also lent his voice to a Labour Party General Election broadcast.[120]

Tennant remained neutral on the issue of Scottish independence in the run-up to the 2014 referendum, stating that it was not his business as he no longer lived in Scotland.[121] However, in the wake of Brexit, which he called "depressing", he stated in 2017 that he would support an independent Scotland in the event of a second referendum.[122]

Personal life

Tennant rarely discusses his private life in interviews,[10] citing his belief that "relationships are hard enough with the people you're having them with, let alone talking about them in public".[123] He has said that he believes religion "must have" shaped his character, and revealed that he is an occasional churchgoer.[124]

Tennant is married to actress Georgia Moffett, making him the son-in-law of actress Sandra Dickinson and Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison.[125] The couple met in 2008 during the filming of the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter", in which she played the genetically engineered daughter of Tennant's Tenth Doctor. They married on 30 December 2011,[126] and live in the Chiswick district of London.[127][128] They have five children,[129][130] including Ty Tennant, Moffett's child from a previous relationship whom Tennant adopted.[131][132] Ty has acted in the film Tolkien and the 2019 television adaptation of War of the Worlds. The couple's daughter Olive was born in 2011.[133][134] At the age of two, Olive had a cameo as John Barrowman's daughter in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot. Later, at 10 years old, she made her film debut in Kenneth Branagh's Belfast.[135] In 2013, Tennant and Moffett had a son named Wilfred.[136] In November 2015, Tennant announced that they had recently had a daughter named Doris.[137] In 2019, they had another daughter named Birdie.[138]

Filmography

Main article: List of David Tennant performances

Bibliography

Forewords

  • Tennant, David (2006). Foreword. Doctor Who: The Inside Story. By Russell, Gary. BBC Books. ISBN 978-0563486497.
  • Tennant, David (2011). Foreword. Elisabeth Sladen: The Autobiography. By Sladen, Elisabeth. Aurum Press. ISBN 978-1845134884.
  • Tennant, David (2017). Foreword. Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs. By Davison, Peter. John Blake. ISBN 978-1786061126.

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by David Tennant

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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 0-521-79416-1
  • 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 0-521-67698-3
  • Mitchell, Molly (2009). David Tennant. London: Orion Publishing Group; ISBN 978-1-4091-0469-8

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david, tennant, other, people, named, disambiguation, david, john, tennant, mcdonald, born, april, 1971, scottish, actor, rose, fame, role, tenth, incarnation, doctor, 2005, 2010, 2013, science, fiction, show, doctor, reprising, role, from, 2022, 2023, fourtee. For other people named David Tennant see David Tennant disambiguation David John Tennant ne McDonald born 18 April 1971 is a Scottish actor He rose to fame for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor 2005 2010 and 2013 in the BBC science fiction TV show Doctor Who reprising the role from 2022 to 2023 as the fourteenth incarnation Other notable roles include Giacomo Casanova in the BBC comedy drama serial Casanova 2005 Barty Crouch Jr in the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005 Peter Vincent in the horror remake Fright Night 2011 DI Alec Hardy in the ITV crime drama series Broadchurch 2013 2017 Kilgrave in the Netflix superhero series Jessica Jones 2015 2019 Crowley in the Amazon Prime fantasy series Good Omens 2019 present and Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days 2021 David TennantTennant at GalaxyCon Raleigh in 2019BornDavid John McDonald 1971 04 18 18 April 1971 age 51 Bathgate West Lothian ScotlandOccupationActorYears active1987 presentSpouseGeorgia Moffett m 2011 wbr Children5 including TyParentSandy McDonald father RelativesArchie McLeod grandfather Peter Davison father in law Sandra Dickinson mother in law AwardsFull listTennant has worked on stage including a portrayal of the title character in a 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet later filmed for television He has also worked as a voice actor in The Pirates In an Adventure with Scientists 2011 Ferdinand 2017 Final Space 2018 2021 gen LOCK 2019 present the How to Train Your Dragon films 2010 2019 and as Scrooge McDuck in DuckTales 2017 2021 In 2015 he received the National Television Award for Special Recognition Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Early work 2 2 Doctor Who 2 3 2005 2010 2 4 2011 2015 2 5 2016 2019 2 6 2020 present 3 Public image 4 Politics 5 Personal life 6 Filmography 7 Bibliography 7 1 Forewords 8 Awards and nominations 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External linksEarly lifeTennant was born David John McDonald in Bathgate West Lothian on 18 April 1971 the son of Helen nee McLeod 1940 2007 and Alexander Sandy McDonald 1937 2016 1 a minister who served as the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 2 3 He grew up with his brother Blair and sister Karen in Ralston Renfrewshire 4 where his father was the local minister 5 6 Two of his maternal great grandparents William and Agnes Blair were Northern Irish Protestants from County Londonderry who were among the signatories of the Ulster Covenant in 1912 William was also a member of the Orange Order Tennant s maternal grandfather footballer Archie McLeod met William and Agnes daughter Nellie while playing for Derry City FC McLeod was descended from tenant farmers from the Isle of Mull 7 8 At the age of three Tennant told his parents that he wanted to become an actor because he was a fan of Doctor Who 9 but they encouraged him to aim for more conventional