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David Tennant
Tennant in 2025
Born
David John McDonald

(1971-04-18) 18 April 1971 (age 55)
Bathgate, Scotland
EducationRoyal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (BA)
Years active1987–present
WorksFull list
Spouse
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(m. 2011)​
Children5, including Ty
Relatives
AwardsFull list
Tennant's voice
Tennant pledging his support for DiEM25's Your NHS Needs You campaign.
Recorded 8 November 2021
Signature

David John Tennant (né McDonald; born 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. He is best known for portraying the lead character in Doctor Who, headlining the show as the Tenth Doctor from 2005–2010, and returning as the Fourteenth Doctor in 2023. His other notable screen roles include portraying Barty Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), DI Alec Hardy in Broadchurch (2013–2017), Crowley in Good Omens (2019–2026), and various fictionalised versions of himself in Staged (2020–2022).

Tennant has worked extensively on stage, including a portrayal of the title character in a 2008 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet that was later adapted for television. He is also a voice actor, featured in the animated series DuckTales (2017–2021) as the voice of Scrooge McDuck. In 2015, he was the recipient of the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Award.

Early life and education

Tennant was born David John McDonald in Bathgate, West Lothian, on 18 April 1971, the son of Helen (née McLeod) and Alexander "Sandy" McDonald.[1][2] His father was a Presbyterian minister who served as the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland,[3][4] and his mother was a charity worker.[2] Tennant grew up in Paisley with an older brother and older sister.[5][6] Tennant was born with an extra toe on his right foot.[7][8] He has suffered from acute anxiety since childhood.[4]

Tennant's maternal grandfather, Derry City F.C. footballer Archie McLeod, was descended from tenant farmers from the Isle of Mull. On the genealogy documentary programme Who Do You Think You Are? in 2006, Tennant learnt that his mother's maternal grandparents, William and Agnes Blair, were Ulster Protestants from Derry who were among the signatories of the Ulster Covenant in 1912; William was also a member of the Orange Order.[9][10]

At the age of three, Tennant told his parents that he wanted to become an actor because he was a fan of Doctor Who,[11][12] but they encouraged him to pursue a more conventional career to ensure financial security.[13] Nevertheless he was "absurdly single-minded" in pursuing an acting career.[11] Tennant was educated at Ralston Primary School and Paisley Grammar School.[1] His performance as the title role in a school production of the musical Gypsum's Journey was noticed by actress Edith MacArthur, who told his parents that she believed they would one day act together on stage.[14][15] They ultimately did twice, in a 1987 Royal Lyceum production of Hay Fever and a 1994 Dundee Rep production of Long Day's Journey into Night.[16]

From the age of 11, Tennant attended Saturday classes at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.[1] He passed the entry audition at the age of 16,[11][1] becoming one of their youngest students.[2][17] In 1991, Tennant obtained a BA degree in Dramatic Studies (accredited by the University of Glasgow).[1][18]

Tennant uses a stage name because another David McDonald was already represented by the actor's union Equity.[1][6] He adopted the surname of Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant after looking through an issue of the music magazine Smash Hits for inspiration.[2][19] By 2013, he had legally changed his surname to Tennant to comply with rules set by the American Screen Actors Guild (which was later merged into SAG-AFTRA).[20]

Career

Early work

Tennant made his professional acting debut at the age of 16, in an anti-smoking film for the Glasgow Health Board.[1] His "first proper foray onto the boards" was with a local church group in the murder mystery production Wanted, One Body.[21] He appeared in the 1988 Dramarama episode "The Secret of Croftmore". In Tennant's final year at drama school he took the title role in Mozart from A to Z.[1] After graduating, he joined the touring agitprop theatre group 7:84; his first acting role as a graduate was in their production of Bertolt Brecht's play The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, co-starring Ashley Jensen.[22][23] He subsequently performed in repertory theatre at the Royal Lyceum Theatre and Dundee Repertory Theatre.[24]

Tennant played a small part in the television drama Strathblair (1992) and sufficiently impressed director David Blair that he was offered a role in an unaired sitcom pilot with Arnold Brown.[21] Tennant portrayed a transgender barmaid in a 1993 episode of the Scottish sitcom Rab C. Nesbitt.[24][25] Tennant's first major television role was as bipolar teenager Campbell Bain in Blair's acclaimed BBC Scotland drama serial Takin' Over the Asylum (1994).[24] On his audition, Tennant recalled that the production team "needed someone who could believably act 19 and bonkers".[21] Takin' Over the Asylum became a cult hit and Tennant moved to London in 1995, lodging with his co-star and friend Arabella Weir, whom he had met during filming.[2][26] Tennant and Weir lived together for five years,[27] and he later became godfather to Weir's youngest child.[28]

