Peter Capaldi
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Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday14 April 1958 (68 years old)
Place of birthGlasgow, Scotland, UK
Known credits169
Biography
Peter Dougan Capaldi (born April 14, 1958) is a Scottish actor, writer and director. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who and Malcolm Tucker the spin doctor in The Thick of It, for which he has received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010. When he reprised the role in In the Loop, Capaldi was honoured with several film critic award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. In 2012, Capaldi wrote (with Tony Roche), directed and performed in The Cricklewood Greats, an affectionate spoof documentary about a ficti…
TFI Unplugged
2026 · Self
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025 · The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Academy of Armando
2025 · Self
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024 · The Doctor (12) (archive footage)
Criminal Record
2024 · DCI Daniel Hegarty
Criminal Record
2024 · Executive Producer
The Devil's Hour
2022 · Gideon Shepherd
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022 · Self
Riverwoods: An Untold Story
2022 · Narrator
Quentin Blake – The Drawing of My Life
2021 · Self
Benediction
2021 · Siegfried Sassoon (Older)
National Theatre Live: Constellations
2021 · Roland
But Why?
2021 · Older Man (uncredited)
The Suicide Squad
2021 · Thinker
Being Beethoven
2020 · Beethoven (voice)
The Big Night In
2020 · Self
Martin's Close
2019 · Dolben
The Personal History of David Copperfield
2019 · Mr. Micawber
How to See a Black Hole: The Universe's Greatest Mystery
2019 · Narrator
Watership Down
2018 · Kehaar (voice)
Christopher Robin
2018 · Rabbit (voice)
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
2018 · Self
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
2017 · The Doctor (12)
Paddington 2
2017 · Reginald Curry
Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio
2016 · The Doctor
Prison, My Parents & Me
2016 · Narrator
Class
2016 · The Doctor
Doctor Who: Friend from the Future
2016 · The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015 · The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Doctor's Meditation
2015 · The Doctor
Doctor Who: Last Christmas
2014 · The Doctor
Paddington
2014 · Reginald Curry
Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven
2014 · The Doctor (12)
Doctor Who: Deep Breath
2014 · The Doctor (12)
Doctor Who Extra
2014 · Self
Doctor Who: Earth Conquest - The World Tour
2014 · Self
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
2014 · Self / The Doctor (archive footage)
The Musketeers
2014 · Cardinal Richelieu
Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor
2013 · The Doctor (12)
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
2013 · Self - Presenter
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013 · The Doctor (12) (uncredited)
The Fifth Estate
2013 · Alan Rusbridger
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
2013 · Self
World War Z
2013 · W.H.O. Doctor
Inside the Mind of Leonardo
2013 · Leonardo da Vinci
Punk Britannia
2012 · Narrator
The Cricklewood Greats
2012 · Himself
The Cricklewood Greats
2012 · Director
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