work 4 He later said that he was absurdly single minded in pursuing an acting career He watched almost every Doctor Who episode for years and once spoke to Fourth Doctor actor Tom Baker at a book signing event in Glasgow 4 He was educated at Ralston Primary School and Paisley Grammar School and acted in various school productions 10 His talent was noticed by actress Edith MacArthur who told his parents that she believed he would become a successful theatre actor after she saw him perform when he was 10 years old 11 Tennant attended Saturday classes at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland which was then known as the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama 10 At age 16 he passed an audition for the Academy becoming one of their youngest students and studying there between the ages of 17 and 20 After discovering that there was another David McDonald already represented by the actor s union Equity he took his stage name from Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant 12 13 He later had to legally change his surname to meet the American Screen Actors Guild s rules 14 CareerEarly work Tennant made his professional acting debut while still in secondary school When he was 16 he acted in an anti smoking film made by the Glasgow Health Board which aired on television and was also screened in schools 11 The following year he played a role in an episode of Dramarama 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 10 He also made an early television appearance in the Scottish TV sitcom Rab C Nesbitt as a transgender barmaid called Davina In the 1990s he appeared in several plays at the Dundee Repertory Theatre 15 Tennant was awarded his first major TV role as Campbell Bain in the BBC Scotland drama series Takin Over the Asylum 1994 after impressing director David Blair during filming of another drama Strathblair 1992 As Tennant recalled from the audition they needed someone who could believably act 19 and bonkers 16 During filming of Takin Over the Asylum he met comic actress and writer Arabella Weir When he moved to London shortly afterwards he lodged with Weir for five years 10 and became godfather to her youngest child He has subsequently appeared with Weir in many productions as a guest in her spoof television series Posh Nosh in the Doctor Who audio drama Exile during which Weir played an alternative version of the Doctor and as panellists on the West Wing Ultimate Quiz on More4 Weir later guest starred on Doctor Who itself after Tennant left the series 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 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 1996 having auditioned for the role of Orlando the romantic lead he was instead cast as the jester Touchstone which he played in his natural Scottish accent 17 He subsequently specialised in comic roles playing Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors and Captain Jack Absolute in The Rivals although he also played the role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet 10 He also starred in the 2003 London production of Martin McDonagh s The Pillowman 18 Tennant contributed to several audio dramatisations of Shakespeare for the Arkangel Shakespeare series 1998 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 in King Lear and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet all of which he performs in his natural accent In 1995 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 2000 playing an eccentric artist During the Christmas season of 2002 he starred in a series of television advertisements for Boots the Chemists 19 In 2003 Tennant appeared in the film Bright Young Things He was nominated for Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for his performance in Kenneth Lonergan s Lobby Hero 20 The UK premiere was staged at the Donmar Warehouse in previews on April 4 opening April 10 and closing on May 4 2002 The cast also included Charlotte Randle Dawn with Dominic Rowan Bill and Gary McDonald William and was again directed by Mark Brokaw 21 This production transferred to the New Ambassadors Theatre from June 26 opening July 1 to August 10 2002 22 He began to appear on television more prominently in 2004 and 2005 when he appeared in a dramatisation of He Knew He Was Right 2004 Blackpool 2004 Casanova 2005 and The Quatermass Experiment 2005 Later that same year he appeared as Barty Crouch Jr in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 23 Doctor Who See also Tenth Doctor and Fourteenth Doctor Tennant with Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies left regular director Euros Lyn centre right and executive producer Julie Gardner right at San Diego Comic Con International in July 2009 Doctor Who returned to British screens in March 2005 with Christopher Eccleston playing the role of the Ninth Doctor in the first series Tennant replaced him as of the second series making his first brief appearance as the Tenth Doctor in the episode The Parting of the Ways 2005 at the end of 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 60 minute special The Christmas Invasion first broadcast on Christmas Day 2005 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 24 both castmates and crew became aware of the speculation surrounding Tennant in the live broadcast Jason Flemyng Quatermass changed his first line to Tennant s Dr Briscoe from Good to have you back Gordon to Good to have you back Doctor as a deliberate reference 25 Tennant has expressed enthusiasm about fulfilling his childhood dream He remarked in a radio interview 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 26 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 touring the regions using Estuary English instead 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 Dr James McCrimmon of Edinburgh in Tooth and Claw a nod to the Second Doctor s companion Jamie McCrimmon 27 He previously had a small role in the BBC s animated Doctor Who webcast Scream of the Shalka 