David Tennant Bio | Wiki
David Tennant ( Full name: David John Tennant) is a Scottish actor. He gained fame for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor from 2005 to 2010 and 2013 in the BBC science-fiction TV show Doctor Who. David reprised the role from 2022 to 2023 as the fourteenth incarnation.
His other notable roles include Giacomo Casanova in the BBC comedy-drama serial Casanova in 2005, Barty Crouch Jr. in the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ( both in 2005), Peter Vincent in the horror remake Fright Night in 2011, DI Alec Hardy in the ITV crime drama series Broadchurch from 2013 to 2017, Kilgrave in the Netflix superhero series Jessica Jones from 2015 to 2019, Crowley in the Amazon Prime fantasy series Good Omens (since 2019), and Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days in 2021.
David has worked on stage as well. He portrayed the title character in a 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet which was later filmed for television. Also, David worked as a voice actor in The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! in 2011, Ferdinand in 2017, Final Space from 2018 to 2021, gen: LOCK ( since 2019), the How to Train Your Dragon films (from 2010 to 2019), and Scrooge McDuck in DuckTales (from 2017 to 2021). David received the National Television Award for Special Recognition in 2015.
David Tennant Age
He was born on April 18, 1971, in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland. David is 51 years old.
David Tennant Height
He is a man of tall stature. David stands at a height of 6 ft 1 in ( Approx 1.85 m).
David Tennant Family
He was born in Bathgate, West Lothian to his parents Helen (née McLeod; 1940–2007) and Alexander “Sandy” McDonald (1937–2016). The latter was a minister who served as the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. David grew up with his brother Blair and sister Karen in Ralston, Renfrewshire, where his dad served as the local minister.
Two of David’s maternal great-grandparents, William and Agnes Blair, were Northern Irish Protestants who originated from County Londonderry and were among the signatories of the Ulster Covenant in 1912. William was a member of the Orange Order. David’s maternal grandfather, footballer Archie McLeod, met William and Agnes’ daughter Nellie while playing for Derry City FC. Archie was descended from tenant farmers from the Isle of Mull.
David Tennant Wife
He married actress Georgia Moffett and became the son-in-law of actress Sandra Dickinson and Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison. David met his wife in 2008 during the filming of the Doctor Who episode “The Doctor’s Daughter”, in which Georgia played the genetically engineered daughter of Tennant’s Tenth Doctor. The couple tied their wedding knot on December 30, 2011. They live in the Chiswick district of London with their five children including Ty Tennant, Georgia’s child from a previous relationship whom David adopted.
David Tennant Son
His son Ty has acted in the film Tolkien and the 2019 television adaptation of War of the Worlds. His daughter Olive was born on March 2019 2011. She had a cameo as John Barrowman’s daughter in The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot at the age of two. Olive made her film debut in Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast at the age of 10. David’s son named Wilfred was born on May 2, 2013.
The actor announced on November 9, 2015, that his wife had recently had a daughter named Doris. The couple welcomed another daughter named Birdie On October 13, 2019. David has said that he believes religion “must have” shaped his character. The actor revealed that he is an occasional churchgoer.
David Tennant Education
He attended Saturday classes at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. The school was by then known as the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. David passed an audition for the Academy at the ag of 16 and became one of their youngest students. He studied there between the ages of 17 and 20. He took his stage name from Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant after he discovered that there was another David McDonald already represented by the actor’s union Equity. Later, he had to legally change his surname to meet the American Screen Actors Guild’s rules.
David Tennant Doctor Who
Doctor Who returned to British screens in March 2005. Christopher Eccleston played the role of the Ninth Doctor in the first series. David replaced him in the second series and became his first, brief appearance as the Tenth Doctor in the episode “The Parting of the Ways” (2005) at the end of the regeneration scene. Also, the actor appeared in a special 7-minute mini-episode shown as part of the 2005 Children in Need appeal, broadcast on 18 November 2005. David started filming the new series of Doctor Who in late July 2005. A 60-minute special, “The Christmas Invasion” was his first full-length outing first broadcast on Christmas Day 2005.
