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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

2025
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

as    Barty Crouch Junior

2025
The Thursday Murder Club

as    Ian Ventham

2025
Macbeth

as    Macbeth

2025
Genius Game

as    Self - The Creator

2024
ARK: The Animated Series

as    Sir Edmund Rockwell (voice)

2024
Rivals

as    Tony Baddingham

2023
The Amazing Maurice

as    Dangerous Beans (voice)

2023
Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder

as    Doctor

2023
Doctor Who: The Star Beast

as    Doctor Who

2023
Ahsoka

as    Huyang (voice)

2023
2023
National Theatre Live: Good

as    Professor John Halder/Johnny

2023
Doctor who 60th anniversary specials

as    Quatorzième Docteur

2023
Comic Relief 2023

as    Self - Host

2023
Talking Doctor Who

as    Self - Presenter

2023
Doctor Who: Video Commentaries

as    Self - The Doctor

2023
There She Goes: 414

as    Simon Yates

2023
Doctor Who: The Star Beast

as    The Doctor

2023
Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder

as    The Doctor

2023
2023
2023
Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story

as    The Doctor

2023
Doctor Who (2023-)

as    The Doctor

2023
Doctor Who: The Star Beast

as    The Doctor

2023
Doctor Who: The Star Beast

as    The Doctor

2023
Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder

as    The Doctor

2023
Doctor Who: The Giggle

as    The Doctor

2023
Doctor Who: The Giggle

as    The Doctor (14)