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David Tennantborn 1971

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Actor

Popularity

4.5

Famous

Biography

David John Tennant (né McDonald; born 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. He is best known for portraying the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in the sci-fi series Doctor Who (2005–2010; 2013). In 2022, he returned to the show as the fourteenth incarnation. His other notable screen roles include DI Alec Hardy in the crime drama series Broadchurch (2013–2017) and its 2014 remake, Kilgrave in the superhero series Jessica Jones (2015–2019), Crowley in the fantasy series Good Omens (2019–present), and various fictionalised versions of himself in the comedy series Staged (2020–2022). Tennant has worked extensively on stage, including a portrayal of the title character in a 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet that was later adapted for television. He is also a voice actor, featuring in the animated series DuckTales (2017–2021) as the voice of Scrooge McDuck. In 2015, he received the National Television Award for Special Recognition. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Tennant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Credits

The Thursday Murder Club

2025

Comedy • Mystery

as Ian Ventham

0(0)

1.3

Macbeth

2025

Drama • Thriller • War

as Macbeth

10(1)

1.3

Doctor Who at the Proms

2024

Music

as The Doctor (14) (10) (archive footage)

10(2)

0.6

Comic Relief 2024: Funny for Money

2024

Comedy

as Self

0(0)

0.2

imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me

2023

Documentary

as Self

10(2)

0.1

Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials

2023

Adventure • Drama • Science Fiction

as The Doctor (archive footage)

9.1(7)

0.4

Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story

2023

Family • Science Fiction

as The Doctor

4.5(2)

Doctor Who Children in Need Special 2023

2023

Comedy • Mystery • Science Fiction

as The Doctor

7.1(10)

0.4

Talking Doctor Who

2023

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self - Presenter

5(3)

0.2

National Theatre Live: Good

2023

Drama • War

as Professor John Halder/Johnny

8.5(4)

0.5

Comic Relief 2023

2023

Comedy • Documentary • Family

as Self - Host

8(1)

0.2

The Amazing Maurice

2022

Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Family • Fantasy

as Dangerous Beans (voice)

6.7(162)

1.9

The Paloni Show! Halloween Special!

2022

Animation • Comedy • Horror

as Roach Chef (voice)

6.3(31)

1.7

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

2022

Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Family • Mystery

as Scrooge McDuck (voice)

7(1,266)

Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas

2021

as Self

6.5(2)

0.4

An Audience with Adele

2021

Documentary • Music

as Self

8.3(39)

0.7

The Loud House Movie

2021

Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Family • Fantasy

as Angus (voice)

7.4(188)

2.9

Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas

2020

Comedy • TV Movie

as Self

6.4(9)

0.5

Screening

2020

Drama

as Timothy

7(4)

0.1

The Real Des: The Dennis Nilsen Story

2020

Documentary

as Narrator (voice)

6.8(5)

0.1

Our Sarah Jane – The Life of Elisabeth Sladen

2020

Documentary

as Self

8(1)

0.1

Good Omens: Lockdown

2020

Comedy • Fantasy

as Crowley (voice)

7.8(25)

0.3

The Big Night In

2020

Comedy • Documentary • TV Movie

as Mr. Logan

9(2)

0.2

Heart to Heart

2020

as Heart

5.5(2)

0.1

The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years

2020

Documentary

as Self

0(0)

0.2

Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered

2019

Documentary

as Self

9(3)

0.2

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

2019

Adventure • Animation • Family

as Spitelout / Ivar the Whitless (voice)

7.7(6,587)

13.9

Spy in the Snow

2018

Documentary • TV Movie

as Narrator

8(1)

0.1

Mary Queen of Scots

2018

Drama • History

as John Knox

6.6(1,826)

2.2

The Highway Rat

2018

Animation • Comedy • Family

as The Highway Rat (voice)

6.3(29)

0.6

The Muppets Take The O2

2018

Family • TV Movie

as Self

9.5(2)

0.3

DuckTales: Destination Adventure!

2018

Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Family • Fantasy

as Scrooge McDuck (voice)

4.5(3)

0.3

Bad Samaritan

2018

Crime • Drama • Horror • Thriller

as Cale Erendreich

6.7(706)

1.3

Final Space

2018

Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Drama • Mystery • Science Fiction

as Lord commander

0(0)

0.8

You, Me and Him

2018

Comedy

as John

5.7(39)

0.3

Ferdinand

2017

Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Family

as Angus (voice)

7.2(2,919)

8.2

Proclaimers: This Is the Story

2017

Documentary • Music

as Self

8(1)

Mad to Be Normal

2017

Drama • History

as RD Laing

5.9(34)

