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Full David Tennant Biography
Already a well-known theatre actor, Tennant achieved wider fame for his TV roles in Casanova and Doctor Who, as well as his film role as Barty Crouch Jr in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
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, although he also played the tragic role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. It was announced on 30 August 2007 that he is returning to the RSC, to play Hamlet (alongside Patrick Stewart) and Berowne (in Love's Labours Lost) from July to November 2008.
Tennant's name was put forward as a possible candidate for the role of the Ninth Doctor for the new series that began in March 2005, although the role eventually went to Christopher Eccleston. With Eccleston's announcement on 30 March that he would not be returning for a second series, the BBC confirmed Tennant as his replacement in a press release on 16 April. He made his first, brief appearance in the episode "The Parting of the Ways" (2005) after the regeneration scene, and also appeared in a special 7-minute mini-episode shown as part of the 2005 Children in Need appeal, broadcast on 18 November 2005.
Tennant will continue to play the Tenth Doctor into the revived programme's fourth series in 2008, and in the three specials that will make up the 2009 series.
The Daily Mirror has also reported that Tennant is forbidden from attending Doctor Who fan conventions while he is playing the role.
He made his directorial debut directing the Doctor Who Confidential episode that accompanies Steven Moffat's episode "Blink", entitled "Do You Remember The First Time?", which aired on 9 June 2007.
In 2007, Tennant's Tenth Doctor appeared alongside Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor, at age 56, in a Doctor Who special for Children in Need, written by Steven Moffat entitled "Time Crash". This was the first official time that a Doctor from the New Series met a Doctor from the original 26-year run. This is also the first "multi-Doctor" story in the New Series and the first since The Two Doctors in 1985.
On 25 February 2007, Tennant starred in Recovery, a 90-minute BBC1 drama written by Tony Marchant. Tennant played Alan, a self-made building site manager who attempted to rebuild his life after suffering a debilitating brain injury. His co-star in the drama was friend Sarah Parish, with whom he had previously appeared in Blackpool and an episode of Doctor Who. She joked that "we're like George and Mildred - in 20 years' time we'll probably be doing a ropey old sitcom in a terraced house in Preston."
Later in 2007 he starred in Learners, a BBC comedy drama written by and starring Jessica Hynes (another Doctor Who co-star, in the episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood"), in which he played a Christian driving instructor who became the object of a student's affection. Learners was broadcast on BBC One on 11th November 2007.
Tennant will play Sir Arthur Eddington in the upcoming biopic Einstein and Eddington, a BBC and HBO co-production, with Andy Serkis depicting Albert Einstein. It has also been announced that Tennant will appear in the 2007 Christmas special of BBC comedy Extras alongside Ricky Gervais.
Tennant is the voice behind the latest 2007 advertising campaign for catalogue retailer Argos, although he uses an Estuary English accent as in his role as the Doctor and not his natural Scottish voice. But for an advert for The Proclaimers new album he uses his usual Scottish accent.
In December 2005, The Stage newspaper listed Tennant at #6 in its "Top Ten" listing of the most influential UK television artists of the year, citing his roles in Blackpool, Casanova, Secret Smile and Doctor Who. In January 2006, readers of the British gay and lesbian newspaper The Pink Paper voted Tennant the "Sexiest Man in the Universe" over David Beckham and Brad Pitt. A poll of over 10,000 women for the March 2006 issue of New Woman magazine ranked him 20th in their list of the "Top 100 Men". In October 2006, Tennant was named as "Scotland's most stylish male" in the Scottish Style Awards. He was named 'Coolest Man on TV' in 2007. He also won the National Television Awards award for Most Popular Actor in 2006 and 2007.
A one woman show titled Not Stalking David Tennant has been written by Emma Hutchins and performed at several small venues in the London area.
According to some tabloid reports, Tennant is currently single. He dated actress Sophia Myles, who appeared with him in the Doctor Who episode "The Girl in the Fireplace" as Madame de Pompadour. They started dating after filming in October 2005.. However in October 2007 Tennant was reported to have finished the relationship over the phone, blaming the lack of time the couple had spent together following Myles' move to LA.
According to an interview in issue 375 of Doctor Who Magazine, Tennant drives a Škoda in which he was caught twice on the same day on the M4 for speeding while returning to London from Cardiff in October 2006.
Tennant is a supporter of the Labour Party and appeared in a Party political broadcast for them in 2005.
Season 2, Episode 1, Death at the Opera. Appeared alongside Peter Davison, one of his predecessors as the Doctor |
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