David Tennant

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David Tennant, © Dan Wooller

David Tennant’s theatre work includes Macbeth (Donmar Warehouse, Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor, Critics’ Circle Award for Best Shakespearean Performance), Good (Harold Pinter Theatre, Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor), Don Juan in Soho (Wyndham’s Theatre,winner of WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor), Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndham’s Theatre), Richard II (RSC/Barbican/BAM, winner of WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor), Hamlet (winner of Critics Circle Award for Best Shakespearean Performance); Love’s Labour’s Lost; Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, The Rivals, As You Like It, The Herbal Bed, The General from America (RSC), Look Back in Anger (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh/Theatre Royal Bath, CATS Award), The Pillowman, What the Butler Saw (National Theatre), Push Up (Royal Court Theatre), Comedians (Exeter/Oxford), Lobby Hero (Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor), King Lear; An Experienced Woman Gives Advice (Royal Exchange Theatre), Vassa (Albery Theatre), The Real Inspector Hound/Black Comedy (Comedy Theatre), Hurlyburly (Queen’s Theatre), Long Day’s Journey into Night, and The Glass Menagerie (Dundee Rep).

His television work includes Rivals for Disney Plus, Doctor Who (BAFTA Wales Best Actor, TV Times award, four National Television Awards and three TV Choice awards for Best Actor), Des (International Emmy Award for Best Actor, Broadcasting Press Guild Award for best actor, and National Television Award, Most Popular Drama Performance), Litvenenko, Good Omens Series 1 and 2, Inside Man, Staged, Around the World in 80 Days, Criminal, Deadwater Fell, There She Goes, Jessica Jones, Camping, Broadchurch (three TV Choice awards for best actor, Crime Writers Association award for Best Actor), W1A, Gracepoint (People’s Choice Award), The Escape Artist (BAFTA Scotland Award), The Politician’s Husband, Spies of Warsaw, Playhouse Presents: The Minor Character, True Love, Twenty Twelve, This is Jinsy, United, Single Father (TV Choice Award for Best Actor), The Sarah Jane Adventures, Hamlet, The Catherine Tate Show, Einstein and Eddington, Extras, Learners, Recovery (Royal Television Society Award nomination for Best Actor), The Chatterley Affair, Secret Smile, The Quatermass Experiment, Casanova, Blackpool, He Knew He Was Right, Terri McIntyre, Posh Nosh, Trust, Foyle’s War, People Like Us, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), The Mrs Bradley Mysteries, Love in the 21st Century, Duck Patrol, The Tales of Para Handy, Dramarama, Rab C Nesbitt, and Takin’ Over the Asylum.

Film credits include Mary Queen of Scots, Bad Samaritan, You, Me & Him, Mad to Be Normal, What We Did on Our Holiday, Fright Night, The Decoy Bride, Glorious 39, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Bright Young Things, Being Considered, The Last September, LA Without a Map, and Jude.

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