Billie Piper
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Billie Piper
Piper in October 2006, at a book signing for Growing Pains.
Born Lianne Paul Piper
22 September 1982 (age 26)
Swindon, Wiltshire, England, UK
Occupation Actress, singer
Years active 1998–present
Spouse(s) Chris Evans (2001–2007)
Laurence Fox (2007–present)
Billie Piper (born Lianne Paul Piper[1] on 22 September 1982) is an English singer and actress.
She began her career as a pop singer when she was a teenager and progressed to acting; her roles include Rose Tyler, companion to the Doctor in the television series Doctor Who from 2005 to 2006, a role she reprised in 2008.[2] In 2007, Broadcast magazine listed Piper at #6 in its "Hot 100" list of influential on-screen performers, the top woman on the list.[3][4] She has also portrayed the prostitute Belle de Jour in Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Doctor Who originally ran from 1963 to 1989. In May 2004, it was announced that the series would be resurrected beginning in 2005, and that Piper was to play the character Rose Tyler, a traveling companion to The Doctor, (to be played by Christopher Eccleston). Piper won the Most Popular Actress category at the 2005 and 2006 National Television Awards for her work on Doctor Who.[9] BBC News named Piper as one of its "Faces of the Year" for 2005, primarily due to her success in Doctor Who. At The South Bank Show Awards on 27 January 2006 Piper was awarded The Times Breakthrough Award for her successful transition from singing to acting. In March 2006, the Television and Radio Industries Club named Piper as best new TV talent at their annual awards ceremony. In September 2006, Piper was named Best Actress at the TV Quick and TV Choice Awards.[10]
Freema Agyeman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Freema Agyeman
Born 20 March 1979 (age 30)[1]
London, England
Occupation Actress
Years active 2001 – present
Freema Agyeman (born Frema Agyeman on 20 March 1979) is a British actress of Ghanaian and Iranian descent who is best known for playing Martha Jones, former companion of the Tenth Doctor in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, and its spin-off series Torchwood. She currently holds a lead regular role as court prosecutor Alesha Phillips in ITV's Law & Order: UK.Freema Agyeman grew up on the Woodberry Down council estate in the London Borough of Hackney.[2] Her mother, Azar, is Iranian and her father, Osei, is Ghanaian. They divorced when she was a child. She has a younger brother, Dominic, and an older sister, Leila.[2] She attended Our Lady's Convent, a Catholic school in Stamford Hill and the Anna Scher Theatre School in Islington. She studied performing arts and drama at Middlesex University, graduating in 2000.[2] She has martial arts skills which prompted speculation that she would bring a more physical approach to the role of the Doctor's companion.[3] The tattoo she has on her upper forearm is symbolic of her ancestry, containing an Iranian word 'baha', meaning 'free', under an image of a butterfly.[4] She endorses Divine Chocolate, an ethical corporation that helps Ghanaian farmers make a fair living. [5]
She lives in north London with her boyfriend. [6]
Catherine Tate
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This article is about the actress. For her eponymous comedy show, see The Catherine Tate Show.Catherine Tate
Catherine Tate
Born Catherine Ford
12 May 1968 (age 41)
Bloomsbury, London, England
Occupation actress, comedian
Domestic partner(s) Twig Clark
Catherine Tate, born 12 May 1968[1] as Catherine Ford, is an English actress, writer and comedienne. She has won numerous awards for her work on the sketch comedy series The Catherine Tate Show as well as being nominated for an International Emmy Award and four BAFTA Awards. Following the success of The Catherine Tate Show, Tate played Donna Noble in the 2006 Christmas special of Doctor Who and later reprised her role, becoming the the Doctor's companion for the fourth series in 2008.[2]
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David Tennant
David Tennant (born David John McDonald; 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. Already a theatre actor, Tennant is also known for his roles in Doctor Who as the Doctor, in Casanova, and as Barty Crouch, Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.Tennant was born David John McDonald on 18 April 1971 in Bathgate, West Lothian and grew up in Ralston, Renfrewshire, where his father (the Reverend Alexander ("Sandy") McDonald) was the local Church of Scotland minister (and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1997).[1][2][3] Tennant was educated at Ralston Primary and Paisley Grammar School where he enjoyed a fruitful relationship with English teacher Moira Robertson, who was among the first to realise his potential.[4] He then earned a bachelor's degree from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama,[3] where he was friends with Louise Delamere.
At the age of three, Tennant told his parents that he wanted to become an actor because he was a fan of Doctor Who.[5] Although such an aspiration might have been common for any British child of the 1970s, Tennant says he was "absurdly single-minded" in pursuing his goal. He adopted the professional name "Tennant" — inspired by Neil Tennant, of the Pet Shop Boys[6] — because there was another David McDonald already on the books of the Equity union. His second choice for a stage name was David Brandon and his third choice was Chris McDonald.
arly work
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. Tennant also made an early television appearance as a transsexual barmaid in Rab C Nesbitt.
Tennant met comic actress and writer Arabella Weir during the making of the BBC's Takin' Over The Asylum in which they both appeared. When he moved to London shortly afterwards he lodged with her for five years and became godfather to her youngest child. He has subsequently appeared alongside Weir in many productions; as a guest in her spoof television series, Posh Nosh; in the Doctor Who audio drama Exile and as panelists on the West Wing Ultimate Quiz on More4.
Tennant developed his career in the British theatre, frequently performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company for whom he specialised in comic roles such as Touchstone in As You Like It, Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors (a role he recorded for the 1998 Arkangel Complete Shakespeare production of the play) and Captain Jack Absolute in The Rivals, although he also played the tragic role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. (He also appeared the Arkangel series as Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, both in his natural accent.) It was announced in 2007 that he would return to the RSC as Hamlet and Berowne, for which see below.
