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:
- 248
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Doctor Who:The End of Time: Part Two
- Latest Project:
- Series The Hack 2025-09-24
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Minor Character | Will | 2026 |
| Series | Standing By | 2026 | |
| Series | Have I Got a Bit More News for You | Self - Presenter | 2026 |
| Movie | Doctor Who:The End of Time: Part Two | The Doctor | 2026 |
| Series | The Hack | Nick Davies | 2025-09-24 |
| Movie | Macbeth | Macbeth | 2025-02-05 |
| Movie | The Thursday Murder Club | Ian | 2025-08-22 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War | The Doctor / The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2025-05-31 |
| Series | The Genius Game | The Creator | 2025-04-30 |
| Series | The Assembly | Self - Interviewee | 2025-04-26 |
| Series | Rob Beckett's Smart TV | Self - Guest | 2024-02-29 |
| Movie | Comic Relief 2024: Funny for Money | Self | 2024-03-15 |
| Series | ARK: The Animated Series | Sir Edmund Rockwell (voice) | 2024-03-21 |
| Movie | Doctor Who at the Proms | The Doctor (14) (10) (archive footage) | 2024-12-24 |
| Series | Rivals | Tony Baddingham | 2024-10-18 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour | The Doctor (10) (picture) (uncredited) | 2024-12-23 |
| Series | Doctor Who: Unleashed | Self - The Doctor | 2024-05-11 |
| Series | Doctor Who | The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2024-05-11 |
| Series | Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures | Huyang (voice) | 2023-05-04 |
| Movie | National Theatre Live: Good | Professor John Halder/Johnny | 2023-04-20 |
| Series | Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur | Franklin (voice) | 2023-02-10 |
| Series | Clone High | David Tennant (voice) | 2023-05-23 |
| Movie | Comic Relief 2023 | Self - Host | 2023-03-17 |
| Series | Doctor Who: Video Commentaries | Self - The Doctor | 2023-11-25 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Star Beast | The Doctor | 2023-11-25 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials | The Doctor (archive footage) | 2023-12-18 |
| Movie | imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me | Self | 2023-12-18 |
| Series | Spy in the Ocean, A Nature Miniseries | Narrator | 2023-06-04 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story | The Doctor | 2023-11-23 |
| Series | Ahsoka | Huyang (voice) | 2023-08-22 |
| Movie | Doctor Who Children in Need Special 2023 | The Doctor | 2023-11-17 |
| Movie | Talking Doctor Who | Self - Presenter | 2023-11-01 |
| Series | Ant & Dec's Limitless Win | Self | 2022-01-08 |
| Series | The Legend of Vox Machina | General Kreig (voice) | 2022-01-27 |
| Series | The Sandman | Don (voice) | 2022-08-05 |
| Series | Litvinenko | Alexander Litvinenko | 2022-12-15 |
| Movie | The Paloni Show! Halloween Special! | Roach Chef (voice) | 2022-10-16 |
| Series | Inside Man | Harry Watling | 2022-09-26 |
| Movie | Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers | Scrooge McDuck (voice) | 2022-05-20 |
| Movie | The Amazing Maurice | Dangerous Beans (voice) | 2022-12-16 |
| Series | Chibiverse | Scrooge McDuck (Voice) | 2022-07-30 |
| Movie | The Loud House Movie | Angus (voice) | 2021-08-20 |
| Movie | Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas | Self | 2021-12-19 |
| Series | Around the World in 80 Days | Phileas Fogg | 2021-12-05 |
| Movie | An Audience with Adele | Self | 2021-11-21 |
| Movie | Heart to Heart | Heart | 2020-03-16 |
| Movie | The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years | Self | 2020-01-07 |
| Series | Deadwater Fell | Tom Kendrick | 2020-01-10 |
| Movie | The Big Night In | Mr. Logan | 2020-04-23 |
| Movie | Screening | Timothy | 2020-11-20 |
| Movie | The Real Des: The Dennis Nilsen Story | Narrator (voice) | 2020-09-17 |
| Movie | Good Omens: Lockdown | Crowley (voice) | 2020-05-01 |
| Movie | Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas | Self | 2020-12-24 |