David Tennant Harry Potter
The actor started to appear on television more prominently in 2004 and 2005 after he made an appearance in a dramatization of He Knew He Was Right in 2004, Blackpool in 2004, Casanova in 2005), and The Quatermass Experiment in 2005. David appeared as Barty Crouch Jr. in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire later in the same year.
David Tennant Tv Shows
– 2013–2017 Broadchurch
– 2013 The Politician’s Husband
– 2013 The Escape Artist
– The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot
– 2013 The Great Scott
– 2014 Gracepoint
– 2015 Jake and the Never Land Pirates
– Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
– 2015–2016 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
– 2015–2019 Jessica Jones
– 2016 Family Guy
– 2017 Thunderbirds Are Go
– The Highway Rat
– 2017–2021 DuckTales
– 2018–2021 Final Space
– 2018–2020 There She Goes
– Hang Ups
– 2018 Camping
– 2019 gen:LOCK
– 2019 Criminal: UK
– 2019–present Good Omens
– 2020 Deadwater Fell
– Des
– 2020–2022 Staged
– 2021 This Duckburg Life
– Eden
– 2021–present Around the World in 80 Days
– 2022 The Legend of Vox Machina
– 2022 Meet the Richardsons
– The Sandman
– 2022 Inside Man
– 2022 The Paloni Show!
– Ark: The Animated Series
David Tennant Jodie Whittaker Doctor Who
Jodie Whittaker is a 40-year-old English actress who was born on June 17, 1982, in Skelmanthorpe, West Yorkshire, England. He is best known for portraying the thirteenth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who (from 2017 to 2022) and as Beth Latimer in Broadchurch (from 2013 to 2017). Jodie Whittaker left Doctor Who in 2022 with a surprise regeneration twist.
She became the first female lead to bowing out with an unexpected end in a cameo-laden special as part of BBC centenary celebrations. Her tenure as the first woman to lead Doctor Who came to a spectacular end in October 2022 after four years. The last special episode featured a host of returning faces from the 59-year-old show’s past and a surprise twist when Jodie regenerated not into her recently announced successor, Ncuti Gatwa, but into the returning Time Lord David Tennant.
David Tennant Filmography | Movies
– 1996 Jude
– 1998 L.A. Without a Map
– 1999 The Last September
– 2000 Being Considered
– 2003 Bright Young Things
– 2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
– 2006 Free Jimmy
– 2009 Glorious 39
– St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold
– 2010 How to Train Your Dragon
– 2011 The Decoy Bride
– 2011 Fright Night
– The Itch of the Golden Nit
– 2012 The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!
– 2012 Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger
– 2014 Postman Pat: The Movie
– 2014 What We Did on Our Holiday
– 2015 Reds and Grays
– 2016 Fireman Sam: Alien Alert
– 2017 Mad to Be Normal
– 2017 Ferdinand
– You, Me and Him
– 2018 Bad Samaritan
– Mary Queen of Scots
– 2019 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
– 2021 The Loud House Movie
– 2022 Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers
David Tennant Hamlet
The 2009 television film, Hamlet is an adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2008 modern-dress stage production of William Shakespeare’s play of the same name. It aired on BBC Two on December 26, 2009. Hamlet was broadcast by PBS’ Great Performances in the United States on 28 April 2010.
The film was directed by Gregory Doran and features the original stage cast of David in the title role of Prince Hamlet, Patrick Stewart as both King Claudius and the ghost of Hamlet’s father, Mariah Gale as Ophelia, Penny Downie as Queen Gertrude, Edward Bennett as Laertes, Peter de Jersey as Horatio, and Oliver Ford Davies as Polonius.
David Tennant Jessica Jones
The American television series, Jessica Jones was created by Melissa Rosenberg for the streaming service Netflix. The film is based on the Marvel Comics character Jessica Jones and is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). It was the second Marvel Netflix series leading to the crossover miniseries The Defenders. Jessica Jones acknowledges the continuity of the franchise’s films. It was produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios and Tall Girls Productions. David appeared as as Kevin Thompson / Kilgrave in 13 episodes.
David Tennant Net Worth
He is a Scottish actor who has accumulated an estimated net worth of $17 million
How Old Is David Tennant
David is 51 years old. He was born on April 18, 1971, in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland.
Is David Tennant Married
David is married to actress Georgia Moffett.