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 2004 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 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 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 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 28 He made his directorial debut on 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 He later performed alongside Davison s daughter Georgia Moffett as Jenny in the 2008 episode The Doctor s Daughter Georgia Moffett later became David Tennant s wife Tennant featured as the Doctor in an animated version of Doctor Who for Totally Doctor Who The Infinite Quest which aired on CBBC He also starred as the Doctor in another animated six part Doctor Who series Dreamland 29 Tennant guest starred as the Doctor in a two part story in Doctor Who spin off The Sarah Jane Adventures broadcast in October 2009 30 He continued to play the Tenth Doctor into the revived programme s fourth series in 2008 However on 29 October 2008 he announced that he would be stepping down from the role after three full series 31 He played the Doctor in four special episodes in 2009 before his final episode aired on 1 January 2010 where he was replaced by the Eleventh Doctor portrayed by Matt Smith Tennant and Billie Piper returned to Doctor Who for the 50th anniversary special The Day of the Doctor broadcast on 23 November 2013 with then stars Matt Smith and Jenna Louise Coleman and guest star John Hurt The same month he also appeared in the one off 50th anniversary comedy homage The Five ish Doctors Reboot directed by Peter Davison 32 In October 2015 Big Finish Productions announced that Tennant would return to the role of the Tenth Doctor alongside Catherine Tate as his former companion Donna Noble in three new stories from Big Finish 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 were released in May 2016 33 In November 2017 three new audio dramas were released by Big Finish Productions with Tennant once again starring as the Tenth Doctor alongside Billie Piper as Rose Tyler 34 Tennant also returned to the role on 13 July 2018 as part of the live Muppets show The Muppets Take the O2 in London in which the Tenth Doctor appeared onstage as part of a live Pigs in Space sketch In May 2022 in relation to the show s 60th anniversary it was announced that Tennant would once again return to the show alongside Tate who would reprise her role as Donna Noble 35 36 Previously thought to be returning as the Tenth Doctor in October 2022 the ending of the special episode The Power of the Doctor revealed that Tennant would return as the Fourteenth Doctor a role previously thought to be played by Ncuti Gatwa who would follow on as the Fifteenth Doctor instead 37 The three 60th anniversary special episodes will air in November 2023 38 2005 2010 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 praised Tennant s performance in The Guardian newspaper 39 On 25 February 2007 Tennant starred in Recovery a 90 minute BBC One drama written by Tony Marchant 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 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 40 Later that same year he starred in Learners a BBC comedy drama written by and starring Jessica Hynes another Doctor Who costar in the episodes Human Nature The Family of Blood and The End of Time 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 with Ricky Gervais In November 2008 Tennant played Sir Arthur Eddington in the BBC and HBO biographical film Einstein and Eddington which was filmed in Cambridge and Hungary 41 Tennant was the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car on Top Gear in December 2007 where he claimed to have unsuccessfully auditioned for a role on Taggart 26 times 42 Tennant is the voice behind the 2007 advertising campaign for catalogue retailer Argos and appeared in adverts for The Proclaimers 2007 album and learndirect in June 2008 Tennant also lent his voice to adverts for Tesco Mobile Nintendo Wii and American Express citation needed Tennant at San Diego Comic Con 2009 Tennant featured in an episode of Trick or Treat on Channel 4 in May 2008 The episode showed Tennant apparently predicting future events correctly by using automatic writing In TV amp Satellite Week 26 April 2 May issue the host of the show Derren 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 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 2008 episode Holofile 703 Us and Phlegm of the radio series Nebulous a parody of Doctor Who in the role of Doctor Beep using his Lothian accent Also in 2008 he voiced the character of Hamish the Hunter in the 2008 English language DVD re release of the 2006 animated 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 citation needed In early 2009 Tennant narrated the digital planetarium space dome film We Are Astronomers 43 commissioned by the UK s National Space Centre On 13 March 2009 he presented Red Nose Day 2009 with Davina McCall He joined Franz Ferdinand onstage to play the guitar on their song No You Girls on a special Comic Relief edition of Top of the Pops In summer 2009 Tennant filmed St Trinian s II The Legend of Fritton s Gold The film was released in December 2009 From October 2009 he hosted the Masterpiece Contemporary programming strand on the American Public Broadcasting Service 44 In December 2009 he filmed the lead in an NBC pilot Rex Is Not Your Lawyer playing Rex a Chicago lawyer who starts to coach clients to represent themselves when he starts suffering panic attacks 45 The pilot was not picked up and the project was shelved 46 47 In November 2009 he co hosted the Absolute Radio Breakfast Show with Christian O Connell for three consecutive days 48 He returned to cohost the show for one day in October 2010 49 On 7 March 2010 he also appeared as George in a one part BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Of Mice and Men in the Classic Serial strand 50 In October 2010 he starred as Dave a man struggling to raise five