| Series | Red Dwarf: The First Three Million Years | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2020-08-06 |
| Movie | Our Sarah Jane – The Life of Elisabeth Sladen | Self | 2020-05-04 |
| Series | Staged | David | 2020-06-10 |
| Series | Des | Dennis Nilsen | 2020-09-14 |
| Series | gen:LOCK | Dr. Weller (voice) | 2019-01-26 |
| Movie | Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered | Self | 2019-10-30 |
| Series | Good Omens | Crowley | 2019-05-31 |
| Series | Criminal: UK | Dr. Edgar Fallon | 2019-09-20 |
| Movie | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World | Spitelout / Ivar the Whitless (voice) | 2019-01-03 |
| Series | Final Space | Lord Commander (voice) | 2018-02-26 |
| Movie | You, Me and Him | John | 2018-02-01 |
| Movie | Bad Samaritan | Cale Erendreich | 2018-04-19 |
| Movie | The Highway Rat | The Highway Rat (voice) | 2018-10-10 |
| Movie | Mary Queen of Scots | John Knox | 2018-12-07 |
| Series | Camping | Walt | 2018-10-14 |
| Movie | Spy in the Snow | Narrator | 2018-12-30 |
| Series | There She Goes | Simon | 2018-10-16 |
| Movie | DuckTales: Destination Adventure! | Scrooge McDuck (voice) | 2018-06-05 |
| Movie | The Muppets Take The O2 | Self | 2018-07-13 |
| Series | Hang Ups | Martin Lamb | 2018-08-08 |
| 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 | Proclaimers: This Is the Story | Self | 2017-06-21 |
| Series | Spy in the Wild | Himself - Narrator | 2017-01-12 |
| Series | Top Gear: Extra Gear | Self | 2016-05-29 |
| 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 | Thunderbirds Are Go! | Tyco Reeves (Voice) | 2015-04-04 |
| Movie | Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time | Narrator (Voice UK) | 2015-11-25 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song | The Doctor (10) (picture) (uncredited) | 2015-12-25 |
| Movie | A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman | Self - Voice of Charles Darwin | 2015-12-26 |
| Movie | Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey's Monster Musical | Igor the Door (voice) | 2015-10-09 |
| Series | Marvel's Jessica Jones | Kilgrave (voice) | 2015-11-20 |
| Movie | Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC | Narrator | 2015-11-01 |
| Movie | The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One | Self | 2015-11-11 |
| Movie | Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC | Narrator | 2015-11-08 |
| Series | W1A | Narrator (voice) | 2014-03-19 |
| Series | Off Camera with Sam Jones | Self | 2014-02-06 |
| Series | Dolphins: Spy in the Pod | Narrator | 2014-01-02 |
| Series | The Real History of Science Fiction | Himself | 2014-04-19 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison | Self | 2014-08-01 |
| Movie | Postman Pat: The Movie | Wilf (voice) | 2014-05-23 |
| 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 | Gracepoint | Emmett Carver | 2014-10-02 |
| Movie | Wings 3D | Narrator (voice) | 2014-06-17 |
| Movie | Tree Fu Tom - Tree Fu Magic | Unknown | 2013-02-18 |
| Series | Broadchurch | DI Alec Hardy | 2013-03-04 |
| Series | Penguins: Spy in the Huddle | Narrator (voice) | 2013-02-11 |
| Series | Spies of Warsaw | Jean-François Mercier | 2013-01-09 |
| Series | The Escape Artist | Will Burton | 2013-10-29 |
| Series | The Last Leg | Self | 2013-01-25 |
| Series | Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited | Self | 2013-01-27 |
| Series | The Politician's Husband | Aiden Hoynes | 2013-04-25 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor | The Doctor (10) | 2013-11-23 |
| Movie | Earthflight | Himself - Narrator | 2013-11-26 |
| Movie | Moshi Monsters: The Movie | Newsreader (voice) | 2013-12-20 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: Farewell to Matt Smith | 2013-12-25 | |
| Movie | Doctor Who Explained | Self | 2013-11-01 |
| Movie | The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot | Self | 2013-11-23 |
