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David Tennant is one of the most popular and richest TV Actor who was born on April 18, 1971 in Bathgate, Scotland. Scottish actor who became famous with American viewers for his role as the tenth Doctor in the science fiction show Doctor Who. He also landed leading roles on The Netflix show Jessica Jones, HBO’s Camping and Amazon’s Good Omens. He also played in the role of John Knox in the film Mary Queen of Scots.
He played Barty Crouch, Jr. in the movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with He portrayed Barty Crouch, Jr. in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire alongside Daniel Radcliffe..
David John Tennant (né McDonald; born 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. He played the roles of the tenth incarnation of The Doctor in the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who (2005–2010), Giacomo Casanova in the BBC comedy-drama serial Casanova (2005), the title prince in the RSC’s 2009 adaptation of Hamlet (2009), Barty Crouch, Jr. in the fantasy film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), DI Alec Hardy in the ITV crime drama series Broadchurch (2013–2017), and Kilgrave in the Netflix superhero series Jessica Jones (2015–2019).
Tennant made his professional acting debut while still in secondary school. When he was 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, he played a role 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 costarring 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 the Scottish TV sitcom Rab C Nesbitt as a transsexual barmaid called Davina. In the 1990s, he appeared in several plays at the Dundee Repertory Theatre.
He was married to Georgia Moffett in 2011. They had 5 children: the children were Ty, Olive, Doris, Wilfred, and Birdie.
Name | David Tennant |
First Name | David |
Last Name | Tennant |
Occupation | Tv Actor |
Birthday | April 18 |
Birth Year | 1971 |
Place of Birth | Bathgate |
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Birth Country | Scotland |
Birth Sign | Aries |
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Father | Not Available |
Mother | Not Available |
Siblings | Not Available |
Spouse | Georgia Tennant |
Children(s) | Ty Tennant, Olive Tennant, Birdie Tennant, Wilfred Tennant, Doris Tennant |
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Tennant developed his career in the British theatre, frequently performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company. His first Shakespearean role for the RSC was in As You Like It (1996); having auditioned for the role of Orlando, the romantic lead, he was instead cast as the jester Touchstone, which he played in his natural Scottish accent. He subsequently specialised in comic roles, playing Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors and Captain Jack Absolute in The Rivals, although he also played the tragic role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. He also starred in the 2003 London production of Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman.
David Tennant is one of the richest Tv Actor from Scotland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Tennant's net worth $7 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He was inspired to be an actor after watching the TV Dr. Who show. Dr. Who, and his parents urged for a conventional job. He was steadfast in goals and was discovered by the actress He was inspired to become an actor by the show Dr. Who, and his parents asked him to pursue a traditional job. He remained single-minded in his the pursuit of his goal, and was discovered by actress Edith MacArthur..
He received an award in 2007 called the National Television Award for Most Popular Actor for his performance in the television show Dr. Who. Dr. Who.
Tennant was born David John McDonald on 18 April 1971 in Bathgate, West Lothian, the son of Alexander “Sandy” McDonald (1937–2016), a minister who served as the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and Helen McDonald (née McLeod; 1940–2007). He grew up with his brother Blair and sister Karen in Ralston, Renfrewshire, where his father was the local minister. Two of Tennant’s maternal great-grandparents, William and Agnes Blair, were staunch Protestants from Northern Ireland’s County Londonderry, who were among the signatories of the Ulster Covenant in 1912. William was a member of the Orange Order. Tennant’s maternal grandfather, footballer Archie McLeod, met William and Agnes’ daughter Nellie while playing for Derry City FC. McLeod was descended from tenant farmers from the Isle of Mull.
