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David Tennant (1971 - ) Date of Birth: 18 April 1971 BIOGRAPHY Born David McDonald on 18 April 1971, David Tennant was a talented and prolific actor whose face was well known but whose name meant little to the public until 2005 when he took the title role in Russell T. Davies' Casanova and later took over the controls of the TARDIS as the tenth incarnation of The Doctor in the same writer's revival of Doctor Who (2005 - ). Tennant was born in Bathgate, West Lothian but spent his early years in Ralston, Renfrewshire, when his father took up the post of minister for the local parish. At the age of just four, Tennant told his parents that he wanted to become an actor, inspired by his love of Doctor Who and its then lead actor Tom Baker, who had just taken over the role. While most childhood fancies of fame and fortune usually fall by the wayside, Tennant's desire to become an actor persisted and he attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama to learn his chosen craft, graduating with a BA in Dramatic Studies. On graduation, he found that actor's union Equity already had a David McDonald on their books and changed his professional name to Tennant, apparently chosen because of his love for pop band The Pet Shop Boys whose lead singer is Neil Tennant. He was soon working, taking a role in a staging of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui with the 7:84 Scottish People's Theatre on a tour of Scotland. Tennant continued to work in theatre, honing his skills and earning some excellent reviews, particularly for his portrayal of Romeo in a Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Romeo and Juliet in 2000 and, much later, as Jimmy Porter in John Osborne's Look Back in Anger at Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum in his breakthrough year, 2005. Television had beckoned as early as 1988 when a very young Tennant appeared in an episode of the popular ITV children's drama strand Dramarama, and he started to work extensively on the small screen from the mid-1990s, turning up in such shows as Takin' Over the Asylum (1994), The Bill (1984 - ) and Tales of Para Handy (1995). After years of solid work on both the big and small screens, Tennant suddenly found himself thrust firmly into the limelight in 2005 when he appeared as legendary lothario Casanova, turned up in the live remake of The Quatermass Experiment (2005) and appeared as Barty Crouch Jr in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). But it was the announcement on 16 April 2005 that Tennant was to replace Christopher Eccleston as The Doctor that really made the public sit up and take note of Tennant. A lifelong fan of the show, Tennant's name had been in the frame when the producer's were casting for the Ninth Doctor, though eventually he lost out to the then much better known Eccleston. Fans got their first glimpse of Tennant as the Tenth Doctor as the climax of The Parting of the Ways (2005), followed a few months later by a brief appearance in a special, 7 minute mini-episode shown during the 2005 Children in Need appeal. Tennant had already had a flirtation with the world of Doctor Who when he appeared in several of the Big Finish audio plays (the Doctor Who stories Colditz and Medicinal Purposes, the UNIT story The Wasting, the Doctor Who Unbound plays Sympathy For the Devil and Exile, Dalek spin-off Dalek Empire III and the non-who related The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, based on the comic by Bryan Talbot) as well as voicing one of the parts in the BBCi Doctor Who webcast Scream of the Shalka. His first proper appearance in the role came in the hugely successful
Christmas special, The
Christmas Invasion, where he proved that he was more than the right
man for the job, capping an extraordinary year during which The
Stage placed him sixth in their Top Ten most influential UK television
artists of the year, and when he was voted Sexiest Man in the Universe
by gay and lesbian newspaper The Pink Paper. In 2006, immediately
prior to his first full series of Doctor
Who, New Woman magazine ranked him 20th in their list of
the Top 100 Men. GENRE FILMOGRAPHY * = television 2000 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased): Drop Dead (18 March 2000) (actor (Gordon Stylus)) * 2003 Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka (actor (voice of the caretaker)) Spine Chillers: Bradford In My Dreams (23 June 2003) (actor (Dr Krull)) * 2005 Breakfast: 21 December 2005 (interviewee) * Bring Something Back: The Making of The Quatermass Experiment (interviewee) Doctor Who: The Parting of the Ways (actor (actor (The Doctor)) *Doctor Who: Children in Need Special (18 November 2005) (actor (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion (25 December 2005) (actor (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Attack of the Graske (actor (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who Confidential: A New Dimension (narrator) * Friday Night with Jonathan Ross: episode unknown (interviewee) * GMTV: 18 April 2005 (interviewee) * Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire (actor (Barty Crouch Jr)) The Quatermass Experiment (actor (Doctor Gordon Briscoe)) * 2006 Doctor Who: New Earth (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Tooth and Claw (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: School Reunion (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: The Girl in the Fireplace (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: The Rise of the Cybermen (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: The Age of Steel (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: The Idiot's Lantern (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: The Impossible Planet (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: The Satan Pit (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Love & Monsters (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Fear Her (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Army of Ghosts (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Doomsday (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride (actor (The Doctor)) * Friday Night with Jonathan Ross: 23 December 2005 (interviewee) * GMTV: 22 December 2005 (interviewee) * GMTV: 30 March 2006 (interviewee) * Slipp Jimmy fri (actor (voice of Hamish)) This Morning: 12 April 2006 (interviewee) * Totally Doctor Who: 20 April 2006 (interviewee) * 2007 Doctor Who: Smith and Jones (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: The Shakespeare Code (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Gridlock (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Daleks in Manhattan (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Evolution of the Daleks (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: The Lazarus Experiment (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: 42 (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Human Nature (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: The Family of Blood (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Blink (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Utopia (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: The Sound of Drums (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Last of the Time Lords (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Time Crash (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned (actor (The Doctor)) * The Friday Night Project: 5 January 2007 (guest host) 2008 Doctor Who: Partners in Crime (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Planet of the Ood (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: The Sontaran Stratagem (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: The Poison Sky (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: The Doctors Daughter (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: The Unicorn and the Wasp (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Silence in the Library (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Forest of the Dead
(actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Midnight (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Turn Left (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: The Stolen Earth (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: Journey's End (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: The Next Doctor (actor (The Doctor)) * 2009 Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead (actor (The Doctor)) * Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars (actor (The Doctor)) * NON-GENRE FILMOGRAPHY 1988 Dramarama: The Secret of Croftmore (8 August 1988) (Neil McDonald) * 1993 Rab C. Nesbitt: 25 November 1993 (Davina) * 1994 Takin' Over the Asylum: Hey Jude (27 September 1994) (Campbell) * Takin' Over the Asylum: Fly Like an Eagle (4 October 1994) (Campbell) * Takin' Over the Asylum: You Always Hurt the One You Love (11 October 1994) (Campbell) * Takin' Over the Asylum: Fool on the Hill (18 October 1994) (Campbell) * Takin' Over the Asylum: A Rainy Night in Georgia (25 October 1994) (Campbell) * Takin' Over the Asylum: Let It Be (1 November 1994) (Campbell) * 1995 The Bill: Deadline (8 November 1995) (Steve Clemens) * The Tales of Para Handy: The Piper (7 August 1995) (John MacBryde) * 1996 Jude (drunk undergraduate) A Mug's Game: 4 February 1996 (Gavin) * 1997 Bite (Alistair Galbraith) Holding the Baby: Sickness (31 January 1997) (nurse) * 1998 Duck Patrol: Flying Colours (19 July 1998) (Darwin) * Duck Patrol: Out To Grass (26 July 1998) (Darwin) * Duck Patrol: Occurrences (2 August 1998) (Darwin) * Duck Patrol: Spirit of the Deep (9 August 1998) (Darwin) * Duck Patrol: Duck Turpin (16 August 1998) (Darwin) * Duck Patrol: River Rage (23 August 1998) (Darwin) * Duck Patrol: The Siege of Mallory Wharf (30 August 1998) (Darwin) * L.A. Without a Map (Richard) 1999 The Last September (Captain Gerald Colthurst) Love in the 21st Century: Reproduction (21 July 1999) (John) * 2000 Being Considered (Larry) The Mrs Bradley Mysteries: Death at the Opera (16 January 2000) (Max Valentine) * 2001 Shooting Gallery: One Eyed Jacques People Like Us: The Actor (10 June 2001) (Rob Harker) * Sweetnight Goodheart (Peter) 2002 Foyle's War: A Lesson in Murder (10 November 2002) (Theo Howard) * 2003 Bright Young Things (Ginger Littlejohn) Posh Nosh: Comfort Food * Posh Nosh: Paella * 2004 Blackpool (D.I. Peter Carlisle) * The Deputy (Christopher Williams) * He Knew He Was Right (18 - 24 April 2004) (Mr Gibson) * Old Street The Traffic Warden 2005 The Big Fat Quiz of the Year (interviewee) * Casanova (23 March 2005 - 27 March 2005) (Casanova) * GMTV: 18 April 2005 (interviewee) * Richard and Judy: 10 March 2005 (interviewee) * Secret Smile (Brendan Block) * 2006 The Chatterley Affair (Richard Hoggart) * REFERENCES PERIODICALS Radio Times 12 March 2005 p.29 (UK)
Last Updated: 16 September, 2009
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