| Movie | Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II | Richard II | 2013-11-13 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS | Self | 2013-11-18 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide | Self | 2013-11-18 |
| Movie | Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty | The Doctor (archive footage) | 2013-11-23 |
| Movie | The Day of the Doctor: Cinema Intro | The Doctor (10) | 2013-11-23 |
| Series | Tree Fu Tom | Twigs (voice) | 2012-03-05 |
| Movie | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! | Charles Darwin (voice) | 2012-03-12 |
| Series | True Love | Nick | 2012-06-17 |
| Series | Wild About Pandas | Narrator | 2012-02-01 |
| Movie | Shakespeare's Sonnets | 2012-07-18 | |
| Series | DreamWorks Dragons | Spitelout (voice) | 2012-08-07 |
| Series | Shakespeare Uncovered | Himself | 2012-06-19 |
| Series | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Fugitoid (voice) | 2012-09-28 |
| Series | Comedy World Cup | Host | 2012-09-15 |
| Movie | Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! | Donald / Roderick Peterson | 2012-11-23 |
| Movie | The Science of Doctor Who | The Doctor (archive footage) | 2012-08-04 |
| Movie | So You Want To Be A Pirate! | Charles Darwin | 2012-07-09 |
| Movie | Come in Number Five | Presenter | 2011-03-28 |
| Series | Twenty Twelve | Narrator (voice) | 2011-03-14 |
| Movie | Polar Bear - Spy on the Ice | Narrator | 2011-02-22 |
| 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 | Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time | 2011-10-31 | |
| Movie | The Decoy Bride | James Arber | 2011-06-06 |
| Series | Earthflight | 2011-12-29 | |
| Movie | The Ballad of Russell & Julie | Russell T. Davies / Self | 2011-10-31 |
| Movie | The Itch of the Golden Nit | Radio Newsreader / Stretchy McStretch (voice) | 2011-06-28 |
| Movie | Fright Night | Peter Vincent | 2011-08-18 |
| Movie | Gerry Rafferty: Right Down the Line | Narrator | 2011-08-29 |
| Movie | Shrek: Once Upon a Time | Self / Narrator | 2011-12-30 |
| Series | The National Television Awards Backstage Live | Unknown | 2010-01-20 |
| Movie | How to Train Your Dragon | Spitelout (voice) | 2010-03-18 |
| Series | Rex Is Not Your Lawyer | Rex Alexander | 2010-01-24 |
| Series | Ask Rhod Gilbert | Self | 2010-09-27 |
| 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 | Endgame | Self - Host (uncredited) | 2009-01-18 |
| Series | CBeebies Bedtime Stories | Self | 2009-03-09 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: Music of the Spheres - Doctor Who at the Proms 2008 | The Doctor (Uncredited) | 2009-01-01 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead | The Doctor | 2009-04-11 |
| Series | Swarm: Nature's Incredible Invasions | Narrator (voice) | 2009-01-04 |
| Series | Doctor Who: Dreamland | The Doctor (voice) | 2009-11-21 |
| Movie | Monty Python in Aberystwyth | Narrator | 2009-05-12 |
| Movie | The Catherine Tate Show: Nan's Christmas Carol | Ghost of Christmas Present | 2009-12-25 |
| Movie | Hamlet | Hamlet | 2009-12-26 |
| Movie | St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold | Captain Lord Pomfrey / Sir Piers Pomfrey | 2009-12-18 |
| Movie | Glorious 39 | Hector | 2009-11-20 |
| Series | Doctor Who Greatest Moments | Self | 2009-08-20 |
| Series | Live from Studio Five | Self | 2009-09-14 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars | The Doctor | 2009-11-15 |
| Movie | The Greatest TV Shows of the Noughties | Self | 2009-12-27 |
| Series | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | Huyang (voice) | 2008-10-03 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Next Doctor | The Doctor | 2008-12-25 |
| Movie | Human Footprint | Narrator (self) | 2008-04-13 |
| Movie | Einstein and Eddington | Arthur Eddington | 2008-11-29 |
| Series | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007-02-22 |
| Movie | The 50 Greatest Television Dramas | Self | 2007-02-03 |
| Movie | Recovery | Alan Hamilton | 2007-02-25 |