children after the death of his partner in the British drama Single Father For this role he was nominated as Best Actor at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2010 Despite much of his work being television work Tennant has described theatre work as his default way of being 51 He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company RSC to play Hamlet with Patrick Stewart and Berowne in Love s Labours Lost in 2008 52 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 10 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 53 He returned to his role in the production on 3 January 2009 and appeared until the run ended on 10 January Tennant s performance of Hamlet was critically acclaimed 54 55 In 2009 he worked on a TV film version of the RSC s 2008 Hamlet for BBC Two 56 On 12 April 2011 a photograph of Tennant as Hamlet featured on a stamp issued by the Royal Mail to mark the RSC s fiftieth anniversary 57 2011 2015 Tennant with Jessica Jones star Krysten Ritter in 2015 In 2011 he starred in United about the Manchester United Busby Babes team and the 1958 Munich air disaster playing coach and assistant manager Jimmy Murphy 58 In September 2011 he appeared in a guest role in one episode of the comedy series This is Jinsy and also started filming True Love a semi improvised BBC One drama series on location in Margate Kent the series aired in June 2012 Later in September 2011 it was announced that Tennant would voice a character in the movie adaptation of Postman Pat named You Know You re the One with a planned 3D theatrical release for spring 2013 59 In October 2011 Tennant started shooting the semi improvised comedy film Nativity 2 Danger in the Manger in Coventry 60 61 He played dual roles the main character put upon teacher Mr Peterson and his golden boy twin brother and rival 62 In April 2012 Tennant played lead in a one off drama The Minor Character for Sky Arts 63 Between April and June he filmed Spies of Warsaw for BBC Four in the lead role of Jean Francois Mercier This drama series shot in Poland is an adaptation of Alan Furst s novel The Spies of Warsaw 64 Tennant auditioned for the role of Hannibal Lecter in NBC s Hannibal he was narrowly beaten for the part by Mads Mikkelsen 65 On 9 June 2012 he started filming the 3 part political drama series The Politician s Husband for BBC Two playing an ambitious cabinet minister who takes drastic action when his wife s career starts to outshine his 66 67 Tennant also presented the new comedy quiz show Comedy World Cup in 2012 which ran on Saturday nights for seven episodes 68 In January 2012 Tennant was appointed to the Royal Shakespeare Company board to be on the selection committee interviewing and choosing the new artistic director 69 It was announced on 23 January 2013 that Tennant would return to the RSC for the company s 2013 winter season playing the title role in Richard II at Stratford upon Avon from 10 October to 16 November and transferring to the Barbican Centre in London from 9 December to 25 January 2014 70 Tennant repeated his performance as Richard II in the RSC s King and Country cycle in 2016 starting at the Barbican Theatre in London 71 before transferring to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York 72 Tennant at the 2017 Wizard World Columbus Comic Con Tennant starred in the ITV detective series Broadchurch as DI Alec Hardy between 2013 and 2017 The first series was filmed in Clevedon North Somerset and Bridport Dorset between August and November 2012 and aired in March 2013 73 Tennant filmed the second series of Broadchurch during mid 2014 74 75 and the third between May and October 2016 Between January and May 2014 Tennant also filmed the US remake of Broadchurch re titled Gracepoint 76 Between late January and March 2013 Tennant filmed The Escape Artist for BBC One in which he played a talented junior barrister who had yet to lose a case The three part series aired on BBC One in October and November 2013 77 Tennant starred opposite Rosamund Pike and Billy Connolly in What We Did on Our Holiday a semi improvised comedy film shooting took place from 17 June to 30 July 2013 in Scotland The film was released in September 2014 78 In 2012 he appeared in a multi million pound campaign for Virgin Media starring in three adverts 79 One advert was voluntarily withdrawn after a complaint lodged by BBC Worldwide which believed that the advert broke the corporation s guidelines by featuring references to Doctor Who that appeared to be a commercial endorsement of the service 80 He is the narrator on Xbox One video game Kinect Sports Rivals released in 2014 81 Tennant also portrayed the villainous Kilgrave in Jessica Jones a television series from Marvel and Netflix All 13 episodes were released on 20 November 2015 82 On 9 February 2015 Tennant appeared on the Radio 4 panel show Just a Minute becoming the show s most successful debut contestant 83 He also voiced the Propaganda Minister in the 2015 Square Enix video game Just Cause 3 84 85 In autumn 2015 Tennant s name was announced for Scottish feature film I Feel Fine a thriller set in Glasgow in the 1980s 86 However as of January 2016 update the film has been postponed indefinitely 2016 2019In February 2016 he began filming Mad to Be Normal previously titled Metanoia a biopic of the renowned Scottish psychiatrist R D Laing produced by Gizmo Films 87 Tennant at a Good Omens panel at New York Comic Con 2018 In 2017 Tennant appeared in writer director Daisy Aitkens first feature film You Me and Him The film is co produced by Tennant s wife Georgia and had originally been due to co star his father in law Peter Davison however Davison withdrew from the film in October 2016 due to a scheduling clash 88 Between March and June 2017 Tennant appeared in Patrick Marber s Don Juan in Soho at the Wyndham s Theatre 89 Also in 2017 he became the voice of Scrooge McDuck for Disney XD s DuckTales reboot replacing the character s longtime voice actor Alan Young who died