David Tennant

Acting • Born 1971-04-18

Acting4Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, UK

Biography

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.

Filmography

250 credits

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Movie • 2007

Self

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Movie • 2005

Barty Crouch Junior

Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty

Movie • 2013

The Doctor (archive footage)

Doctor Who Explained

Movie • 2013

Self

The Science of Doctor Who

Movie • 2012

The Doctor (archive footage)

David Tennant's Video Diary

Movie • 2007

Self

The Amazing Maurice

Movie • 2022

Dangerous Beans (voice)

Hamlet

Movie • 2009

Hamlet

The Decoy Bride

Movie • 2011

James Arber

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey's Monster Musical

Movie • 2015

Igor the Door (voice)

Glorious 39

Movie • 2009

Hector

An Audience with Adele

Movie • 2021

Self

Comic Relief 2023

Movie • 2023

Self - Host

Einstein and Eddington

Movie • 2008

Arthur Eddington

Bright Young Things

Movie • 2003

Ginger Littlejohn

L.A. Without a Map

Movie • 1999

Richard

St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold

Movie • 2009

Captain Lord Pomfrey / Sir Piers Pomfrey

United

Movie • 2011

Jimmy Murphy

Doctor Who: Farewell to Matt Smith

Movie • 2013

The Quatermass Experiment

Movie • 2005

Doctor Gordon Briscoe

The Last September

Movie • 2000

Captain Gerald Colthurst

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord with Peter Davison

Movie • 2014

Self

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!

Movie • 2012

Charles Darwin (voice)

Polar Bear - Spy on the Ice

Movie • 2011

Narrator

Traffic Warden

Movie • 2004

Traffic Warden

Sweetnightgoodheart

Movie • 2005

Pete

Fright Night

Movie • 2011

Peter Vincent

Human Footprint

Movie • 2008

Narrator (self)

Doctor Who: Music of the Spheres - Doctor Who at the Proms 2008

Movie • 2008

The Doctor (Uncredited)

The Big Night In

Movie • 2020

Mr. Logan

The Ballad of Russell & Julie

Movie • 2011

Russell T. Davies / Self

Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties

Movie • 2011

Self

The Itch of the Golden Nit

Movie • 2011

Radio Newsreader / Stretchy McStretch (voice)

Old Street

Movie • 2004

Mr. Watson

Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!

Movie • 2012

Donald / Roderick Peterson

Earthflight

Movie • 2013

Himself - Narrator

Learners

Movie • 2007

Chris

Much Ado About Nothing

Movie • 2011

Benedick

Nine 1/2 Minutes

Movie • 2002

Charlie

Discovering Hamlet

Movie • 2011

Self

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

Narrator

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

Movie • 2008

The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

Movie • 2013

The Doctor (10)

Bite

Movie • 1997

The Paloni Show! Halloween Special!

Movie • 2022

Roach Chef (voice)

Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned

Movie • 2007

The Doctor

Jude

Movie • 1996

Drunk Undergraduate

Recovery

Movie • 2007

Alan Hamilton

The Chatterley Affair

Movie • 2006

Richard Hoggart

Comic Relief 2024: Funny for Money

Movie • 2024

Self

National Theatre Live: Good

Movie • 2023

Professor John Halder/Johnny

Beauty and the Beast: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas

Movie • 2021

Self

Mad to Be Normal

Movie • 2017

RD Laing

Doctor Who: A Celebration

Movie • 2006

Self - Host

A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman

Movie • 2015

Self - Voice of Charles Darwin

96 Ways to Say I Love You

Movie • 2015

Mark

Heart to Heart

Movie • 2020

Heart

The Catherine Tate Show: Nan's Christmas Carol

Movie • 2009

Ghost of Christmas Present

Being Considered

Movie • 2000

The Thursday Murder Club

Movie • 2025

Ian

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

Movie • 2016

Self - Host

Doctor Who: A New Dimension

Movie • 2005

Self - Narrator (voice)

Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC

Movie • 2015

Narrator

Wings 3D

Movie • 2014

Narrator (voice)

Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC

Movie • 2015

Narrator

Monty Python in Aberystwyth

Movie • 2009

Narrator

Doctor Who: 60th Anniversary Specials

Movie • 2023

The Doctor (archive footage)

Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time

Movie • 2015

Narrator (Voice UK)

Endgame

Movie • 2009

Self - Host (uncredited)

So You Want To Be A Pirate!