| Movie | Learners | Chris | 2007-11-11 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: Time Crash | The Doctor (10) | 2007-11-16 |
| Movie | The Friday Night Project - Unleashed | Guest Host | 2007-11-19 |
| Movie | David Tennant's Video Diary | Self | 2007-11-05 |
| Series | Derren Brown: Trick or Treat | Himself | 2007-04-13 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Infinite Quest | The Doctor (voice) | 2007-06-30 |
| Series | The Sarah Jane Adventures | The Doctor | 2007-09-24 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned | The Doctor | 2007-12-25 |
| Movie | The Chatterley Affair | Richard Hoggart | 2006-03-20 |
| Series | Totally Doctor Who | Self | 2006-04-13 |
| Series | The One Show | Self | 2006-08-14 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: A Celebration | Self - Host | 2006-11-19 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride | The Doctor | 2006-12-25 |
| Movie | Free Jimmy | Hamish (voice) | 2006-04-21 |
| 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 | Secret Smile | Brendan | 2005-12-12 |
| Movie | Doctor Who: A New Dimension | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2005-03-26 |
| Movie | Sweetnightgoodheart | Pete | 2005-09-05 |
| Movie | Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment' | 2005-10-24 | |
| Movie | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire | Barty Crouch Junior | 2005-11-16 |
| Series | Extras | David Tennant | 2005-07-21 |
| Movie | The Quatermass Experiment | Doctor Gordon Briscoe | 2005-04-02 |
| Series | Doctor Who Confidential | Self | 2005-03-26 |
| Series | Doctor Who | 2005-03-26 | |
| Movie | Old Street | Mr. Watson | 2004-01-01 |
| Series | He Knew He Was Right | Mr. Gibson | 2004-04-18 |
| Movie | Traffic Warden | Traffic Warden | 2004-08-27 |
| Series | Blackpool | DI Peter Carlisle | 2004-11-11 |
| Movie | The Deputy | Christopher Williams | 2004-02-23 |
| Series | Who Do You Think You Are? | Self | 2004-10-12 |
| Series | Big Fat Quiz | Self - Guest | 2004-12-27 |
| Series | Spine Chillers | Dr. Krull | 2003-06-23 |
| Series | Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka | Young Custodian (voice) (uncredited) | 2003-11-13 |
| Movie | Bright Young Things | Ginger Littlejohn | 2003-10-03 |
| Series | QI | Self | 2003-09-11 |
| Series | Foyle's War | Theo Howard | 2002-10-27 |
| Movie | Nine 1/2 Minutes | Charlie | 2002-12-01 |
| Series | Dead Ringers | Regenerated Tony Blair | 2002-11-18 |
| Series | Top Gear | Self | 2002-10-20 |
| Series | Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway | Self - Guest Announcer | 2002-06-08 |
| Series | Terri McIntyre - Classy Bitch | Greig Miller | 2001-04-06 |
| Movie | The Last September | Captain Gerald Colthurst | 2000-04-28 |
| Movie | Being Considered | 2000-03-01 | |
| 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 | Love in the 21st Century | John | 1999-07-21 |
| Series | The Mrs Bradley Mysteries | Max Valentine | 1998-08-31 |
| Series | Duck Patrol | Simon 'Darwin' Brown | 1998-07-19 |
| Series | South Park | Unknown | 1997-08-13 |
| Movie | Bite | 1997-08-18 | |
| Series | A Mug's Game | Unknown | 1996-01-18 |
| Movie | Jude | Drunk Undergraduate | 1996-02-06 |
| Series | Never Mind the Buzzcocks | Self - Presenter | 1996-11-12 |
| Series | Ready Steady Cook | Self - Contestant | 1994-10-24 |
| Series | Takin' Over the Asylum | Campbell | 1994-09-27 |
| Series | Room 101 | Self | 1994-07-04 |
| Series | The Tales of Para Handy | John MacBryde | 1994-07-31 |
| Series | GMTV | Self | 1993-01-01 |
| Movie | Spaces | Vinny | 1993-01-01 |
| Series | Rab C. Nesbitt | Davina | 1990-09-27 |
| Series | Have I Got News for You | Self - Host | 1990-09-28 |
| Series | The Simpsons | Pa MacWeldon (voice) | 1989-12-17 |
| Movie | Biting the Hands | 3rd Squaddie | 1989-04-11 |
| Series | Natural World | Narrator | 1983-10-30 |
| Series | Dramarama | Unknown | 1983-09-12 |
| Series | Doctor Who | Unknown | 1963-11-23 |