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Peter Capaldi
Peter Dougan Capaldi is a Scottish actor, director, singer and guitarist. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction series Doctor Who (2013–2017) and Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It (2005–2012), for which he received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010.
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entertainment · Scottish actor and director (born 1958) · actor · screenwriter · film director · film actor · television actor · voice actor · television director · music artist · executive producer · also Peter Capaldi, Capaldi
Born 14 April 1958 · Q732661
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
Released album “Sweet Illusions”.
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Played the older Cameron Walker in the Black Mirror episode "Plaything"
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2021· 3 entries
Released album “St. Christopher”.
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Acting against Zoë Wanamaker; and directed a pilot for a TV series titled They F**k You Up, though it remained unsold, in 2022
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And voiced the recurring character Seamus McGregor in the Netflix series Big Mouth in 2022
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2019· 1 entry
And an elderly incarnation of the writer and soldier Siegfried Sassoon in Terence Davies's biographical drama Benediction in 2021
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2018· 1 entry
Voiced Rabbit in the Disney film Christopher Robin, and the next year he narrated audiobook version of Watership Down and Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth, winning an AudioFile Earphones award for his narration on bot
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2016· 1 entry
Capaldi reprised his role as the Twelfth Doctor in the Doctor Who spin-off programme Class, written by young-adult author Patrick Ness
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2015· 3 entries
Capaldi alongside Cate Blanchett, Patrick Stewart, and Colin Firth supported the United Nations's refugee agency UNHCR to help raise awareness about the global refugee crisis
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Voiced the Doctor in crossover video game Lego Dimensions
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And reprised the role two years later film's sequel Paddington 2, and as King Kinloch in Maleficent in deleted scenes
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2012· 1 entry
Capaldi and Tony Roche co-wrote, directed and performed in The Cricklewood Greats, a mockumentary about a fictitious film studio, which tracks real developments and trends throughout the history of British cinema
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2011· 1 entry
For which he received a BAFTA Scotland nomination in the TV actor category, though he was beaten by his co-star Jayd Johnson; and Randall Brown on the BBC Two drama The Hour in 2012, receiving a BAFTA nomination for the
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2010· 3 entries
Awarded Chlotrudis Award for Best Cast for In the Loop (2010).
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Awarded Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor for In the Loop (2010).
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Awarded British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance for The Thick of It (2010).
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2008· 1 entry
And one of the presenter Jim Tweedledee in the 2009–2010 satirical comedy The News at Bedtime
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2007· 1 entry
Though his character was killed off in the second series; King Charles I in the historical fiction The Devil's Whore in 2008, and Balthazar in the drama series The Nativity, based on the Nativity of Jesus in 2010
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2005· 1 entry
And a small role as therapist Peter VanGellis in the comedy film Big Fat Gypsy Gangster in 2011, written by and starring his Getting On co-star Ricky Grover, the absurdist play Absurdia in 2007 in the Donmar Warehouse;
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1998· 1 entry
With the play subsequently moving to the West End of London and then to Broadway in New York City
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1997· 1 entry
And the French poet and director Jean Cocteau in the biographical film Modigliani in 2004; investigator Luke Fitzwilliam in a stage adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel, Murder Is Easy at the Duke of York's Theatre in
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (1995).
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To audition for the role of the Eighth Doctor for the Doctor Who television movie, though he declined stating: "I didn't go
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (1994).
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And an appearance as a university professor in the sitcom Peep Show in 2004
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1992· 1 entry
Which won the audience award at the London Film Festival; and directed the short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life, which starred Richard E
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1983· 2 entries
Capaldi received many more roles, appearing in diverse mediums as film, television, and theatre; he appeared as Beatles member John Lennon in a performance of John, Paul, George, Ringo
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And 1984, among many others; and appeared in Shadow of the Noose (1989) and Agatha Christie's Poirot (1991)
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1981· 1 entry
As Joe Edwards in the Charles Gormley film Living Apart Together
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1958· 1 entry
Born 1958-04-14.
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