Movie • 2012

Charles Darwin

Doctor Who: Time Crash

Movie • 2007

The Friday Night Project - Unleashed

Movie • 2007

Self - Guest Host

Doctor Who: Tales Lost in Time

Movie • 2011

Derren Brown: Pushed to the Edge

Movie • 2016

Himself

DuckTales: Destination Adventure!

Movie • 2018

Scrooge McDuck (voice)

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

Movie • 2019

Spitelout / Ivar the Whitless (voice)

How to Train Your Dragon

Movie • 2010

Spitelout (voice)

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion

Movie • 2014

Self / The Doctor (archive footage)

Children In Need 2019: Got It Covered

Movie • 2019

Self

The National Television Awards Celebrate 25 Years

Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas

Movie • 2020

Self

The Loud House Movie

Movie • 2021

Angus (voice)

Biting the Hands

Movie • 1989

3rd Squaddie

Doctor Who: Tales from the TARDIS

Movie • 2013

Self

Macbeth

Movie • 2025

Macbeth

Doctor Who at the Proms

Movie • 2024

The Doctor (14) (10) (archive footage)

Fireman Sam: Alien Alert! The Movie

Movie • 2017

Buck Douglas (voice)

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

Movie • 2015

The Doctor (10) (picture) (uncredited)

Come in Number Five

Movie • 2011

Presenter

Bring Something Back: The Making of 'The Quatermass Experiment'

Movie • 2005

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

Movie • 2025

The Doctor / The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

My Sarah Jane: A Tribute to Elisabeth Sladen

Movie • 2011

Self

The Big Night In

Movie • 2020

Self

Doctor Who: The End of Time

Movie • 2010

The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor

Movie • 2022

The Doctor

Doctor Who:The Christmas Invasion

Dramarama

TV • 1983

Takin' Over the Asylum

TV • 1994

Campbell

Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

TV • 2000

Who Do You Think You Are?

TV • 2004

Self

Foyle's War

TV • 2002

Theo Howard

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

TV • 2008

Huyang (voice)

DreamWorks Dragons

TV • 2012

Spitelout (voice)

Dragons: Race to the Edge

TV • 2015

Spitelout (voice)

Have I Got News for You

TV • 1990

Self - Host

ARK: The Animated Series

TV • 2024

Sir Edmund Rockwell (voice)

Casanova

TV • 2005

Giacomo Casanova

Comedy World Cup

TV • 2012

Host

A Mug's Game

TV • 1996

Doctor Who: Dreamland

TV • 2009

The Doctor (voice)

GMTV

TV • 1993

Self

Rivals

TV • 2024

Tony Baddingham

Duck Patrol

TV • 1998

Simon 'Darwin' Brown

Live from Studio Five

TV • 2009

Self

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

TV • 2002

Self - Guest Announcer

Ahsoka

TV • 2023

Huyang (voice)

Terri McIntyre - Classy Bitch

TV • 2001

Greig Miller

Earthflight

TV • 2011

The National Television Awards Backstage Live

TV • 2010

Ask Rhod Gilbert

TV • 2010

Self

Doctor Who

TV • 2005

Doctor (10)

The Politician's Husband

TV • 2013

Aiden Hoynes

Twenty Twelve

TV • 2011

Narrator (voice)

Doctor Who

TV • 2005

The Doctor

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

TV • 2005

Self

Wild About Pandas

TV • 2012

Narrator

Spine Chillers

TV • 2003

Dr. Krull

The Escape Artist

TV • 2013

Will Burton

Gracepoint

TV • 2014

Emmett Carver

Marvel's Jessica Jones

TV • 2015

Kilgrave

Shakespeare Uncovered

TV • 2012

Himself

Single Father

TV • 2010

Dave

Clone High

TV • 2023

David Tennant (voice)