in May 2016 90 Tennant played psychopathic villain Cale Erendreich in the thriller film Bad Samaritan 2018 written by Brandon Boyce and directed by Dean Devlin 91 Tennant also plays Crowley in the miniseries Good Omens 92 which was released in full on Amazon Prime Video on 31 May 2019 and was released on BBC Two on 15 January 2020 93 94 In February 2019 Tennant launched his own podcast titled David Tennant Does a Podcast With The podcast s episodes feature Olivia Colman Whoopi Goldberg Jodie Whittaker Ian McKellen Jon Hamm Gordon Brown Jennifer Garner Catherine Tate Krysten Ritter James Corden Samantha Bee Tina Fey and Michael Sheen 95 2020 present Tennant stars as a doctor suspected of murdering his family in Deadwater Fell a Scottish true crime miniseries which premiered in January 2020 on Channel 4 He also received his first credit as an executive producer for the series 96 97 98 In September 2020 he portrayed Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen in Des a three part miniseries on ITV 99 For his performance he won the International Emmy Award for Best Actor 100 In 2020 and 2021 he starred in the TV series Staged with Michael Sheen Joel Golby of the Guardian described it David Tennant and Michael Sheen squabbled over Zoom as exaggerated frustrated hyper thespian versions of themselves in an actors playing actors miniseries with the exact same energy of a late night Comic Relief sketch 15 minute episodes where you got to see familiar actors with their off duty haircuts saying words that seemed real It was good and it was smart and it played perfectly with the boundaries of the format it was in 101 In September 2022 Tennant starred as Reverend Harry Watling in BBC1 s Inside Man which was written by Steven Moffat 102 The series premiered on 26 September 2022 to mixed reviews from viewers and critics alike 103 104 105 106 In December 2022 Tennant starred as Alexander Litvinenko in the ITV1 dramatisation Litvinenko The drama was based on the 10 year fight of Marina Litvinenko and the London police force as they work to prove the guilt and release the names of those responsible for the 2006 poisoning of Litvinenko 107 108 Public imageTennant was named Coolest Man on TV of 2007 in a Radio Times survey He won the National Television Awards award for Most Popular Actor in 2006 2007 2008 and 2010 He was voted 16th Sexiest Man in the World by a 2008 Cosmopolitan survey 109 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 110 Tennant was ranked the 24th most influential person in the British media on 9 July 2007 according to MediaGuardian He appeared in the paper s annual media rankings in 2006 In December 2008 he 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 He was voted the third best dressed man in Britain in GQ reader s poll for 2013 111 Tennant s popularity has led to impersonations of him on various social networking sites leading the BBC to issue a statement making it clear that Tennant does not use any of these sites and any account or message purporting to be from him is fake 112 In the expansion EverQuest Seeds of Destruction for the game EverQuest a character was introduced called Tavid Dennant named after David Tennant The character when interacted with makes a number of references to Doctor Who 113 In December 2005 The Stage placed Tennant at No 6 in its Top Ten list of the most influential British television artists of the year citing his roles in Blackpool Casanova Secret Smile and Doctor Who 114 In January 2006 readers of the British gay and lesbian newspaper The Pink Paper voted him the Sexiest Man in the Universe 115 In October 2006 he was named Scotland s most stylish male in the Scottish Style Awards 116 Tennant is an ambassador for Worldwide Cancer Research 117 PoliticsTennant is a supporter of the Labour Party and appeared in a party political broadcast for them in 2005 He declared his support for then Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2010 and labelled David Cameron a terrifying prospect 118 In April 2010 he lent his voice to a Labour election broadcast 119 In 2012 he introduced Labour Party leader Ed Miliband onstage at the Labour Party Conference In 2015 he also lent his voice to a Labour Party General Election broadcast 120 Tennant remained neutral on the issue of Scottish independence in the run up to the 2014 referendum stating that it was not his business as he no longer lived in Scotland 121 However in the wake of Brexit which he called depressing he stated in 2017 that he would support an independent Scotland in the event of a second referendum 122 Personal lifeTennant rarely discusses his private life in interviews 10 citing his belief that relationships are hard enough with the people you re having them with let alone talking about them in public 123 He has said that he believes religion must have shaped his character and revealed that he is an occasional churchgoer 124 Tennant is married to actress Georgia Moffett making him the son in law of actress Sandra Dickinson and Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison 125 The couple met in 2008 during the filming of the Doctor Who episode The Doctor s Daughter in which she played the genetically engineered daughter of Tennant s Tenth Doctor They married on 30 December 2011 126 and live in the Chiswick district of London 127 128 They have five children 129 130 including Ty Tennant Moffett s child from a previous relationship whom Tennant adopted 131 132 Ty has acted in the film Tolkien and the 2019 television adaptation of War of the Worlds The couple s daughter Olive was born in 2011 133 134 At the age of two Olive had a cameo as John Barrowman s daughter in The Five ish Doctors Reboot Later at 10 years old she made her film debut in Kenneth Branagh s Belfast 135 In 2013 Tennant and Moffett had a son named Wilfred 136 In November 2015 Tennant announced that they had recently had a daughter named Doris 137 In 2019 they had another daughter named Birdie 138 FilmographyMain