David Tennant

David Tennant ( born April 18, 1971 in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, as David John McDonald ) is a Scottish actor. In addition to successes in the British theater, he is best known for his portrayal of the Tenth Doctor in the science fiction series Doctor Who and Barty Crouch Jr. as the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Childhood and education

Tennant was born as the youngest son of the Reverend Alexander McDonald and Helen McDonald Essdale, nee McLeod, in Bathgate, West Lothian. He grew up in Ralston to near Glasgow, where his father was pastor of the Church of Scotland. His mother was a homemaker and volunteer work in the church. His brother Blair is six years older, and his sister Karen eight years older.

Already three years, he expressed the desire to one day becoming an actor since he was a fan of the British science fiction series Doctor Who. His parents tried to convince him to pursue a more conventional career, but Tennant said he was amazing, determined and never dissuade a child from his career aspirations. During the school year, he appeared in school plays and attended Saturday classes of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. When he joined at the age of 16 years of British actors union Equity, there was already an eponymous David McDonald enrolled, so he uses a stage name, he chose according to Neil Tennant, the lead singer of the Pet Shop Boys.

In 1988 he moved to Glasgow and began acting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama as the youngest in his class. Initially, he lived with his older sister, then living in communities with fellow students. In 1991, he graduated with a Bachelor.

Career

Early career

Tennant began his acting career at age 16 in an anti-smoking TV spot, while he was still at school. A year later, he landed a role in an episode of the Scottish children's series Dramarama. Tennant's first professional role after graduating was with the political theater group 7:84 in a production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. In his first major television role came in 1994 in the six-part BBC series Takin ' Over the Asylum the manic depressive Campbell. The series won several awards, including a BAFTA Award for Best Series, and Tennant later said he got any other job because producers had seen him in Takin ' Over the Asylum.

With theater performances in What the Butler Saw ( 1996) at the Royal National Theatre and The Glass Menagerie (1996 ) at the Dundee Repertory Theatre, he drew attention to himself as a stage actor. His first role as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company was the court jester Touchstone in As You Like It (1996). Then he played mostly comedic roles, such as Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors (2000 ), but also tragic roles as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet ( 2000). For his performance in The Comedy of Errors, he was nominated for an Ian Charleson Award in 2003 and was followed by an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Jeff in Lobby Hero.

His first leading role on the big screen in 1998, he received the romantic comedy LA Without a Map, which was also shown in German cinemas. In 2003 he had a role in the star-studded British film Bright Young Things. In the DVD audio commentary praised director and writer Stephen Fry Tennant's performance and particularly his accent and said, in a few years everyone would know Tennant's name.

As of 2004, Tennant's reputation rose by leading roles in the British television productions He Knew He Was Right (2004 ) Blackpool ( 2004), Casanova (2005) and The enemy in my house (Secret Smile, 2005). By Barty Crouch Jr. as his role in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) Tennant was also known internationally.

Doctor Who (2005-2010)

After the Doctor Who producer Russell T Davies and screenwriter with Tennant to Television Three divider Casanova ( 2005) had worked, he offered him the coveted title role in the cult science -fiction series. Tennant is the tenth actor who embodies the doctor, and played the role in seasons 2-4 and the 2009/2010 specials, in several special episodes, in an episode of the spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures, in parodies (eg in extras or in the Catherine Tate Show ), in the animated series Infinite Quest and Dreamland and in several Doctor Who audio books. High-profile actors like Timothy Dalton, Derek Jacobi or Lindsay Duncan appeared in guest roles in addition to Tennant.

In October 2008, Tennant announced his departure from the show. It was for him the "best job in the world ", but he would go before the roll will become routine for him. His last Doctor Who episode The End of Time Part 2 was aired on 1 January 2010 in British television and seen by 10.4 million viewers.

The role Tennant made one of the best known and most sought after actors in Britain. Among others, he received the 2006 BAFTA Cymru TV Award for " Best Actor " and four times in a row the National Television Award for " most popular actor," the most important award chosen by viewers in the UK. He always spoke about his joy to fulfill the role his childhood dream.

Doctor Who is shooting for nine months a year, while Tennant was seen in another, very different roles. Among other things, he played the lead roles in BBC productions Recovery (2007), Learner (2007) and Einstein and Eddington (2008). In the latter he plays the astrophysicist Arthur Stanley Eddington alongside Andy Serkis as Albert Einstein.

Hamlet (2008-2009)

For 2009, only the radiance of four special episodes was planned rather than a full Doctor Who Season. Therefore, Tennant could return to the theater in 2008 for a season to list the title role of Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet ( alongside Patrick Stewart as Claudius ) and the comedy Love's Labour's Lost with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford- upon- Avon. Because of Tennant's popularity in the UK with the appearance of great media interest was linked to 6,000 tickets were sold out within three hours.

The production and Tennant's presentation was well received by theater critics. Michael Billington described the production in the Guardian as "one of the most richly textured, best- ACTED versions of the play we have seen in years" and praised Tennant as "a Hamlet of quicksilver intelligence, mimetic vigor and wild humor: one of the funniest I've ever seen. " Charles Spencer, drama critic of the Daily Telegraph, described the production as one of the best productions of Hamlet that he has ever seen, and Tennant as " an actor of extraordinary courage and charisma Who Has made a persuasive claim to true greatness ."

