David Tennant
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.
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- Born:
- Apr 18, 1971 In Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 138
- First Appeared:
- In the series Natural World 1983-10-30
- Latest Project:
- Movie Fuddy Meers 2026
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Fuddy Meers | Lisping Man | 2026 |
| Movie | Macbeth | Macbeth | 2025-02-05 |
| Movie | Doctor Who at the Proms | The Doctor (14) (10) (archive footage) | 2024-12-24 |
| Movie | Comic Relief 2023 | Self - Host | 2023-03-17 |
| Movie | Talking Doctor Who | Self - Presenter | 2023-11-01 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: Good | Professor John Halder/Johnny | 2023-04-20 |
| Movie | The Paloni Show! Halloween Special! | Roach Chef (voice) | 2022-10-16 |
| Movie | Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers | Scrooge McDuck (voice) | 2022-05-20 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor | The Doctor (14) | 2022-10-23 |
| Movie | The Loud House Movie | Angus (voice) | 2021-08-20 |
| Movie | The Big Night In | Mr. Logan | 2020-04-23 |
| Movie | Heart to Heart | Heart | 2020-03-16 |
| Movie | Screening | Timothy | 2020-11-20 |
| Movie | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Spitelout / Ivar the Whitless (voice) | 2019-01-03 |
| Series | Good Omens | Crowley | 2019-05-31 |
| Movie | You, Me and Him | John | 2018-02-01 |
| Movie | Bad Samaritan | Cale Erendreich | 2018-04-19 |
| Movie | The Muppets Take The O2 | Self | 2018-07-13 |
| Movie | Spy in the Snow | Narrator | 2018-12-30 |
| Movie | Mary Queen of Scots | John Knox | 2018-12-07 |
| Movie | The Highway Rat | The Highway Rat (voice) | 2018-10-10 |
| Movie | Fireman Sam: Alien Alert! The Movie | Buck Douglas (voice) | 2017-01-05 |
| Movie | Mad to Be Normal | RD Laing | 2017-04-06 |
| Movie | Ferdinand | Angus (voice) | 2017-12-09 |
| Series | DuckTales | Scrooge McDuck (Voice) | 2017-08-12 |
| Movie | DuckTales: Woo-oo! | Scrooge McDuck | 2017-08-12 |
| Movie | Derren Brown: Pushed to the Edge | Himself | 2016-01-12 |
| Movie | Shakespeare Live! From the RSC | Self - Host | 2016-04-23 |
| Movie | 96 Ways to Say I Love You | Mark | 2015-04-18 |
| Series | Dragons: Race to the Edge | Spitelout (voice) | 2015-06-26 |
| Series | Marvel's Jessica Jones | Kilgrave (voice) | 2015-11-20 |
| Movie | A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman | Self - Voice of Charles Darwin | 2015-12-26 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song | The Doctor (10) (picture) (uncredited) | 2015-12-25 |
| Movie | Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time | Narrator (Voice UK) | 2015-11-25 |
| Series | The Real History of Science Fiction | Himself | 2014-04-19 |
| Series | W1A | Narrator (voice) | 2014-03-19 |
| Movie | Postman Pat: The Movie | Wilf (voice) | 2014-05-23 |
| Series | Gracepoint | Emmett Carver | 2014-10-02 |
| Movie | Wings 3D | Narrator (voice) | 2014-06-17 |
| Movie | What We Did on Our Holiday | Doug McLeod | 2014-09-26 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion | Self / The Doctor (archive footage) | 2014-08-13 |
| Series | The Escape Artist | Will Burton | 2013-10-29 |
| Movie | Doctor Who Explained | Self | 2013-11-01 |
| Series | The Politician's Husband | Aiden Hoynes | 2013-04-25 |
| Series | Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited | Self | 2013-01-27 |
| Movie | Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II | Richard II | 2013-11-13 |
| Series | Broadchurch | DI Alec Hardy | 2013-03-04 |
| Series | Spies of Warsaw | Jean-François Mercier | 2013-01-09 |
| Movie | Moshi Monsters: The Movie | Newsreader (voice) | 2013-12-20 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide | Self | 2013-11-18 |
| Movie | Earthflight | Himself - Narrator | 2013-11-26 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor | The Doctor (10) | 2013-11-23 |
| Movie | Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty | The Doctor (archive footage) | 2013-11-23 |
| Movie | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Self | 2013-11-23 |
| Movie | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! | Charles Darwin (voice) | 2012-03-12 |
| Series | True Love | Nick | 2012-06-17 |
| Movie | So You Want To Be A Pirate! | Charles Darwin | 2012-07-09 |
| Movie | Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! | Donald / Roderick Peterson | 2012-11-23 |
| Movie | Come in Number Five | Presenter | 2011-03-28 |
| Series | Twenty Twelve | Narrator (voice) | 2011-03-14 |
| Movie | United | Jimmy Murphy | 2011-01-02 |
| Movie | Much Ado About Nothing | Benedick | 2011-05-16 |
| Movie | Lachlan Macquarie: The Father of Australia | Narrator | 2011-01-25 |
| Movie | Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties | Self | 2011-12-17 |
