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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1958-04-14 (67 years old)

Place of Birth

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Peter Capaldi

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 fictitious film studio, which tracks real developments and trends throughout the history of British cinema. Film roles include Oldsen in Local Hero, Angus Flint in Ken Russell's The Lair of the White Worm, and Mr Curry in Paddington and its sequel, Paddington 2. As a director, Capaldi won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for his short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life. He went on to write and direct the drama film Strictly Sinatra and helmed two series of sitcom Getting On.

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Known For

Acting

2025

2024

Doctor Who at the Proms as The Doctor (12) (archive footage)
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour as The Doctor (12) (picture) (uncredited)
Criminal Record as DCI Daniel Hegarty

2022

The Devil's Hour as Gideon Shepherd

2021

2019

2018

2017

Paddington 2 as Reginald Curry

2016

2015

2014

Paddington as Reginald Curry
Doctor Who: Deep Breath as The Doctor (12)
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion as Self / The Doctor (archive footage)
The Musketeers as Cardinal Richelieu
Doctor Who Extra as The Doctor

2013

World War Z as W.H.O. Doctor
The Fifth Estate as Alan Rusbridger
Inside the Mind of Leonardo as Leonardo da Vinci
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor as The Doctor (12) (uncredited)
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli? as Self - Presenter

2012

2011

2010

Bistro as Max
Accused as Frank Ryland
The Nativity as Balthazar

2009

In the Loop as Malcolm Tucker
A Portrait of Scotland as Self - Presenter
Getting On as Peter Healy

2008

The Devil's Whore as King Charles I
The Penguins of Madagascar as Uncle Nigel (voice)
Midnight Man as Trevor
Cold Blood as Self - Narrator

2007

The Rise of the Nutters as Malcolm Tucker
Magicians as Mike Francis
Spinners and Losers as Malcolm Tucker
Skins as Mark
Fallen Angel as Henry Appleton

2006

Aftersun as Jim
Pinochet in Suburbia as Andy McEntee
The One Show as Self
Trawlermen as Narrator (voice)
Torchwood as John Frobisher

2005

House of 9 as Max Roy
Wild Country as Father Steve
The Best Man as Priest
Michael Powell as Narrator
The Thick of It as Malcolm Tucker
Doctor Who as Caecilius
Doctor Who as The Doctor
Doctor Who as The Doctor (uncredited)
Doctor Who as Self

2004

Salvage as James Mulwray
Modigliani as Jean Cocteau
Sea of Souls as Gordon Fleming

2003

Unconditional Love as DI Terry Machin
Peep Show as Professor Alistair MacLeish

2002

Solid Geometry as David Hunter
Max as David Cohn

2001

Hotel! as Hilton Gilfoyle
In Deep as Jeremy Church
Waking the Dead as Lucien Calvin

1999

1998

Boswell's Boswell as James Boswell (voice)

1997

Bean as Gareth
Smilla's Sense of Snow as Birgo Lander
Shooting Fish as Mr Gilzean
Midsomer Murders as Laurence Barker

1996

Giving Tongue as Duncan Fielding
Neverwhere as Islington
The Crow Road as Rory McHoan

1995

Runway One as Mick Galligan

1994

1993

Jealousy as John
Soft Top Hard Shoulder as Gavin Bellini
Rik Mayall Presents as David Critchley

1992

1991

Selling Hitler as Thomas Walde
Prime Suspect as Vernon 'Vera' Reynolds
Selling Hitler as Thomas Walde
Titmuss Regained as Ken Cracken

1990

December Bride as Young Sorleyson

1989

Rosie the Great as The British Ambassador
Dream Baby as Willie
Agatha Christie's Poirot as Claude Langton
Shadow of the Noose as Robert Wood

1988

The Love Child as Dillon
This Morning as Self - Guest

1987

Up Line as Scott Dare
The Story of a Recluse as Jamie Kirkwood

1986

1985

John and Yoko: A Love Story as George Harrison
Turtle Diary as Assistant Keeper

1983

Local Hero as Oldsen
Natural World as Narrator

1982

1979

Minder as Ozzie

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Lost for Words as The Tourist

Directing

Production

2024

Criminal Record as Executive Producer