Hamlet was transferred in December 2008 to London to the Novello Theatre, but Tennant suffered a herniated disc and had to be represented by stand-ins Edward Bennett. Tennant took over the role again in early January.

On behalf of the BBC and the Royal Shakespeare Company, the piece in the summer of 2009, was filmed in the same occupation and broadcast 26 December 2009 on BBC Two. The three-hour TV movie was seen that day by about 900,000 viewers, a quota that looked at the BBC as a success and then was for the year 2012 more Shakespeare films and documentaries in order.

In April 2011, the British Royal Mail a stamp with Tennant as Prince Hamlet issued to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the RSC.

2010 - today

According to Tennant's exit from Doctor Who he got the lead role in the series pilot Rex is not your Lawyer at NBC. This was Tennant's first North American project, but the pilot was not the series. The four-part BBC series Single Father, in which Tennant plays a widower and father of four children, was broadcast in October 2010 on BBC One and earned him a nomination for the Royal Television Society and selected by TV viewers Choice Award for Best Actor. In April 2011, he starred in football drama United, another BBC project that deals with the rebuilding of the team after the plane crash of the Manchester United team in 1958. In it, he played coach Jimmy Murphy, his first television role with Welsh dialect.

From 16 May to September 3, 2011 Tennant appeared alongside Doctor Who co-star Catherine Tate in the Shakespeare comedy in Much Ado About Nothing at London's Wyndham 's Theatre. The production broke all sales records of the Wyndham 's Theatre and has been described by critics as the "feel-good hit of the summer " and " Shakespeare with mind and heart ." Due to high demand, the stage play was filmed and made available as a download.

Tennant's first Hollywood film was the remake of the 1980 horror comedy Fright Night, and he took over the role of the stage magician Peter Vincent, who was originally played by Roddy McDowall. The film was released in October 2011 in German cinemas. In the British romantic comedy Who's the bride? ( The Decoy Bride ), which was filmed in the summer of 2010, he is seen on the side of Kelly Macdonald and Alice Eve.

In the first episode of the quirky British sitcom This is Jinsy Tennant played an exaggerated Host. In addition, Tennant 2011 worked on two projects with partially improvised script. The BBC One drama True Love in which to play his Doctor Who co-stars Billie Piper and David Morrissey among others, was broadcast in June 2012. In the British family comedy Nativity 2 - The Second Coming he plays the two main roles of Mr Peterson and his twin brother, two teachers who compete with their classes in a competition for the best Christmas pageant. The film was released Christmas 2012 in British cinema. In the animated film The Pirates - Band of Misfits ( The Pirates In an Adventure with Scientists! ) He speaks in English, the voice of Charles Darwin. In the two-part spy thriller The Spies of Warsaw, produced for BBC Four, ARTE France and TVP, he plays the main role. In the three-part policy drama The Politician 's Husband, which was broadcast on BBC Two in 2013, he and Emily Watson play the main roles. He also plays the leading role in the eight-part crime series Broad Church and in the American remake Point of Grace transmitter FOX.

In the fall of 2013 Tennant will return one season to the RSC to play Richard II.

Since 2012 he is member of the Board of Directors of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Private life

Tennant avoids in interviews about his private life to speak: " Relationships are hard enough with the people you're having them with, let alone talking about them in public. " ( German: to lead "relationships is difficult enough without also publicly to speak. " ) He is since 2008 a relationship with the actress Georgia Moffett, daughter of Doctor Who actor Peter Davison. Tennant and Moffett married in December 2011. They have a daughter and he adopted Moffetts son.

Politically Tennant is on the side of the Labour Party and appeared in 2005 and 2010 election commercials. He is patron of the British Association for International Cancer Research and Headway Essex.

Tennant lives in London.

Filmography (selection)

Plays ( selection)

Awards

2006: TV Quick and TV Choice Award, Best Actor: Doctor Who
2006: National Television Awards, as the most popular actor: Doctor Who
2006: Nominated for Broadcasting Press Guild Award, Best Actor: Casanova, Secret Smile, Doctor Who
2007: Welsh BAFTA Awards, Best Actor: Doctor Who
2007: TV Quick and TV Choice Award, Best Actor: Doctor Who
2007: National Television Awards, as the most popular actor: Doctor Who
2008: nomination of the Royal Television Society Best Actor: Recovery, Doctor Who
2008: TV Quick and TV Choice Award, Best Actor: Doctor Who
2008: National Television Awards, Best Actor: Doctor Who
2008: Nominated for Satellite Award, Best Actor in a Series ( Drama ): Doctor Who
2009: Nominated for Broadcasting Press Guild Award, Best Actor: Doctor Who, Einstein & Eddington
2009: Nominated for Scottish BAFTA Award, Best Male Actor: Doctor Who
2010: National Television Awards, Best Actor: Doctor Who
2010: Nominated for Broadcasting Press Guild Award, Best Actor: Hamlet, Doctor Who
2010: Nominated for a Saturn Award, Best Actor in a TV Series: Doctor Who: The End of Time
2010: nomination of the Royal Television Society Best Actor: Single Father
2011: TV Choice Award, Best Actor: Single Father

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