In 1995, Tennant appeared at the Royal National Theatre, London, playing the role of Nicholas Beckett in Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw. The plot required Tennant to appear near-naked on stage, wearing nothing but a police hat.
During the Christmas season of 2002, Tennant also starred in a series of television commercials for Boots the Chemists.[7].
Tennant appeared in several dramas for the BBC, including Takin' Over the Asylum (1994), He Knew He Was Right (2004), Blackpool (2004), Casanova (2005) and The Quatermass Experiment (2005). In film, he has appeared in Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things, and as Barty Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. 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.
Doctor Who (2005–2010)
Tennant's name was put forward as a candidate for the role of the Ninth Doctor in 2004, although the role went to Christopher Eccleston. With Eccleston's announcement on 31 March 2005 that he would not be returning for a second series, the BBC confirmed Tennant as his replacement in a press release on 16 April 2005. He made his first, brief appearance as the Tenth Doctor in the episode "The Parting of the Ways" (2005) after 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 sixty-minute special, "The Christmas Invasion", first broadcast on Christmas Day 2005.
Tennant has expressed enthusiasm about fulfilling his childhood dream. He remarked to an interviewer for GWR FM, "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.[8] In 2007, Tennant's Doctor was voted the "coolest character" on UK television in a Radio Times survey.[9]
Tennant had previously had a small role in the BBC's animated Doctor Who webcast Scream of the Shalka. Not originally cast in the production, Tennant happened to be recording a radio play in a neighbouring studio, and when he discovered what was being recorded next door managed to convince 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. In 2004 Tennant played a lead role in the Big Finish audio play series Dalek Empire III. He played the part of 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. 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 also 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. Tennant is close friends with actress Billie Piper.
Tennant continued to play the Tenth Doctor into the revived programme's fourth series in 2008. However, on 29 October 2008, Tennant announced that he would be standing down from the role after three full series.[10] He will play the Doctor in four special episodes to be broadcast in 2009. The Daily Mirror reported that Tennant is forbidden from attending Doctor Who fan conventions while playing the role.[11] He said at the Children in Need concert that his favourite Doctor Who story is Genesis of the Daleks.
He made his directorial debut directing 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". This was the first "multi-Doctor" story in the series since The Two Doctors in 1985.[12] Tennant also later performed alongside Davison's daughter in the 2008 episode The Doctor's Daughter with her taking the title role as "Jenny".
Tennant will guest as the Doctor in a two-part story in Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures, to be broadcast in autumn 2009.[13]
Other television roles (2005–present)
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 Hoggart praised Tennant's performance in The Guardian newspaper.[14]
On 25 February 2007, Tennant starred in Recovery, a 90-minute BBC1 drama written by Tony Marchant. Tennant played Alan, a self-made building site manager who attempted to rebuild his life after suffering a debilitating brain injury. His co-star 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."[15] Later in 2007 he starred in Learners, a BBC comedy drama written by and starring Jessica Hynes (another Doctor Who co-star, in the episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood"), 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 alongside Ricky Gervais. In 2008 Tennant played Sir Arthur Eddington in the biopic Einstein and Eddington filmed in Cambridge and Hungary a BBC and HBO co-production, with Andy Serkis depicting Albert Einstein.[16] He is set to appear in Taggart.[17]
Other work (2007-present)
Tennant is the voice behind the 2007 advertising campaign for catalogue retailer Argos, although he uses an Estuary English accent as in his role as the Doctor and not his natural Scottish voice, but for adverts for The Proclaimers 2008 album and learndirect's in June 2008 he uses his own accent.
Tennant appeared in Derren Brown's Trick or Treat.[18] In the 26 April–2 May issue of TV & Satellite Week 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!". The episode aired on Channel 4 on 16 May 2008, and showed Tennant apparently predicting future events correctly by using automatic writing. 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.
David Tennant at Stratford-upon-Avon.
Tennant appeared in the 2008 episode "Holofile 703: Us and Phlegm" of the radio series Nebulous (an parody of Doctor Who) in the role of Doctor Beep, using his Lothian accent.
On the March 13, 2009, David Tennant presented Comic Relief with Davina McCall. He mimed playing guitar with band Franz Ferdinand on a special Comic Relief edition of Top of the Pops. From October 2009, he will host the Masterpiece Contemporary programming strand on the American Public Broadcasting Service.[19]
Royal Shakespeare Company (2008-2009)
Despite his recent focus on television work, he has described theatre work as his "default way of being".[20] It was announced on 30 August 2007 that he would join the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), to play Hamlet (alongside Patrick Stewart) and Berowne (in Love's Labours Lost) during 2008.[21] 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. 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[22]. He returned to his role in the production on 3 January 2009, and appeared until the run ended on 10 January.
Popularity
In December 2005, The Stage newspaper listed Tennant at No.6 in its "Top Ten" listing of the most influential UK television artists of the year, citing his roles in Blackpool, Casanova, Secret Smile and Doctor Who.[23] In January 2006, readers of the British gay and lesbian newspaper The Pink Paper voted Tennant the "Sexiest Man in the Universe" over David Beckham and Brad Pitt.[24] A poll of over 10,000 women for the March 2006 issue of New Woman magazine ranked him 20th in their list of the "Top 100 Men".[25] In October 2006, Tennant was named as "Scotland's most stylish male" in the Scottish Style Awards.[26] He was named "Coolest Man on TV" of 2007 in a Radio Times survey. He also won the National Television Awards award for Most Popular Actor in 2006, 2007 and 2008. He was voted 16th Sexiest Man In The World by a 2008 Cosmopolitan survey.[27]
He was ranked the 24th most influential person in the British media, in the 9 July 2007 MediaGuardian supplement of The Guardian. Tennant appeared in the paper's annual media rankings in 2006.