article List of David Tennant performancesBibliographyForewords Tennant David 2006 Foreword Doctor Who The Inside Story By Russell Gary BBC Books ISBN 978 0563486497 Tennant David 2011 Foreword Elisabeth Sladen The Autobiography By Sladen Elisabeth Aurum Press ISBN 978 1845134884 Tennant David 2017 Foreword Is There Life Outside The Box An Actor Despairs By Davison Peter John Blake ISBN 978 1786061126 Awards and nominationsMain article List of awards and nominations received by David TennantReferences David Tennant s father and ex Kirk moderator Sandy McDonald dies BBC News BBC 17 March 2016 Retrieved 19 March 2016 Gould Lara 27 December 2009 David Tennant pays tribute to his late mum The Mirror UK Retrieved 26 March 2012 Frost s Scottish Who s Who Very Rev Dr Alexander McDonald Martinfrost ws 14 January 2006 Archived from the original on 16 May 2012 Retrieved 10 October 2012 a b c Desert Island Discs with David Tennant Desert Island Discs 1 January 2010 BBC Radio 4 Drama Faces David Tennant BBC Archived from the original on 21 July 2009 Retrieved 10 April 2009 David s birthday is 18 April McDONALD David John Who s Who A amp C Black 2008 Retrieved 10 April 2009 Online edition Oxford University Press December 2008 subscription or library card required Who Do You Think You Are BBC Retrieved 6 April 2011 Elton Matt 29 June 2009 David Tennant Who Do You Think You Are Magazine Foss Roger July August 2008 Partners in Time What s on Stage p 15 Archived from the original on 2 August 2008 Retrieved 6 July 2008 a b c d e f g Reid Vicky 22 November 2008 David Tennant from Doctor Who to Hamlet The Daily Telegraph London Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 Retrieved 30 January 2011 a b Ready Steady Cook with David Tennant and his father Ready Steady Cook 6 December 2006 BBC BBC 2 Tim Walker David Tennant The good doctor The Independent 29 March 2008 Shannon Sarah 7 December 2005 David Tennant His days of blissful anonymity are numbered The Independent UK Archived from the original on 21 April 2006 Dickson Andrew 6 November 2013 Ask David Tennant anything livechat The Guardian UK I am now actually Tennant have been for a few years it was an issue with the Screen Actors Guild in the US who wouldn t let me keep my stage name unless it was my legal name Faced with the prospect of working under 2 different names on either side of the globe I had to take the plunge and rename myself So although I always liked the name I m now more intimately associated with it than I had ever imagined Thank you Neil Tennant Treading the boards Theatre in Dundee Archives Records and Artefacts at the University of Dundee 16 December 2009 Retrieved 4 July 2016 Kopstick Kate 9 November 2000 Crazy Love The Scotsman Retrieved 16 January 2019 David Tennant Touchstone in Player of Shakespeare 4 ed Robert Smallwood Cambridge University Press 2000 p 30 Wolf Matt 27 November 2003 The Pillowman Variety Retrieved 2 May 2019 Boots Advert starring David Tennant on YouTube Olivier Winners 2003 Olivier Awards Retrieved 12 April 2021 Billington Michael Review The Guardian April 10 2002 Hodges Amanda Review Lobby Hero New Ambassadors Theatre londontheatrearchive co uk 2 July 2 Actor David Tennant conquers TV BBC News 16 April 2005 Archived from the original on 2 January 2007 Retrieved 6 April 2011 The Quatermass Experiment was transmitted live on 2 April 2005 Mark Gatiss Trevor Hampton David Tennant Alison Willett 2005 The Quatermass Experiment Audio commentary DVD DD Home Entertainment David Tennant named best Dr Who BBC News 6 December 2006 Retrieved 25 February 2007 Doctor Who Time Laird The Scotsman 7 April 2006 David Tennant The Original Site AUDIO david tennant com 2 September 2018 Retrieved 2 September 2018 Dreamland press release BBC News 21 August 2009 Retrieved 6 April 2011 Tennant to appear in Who spin off BBC News 26 May 2009 Retrieved 26 May 2009 David Tennant quits as Doctor Who www news bbc co uk The Five ish Doctors Reboot BBC programmes Retrieved 26 November 2013 David Tennant to return to Doctor Who for three new audio dramas The Guardian UK 31 October 2015 Retrieved 31 October 2015 The Tenth Doctor Adventures Volume 02 LIMITED EDITION Big Finish Productions 1 November 2017 Retrieved 2 September 2018 David Tennant and Catherine Tate return to Doctor Who Doctor Who 15 May 2022 Retrieved 15 May 2022 Mzimba Lizo 15 May 2022 Doctor Who David Tennant and Catherine Tate to return BBC News Retrieved 15 May 2022 Graham Lowery Nathan 24 October 2022 Doctor Who s David Tennant Return Confirmed To Be Fourteenth Doctor ScreenRant Retrieved 24 October 2022 Doctor Who Jodie Whittaker s regeneration reveals a new Doctor BBC News 23 October 2022 Retrieved 24 October 2022 Hoggart Simon 14 January 2006 Alcoholic Not the Kennedy I knew The Guardian London Retrieved 5 July 2008 Dad is played by the wonderful David Tennant Blackpool Casanova who has carefully prepared his appearance by watching old interviews even studying newspaper pictures of the time and having a picture of Dad on his mobile phone He s extremely convincing the suit the hair the Yorkshire accent and trickiest of all the speech rhythms The only thing wrong is his sideburns To do this film he had to take 24 hours off from making Doctor Who in Cardiff and as he explained the sideburns wouldn t grow back in a day Dempster Sarah 21 February 2007 Scissor sister The Guardian London Retrieved 5 July 2008 David Tennant and Andy Serkis to star in BBC drama Einstein And Eddington BBC Press Office 21 May 2007 Retrieved 17 January 2011 David Tennant in our Reasonably Priced Car Top Gear Archived from the original on 1 March 2012 Retrieved 1 March 2012 We Are Astronomers We Are Astronomers Retrieved 6 April 2011 Ryzik Melena 14 May 2009 Tennant Is Named a Masterpiece Host The New York Times Retrieved 14 May 2009 David Tennant to make US TV Debut BBC News 3 November 2009 Retrieved 23 October 2010 Naughton John 9 October 2010 Is there life after Doctor Who Radio Times London Presenters