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Peter Capaldi
1.4 Popularity
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.
Known For
5.3
The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025
1.0
Self
The Academy of Armando
2025
7.2
The Doctor (12) (archive footage)
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024
6.9
DCI Daniel Hegarty
Criminal Record
2024
7.4
Gideon Shepherd
The Devil's Hour
2022
0.0
Narrator
Riverwoods: An Untold Story
2022
10.0
Self
Quentin Blake – The Drawing of My Life
2021
6.1
Siegfried Sassoon (Older)
Benediction
2021
10.0
Roland
National Theatre Live: Constellations
2021
7.5
Thinker
The Suicide Squad
2021
Credits
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025
5.3
The Academy of Armando
as Self
2025
1.0
Doctor Who at the Proms
as The Doctor (12) (archive footage)
2024
7.2
Criminal Record
as DCI Daniel Hegarty
2024
6.9
The Devil's Hour
as Gideon Shepherd
2022
7.4
Riverwoods: An Untold Story
as Narrator
2022
0.0
Quentin Blake – The Drawing of My Life
as Self
2021
10.0
Benediction
as Siegfried Sassoon (Older)
2021
6.1
National Theatre Live: Constellations
as Roland
2021
10.0
The Suicide Squad
as Thinker
2021
7.5
Being Beethoven
as Beethoven (voice)
2020
8.0
Martin's Close
as Dolben
2019
5.6
The Personal History of David Copperfield
as Mr. Micawber
2019
6.4
How to See a Black Hole: The Universe's Greatest Mystery
as Narrator
2019
7.0
Watership Down
as Kehaar (voice)
2018
6.9
Christopher Robin
as Rabbit (voice)
2018
7.3
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
as Self
2018
6.8
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
as The Doctor (12)
2017
8.0
Paddington 2
as Reginald Curry
2017
7.5
Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio
as The Doctor
2016
7.5
Prison, My Parents & Me
as Narrator
2016
0.0
Class
as The Doctor
2016
6.3
Doctor Who: Friend from the Future
as The Doctor
2016
0.0
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
as The Doctor
2015
8.0
Doctor Who: The Doctor's Meditation
as The Doctor
2015
10.0
Doctor Who: Last Christmas
as The Doctor
2014
7.7
Paddington
as Reginald Curry
2014
7.1
Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven
as The Doctor
2014
8.0
Doctor Who Extra
as Self
2014
0.0
Doctor Who: Deep Breath
as The Doctor (12)
2014
7.7
Doctor Who: Earth Conquest - The World Tour
as Self
2014
7.2
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
as Self / The Doctor (archive footage)
2014
8.1
The Musketeers
as Cardinal Richelieu
2014
7.0
Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor
as The Doctor (12)
2013
8.1
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
as Self - Presenter
2013
0.0
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
as The Doctor (12) (uncredited)
2013
8.2
The Fifth Estate
as Alan Rusbridger
2013
6.0
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
as Self
2013
5.0
World War Z
as W.H.O. Doctor
2013
6.8
Inside the Mind of Leonardo
as Leonardo da Vinci
2013
7.0
Punk Britannia
as Narrator
2012
7.5
The Cricklewood Greats
as Himself
2012
7.0
Black Mirror
as Older Cameron Walker
2011
8.3
Big Fat Gypsy Gangster
as Peter Van Gellis
2011
3.2
The Natural World--Komodo: The Deadly Bite
as voice actor
2011
7.0
The Natural World--Komodo: The Deadly Bite
2011
0.0
The Hour
as Randall Brown
2011
7.5
The Field of Blood
as Dr. Pete
2011
6.3
The Murder at Road Hill House
as Samuel Kent
2011
6.1
The Nativity
as Balthazar
2010
8.8
Accused
as Frank Ryland
2010
8.1
🎬
Bistro
as Max
2010
10.0
10 Minute Tales
2009
7.5
🎬
A Portrait of Scotland
as Self - Presenter
2009
0.0
Getting On
as Peter Healy
2009
6.9
Torchwood: Children of Earth
as John Frobisher
2009
0.0
In the Loop
as Malcolm Tucker
2009
7.0
The Penguins of Madagascar
as Uncle Nigel (voice)
2008
7.4
The Devil's Whore
as King Charles I
2008
6.8
Cold Blood
as Self - Narrator
2008
6.8
Midnight Man