In December 2008 Tennant 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). One of the editors for The Stage said that Tennant placed highly on the list because he was "the biggest box office draw in recent memory".[28]
Personal life
Tennant has a brother, Blair, and a sister, Karen. His mother, Helen McDonald, died on 15 July 2007 of cancer.[29] His father, Sandy McDonald, appeared in a cameo non-speaking role as a footman in the Doctor Who episode "The Unicorn and the Wasp". Tennant traced his family tree in an episode of BBC One's popular genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?, broadcast on 27 September 2006. His episode explored both his Scottish ancestry and that from Northern Ireland, against the backdrop of the Troubles in the latter. Tennant's maternal great-great-grandfather, James Blair, was a prominent Ulster Unionist member of Derry City Council after the partition of Ireland. Tennant displayed discomfort after learning of his great-great-grandfather's membership in the Orange Order.[30] The programme revealed that Archie McLeod, the husband of Nellie Blair who once played with Derry City, was Tennant's grandfather.[31] Tennant is now a member of the club's Exiles Supporters Club.[32]
According to an interview in issue 375 of Doctor Who Magazine, Tennant drove a Škoda in which he was caught twice on the same day on the M4 for speeding while returning to London from Cardiff in October 2006.[33] On Top Gear on 23 December 2007, David said that his Škoda had been taken in for servicing, and it was no longer financially viable, and by the time the episode had aired, he had traded it in. Tennant drives a Toyota Prius[34]; a supporter of ecologically friendly technologies, 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.[35]
Tennant has been a supporter of the Labour Party and appeared in a Party political broadcast for them in 2005. He is a celebrity patron of the Association for International Cancer Research.
In December 2008, Tennant underwent surgery for a prolapsed disc.
List of credits
TelevisionYear Title Role Other notes
Unknown Only Human Tyler Pilot[citation needed]
1988 Dramarama Neil McDonald Series 6, Episode 13, "The Secret of Croftmore"
1993 Rab C Nesbitt Davina Series 3, Episode 2, "Touch"
1993 The Tales of Para Handy John MacBryde
Unknown, pre-1994 Strathblair Hiker 2
1994 Takin' Over the Asylum Campbell Bain
1995 The Bill Steve Clemens Series 11, Episode 128, "Deadline", opposite Honeysuckle Weeks, who he would also appear alongside in Foyle's War
1996 A Mug's Game Gavin Series 1, Episode 4
1997 Holding the Baby Nurse Series 1, Episode 2
1998 Duck Patrol Simon "Darwin" Brown
1999 The Mrs Bradley Mysteries Max Valentine Series 2, Episode 1, "Death at the Opera". Appeared alongside Peter Davison, one of his predecessors in Doctor Who. Both would feature in a Children in Need special episode, "Time Crash"
2000 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) Gordon Stylus Series 1, Episode 1, "Drop Dead"
2001 People Like Us Rob Harker Series 2, Episode 4, "The Actor"
2002 Foyle's War Theo Howard Series 1, Episode 3, "A Lesson in Murder"
2003 Posh Nosh Jose-Luis Series 1, Episodes 3 and 8, "Paella" and "Comfort Food"
2003 Trust Gavin MacEwan Series 1, Episode 6
2003 Spine Chillers Dr. Krull Series 1, Episode 1
2004 The Deputy Christopher Williams
2004 He Knew He Was Right Rev Gibson
2004 Traffic Warden The Traffic Warden
2004 Old Street Mr. Watson
2004 Blackpool DI Carlisle
2005 The Quatermass Experiment Dr Gordon Briscoe
2005 Casanova Giacomo Casanova
2005 Doctor Who: A New Dimension Narrator
2005 - 2010 Doctor Who The Doctor
2005 Secret Smile Brendan Block
2006 The Romantics Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2006 The Chatterley Affair Richard Hoggart
2006 Who Do You Think You Are? Himself Series 3, Episode 4
2007 Recovery Alan Hamilton
2007 Comic Relief Sketch Mr Logan/The Doctor Appeared alongside Doctor Who co-star Catherine Tate[36][37]
2007 Dead Ringers Regenerated Tony Blair
2007, 2008 The Friday Night Project Guest host Series 4, Episode 1 and Series 6, Episode 2
2007 The Human Footprint Narrator
2007 Learners Chris
2007 Extras Himself/The Doctor Christmas Special
2008 Einstein and Eddington Sir Arthur Eddington
2008 Everest ER Narrator Appeared in Australia on ABC1 in January 2009[38]
2009 Comic Relief 2009 Presenter
2009 The Sarah Jane Adventures The Doctor Series 3, episodes 5 and 6[13]
FilmYear Title Role Other notes
1996 Jude Drunk Undergraduate Appeared alongside Christopher Eccleston, whom Tennant succeeded in the role of the Doctor in Doctor Who.
1997 Bite Alastair Galbraith
1998 L.A. Without a Map Richard Plays lead opposite Vinessa Shaw. Also features Johnny Depp
1999 The Last September Captain Gerald Colthurst
2000 Being Considered Larry
2001 Sweetnight Goodheart Peter A short film.
2003 Nine 1/2 Minutes Charlie A short film.
2003 Bright Young Things Ginger Littlejohn
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Barty Crouch Jr. A Death Eater and son of Barty Crouch Sr. HP4, played by Roger Lloyd-Pack, who later appeared alongside Tennant on Doctor Who (episodes "Rise of the Cybermen"/"The Age of Steel").