Graham Norton 9 October 2010 With David Tennant and Barbara Taylor Bradford Graham Norton London England BBC Radio Two Absolute Radio DJ Profile Absoluteradio co uk Archived from the original on 16 July 2011 Retrieved 6 April 2011 David Tennant signs pictures for fans Absoluteradio co uk Archived from the original on 28 May 2011 Retrieved 6 April 2011 Of Mice and Men profile at BBC 13 March 2010 Retrieved 10 February 2013 Catherine Tate interviewing David Tennant Chain Reaction Series 4 Episode 1 21 February 2008 BBC Radio 4 Tennant labours in a lost cause of comic stand up Evening Standard London 9 October 2008 Retrieved 26 January 2019 Higgins Charlotte 9 January 2009 Return of the prince Tennant bounces back after slings and arrows The Guardian UK Nightingale Benedict 6 August 2008 Dr Who s David Tennant as Hamlet at the Courtyard Stratford The Times London Retrieved 1 May 2010 Billington Michael 6 August 2008 Hamlet The Guardian London Retrieved 1 May 2010 Hamlet BBC Two BBC Retrieved 1 March 2021 Royal Mail marks Royal Shakespeare Company s 50th year BBC News 12 April 2011 Retrieved 12 April 2011 David Tennant leads cast in epic new BBC Two film United BBC Press Office 12 November 2010 Retrieved 12 November 2010 Rupert Grint amp David Tennant Lending Voices to Postman Pat Movie First Showing 16 September 2011 Retrieved 10 November 2011 Nativity 2 in the pipeline with Coventry set to star again The Coventry Telegraph 19 October 2011 Archived from the original on 21 October 2011 Retrieved 19 October 2011 Nativity 2 The Second Coming The Film Catalogue Archived from the original on 6 April 2012 Retrieved 19 October 2011 Dawtrey Adam 28 October 2011 David Tennant sees double Variety Retrieved 28 October 2011 Brown Mark 23 February 2012 Michael Parkinson to return to TV after five year absence The Guardian London Retrieved 24 February 2012 ARTE signs up as coproducer on Spies of Warsaw BBC 3 April 2012 Retrieved 3 April 2012 David Tennant to play killer in Hannibal list co uk 25 April 2013 Retrieved 18 June 2013 Doctor Who star David Tennant films BBC drama in Watford The Watford Observer 15 June 2012 Retrieved 16 June 2012 Mentorn TV News Mentorn TV 9 May 2012 Retrieved 16 June 2012 Comedy World Cup coming soon Channel 4 Info Channel 4 24 August 2012 Retrieved 10 October 2012 Spencer Charles 16 January 2012 Cats kinky sex and the titan who defined them The Telegraph UK Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 Retrieved 16 January 2012 David Tennant s Richard II leads RSC s winter season Whatsonstage com Archived from the original on 28 January 2013 Retrieved 10 February 2013 King and Country at the Barbican Royal Shakespeare Company Archived from the original on 30 March 2015 Retrieved 24 April 2015 BAM to Present the Royal Shakespeare Company s King and Country Shakespeare s Great Cycle of Kings TheatreMania Retrieved 24 April 2015 Duncan Andrew 16 22 June 2012 My First True Love Radio Times David Tennant spotted at Exeter University exeterexpressandecho co uk 13 June 2014 Archived from the original on 16 June 2014 Retrieved 15 June 2014 Denham Jess 6 November 2013 Olivia Colman confirmed to return for Broadchurch 2 The Independent London FOX to rename Broadchurch remake zap2it 28 October 2013 Archived from the original on 2 November 2013 Retrieved 11 November 2013 Matthew Read Executive Producer 31 January 2013 Media Centre Filming starts on new BBC One thriller The Escape Artist BBC Retrieved 10 February 2013 Rosamund Pike David Tennant to star in BBC rom com 11 May 2013 Archived from the original on 18 June 2013 Retrieved 14 May 2013 Laughlin Andrew 30 March 2012 David Tennant signs up for Virgin ads Digital Spy Retrieved 24 February 2021 Sweney Mark 17 April 2012 Virgin Media pulls Doctor Who advert The Guardian Retrieved 29 November 2013 Kubba Sinan 19 March 2014 David Tennant is the voice of God in Kinect Sports Rivals Joystiq Retrieved 22 March 2014 David Tennant Joins Marvel s A K A Jessica Jones for Netflix Marvel Comics 26 January 2015 Archived from the original on 28 January 2015 Retrieved 26 January 2015 David Tennant sets Radio 4 Just a Minute record BBC News Did you know David Tennant was in Just Cause 3 Well he is PCGamesN Just Cause 3 via www imdb com David Tennant to star in Scottish thriller The Daily Telegraph 7 February 2015 Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 Retrieved 31 October 2015 Mad to be Normal in Production gizmofilms com Archived from the original on 1 February 2016 Retrieved 25 January 2016 Wiseman Andreas David Tennant joins rom com Fish Without Bicycles www screendaily com Retrieved 15 May 2016 Brown Mark 1 November 2016 David Tennant to return to West End for Don Juan in Soho next spring The Guardian Retrieved 3 November 2016 Wanshel Elyse 16 December 2016 David Tennant Is Going To Voice Scrooge McDuck In DuckTales Reboot Huffington Post Retrieved 16 December 2016 White James 25 August 2016 David Tennant starring in Bad Samaritan www empireonline com Retrieved 3 September 2016 Otterson Joe 14 August 2017 Michael Sheen David Tennant to Star in Neil Gaiman s Good Omens at Amazon Variety Retrieved 7 July 2019 White Peter 13 February 2019 Good Omens To Launch On Amazon Prime Video On May 31 TCA Deadline Retrieved 7 July 2019 Kanter Jake 19 December 2019 Good Omens BBC Sets Premiere Date Nine Months After Drama Dropped On Amazon Deadline Hollywood Retrieved 21 January 2020 David Tennant Does a Podcast With Apple Podcasts Retrieved 3 June 2019 Deadwater Fell Interview with David Tennant who plays Dr Tom Kendrick Channel 4 Channel 4 Retrieved 11 January 2020 Clarke Stewart 5 June 2019 David Tennant Cush Jumbo Join Channel 4 Drama Deadwater Fell Variety Retrieved 11 January 2020 Craig David 10 January 2020 Review Dark Channel 4 drama Deadwater Fell packs an emotional punch Radio Times Retrieved 11 January 2020 Youngs Ian 14 September 2020 David Tennant says TV drama Des does not celebrate killer Dennis Nilsen BBC News Retrieved 16 September 