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David Tennant

David Tennant

Born: 1971-04-18 • Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, UK

David John Tennant (né McDonald; 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.

Filmography
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Good Omens 3
2026 • Crowley
Lights Out poster
Lights Out
2025 • The 10th Doctor
The Thursday Murder Club poster
The Thursday Murder Club
2025 • Ian
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War poster
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025 • The Doctor / The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Macbeth poster
Macbeth
2025 • Macbeth
Doctor Who at the Proms poster
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024 • The Doctor (14) (10) (archive footage)
Comic Relief 2024: Funny for Money poster
Comic Relief 2024: Funny for Money
2024 • Self
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me poster
imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me
2023 • Self
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials poster
Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials
2023 • The Doctor (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story poster
Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story
2023 • The Doctor
Doctor Who Children in Need Special 2023 poster
Doctor Who Children in Need Special 2023
2023 • The Doctor
Talking Doctor Who poster
Talking Doctor Who
2023 • Self - Presenter
National Theatre Live: Good poster
National Theatre Live: Good
2023 • Professor John Halder/Johnny
Comic Relief 2023 poster
Comic Relief 2023
2023 • Self - Host
The Amazing Maurice poster
The Amazing Maurice
2022 • Dangerous Beans (voice)
Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor poster
Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor
2022 • The Doctor
The Paloni Show! Halloween Special! poster
The Paloni Show! Halloween Special!
2022 • Roach Chef (voice)
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers poster
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
2022 • Scrooge McDuck (voice)
Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas poster
Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
2021 • Self
An Audience with Adele poster
An Audience with Adele
2021 • Self
The Loud House Movie poster
The Loud House Movie
2021 • Angus (voice)
Dopple-Death poster
Dopple-Death
2021 • The 10th Doctor (voice)
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas poster
Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
2020 • Self
Screening poster
Screening
2020 • Timothy
The Real Des: The Dennis Nilsen Story poster
The Real Des: The Dennis Nilsen Story
2020 • Narrator (voice)
Our Sarah Jane: The Life of Elisabeth Sladen poster
Our Sarah Jane: The Life of Elisabeth Sladen
2020 • Self
Good Omens: Lockdown poster
Good Omens: Lockdown
2020 • Crowley (voice)
The Big Night In poster
The Big Night In
2020 • Mr. Logan
The Big Night In poster
The Big Night In
2020 • Self
Heart to Heart poster
Heart to Heart
2020 • Heart
The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years poster
The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years
2020 • Self
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered poster
Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered
2019 • Self
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World poster
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2019 • Spitelout / Ivar the Whitless (voice)
Spy in the Snow poster
Spy in the Snow
2018 • Narrator
Mary Queen of Scots poster
Mary Queen of Scots
2018 • John Knox
The Highway Rat poster
The Highway Rat
2018 • The Highway Rat (voice)
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The Muppets Take The O2
2018 • Self
DuckTales: Destination Adventure! poster
DuckTales: Destination Adventure!
2018 • Scrooge McDuck (voice)
Bad Samaritan poster
Bad Samaritan
2018 • Cale Erendreich
You, Me and Him poster
You, Me and Him
2018 • John
Ferdinand poster
Ferdinand
2017 • Angus (voice)
Proclaimers: This Is the Story poster
Proclaimers: This Is the Story
2017 • Self
Mad to Be Normal poster
Mad to Be Normal
2017 • RD Laing
Fireman Sam: Alien Alert! The Movie poster
Fireman Sam: Alien Alert! The Movie
2017 • Buck Douglas (voice)
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC poster
Shakespeare Live! From the RSC
2016 • Self - Host
Derren Brown: Pushed to the Edge poster
Derren Brown: Pushed to the Edge
2016 • Himself
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman poster
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
2015 • Self - Voice of Charles Darwin
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song poster
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015 • The Doctor (10) (picture) (uncredited)
Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time poster
Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time
2015 • Narrator (Voice UK)
The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One poster
The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One
2015 • Self
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC poster
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015 • Narrator
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC poster
Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC
2015 • Narrator
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey's Monster Musical poster
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey's Monster Musical
2015 • Igor the Door (voice)
96 Ways to Say I Love You poster
96 Ways to Say I Love You
2015 • Mark
What We Did on Our Holiday poster
What We Did on Our Holiday
2014 • Doug McLeod
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion poster
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
2014 • Self / The Doctor (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison poster
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison
2014 • Self
Wings 3D poster
Wings 3D
2014 • Narrator (voice)
Postman Pat: The Movie poster
Postman Pat: The Movie
2014 • Wilf (voice)
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Doctor Who: Farewell to Matt Smith
2013
Earthflight poster
Earthflight
2013 • Himself - Narrator
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty poster
Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty
2013 • The Doctor (archive footage)
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot poster
The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
2013 • Self
The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro poster
The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro
2013 • The Doctor (10)
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor poster
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013 • The Doctor (10)
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide poster
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide
2013 • Self
Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS poster
Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS
2013 • Self
RSC Live: Richard II poster
RSC Live: Richard II
2013 • Richard II
Doctor Who Explained poster
Doctor Who Explained
2013 • Self
Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! poster
Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!
2012 • Donald / Roderick Peterson
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The Science of Doctor Who
2012 • The Doctor (archive footage)
Shakespeare's Sonnets poster
Shakespeare's Sonnets
2012
So You Want To Be A Pirate! poster
So You Want To Be A Pirate!
2012 • Charles Darwin
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! poster
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
2012 • Charles Darwin (voice)
Shrek: Once Upon a Time poster
Shrek: Once Upon a Time
2011 • Self / Narrator
Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties poster
Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties
2011 • Self
Discovering Hamlet poster
Discovering Hamlet
2011 • Self
The Ballad of Russell & Julie poster
The Ballad of Russell & Julie
2011 • Russell T. Davies / Self
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time poster
Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time
2011
Gerry Rafferty: Right Down the Line poster
Gerry Rafferty: Right Down the Line
2011 • Narrator
Fright Night poster
Fright Night
2011 • Peter Vincent
The Itch of the Golden Nit poster
The Itch of the Golden Nit
2011 • Radio Newsreader / Stretchy McStretch (voice)
The Decoy Bride poster
The Decoy Bride
2011 • James Arber
Much Ado About Nothing poster
Much Ado About Nothing
2011 • Benedick
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My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen
2011 • Self
Come in Number Five poster
Come in Number Five
2011 • Presenter
Polar Bear - Spy on the Ice poster
Polar Bear - Spy on the Ice
2011 • Narrator
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Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia
2011 • Narrator
United poster
United
2011 • Jimmy Murphy
Stealing Shakespeare poster
Stealing Shakespeare
2010 • Narrator
How to Train Your Dragon poster
How to Train Your Dragon
2010 • Spitelout (voice)
Doctor Who: The End of Time poster
Doctor Who: The End of Time
2010 • The Doctor
Hamlet poster
Hamlet
2009 • Hamlet
The Catherine Tate Show: Nan's Christmas Carol poster
The Catherine Tate Show: Nan's Christmas Carol
2009 • Ghost of Christmas Present
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold poster
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
2009 • Captain Lord Pomfrey / Sir Piers Pomfrey
Glorious 39 poster
Glorious 39
2009 • Hector
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars poster
Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars
2009 • The Doctor
Monty Python in Aberystwyth poster
Monty Python in Aberystwyth
2009 • Narrator
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead poster
Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead
2009 • The Doctor
Endgame poster
Endgame
2009 • Self - Host (uncredited)