2006 Free Jimmy Hamish (voice)
2009 1939 Hector
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Radio and CD audio dramaYear Title Role Radio Station/Production Company
2000 Henry VI, Part 1 Henry VI Arkangel Shakespeare
2000 Henry VI, Part 2 Henry VI Arkangel Shakespeare
2000 Henry VI, Part 3 Henry VI Arkangel Shakespeare
2001 Much Ado about Nothing Benedick BBC Radio 4
2001 Doctor Who: Colditz Feldwebel Kurtz Big Finish
2001 Dr Finlay: Adventures of a Black Bag Jackson BBC Radio 4
2002 Dr Finlay: Further Adventures of a Black Bag McKellor BBC Radio 4
2002 Double Income, No Kids Yet Daniel BBC Radio 4
2003 Doctor Who: Sympathy For The Devil Col. Brimmecombe-Wood Big Finish
2003 Doctor Who: Exile Time Lord # 2/Pub Landlord Big Finish
2003 Caesar! - Peeling Figs for Julius Caligus BBC Radio 4
2003 Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka Caretaker BBCi
2003 The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Dangerous Beans BBC Radio 4
2003 Pompeii Narrator BBC Radio 4
2004 Dalek Empire III Galanar Big Finish
2004 Doctor Who: Medicinal Purposes Daft Jamie Big Finish
2004 Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre Narrator Time Warner
2005 UNIT: The Wasting Col. Brimmecombe-Wood Big Finish
2005 Dixon of Dock Green PC Andy Crawford BBC Radio 4
2005 The Adventures of Luther Arkwright Luther Arkwright Big Finish
2006 The Virgin Radio Christmas Panto Buttons Virgin Radio
2006 The Stone Rose Narrator BBC Audio
2006 The Resurrection Casket Narrator BBC Audio
2006 The Feast of the Drowned Narrator BBC Audio
2007 The Wooden Overcoat Peter BBC Radio 4
2008 Dixon of Dock Green Andy Crawford BBC Radio 4
2008 Pest Control Narrator BBC Audio
Theatre
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1991 - 7:84 Theatre Company Scotland - Scottish tour)
Shinda the Magic Ape (1991/2 - Royal Lyceum Theatre Company at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh).[39]
Jump the Life to Come (1992 - 7:84 Theatre Company Scotland - Scottish tour).[39]
Scotland Matters (1992 - 7:84 Theatre Company Scotland - Scottish tour)
Hay Fever (1992 - Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh) as Simon.[39]
Tartuffe (1992 - Dundee Repertory Theatre) as Valere
Merlin (1992/3 - UK tour) as Arthur
Antigone (1993 - 7:84 Theatre Company Scotland - Scottish tour).[39]
The Princess and the Goblin as Curdie (1993 - Dundee Repertory Theatre).[40]
The Slab Boys Trilogy (1994 - Young Vic) as Alan
What the Butler Saw (1995 - Royal National Theatre) as Nick
An Experienced Woman Gives Advice (1995 - Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester) as Kenny
The Glass Menagerie (1996 - Dundee Repertory Theatre) as Tom
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1996 - Dundee Repertory Theatre) as Edmund
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1996 - Dundee Repertory Theatre) as Nick
As You Like It (1996 - Royal Shakespeare Company) as Touchstone
The General From America (1996 - Royal Shakespeare Company) as Hamilton
The Herbal Bed (1996 - Royal Shakespeare Company) as Jack Lane
Hurly Burly (1997 - Old Vic/Queen's Theatre) as Mickey
The Real Inspector Hound/ Black Comedy (1998 - Comedy Theatre) as Moon/ Brinsley Miller
Vassa — Scenes from Family Life (1999 - Albery Theatre) as Pavel
Edward III as (1999 - Shakespeare's Globe, staged reading) as Edward, the Black Prince
King Lear (1999 - Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester) as Edgar
The Comedy of Errors (2000 - Royal Shakespeare Company) as Antipholus of Syracuse
The Rivals (2000 - Royal Shakespeare Company) as Jack
Romeo and Juliet (2000 - Royal Shakespeare Company) as Romeo
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2001-03-21 - Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican) as Lysander and Flute.[41]
Comedians (2001 - UK tour) as Gethin Price
Push-Up (2002 - Royal Court Theatre) as Robert
Lobby Hero (2002 - Donmar Warehouse/Ambassadors Theatre) as Jeff
The Pillowman (2003 - Royal National Theatre) as Katurian
Look Back in Anger (2005 - Theatre Royal, Bath/ Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh) as Jimmy Porter
Look Back in Anger (2006 - Royal Court Theatre, rehearsed reading) as Jimmy Porter
Hamlet (2008 - Royal Shakespeare Company/Novello Theatre, London) as Hamlet
Love's Labour's Lost (2008 - Royal Shakespeare Company) as Berowne
The Ghost of Benji O'Neill
Twelve Angry Men
Awards and nominations
Awards
2005 Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland, Best Male Performance: Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger[42]
2006 TV Quick and TV Choice Award, Best Actor: Doctor Who[43]
2006 National Television Award, Best Actor: Doctor Who[44]
2007 Welsh BAFTAs, Best Actor, Doctor Who[45]
2007 The Constellation Awards, Best Male Performance in a 2006 Science Fiction Television Episode: Doctor Who: The Girl In The Fireplace[46]
2007 TV Quick and TV Choice Award, Best Actor: Doctor Who[47]
2007 National Television Awards, Most Popular Actor[48]
2007 Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award, screen award[49]
2008 The Constellation Awards, Best Male Performance in a 2007 Science Fiction Television Episode: Doctor Who: Human Nature/The Family Of Blood[50]
2008 TV Quick and TV Choice Award, Best Actor: Doctor Who[51]
2008 National Television Award, Outstanding Drama Performance: Doctor Who[52]
2009 Critics' Circle Award for Best Shakespearean Performance for his role as Hamlet. He will share the award with Sir Derek Jacobi for his performance as Malvolio in The Twelfth Night.[53]
2009 Theatregoers' Choice Awards, The AKA Theatre Event of the Year for his performance in Hamlet[54][55]
Nominations
1996 Theatre Management Association Best Actor Award: for The Glass Menagerie and An Experienced Woman Gives Advice.[56]
2000 Ian Charleson Award (Best classical actor under 30): The Comedy of Errors.[57]
2003 Olivier Award as Best Actor: Lobby Hero.[58]
2006 Broadcasting Press Guild Best Actor award for Casanova, Secret Smile and Doctor Who.[59]
2008 Best Actor in the Royal Television Society Programme Awards for Recovery and Doctor Who.[60]
2008 Best Actor in a Drama Series for the role of the Doctor in Doctor Who at the Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy.[61]
2009 Broadcasting Press Guild Best Actor award for Einstein and Eddington and Doctor Who. Winners to be announced on 2009-03-27.[62]
At the age of three, Tennant told his parents that he wanted to become an actor because he was a fan of Doctor Who.[5] Although such an aspiration might have been common for any British child of the 1970s, Tennant says he was "absurdly single-minded" in pursuing his goal. He adopted the professional name "Tennant" — inspired by Neil Tennant, of the Pet Shop Boys[6] — because there was another David McDonald already on the books of the Equity union. His second choice for a stage name was David Brandon and his third choice was Chris McDonald.