2020 Roxborough Scott 22 November 2021 International Emmys David Tennant Hayley Squires Take Acting Awards Tehran Best Drama The Hollywood Reporter Retrieved 22 November 2021 Golby Joel 16 January 2021 Staged thespian Zoom miniseries plays perfectly with the format The Guardian Retrieved 3 July 2021 Steven Moffat s Inside Man first look images released and further casting announced Hilton Nick 27 September 2022 Inside Man review David Tennant and Stanley Tucci star in weeknight crowd pleaser with some stupid plot decisions Independent Retrieved 27 September 2022 Mangan Lucy 26 September 2022 Inside Man review Stanley Tucci goes full Hannibal Lecter in rollicking death row drama The Guardian Retrieved 27 September 2022 Gulla Emily 27 September 2022 e Man viewers are all saying the same thing about new BBC drama Cosmopolitan Retrieved 27 September 2022 Lewis George 26 September 2022 David Tennant s Inside Man leaves viewers baffled The first episode of the BBC miniseries has garnered mixed reviews Digital Spy Retrieved 27 September 2022 David Tennant to play poisoned former spy Alexander Litvinenko The Guardian Mangan Lucy 15 December 2022 Litvinenko review this woeful David Tennant drama is nigh on pointless The Guardian Retrieved 15 December 2022 March Bridget 7 October 2008 Cosmo s 25 sexiest men Cosmopolitan Archived from the original on 17 October 2008 Retrieved 11 December 2008 Tennant voted planet s greenest star Metro 13 August 2008 Retrieved 15 August 2008 Morris Andy 3 January 2013 GQ com readers Best Dressed Men 2013 GQ Conde Nast UK Archived from the original on 3 January 2013 Retrieved 3 January 2013 Not THE David Tennant BBC 4 March 2009 Retrieved 5 January 2010 EverQuest VGFacts Retrieved 22 March 2014 The Stage 100 The Stage 29 December 2005 Archived from the original on 18 January 2006 Retrieved 3 January 2006 Dr Who Voted Sexiest Gay Icon GayNZ com 17 January 2006 Archived from the original on 7 May 2006 Retrieved 18 January 2006 Ross Shan 28 October 2006 Top Scots chosen for putting on the style The Scotsman UK Archived from the original on 14 October 2007 Retrieved 24 January 2007 Our Cancer Research Ambassadors Worldwide Cancer Research Retrieved 21 October 2019 Doctor Who star David Tennant backs Gordon Brown BBC News 9 January 2010 Retrieved 1 May 2010 General Election 2010 David Tennant and Sean Pertwee star in Labour advert The Daily Telegraph UK 12 April 2010 Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 Retrieved 12 May 2010 Mason Rowena 30 March 2015 Hobbit star Martin Freeman appears in Labour election broadcast The Guardian Guardian News amp Media Limited Retrieved 23 February 2021 Linklater Alexander 30 March 2014 The union belongs to the Scots it s at the heart of our cultural identity The Guardian Retrieved 23 February 2021 Massey Nina 11 February 2017 David Tennant says he d back Scottish independence in a second referendum The Sunday Post DC Thomson Media Retrieved 23 February 2021 Davis Johnny 20 December 2009 David Tennant It just feels scary all the time The Observer London Retrieved 30 January 2011 Hattenstone Simon 19 August 2011 David Tennant My bedpost really has very few notches interview The Guardian London The Stars are Coming Out Radio Times No 5 11 April 2008 BBC April 2008 pp 14 24 Dr Who s David Tennant marries on screen daughter Daily Mirror 1 January 2012 Retrieved 16 January 2012 David Tennant gets go ahead for 150k pool and gym in Chiswick home Homes and Property 4 June 2019 Retrieved 19 May 2020 Hunt Elle 8 July 2020 We re not squeamish David Tennant on privacy parenting and playing himself The Guardian Retrieved 18 November 2021 Duncan Andrew 26 October 1 November 2013 Geeks should rule the world Radio Times p 13 David Tennant reveals he is now a double dad Absolute Radio Archived from the original on 8 October 2012 Retrieved 10 October 2012 Power Vicki 26 October 2013 Actor David Tennant It s one of those roles you don t want anyone else to have Express Retrieved 5 February 2014 The Late Late Show with James Corden 23 May 2019 David Tenant amp His Wife Are Preparing for Child 5 YouTube Archived from the original on 28 October 2021 Retrieved 5 June 2019 Baby joy for star David The Paisley Daily Express Paisley Scotland 18 January 2011 Retrieved 29 January 2011 Presenter Christian O Connell 11 April 2011 The Christian O Connell Breakfast Show The Christian O Connell Breakfast Show Absolute Radio A couple of you have been asking on Facebook how DT is David Tennant I swapped texts with him over the weekend He is smitten with his new baby daughter Novak Kim 13 October 2021 David Tennant s 10 year old daughter Olive bosses the red carpet for Belfast and her parents couldn t be prouder Metro Retrieved 18 November 2021 Duncan Andrew 26 October 1 November 2013 Geeks should rule the world The Radio Times p 13 David Tennant felt huge responsibility starring in new BBC comedy There She Goes Radio Times 16 October 2018 Retrieved 8 July 2020 Houghton Rianne 5 March 2020 David Tennant and his wife Georgia Tennant reveal the name of their fifth child Digital Spy Further readingSmallwood 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 0 521 79416 1 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 0 521 67698 3 Mitchell Molly 2009 David Tennant London Orion Publishing Group ISBN 978 1 4091 0469 8External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to David Tennant Wikiquote has quotations related to David Tennant David Tennant at IMDb David Tennant at the BFI s Screenonline David Tennant collected news and commentary at The New York Times Works by or about David Tennant in libraries WorldCat catalog Hamlet 3 05 52 Great Performances PBS 28 April 2008 video only link Portals Biography Doctor Who Film Theatre Television Scotland United Kingdom Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title David Tennant amp oldid 1131900512, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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