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David John McDonald (better known under his stage name David Tennant) is a Scottish actor who portrayed Bartemius Crouch Junior in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. He is best known for his role as the Tenth Doctor in the long-running BBC series Doctor Who.

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Early life

Tennant attended the Ralston Primary and Paisley Grammar School in Scotland. He also attended Saturday classes at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Career

Tennant made his professional acting debut while still in secondary school. At 16 he acted in an anti-smoking film made by the Glasgow Health Board which aired on television and was also screened in schools. The following year, 1988, he had his first TV role, playing Neil McDonald in an episode of Dramarama.

Tennant's first professional role upon graduating from drama school was in a staging of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui co-starring Ashley Jensen, one of a few plays in which he performed as part of the agitprop 7:84 Theatre Company. He also made an early television appearance in 1994 in the Scottish TV sitcom Rab C. Nesbitt as a transgender (MtF) barmaid called Davina.

Tennant's first major TV part was as the manic depressive Campbell in the Scottish drama series Takin' Over the Asylum (1994). During filming, Tennant met comic actress and writer Arabella Weir. When he moved to London shortly afterwards he lodged with Weir for five years and became godfather to her youngest child. He has subsequently appeared alongside Weir in many productions; as a guest in her spoof television series, Posh Nosh; in the Doctor Who audio drama Exile- during which Weir played an alternate version of the Doctor- and as panellists on the West Wing Ultimate Quiz on More4.

From 1996, Tennant developed his career in the British theatre, frequently performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company for whom he specialised in comic roles such as Touchstone in As You Like It, Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors (a role he recorded for the 1998 Arkangel Complete Shakespeare production of the play) and Captain Jack Absolute in The Rivals. Albeit he also played the tragic role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, showing his versatility as a professional actor.

In 2000, Tennant appeared at the Royal National Theatre, London, playing the role of Nicholas Beckett in Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw. The plot required Tennant to appear near-naked on stage.

Tennant appeared in several high-profile dramas for the BBC, including Takin' Over the Asylum (1994), He Knew He Was Right (2004), Blackpool (2004), Casanova (2005) and The Quatermass Experiment (2005). In film, he has appeared in Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things, and as Barty Crouch Jr in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. One of his earliest big screen roles was in Jude (1996), in which he shared a scene with his Doctor Who predecessor Christopher Eccleston, playing a drunken undergraduate who challenges Eccleston's Jude to prove his intellect.

In 2005, soon after his appearance in Goblet of Fire, Tennant was signed to take over as the Tenth Doctor on Doctor Who after Christopher Eccleston chose to leave after a single season. Tennant is has been identified by Doctor Who Magazine and other media as one of the most popular actors to play the iconic SF character. In October 2008, he announced that he would be stepping down as The Doctor after appearing in four special episodes scheduled to air by the end of 2009; he was replaced by relative unknown Matt Smith, though Tennant was then confirmed to be reprising his role as the Tenth Doctor alongside Smith and John Hurt in the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary special, Day of the Doctor, in November 2013.[3]

In 2008, coinciding with his announcement regarding Doctor Who, Tennant performed in Hamlet the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK. His co-star was Patrick Stewart of Star Trek fame. A back injury forced Tennant to undergo surgery towards the end of 2008, but he recovered in time to complete his run on Hamlet and film his final Doctor Who episodes.

Since completing his final scenes in Doctor Who, Tennant has filmed his performance of Hamlet for eventual TV broadcast, and is reportedly being considered for a number of high-profile movie roles. He is also scheduled to host Masterpiece Contemporary, a new version of Masterpiece Theatre, for the American PBS network in the fall of 2009.[4]

Tennant performed alongside Doctor Who co-star Catherine Tate (Donna Noble) in Much Ado About Nothing between May 2011 and September 2011.

He also did voice work opposite Imelda Staunton again playing a protagonist in the Aardman film The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!. Her voicing Queen Victoria and him voicing Charles Darwin.

From 2013-2017 Tennant starred as Detective Inspector Alec Hardy on the widely popular BBC series Broadchurch. He is also the voice of the latest incarnation of the Fugitoid in the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, and of inventor Tycho Reeves in Thunderbirds Are Go!, the 2015 CGI reboot of Gerry Anderson's cult Sci-Fi franchise, Thunderbirds.

In 2013, the miniseries The Politician's Husband aired, in which Tennant starred as power-hungry politician and husband Aiden Hoynes.

Since 2015, Tennant has portrayed Kilgrave in the Netflix original series, Jessica Jones. He has also reprised his role as the Tenth Doctor for a series of Doctor Who audio adventures released by Big Finish Productions.

Since 2017, he has starred in a Disney reboot of DuckTales as Scrooge McDuck, airing on both Disney XD and Disney Channel.

In 2019, he voiced Dr Rufus Weller and Caliban, an AI assistant with an early copy of Well's mind, in the Rooster Teeth series gen:LOCK.

Behind the scenes

Trivia

In 2013, IGN ranked Tennant as the best Doctor, [5] along with the Daily Mail [6] and Radio Times

along with the and His wife Georgia (neé Moffett) is the daughter of Fifth Doctor Peter Davison.

Tennant, David Bradley, John Hurt, Michael Gambon and Timothy Bateson have had roles in Doctor Who. In fact, the former three have played different incarnations of the same character, the Doctor, Bradley having taken over William Hartnell's role as the First Doctor in the Christmas special Twice Upon a Time.

In fact, the former three have played different incarnations of the same character, the Doctor, Bradley having taken over William Hartnell's role as the First Doctor in the Christmas special Twice Upon a Time. Tennant and Bradley also appeared together in the ITV murder series Broadchurch.

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