as Trevor
2008
5.2
Spinners and Losers
as Malcolm Tucker
2007
8.3
Magicians
as Mike Francis
2007
5.9
Fallen Angel
as Henry Appleton
2007
4.5
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
Skins
as Mark
2007
8.1
The Rise of the Nutters
as Malcolm Tucker
2007
8.3
The Martians and Us
as Narrator
2006
0.0
Torchwood
as John Frobisher
2006
7.3
Aftersun
as Jim
2006
8.0
🎬
Aftersun
2006
0.0
The One Show
as Self
2006
4.4
Trawlermen
as Narrator (voice)
2006
0.0
Pinochet in Suburbia
as Andy McEntee
2006
6.0
Wild Country
as Father Steve
2005
4.4
Michael Powell
as Narrator
2005
0.0
The Best Man
as Priest
2005
5.3
House of 9
as Max Roy
2005
5.0
The Thick of It
as Malcolm Tucker
2005
8.0
Doctor Who
as Caecilius
2005
7.6
Doctor Who
as The Doctor
2005
7.6
Salvage
as James Mulwray
2004
6.0
Napoleon's Waterloo
as Narrator
2004
0.0
Modigliani
as Jean Cocteau
2004
7.0
Sea of Souls
as Gordon Fleming
2004
7.6
Niceland (Population. 1.000.002)
as John
2004
4.3
Peep Show
as Professor Alistair MacLeish
2003
8.0
Fortysomething
as Dr. Ronnie Pilfrey
2003
7.5
Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War
as Derek
2003
7.4
The Afternoon Play
as Billy Shannon
2003
0.0
Unconditional Love
as DI Terry Machin
2003
6.0
Foyle's War
as Raymond Carter
2002
7.9
Max
as David Cohn
2002
6.1
Solid Geometry
as David Hunter
2002
4.4
Judge John Deed
2001
6.7
Waking the Dead
as Lucien Calvin
2001
7.2
In Deep
as Jeremy Church
2001
10.0
Hotel!
as Hilton Gilfoyle
2001
4.5
The Greatest Store in the World
as Mr. Whiskers
1999
4.8
Psychos
1999
6.3
What Rats Won't Do
as Tony
1998
4.8
🎬
Boswell's Boswell
as James Boswell (voice)
1998
0.0
I Hate Christmas Too
as Man
1997
6.0
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
as Lord Fellamar
1997
7.0
Shooting Fish
as Mr Gilzean
1997
6.3
Bean
as Gareth
1997
6.5
Midsomer Murders
as Laurence Barker
1997
7.5
Smilla's Sense of Snow
as Birgo Lander
1997
6.3
The Treasure Seekers
as Jellicoe
1996
5.3
The Crow Road
as Rory McHoan
1996
6.8
Neverwhere
as Islington
1996
6.7
🎬
Giving Tongue
as Duncan Fielding
1996
1.0
🎬
Runway One
as Mick Galligan
1995
0.0
The Vicar of Dibley
1994
7.2
Chandler & Co.
1994
0.0
Captives
as Simon
1994
5.8
The All New Alexei Sayle Show
1994
6.0
Jealousy
as John
1993
0.0
Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
as David Critchley
1993
6.5
Rik Mayall Presents
as David Critchley
1993
7.3
Selling Hitler
as Thomas Walde
1993
7.0
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
as Gavin Bellini
1993
6.2
The Secret Agent
as Mr Vladimir
1992
8.0
Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
as Luke Wakefield
1992
4.5
The Cloning of Joanna May
as Isaac
1992
7.0
Titmuss Regained
as Ken Cracken
1991
0.0
Selling Hitler
as Thomas Walde
1991
7.0
Prime Suspect
as Vernon 'Vera' Reynolds
1991
7.7
🎬
Do Not Disturb
1991
2.0
Have I Got News for You
as Self
1990
7.1
December Bride
as Young Sorleyson
1990
6.9
Stay Lucky
1989
6.0
Rosie the Great
as The British Ambassador
1989
0.0
Dream Baby
as Willie
1989
0.0
Shadow of the Noose
as Robert Wood
1989
0.0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Claude Langton
1989
8.2
Communicators From Hell
1989
0.0
Dangerous Liaisons
as Azolan
1988
7.2
This Morning
as Self - Guest
1988
5.2
The Love Child
as Dillon
1988
7.0
The Lair of the White Worm
as Angus Flint
1988
5.9
The Story of a Recluse
as Jamie Kirkwood
1987
0.0
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
as Zeno Vedast
1987
6.3
Up Line
as Scott Dare
1987
0.0
🎬
God's Chosen Car Park
as Everard
1986
0.0
Turtle Diary
as Assistant Keeper
1985
6.2
John and Yoko: A Love Story
as George Harrison
1985
5.7
🎬
Spectrum
as Himself
1984
0.0
Natural World
as Narrator
1983
7.2
Local Hero
as Danny Oldsen
1983
6.8
Living Apart Together
as Joe
1982
0.0
Minder
as Ozzie
1979
6.8
A Ghost Story for Christmas
as Dolben
1971
7.4
🎬
Lost for Words
as The Tourist
N/A
0.0