arly work
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. Tennant also made an early television appearance as a transsexual barmaid in Rab C Nesbitt.
Tennant met comic actress and writer Arabella Weir during the making of the BBC's Takin' Over The Asylum in which they both appeared. When he moved to London shortly afterwards he lodged with her for five years and became godfather to her youngest child. He has subsequently appeared alongside Weir in many productions; as a guest in her spoof television series, Posh Nosh; in the Doctor Who audio drama Exile and as panelists on the West Wing Ultimate Quiz on More4.
Tennant developed his career in the British theatre, frequently performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company for whom he specialised in comic roles such as Touchstone in As You Like It, Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors (a role he recorded for the 1998 Arkangel Complete Shakespeare production of the play) and Captain Jack Absolute in The Rivals, although he also played the tragic role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. (He also appeared the Arkangel series as Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, both in his natural accent.) It was announced in 2007 that he would return to the RSC as Hamlet and Berowne, for which see below.
In 1995, Tennant appeared at the Royal National Theatre, London, playing the role of Nicholas Beckett in Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw. The plot required Tennant to appear near-naked on stage, wearing nothing but a police hat.
During the Christmas season of 2002, Tennant also starred in a series of television commercials for Boots the Chemists.[7].
Tennant appeared in several dramas for the BBC, including Takin' Over the Asylum (1994), He Knew He Was Right (2004), Blackpool (2004), Casanova (2005) and The Quatermass Experiment (2005). In film, he has appeared in Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things, and as Barty Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. 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.
Doctor Who (2005–2010)
Tennant's name was put forward as a candidate for the role of the Ninth Doctor in 2004, although the role went to Christopher Eccleston. With Eccleston's announcement on 31 March 2005 that he would not be returning for a second series, the BBC confirmed Tennant as his replacement in a press release on 16 April 2005. He made his first, brief appearance as the Tenth Doctor in the episode "The Parting of the Ways" (2005) after 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 sixty-minute special, "The Christmas Invasion", first broadcast on Christmas Day 2005.
Tennant has expressed enthusiasm about fulfilling his childhood dream. He remarked to an interviewer for GWR FM, "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.[8] In 2007, Tennant's Doctor was voted the "coolest character" on UK television in a Radio Times survey.[9]
Tennant had previously had a small role in the BBC's animated Doctor Who webcast Scream of the Shalka. Not originally cast in the production, Tennant happened to be recording a radio play in a neighbouring studio, and when he discovered what was being recorded next door managed to convince 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. In 2004 Tennant played a lead role in the Big Finish audio play series Dalek Empire III. He played the part of 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. 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 also 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. Tennant is close friends with actress Billie Piper.
Tennant continued to play the Tenth Doctor into the revived programme's fourth series in 2008. However, on 29 October 2008, Tennant announced that he would be standing down from the role after three full series.[10] He will play the Doctor in four special episodes to be broadcast in 2009. The Daily Mirror reported that Tennant is forbidden from attending Doctor Who fan conventions while playing the role.[11] He said at the Children in Need concert that his favourite Doctor Who story is Genesis of the Daleks.
He made his directorial debut directing 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". This was the first "multi-Doctor" story in the series since The Two Doctors in 1985.[12] Tennant also later performed alongside Davison's daughter in the 2008 episode The Doctor's Daughter with her taking the title role as "Jenny".
Tennant will guest as the Doctor in a two-part story in Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures, to be broadcast in autumn 2009.[13]
Other television roles (2005–present)
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 Hoggart praised Tennant's performance in The Guardian newspaper.[14]
On 25 February 2007, Tennant starred in Recovery, a 90-minute BBC1 drama written by Tony Marchant. Tennant played Alan, a self-made building site manager who attempted to rebuild his life after suffering a debilitating brain injury. His co-star 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."[15] Later in 2007 he starred in Learners, a BBC comedy drama written by and starring Jessica Hynes (another Doctor Who co-star, in the episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood"), 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 alongside Ricky Gervais. In 2008 Tennant played Sir Arthur Eddington in the biopic Einstein and Eddington filmed in Cambridge and Hungary a BBC and HBO co-production, with Andy Serkis depicting Albert Einstein.[16] He is set to appear in Taggart.[17]
Other work (2007-present)
Tennant is the voice behind the 2007 advertising campaign for catalogue retailer Argos, although he uses an Estuary English accent as in his role as the Doctor and not his natural Scottish voice, but for adverts for The Proclaimers 2008 album and learndirect's in June 2008 he uses his own accent.