| Movie | Discovering Hamlet | Self | 2011-11-01 |
| Movie | The Decoy Bride | James Arber | 2011-06-06 |
| Movie | Fright Night | Peter Vincent | 2011-08-18 |
| Movie | The Itch of the Golden Nit | Radio Newsreader / Stretchy McStretch (voice) | 2011-06-28 |
| Movie | Doctor Who:The End of Time: Part Two | The Doctor | 2010-01-01 |
| Movie | How to Train Your Dragon | Spitelout (voice) | 2010-03-18 |
| Series | Single Father | Dave | 2010-10-10 |
| Movie | Stealing Shakespeare | Narrator | 2010-09-06 |
| Series | Fish Hooks | Oscar's Brain (voice) | 2010-09-03 |
| Movie | Monty Python in Aberystwyth | Narrator | 2009-05-12 |
| Movie | Endgame | Self - Host (uncredited) | 2009-01-18 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: Music of the Spheres - Doctor Who at the Proms 2008 | The Doctor (Uncredited) | 2009-01-01 |
| Series | Live from Studio Five | Self | 2009-09-14 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead | The Doctor | 2009-04-11 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars | The Doctor | 2009-11-15 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The End of Time | The Doctor | 2009-12-25 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: Dreamland | The Doctor (voice) | 2009-11-21 |
| Movie | Glorious 39 | Hector | 2009-11-20 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Hamlet | 2009-12-26 |
| Series | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Huyang (voice) | 2008-10-03 |
| Movie | Human Footprint | Narrator (self) | 2008-04-13 |
| Movie | Einstein and Eddington | Arthur Eddington | 2008-11-29 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Next Doctor | The Doctor | 2008-12-25 |
| Movie | Recovery | Alan Hamilton | 2007-02-25 |
| Series | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007-02-22 |
| Movie | The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Self | 2007-02-03 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Infinite Quest | The Doctor (voice) | 2007-06-30 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned | The Doctor | 2007-12-25 |
| Movie | Learners | Chris | 2007-11-11 |
| Movie | Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale | David Tennant / The Doctor | 2007-12-16 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: Time Crash | The Doctor (10) | 2007-11-16 |
| Movie | Free Jimmy | Hamish (voice) | 2006-04-21 |
| Movie | The Chatterley Affair | Richard Hoggart | 2006-03-20 |
| Series | The One Show | Self | 2006-08-14 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride | The Doctor | 2006-12-25 |
| Series | Doctor Who | The Doctor | 2005-03-26 |
| Movie | The Quatermass Experiment | Doctor Gordon Briscoe | 2005-04-02 |
| Series | Doctor Who Confidential | Self | 2005-03-26 |
| Series | The Friday Night Project | Self - Host | 2005-02-04 |
| Series | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self | 2005-01-03 |
| Series | Casanova | Giacomo Casanova | 2005-03-13 |
| Series | Extras | David Tennant | 2005-07-21 |
| Movie | Sweetnightgoodheart | Pete | 2005-09-05 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion | The Doctor | 2005-12-25 |
| Movie | Secret Smile | Brendan Block | 2005-12-12 |
| Movie | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Barty Crouch Junior | 2005-11-16 |
| Movie | Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment' | 2005-10-24 | |
| Movie | The Deputy | Christopher Williams | 2004-02-23 |
| Movie | Old Street | Mr. Watson | 2004-01-01 |
| Series | He Knew He Was Right | Mr. Gibson | 2004-04-18 |
| Series | Who Do You Think You Are? | Self | 2004-10-12 |
| Movie | Traffic Warden | Traffic Warden | 2004-08-27 |
| Series | Blackpool | DI Peter Carlisle | 2004-11-11 |
| Series | Big Fat Quiz | Self - Guest | 2004-12-27 |
| Series | QI | Self | 2003-09-11 |
| Movie | Bright Young Things | Ginger Littlejohn | 2003-10-03 |
| Series | Top Gear | Self | 2002-10-20 |
| Series | Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway | Self - Guest Announcer | 2002-06-08 |
| Series | Dead Ringers | Regenerated Tony Blair | 2002-11-18 |
| Movie | Nine 1/2 Minutes | Charlie | 2002-12-01 |
| Series | Foyle's War | Theo Howard | 2002-10-27 |
| Series | Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) | Unknown | 2000-03-18 |
| Series | People Like Us | Rob Harker | 1999-09-20 |
| Movie | L.A. Without a Map | Richard | 1999-02-26 |
| Series | Duck Patrol | Simon 'Darwin' Brown | 1998-07-19 |
| Series | South Park | Unknown | 1997-08-13 |
| Movie | Bite | 1997-08-18 | |
| Movie | Jude | Drunk Undergraduate | 1996-02-06 |
| Series | Takin' Over the Asylum | Campbell | 1994-09-27 |
| Movie | Spaces | Vinny | 1993-01-01 |
| Series | Have I Got News for You | Self - Host | 1990-09-28 |
| Series | Rab C. Nesbitt | Davina | 1990-09-27 |
| Series | The Simpsons | Pa MacWeldon (voice) | 1989-12-17 |
| Series | Natural World | Narrator | 1983-10-30 |