0.4

Fireman Sam: Alien Alert! The Movie

2017

Animation • Family

as Buck Douglas (voice)

5.8(6)

0.4

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

2016

Documentary • Music • TV Movie

as Self - Host

7.5(11)

0.4

Derren Brown: Pushed to the Edge

2016

Documentary • TV Movie

as Himself

7.3(98)

0.5

A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman

2015

Animation • Documentary

as Self - Voice of Charles Darwin

7(31)

0.5

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

2015

Comedy • Drama • Science Fiction

as The Doctor (10) (picture) (uncredited)

8(155)

0.6

Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time

2015

Documentary • History

as Narrator (Voice UK)

7.3(20)

0.2

The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One

2015

Documentary • Music

as Self

9(2)

0.3

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

2015

as Narrator

5(1)

0.2

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

2015

Documentary • TV Movie

as Narrator

0(0)

0.1

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey's Monster Musical

2015

Animation • Family • TV Movie

as Igor the Door (voice)

8.4(5)

0.5

96 Ways to Say I Love You

2015

Comedy • Drama

as Mark

6(5)

0.2

What We Did on Our Holiday

2014

Comedy

as Doug McLeod

6.7(533)

0.9

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion

2014

Documentary

as Self / The Doctor (archive footage)

8.1(7)

0.3

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison

2014

Documentary

as Self

0(0)

0.2

Wings 3D

2014

Documentary

as Narrator (voice)

10(0)

0.4

Postman Pat: The Movie

2014

Animation • Comedy • Family

as Wilf (voice)

5(51)

0.9

Doctor Who: Farewell to Matt Smith

2013

Documentary

5.8(3)

0.2

Earthflight

2013

Documentary

as Himself - Narrator

6.6(11)

0.1

Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty

2013

Documentary • TV Movie

as The Doctor (archive footage)

9(1)

0.4

The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot

2013

Comedy • TV Movie

as Self

7.9(56)

0.4

The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro

2013

as The Doctor (10)

0(0)

0.2

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

2013

Adventure • Science Fiction

as The Doctor (10)

8.2(754)

1.3

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide

2013

Documentary

as Self

7.8(6)

0.2

Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS

2013

Documentary • Science Fiction

as Self

0(0)

0.2

Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II

2013

Drama • History

as Richard II

7.5(6)

0.3

Doctor Who Explained

2013

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self

8.5(2)

0.2

Tree Fu Tom - Tree Fu Magic

2013

Animation

0(0)

Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!

2012

Comedy • Family

as Donald / Roderick Peterson

5.3(105)

1.1

The Science of Doctor Who

2012

Documentary • Science Fiction • TV Movie

as The Doctor (archive footage)

0(0)

0.2

Shakespeare's Sonnets

2012

0(0)

0.2

So You Want To Be A Pirate!

2012

Animation • Comedy

as Charles Darwin

6.3(35)

0.4

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

2012

Adventure • Animation • Comedy • Family

as Charles Darwin (voice)

6.5(1,124)

1.7

Shrek: Once Upon a Time

2011

Documentary

as Self / Narrator

7.5(10)

0.5

Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties

2011

Comedy • Documentary

as Self

10(2)

0.4

Discovering Hamlet

2011

Documentary

as Self

7(1)

0.4

The Ballad of Russell & Julie

2011

Comedy • Music

as Russell T. Davies / Self

10(5)

0.1

Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time

2011

Documentary

8(2)

0.1

Gerry Rafferty: Right Down the Line

2011

Documentary • Music

as Narrator

0(0)

0.2

Fright Night

2011

Comedy • Horror

as Peter Vincent

6.2(1,963)

2.2

The Itch of the Golden Nit

2011

Adventure • Animation • Family

as Radio Newsreader / Stretchy McStretch (voice)

7.7(3)

0.3

The Decoy Bride

2011

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as James Arber

6(234)

0.8

Much Ado About Nothing

2011

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Benedick

8.3(47)

0.5

Come in Number Five

2011

Documentary

as Presenter

0(0)

0.2

Polar Bear - Spy on the Ice

2011

Documentary

as Narrator

7.5(11)

0.2

Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia

2011

Documentary

as Narrator

0(0)

0.2

United

2011

Drama • History

as Jimmy Murphy

6.9(157)

0.8

Stealing Shakespeare

2010

Crime • Documentary

as Narrator

0(0)

0.1

How to Train Your Dragon

2010

Adventure • Animation • Family • Fantasy

as Spitelout (voice)

7.8(13,390)

21.6

Doctor Who: The End of Time Part 2

2010

Adventure • Drama • Science Fiction

as The Doctor

0(0)

0.3

Doctor Who: The End of Time Part 1

2009

Adventure • Drama • Science Fiction

as The Doctor

0(0)