Tennant appeared in Derren Brown's Trick or Treat.[18] In the 26 April–2 May issue of TV & Satellite Week 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!". The episode aired on Channel 4 on 16 May 2008, and showed Tennant apparently predicting future events correctly by using automatic writing. 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.
David Tennant at Stratford-upon-Avon.
Tennant appeared in the 2008 episode "Holofile 703: Us and Phlegm" of the radio series Nebulous (an parody of Doctor Who) in the role of Doctor Beep, using his Lothian accent.
On the March 13, 2009, David Tennant presented Comic Relief with Davina McCall. He mimed playing guitar with band Franz Ferdinand on a special Comic Relief edition of Top of the Pops. From October 2009, he will host the Masterpiece Contemporary programming strand on the American Public Broadcasting Service.[19]
Royal Shakespeare Company (2008-2009)
Despite his recent focus on television work, he has described theatre work as his "default way of being".[20] It was announced on 30 August 2007 that he would join the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), to play Hamlet (alongside Patrick Stewart) and Berowne (in Love's Labours Lost) during 2008.[21] 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. 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[22]. He returned to his role in the production on 3 January 2009, and appeared until the run ended on 10 January.
Popularity
In December 2005, The Stage newspaper listed Tennant at No.6 in its "Top Ten" listing of the most influential UK television artists of the year, citing his roles in Blackpool, Casanova, Secret Smile and Doctor Who.[23] In January 2006, readers of the British gay and lesbian newspaper The Pink Paper voted Tennant the "Sexiest Man in the Universe" over David Beckham and Brad Pitt.[24] A poll of over 10,000 women for the March 2006 issue of New Woman magazine ranked him 20th in their list of the "Top 100 Men".[25] In October 2006, Tennant was named as "Scotland's most stylish male" in the Scottish Style Awards.[26] He was named "Coolest Man on TV" of 2007 in a Radio Times survey. He also won the National Television Awards award for Most Popular Actor in 2006, 2007 and 2008. He was voted 16th Sexiest Man In The World by a 2008 Cosmopolitan survey.[27]
He was ranked the 24th most influential person in the British media, in the 9 July 2007 MediaGuardian supplement of The Guardian. Tennant appeared in the paper's annual media rankings in 2006.
In December 2008 Tennant 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). One of the editors for The Stage said that Tennant placed highly on the list because he was "the biggest box office draw in recent memory".[28]
Personal life
Tennant has a brother, Blair, and a sister, Karen. His mother, Helen McDonald, died on 15 July 2007 of cancer.[29] His father, Sandy McDonald, appeared in a cameo non-speaking role as a footman in the Doctor Who episode "The Unicorn and the Wasp". Tennant traced his family tree in an episode of BBC One's popular genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?, broadcast on 27 September 2006. His episode explored both his Scottish ancestry and that from Northern Ireland, against the backdrop of the Troubles in the latter. Tennant's maternal great-great-grandfather, James Blair, was a prominent Ulster Unionist member of Derry City Council after the partition of Ireland. Tennant displayed discomfort after learning of his great-great-grandfather's membership in the Orange Order.[30] The programme revealed that Archie McLeod, the husband of Nellie Blair who once played with Derry City, was Tennant's grandfather.[31] Tennant is now a member of the club's Exiles Supporters Club.[32]
According to an interview in issue 375 of Doctor Who Magazine, Tennant drove a Škoda in which he was caught twice on the same day on the M4 for speeding while returning to London from Cardiff in October 2006.[33] On Top Gear on 23 December 2007, David said that his Škoda had been taken in for servicing, and it was no longer financially viable, and by the time the episode had aired, he had traded it in. Tennant drives a Toyota Prius[34]; a supporter of ecologically friendly technologies, 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.[35]
Tennant has been a supporter of the Labour Party and appeared in a Party political broadcast for them in 2005. He is a celebrity patron of the Association for International Cancer Research.
In December 2008, Tennant underwent surgery for a prolapsed disc.