Net Worth | $7 Million |
Salary | Under Review |
Source of Income | TV Actor |
Cars | Not Available |
House | Living in own house. |
Tennant contributed to several audio dramatisations of Shakespeare for the Arkangel Shakespeare series (1998). His roles include a reprisal of his Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, as well as Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice, Edgar/Poor Tom in King Lear, and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, all of which he performs in his natural accent. In 1995, Tennant appeared at the Royal National Theatre, London, playing the role of Nicholas Beckett in Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw. In television, he appeared in the first episode of Reeves and Mortimer’s revamped Randall and Hopkirk in 2000, playing an eccentric artist. This is one of his few TV roles in his native Scottish accent. During the Christmas season of 2002, he starred in a series of television advertisements for Boots the Chemists. In 2003 Tennant appeared in the film Bright Young Things. He began to appear on television more prominently in 2004 and 2005, when he appeared in a dramatisation of He Knew He Was Right (2004), Blackpool (2004), Casanova (2005), and The Quatermass Experiment (2005) and later that same year he appeared as Barty Crouch Jr. in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
He previously had a small role in the BBC’s animated Doctor Who webcast Scream of the Shalka. Not originally cast in the production, Tennant was recording a radio play in a neighbouring studio, and when he discovered what was being recorded next door convinced the director to give him a small role. This personal enthusiasm for the series had also been expressed by his participation in several audio plays based on the Doctor Who television series which had been produced by Big Finish Productions, although he did not play the Doctor in any of these productions. His first such role was in the Seventh Doctor audio Colditz, where he played a Nazi lieutenant guard at Colditz Castle. In 2004 Tennant played a lead role in the Big Finish audio play series Dalek Empire III as Galanar, a young man who is given an assignment to discover the secrets of the Daleks. In 2005, he starred in UNIT: The Wasting for Big Finish, recreating his role of Brimmicombe-Wood from a Doctor Who Unbound play, Sympathy for the Devil. In both audio productions, he worked alongside Nicholas Courtney, who reprised the character of Sir Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. He also played an unnamed Time Lord in another Doctor Who Unbound play Exile. UNIT: The Wasting, was recorded between Tennant getting the role of the Doctor and it being announced. He played the title role in Big Finish’s adaptation of Bryan Talbot’s The Adventures of Luther Arkwright (2005). In 2006, he recorded abridged audio books of The Stone Rose by Jacqueline Rayner, The Feast of the Drowned by Stephen Cole and The Resurrection Casket by Justin Richards, for BBC Worldwide.
David Tennant height 6 ft 1 in David weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
Height | 6 ft 1 in |
Weight | Not Known |
Body Measurements | Under Review |
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Tennant was awarded his first major TV role as the manic depressive Campbell in the BBC Scotland drama series Takin’ Over the Asylum (1994), after impressing director David Blair during filming of another drama – Strathblair (1992). As Tennant recalled from the audition, “they needed someone who could believably act 19 and bonkers”. During filming, of Takin’ Over the Asylum he 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 with 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 (Weir later guest-starred on Doctor Who itself after Tennant left the series). One of his earliest big-screen roles was in Jude (1996), in which he shared a scene with Christopher Eccleston, playing a drunken undergraduate who challenges Eccleston’s Jude to prove his intellect. Coincidentally, Eccleston portrayed the incarnation of The Doctor immediately preceding Tennant’s.
In December 2005, The Stage placed Tennant at No. 6 in its “Top Ten” list of the most influential British 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 him the “Sexiest Man in the Universe”. In October 2006, he was named “Scotland’s most stylish male” in the Scottish Style Awards.
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Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for David Tennant. You may help us to build the dating records for David Tennant!Tennant is a supporter of the Labour Party and appeared in a party political broadcast for them in 2005. He declared his support for then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2010, and labelled David Cameron a “terrifying prospect”. In April 2010, he lent his voice to a Labour election broadcast. In 2012, he introduced Labour Party leader Ed Miliband onstage at the Labour Party Conference. In 2015, he also lent his voice to a Labour Party General Election broadcast.
David Ranked on the list of most popular TV Actor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Scotland. David Tennant celebrates birthday on April 18 of every year.
While playing the Doctor, Tennant was also in the early December 2005 ITV drama Secret Smile. His performance as Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger at the Theatre Royal, Bath, and Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, was recorded by the National Video Archive of Performance for the Victoria and Albert Museum Theatre Collection. He revived this performance for the anniversary of the Royal Court Theatre in a rehearsed reading. In January 2006, he took a one-day break from shooting Doctor Who to play Richard Hoggart in a dramatisation of the 1960 Lady Chatterley’s Lover obscenity trial, The Chatterley Affair. The play was written by Andrew Davies and directed by Doctor Who’ s James Hawes for the digital television channel BBC Four. Hoggart’s son, Simon, praised Tennant’s performance in The Guardian newspaper.
After discovering that there was another David McDonald already represented by the actor’s union Equity, he took his stage name from Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant. He later had to legally change his surname to meet the American Screen Actors Guild’s rules.
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David Tennant has many acting credits, from the tenth doctor in the longrunning Doctor Who to Kilgrave in Jessica Jones, along with a role in the Harry Potter film franchise (perhaps you’ve heard of it).
The BBC has maintained that the decision to allow new Doctor Who Peter Capaldi to use his own Scottish accent was a creative one. Two Doctors ago, fellow Scotsman David Tennant was compelled to ‘go English’ when he took on the Timelord role.
One of the most loved pairings in Doctor Who’s history have reunited and are filming scenes that are due to air in 2023 to coincide with the show’s 60th anniversary celebrations.
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