0.5

Hamlet

2009

Drama • TV Movie

as Hamlet

7.3(73)

0.7

The Catherine Tate Show: Nan's Christmas Carol

2009

Comedy • Drama • Family • Fantasy • Science Fiction

as Ghost of Christmas Present

7.8(12)

0.2

St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold

2009

Adventure • Comedy • Family

as Captain Lord Pomfrey / Sir Piers Pomfrey

5.6(223)

0.8

Glorious 39

2009

Drama • History • Thriller • War

as Hector

6(84)

0.7

Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars

2009

Adventure • Drama • Horror • Mystery • Science Fiction • TV Movie

as The Doctor

7.9(222)

0.4

Monty Python in Aberystwyth

2009

as Narrator

0(0)

0.3

Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead

2009

Fantasy • Mystery • Science Fiction • TV Movie • Thriller

as The Doctor

7.5(208)

0.5

Endgame

2009

Crime • Drama

as Self - Host (uncredited)

5.8(47)

0.8

Doctor Who: Music of the Spheres - Doctor Who at the Proms 2008

2009

Documentary • Music • TV Movie

as The Doctor (Uncredited)

9.7(3)

0.4

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

2008

Adventure • Fantasy • Mystery • Science Fiction • TV Movie

as The Doctor

7.4(214)

0.7

Einstein and Eddington

2008

Drama • History • TV Movie

as Arthur Eddington

6.8(139)

1.7

Doctor Who: Music of the Spheres

2008

Comedy • Music • Science Fiction

as The Doctor

6.6(8)

0.1

Human Footprint

2008

Documentary

as Narrator (self)

5.8(4)

0.1

Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

2007

Drama • Mystery • Science Fiction • TV Movie • Thriller

as The Doctor

7.6(197)

0.5

The Friday Night Project - Unleashed

2007

Comedy

as Guest Host

8.5(2)

0.1

Doctor Who: Time Crash

2007

Science Fiction • TV Movie

as The Doctor (10)

7.7(99)

0.2

Learners

2007

Comedy • Drama

as Chris

6(17)

0.4

David Tennant's Video Diary

2007

Documentary

as Self

9.3(3)

0.2

Doctor Who: The Infinite Quest

2007

Animation • Science Fiction • TV Movie

as The Doctor (voice)

6.7(29)

0.4

Recovery

2007

Drama • TV Movie

as Alan Hamilton

6.7(20)

0.5

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

Documentary • TV Movie

as Self

0(0)

0.4

Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride

2006

Science Fiction

as The Doctor

7.8(235)

1.3

Doctor Who: A Celebration

2006

as Self - Host

0(0)

0.1

The Chatterley Affair

2006

Drama • Romance

as Richard Hoggart

5.6(6)

0.2

Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion

2005

Action • Fantasy • Science Fiction

as The Doctor

0(0)

0.2

Doctor Who: Born Again

2005

Science Fiction

as The Doctor (10)

0(0)

0.2

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

2005

Adventure • Fantasy

as Barty Crouch Junior

7.8(21,170)

18.9

Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'

2005

Documentary

0(0)

0.1

Sweetnightgoodheart

2005

Comedy

as Pete

7.1(7)

0.1

The Quatermass Experiment

2005

Drama • Science Fiction • TV Movie • Thriller

as Doctor Gordon Briscoe

5.6(15)

0.4

Doctor Who: A New Dimension

2005

Documentary • Science Fiction

as Self - Narrator (voice)

0(0)

0.1

Traffic Warden

2004

Comedy

as Traffic Warden

7.5(4)

0.1

The Deputy

2004

Drama • TV Movie

as Christopher Williams

0(0)

0.3

Old Street

2004

Drama

as Mr. Watson

8(1)

0.1

Bright Young Things

2003

Comedy

as Ginger Littlejohn

6.3(88)

0.7

Nine 1/2 Minutes

2002

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Charlie

7.2(4)

0.1

The Last September

2000

Drama • Romance

as Captain Gerald Colthurst

5.2(11)

0.3

Being Considered

2000

Comedy

4(1)

0.1

L.A. Without a Map

1999

Comedy • Drama • Romance

as Richard

5.9(50)

0.5

Bite

1997

Drama

0(0)

0.2

Jude

1996

Drama • Romance

as Drunk Undergraduate

6.3(131)

1.3

Spaces

1993

Drama

as Vinny

5.5(2)

0.1

Biting the Hands

1989

Comedy • TV Movie

as 3rd Squaddie

0(0)

0.1

Ahsoka - The Patterson Cut

Science Fiction

as Huyang (voice)

0(0)

0.4