List of credits
TelevisionYear Title Role Other notes
Unknown Only Human Tyler Pilot[citation needed]
1988 Dramarama Neil McDonald Series 6, Episode 13, "The Secret of Croftmore"
1993 Rab C Nesbitt Davina Series 3, Episode 2, "Touch"
1993 The Tales of Para Handy John MacBryde
Unknown, pre-1994 Strathblair Hiker 2
1994 Takin' Over the Asylum Campbell Bain
1995 The Bill Steve Clemens Series 11, Episode 128, "Deadline", opposite Honeysuckle Weeks, who he would also appear alongside in Foyle's War
1996 A Mug's Game Gavin Series 1, Episode 4
1997 Holding the Baby Nurse Series 1, Episode 2
1998 Duck Patrol Simon "Darwin" Brown
1999 The Mrs Bradley Mysteries Max Valentine Series 2, Episode 1, "Death at the Opera". Appeared alongside Peter Davison, one of his predecessors in Doctor Who. Both would feature in a Children in Need special episode, "Time Crash"
2000 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) Gordon Stylus Series 1, Episode 1, "Drop Dead"
2001 People Like Us Rob Harker Series 2, Episode 4, "The Actor"
2002 Foyle's War Theo Howard Series 1, Episode 3, "A Lesson in Murder"
2003 Posh Nosh Jose-Luis Series 1, Episodes 3 and 8, "Paella" and "Comfort Food"
2003 Trust Gavin MacEwan Series 1, Episode 6
2003 Spine Chillers Dr. Krull Series 1, Episode 1
2004 The Deputy Christopher Williams
2004 He Knew He Was Right Rev Gibson
2004 Traffic Warden The Traffic Warden
2004 Old Street Mr. Watson
2004 Blackpool DI Carlisle
2005 The Quatermass Experiment Dr Gordon Briscoe
2005 Casanova Giacomo Casanova
2005 Doctor Who: A New Dimension Narrator
2005 - 2010 Doctor Who The Doctor
2005 Secret Smile Brendan Block
2006 The Romantics Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2006 The Chatterley Affair Richard Hoggart
2006 Who Do You Think You Are? Himself Series 3, Episode 4
2007 Recovery Alan Hamilton
2007 Comic Relief Sketch Mr Logan/The Doctor Appeared alongside Doctor Who co-star Catherine Tate[36][37]
2007 Dead Ringers Regenerated Tony Blair
2007, 2008 The Friday Night Project Guest host Series 4, Episode 1 and Series 6, Episode 2
2007 The Human Footprint Narrator
2007 Learners Chris
2007 Extras Himself/The Doctor Christmas Special
2008 Einstein and Eddington Sir Arthur Eddington
2008 Everest ER Narrator Appeared in Australia on ABC1 in January 2009[38]
2009 Comic Relief 2009 Presenter
2009 The Sarah Jane Adventures The Doctor Series 3, episodes 5 and 6[13]
FilmYear Title Role Other notes
1996 Jude Drunk Undergraduate Appeared alongside Christopher Eccleston, whom Tennant succeeded in the role of the Doctor in Doctor Who.
1997 Bite Alastair Galbraith
1998 L.A. Without a Map Richard Plays lead opposite Vinessa Shaw. Also features Johnny Depp
1999 The Last September Captain Gerald Colthurst
2000 Being Considered Larry
2001 Sweetnight Goodheart Peter A short film.
2003 Nine 1/2 Minutes Charlie A short film.
2003 Bright Young Things Ginger Littlejohn
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Barty Crouch Jr. A Death Eater and son of Barty Crouch Sr. HP4, played by Roger Lloyd-Pack, who later appeared alongside Tennant on Doctor Who (episodes "Rise of the Cybermen"/"The Age of Steel").
2006 Free Jimmy Hamish (voice)
2009 1939 Hector
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Radio and CD audio dramaYear Title Role Radio Station/Production Company
2000 Henry VI, Part 1 Henry VI Arkangel Shakespeare
2000 Henry VI, Part 2 Henry VI Arkangel Shakespeare
2000 Henry VI, Part 3 Henry VI Arkangel Shakespeare
2001 Much Ado about Nothing Benedick BBC Radio 4
2001 Doctor Who: Colditz Feldwebel Kurtz Big Finish
2001 Dr Finlay: Adventures of a Black Bag Jackson BBC Radio 4
2002 Dr Finlay: Further Adventures of a Black Bag McKellor BBC Radio 4
2002 Double Income, No Kids Yet Daniel BBC Radio 4
2003 Doctor Who: Sympathy For The Devil Col. Brimmecombe-Wood Big Finish
2003 Doctor Who: Exile Time Lord # 2/Pub Landlord Big Finish
2003 Caesar! - Peeling Figs for Julius Caligus BBC Radio 4
2003 Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka Caretaker BBCi
2003 The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Dangerous Beans BBC Radio 4
2003 Pompeii Narrator BBC Radio 4
2004 Dalek Empire III Galanar Big Finish
2004 Doctor Who: Medicinal Purposes Daft Jamie Big Finish
2004 Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre Narrator Time Warner
2005 UNIT: The Wasting Col. Brimmecombe-Wood Big Finish
2005 Dixon of Dock Green PC Andy Crawford BBC Radio 4
2005 The Adventures of Luther Arkwright Luther Arkwright Big Finish
2006 The Virgin Radio Christmas Panto Buttons Virgin Radio
2006 The Stone Rose Narrator BBC Audio
2006 The Resurrection Casket Narrator BBC Audio
2006 The Feast of the Drowned Narrator BBC Audio
2007 The Wooden Overcoat Peter BBC Radio 4
2008 Dixon of Dock Green Andy Crawford BBC Radio 4
2008 Pest Control Narrator BBC Audio
Theatre
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1991 - 7:84 Theatre Company Scotland - Scottish tour)
Shinda the Magic Ape (1991/2 - Royal Lyceum Theatre Company at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh).[39]
Jump the Life to Come (1992 - 7:84 Theatre Company Scotland - Scottish tour).[39]
Scotland Matters (1992 - 7:84 Theatre Company Scotland - Scottish tour)
Hay Fever (1992 - Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh) as Simon.[39]
Tartuffe (1992 - Dundee Repertory Theatre) as Valere
Merlin (1992/3 - UK tour) as Arthur
Antigone (1993 - 7:84 Theatre Company Scotland - Scottish tour).[39]
The Princess and the Goblin as Curdie (1993 - Dundee Repertory Theatre).[40]
The Slab Boys Trilogy (1994 - Young Vic) as Alan
What the Butler Saw (1995 - Royal National Theatre) as Nick