Rex Is Not Your Lawyer

TV • 2010

Rex Alexander

Spy in the Ocean, A Nature Miniseries

TV • 2023

Narrator

True Love

TV • 2012

Nick

Big Fat Quiz

TV • 2004

Self - Guest

Dead Ringers

TV • 2002

Regenerated Tony Blair

Derren Brown: Trick or Treat

TV • 2007

Himself

Love in the 21st Century

TV • 1999

John

People Like Us

TV • 1999

Rob Harker

The Tales of Para Handy

TV • 1994

John MacBryde

Natural World

TV • 1983

Narrator

Never Mind the Buzzcocks

TV • 1996

Self - Presenter

Rab C. Nesbitt

TV • 1990

Davina

The Graham Norton Show

TV • 2007

Self

The Legend of Vox Machina

TV • 2022

General Kreig (voice)

Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka

TV • 2003

Young Custodian (voice) (uncredited)

Doctor Who Greatest Moments

TV • 2009

Self

The One Show

TV • 2006

Self

Fish Hooks

TV • 2010

Oscar's Brain (voice)

Secret Smile

TV • 2005

Brendan

Good Omens

TV • 2019

Crowley

Spy in the Wild

TV • 2017

Himself - Narrator

Final Space

TV • 2018

Lord Commander (voice)

W1A

TV • 2014

Narrator (voice)

Thunderbirds Are Go!

TV • 2015

Tyco Reeves (Voice)

Camping

TV • 2018

Walt

Doctor Who: Video Commentaries

TV • 2023

Self - The Doctor

The Last Leg

TV • 2013

Self

Penguins: Spy in the Huddle

TV • 2013

Narrator (voice)

He Knew He Was Right

TV • 2004

Mr. Gibson

Dolphins: Spy in the Pod

TV • 2014

Narrator

The Simpsons

TV • 1989

Pa MacWeldon (voice)

Doctor Who Confidential

TV • 2005

Self

DuckTales

TV • 2017

Scrooge McDuck (Voice)

Room 101

TV • 1994

Self

Tree Fu Tom

TV • 2012

Twigs (voice)

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

Self - Presenter

CBeebies Bedtime Stories

TV • 2009

Self

There She Goes

TV • 2018

Simon

The Sandman

TV • 2022

Don (voice)

gen:LOCK

TV • 2019

Dr. Weller (voice)

Inside Man

TV • 2022

Harry Watling

Red Dwarf: The First Three Million Years

TV • 2020

Self - Narrator (voice)

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

TV • 2023

Franklin (voice)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

TV • 2012

Fugitoid (voice)

Criminal: UK

TV • 2019

Dr. Edgar Fallon

Rob Beckett's Smart TV

TV • 2024

Self - Guest

Deadwater Fell

TV • 2020

Tom Kendrick

Standing By

Doctor Who: Video Commentaries

TV • 2023

Self

Des

TV • 2020

Dennis Nilsen

Around the World in 80 Days

TV • 2021

Phileas Fogg

Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited

TV • 2013

Self

The Real History of Science Fiction

TV • 2014

Himself

Ant & Dec's Limitless Win

TV • 2022

Self

The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

TV • 1998

Max Valentine

Swarm: Nature's Incredible Invasions

TV • 2009

Narrator (voice)

Ready, Steady, Cook

TV • 1994

Self - Contestant

Off Camera with Sam Jones

TV • 2014

Self

Marvel's Jessica Jones

TV • 2015

Kilgrave (voice)

Staged

TV • 2020

David

DreamWorks Dragons

TV • 2012

Spitelout (voice)

Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures

TV • 2023

Huyang (voice)

The Genius Game

TV • 2025

The Creator

Hang Ups

TV • 2018

Martin Lamb

Top Gear: Extra Gear

TV • 2016

Self

The Friday Night Project

TV • 2005

Self - Host

The Hack

TV • 2025

Nick Davies

Chibiverse

TV • 2022

Scrooge McDuck (Voice)

The Assembly

TV • 2025

Self - Interviewee

Doctor Who

TV • 2024

The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

Litvinenko

TV • 2022

Alexander Litvinenko

Spies of Warsaw

TV • 2013

Jean-François Mercier

Gogglebox

TV • 2013

Self

CBeebies Bedtime Stories

TV • 2009

Fourteenth Doctor

Remembers…

TV • 2022

Self