An Experienced Woman Gives Advice (1995 - Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester) as Kenny
The Glass Menagerie (1996 - Dundee Repertory Theatre) as Tom
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1996 - Dundee Repertory Theatre) as Edmund
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1996 - Dundee Repertory Theatre) as Nick
As You Like It (1996 - Royal Shakespeare Company) as Touchstone
The General From America (1996 - Royal Shakespeare Company) as Hamilton
The Herbal Bed (1996 - Royal Shakespeare Company) as Jack Lane
Hurly Burly (1997 - Old Vic/Queen's Theatre) as Mickey
The Real Inspector Hound/ Black Comedy (1998 - Comedy Theatre) as Moon/ Brinsley Miller
Vassa — Scenes from Family Life (1999 - Albery Theatre) as Pavel
Edward III as (1999 - Shakespeare's Globe, staged reading) as Edward, the Black Prince
King Lear (1999 - Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester) as Edgar
The Comedy of Errors (2000 - Royal Shakespeare Company) as Antipholus of Syracuse
The Rivals (2000 - Royal Shakespeare Company) as Jack
Romeo and Juliet (2000 - Royal Shakespeare Company) as Romeo
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2001-03-21 - Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican) as Lysander and Flute.[41]
Comedians (2001 - UK tour) as Gethin Price
Push-Up (2002 - Royal Court Theatre) as Robert
Lobby Hero (2002 - Donmar Warehouse/Ambassadors Theatre) as Jeff
The Pillowman (2003 - Royal National Theatre) as Katurian
Look Back in Anger (2005 - Theatre Royal, Bath/ Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh) as Jimmy Porter
Look Back in Anger (2006 - Royal Court Theatre, rehearsed reading) as Jimmy Porter
Hamlet (2008 - Royal Shakespeare Company/Novello Theatre, London) as Hamlet
Love's Labour's Lost (2008 - Royal Shakespeare Company) as Berowne
The Ghost of Benji O'Neill
Twelve Angry Men
Awards and nominations
Awards
2005 Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland, Best Male Performance: Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger[42]
2006 TV Quick and TV Choice Award, Best Actor: Doctor Who[43]
2006 National Television Award, Best Actor: Doctor Who[44]
2007 Welsh BAFTAs, Best Actor, Doctor Who[45]
2007 The Constellation Awards, Best Male Performance in a 2006 Science Fiction Television Episode: Doctor Who: The Girl In The Fireplace[46]
2007 TV Quick and TV Choice Award, Best Actor: Doctor Who[47]
2007 National Television Awards, Most Popular Actor[48]
2007 Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award, screen award[49]
2008 The Constellation Awards, Best Male Performance in a 2007 Science Fiction Television Episode: Doctor Who: Human Nature/The Family Of Blood[50]
2008 TV Quick and TV Choice Award, Best Actor: Doctor Who[51]
2008 National Television Award, Outstanding Drama Performance: Doctor Who[52]
2009 Critics' Circle Award for Best Shakespearean Performance for his role as Hamlet. He will share the award with Sir Derek Jacobi for his performance as Malvolio in The Twelfth Night.[53]
2009 Theatregoers' Choice Awards, The AKA Theatre Event of the Year for his performance in Hamlet[54][55]
Nominations
1996 Theatre Management Association Best Actor Award: for The Glass Menagerie and An Experienced Woman Gives Advice.[56]
2000 Ian Charleson Award (Best classical actor under 30): The Comedy of Errors.[57]
2003 Olivier Award as Best Actor: Lobby Hero.[58]
2006 Broadcasting Press Guild Best Actor award for Casanova, Secret Smile and Doctor Who.[59]
2008 Best Actor in the Royal Television Society Programme Awards for Recovery and Doctor Who.[60]
2008 Best Actor in a Drama Series for the role of the Doctor in Doctor Who at the Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy.[61]
2009 Broadcasting Press Guild Best Actor award for Einstein and Eddington and Doctor Who. Winners to be announced on 2009-03-27.[62]
Saturday, May 16, 2009
SPECIALS
The Christmas invasion - David Tennant
the runaway bride -David Tennant
The 2 doctors -David Tennant & peter Davison
Voyage of the dammed - David Tennant
The next doctor - David Tennant & David Morssley
The planet of the dead - David Tennant
the runaway bride -David Tennant
The 2 doctors -David Tennant & peter Davison
Voyage of the dammed - David Tennant
The next doctor - David Tennant & David Morssley
The planet of the dead - David Tennant
Doctor who dvd files
week 1: series 1:episodes 1 and 2: Rose & The end of the world
Week 2: series 1: episodes 3 and 4: The unquiet dead & Aliens of London + extra bonus disc The five Doctors
Week 3: Series 1: episode 5 & 6:World war three & Dalek
week 4:series:episodes 7 & 8: The long game & Fathers day
Week 5: series 1:episodes 9 & 10: The empty child & The doctor dances
week 6: series 1:episodes 11 & 12: Boom town & Bad wolf
week 7: series 1:episode 13 and series 2 Episode x:The Parting of ways & The christmas invasion
week 8: Series 2:episodes 1 & 2: New earth & Tooth and claw
week 9: series 2: episodes 3 & 4: School reunion & The girl in the fire place
Week 2: series 1: episodes 3 and 4: The unquiet dead & Aliens of London + extra bonus disc The five Doctors
Week 3: Series 1: episode 5 & 6:World war three & Dalek
week 4:series:episodes 7 & 8: The long game & Fathers day
Week 5: series 1:episodes 9 & 10: The empty child & The doctor dances
week 6: series 1:episodes 11 & 12: Boom town & Bad wolf
week 7: series 1:episode 13 and series 2 Episode x:The Parting of ways & The christmas invasion
week 8: Series 2:episodes 1 & 2: New earth & Tooth and claw
week 9: series 2: episodes 3 & 4: School reunion & The girl in the fire place
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