Tennant in 2007

Throughout the late 1990s, Tennant primarily worked in British theatre.[24][22] He appeared in Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw at the Royal National Theatre in 1995.[29] Tennant performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company for two seasons[2] and first appeared in their 1996 production of As You Like It;[17] having auditioned for the role of Orlando, he was instead cast as the jester Touchstone.[30][verification needed] He went on to play Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, Jack in The Rivals[21] and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet.[2] He also contributed to several audio dramatisations of Shakespeare for the Arkangel Shakespeare series (1998).[citation needed] Tennant continued to take roles on screen; he made his film debut as a drunk undergraduate in Michael Winterbottom's Jude (1996)[2][31] and took the lead role in the American romantic comedy film L. A. Without a Map (1998).[25] He appeared in the first episode of the television series Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (2000) as a vain artist,[32] and starred in a television advertisement for Boots which aired over Christmas 2002.[25]

In 2002, Tennant played Jeff in Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero at Donmar Warehouse and New Ambassadors Theatre, for which he was nominated for the 2003 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor.[33][34] He appeared in Stephen Fry's film Bright Young Things (2003),[33] an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies (1930).[35] Tennant starred as Katurian in the 2003 National Theatre production of Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman.[36] He took his first leading television role in He Knew He Was Right (2004) as Reverend Gibson,[37] and received further recognition for playing DI Peter Carlisle in the musical television serial Blackpool (2004) with David Morrissey and Sarah Parish.[2][22] In January and February 2005, he starred as Jimmy Porter in the play Look Back in Anger at the Theatre Royal, Bath, and Royal Lyceum Theatre.[38][39] He revived this performance in 2006 for the anniversary of the Royal Court Theatre.[40] Tennant was cast as Briscoe in The Quatermass Experiment (2005), a live television film remake of The Quatermass Experiment (1953).[33][41] He played Barty Crouch Jr. in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), at the time his most internationally recognised role.[42]

Doctor Who

Tennant with Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies (left), regular director Euros Lyn (centre right), and executive producer Julie Gardner (right) at San Diego Comic-Con in July 2009

Tennant grew up a fan of the BBC television series Doctor Who and watched the series avidly during Tom Baker and Peter Davison's tenures as the Doctor;[1][11] as a child, he spoke to Baker at a book-signing event in Glasgow.[43] Tennant has credited the series as "a massive influence" on his decision to pursue acting.[31] His first role in a Doctor Who production was playing a Nazi guard in the audio drama Colditz (2001) produced by Big Finish Productions.[44] He subsequently played supporting parts in the audio series Dalek Empire and Doctor Who Unbound,[45][46] and had a small voice role in the BBC's animated webcast Scream of the Shalka (2003).[44]

Doctor Who returned to television screens in March 2005 with Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor. Showrunner Russell T Davies was simultaneously producing the BBC Three television serial Casanova (2005) which starred Tennant in the title role. Eccleston departed Doctor Who after one series,[37] and Davies and producer Julie Gardner subsequently offered Tennant the role of the Tenth Doctor after inviting him to Davies's house to review the new episodes.[2][47] He debuted as the Doctor at the conclusion of the first series finale, "The Parting of the Ways" (2005).[42]

Tennant played the role for three full series, airing annually from 2006 to 2008.[42] Tennant's portrayal of the Doctor maintained the eccentricity of his predecessors but also established the character as a "romantic hero" which appealed to both newcomers and long-term fans. His tenure is credited for cementing the revived programme's popularity.[48][49] In 2007, he won the BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actor.[50] The 2007 Christmas special "Voyage of the Damned" received 13.31 million viewers, the most for a Doctor Who episode since the 1970s. "Journey's End" (2008) was the first Doctor Who episode to be the most-viewed programme of the week.[48] Tennant made his directorial debut on the 2007 Doctor Who Confidential episode "Do You Remember The First Time?" which accompanies the Doctor Who episode "Blink".[citation needed] Tennant's Doctor appeared alongside Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor in the Children in Need charity minisode "Time Crash" (2007).[51] Tennant also starred in the animated Doctor Who serials The Infinite Quest (2007)[52] and Dreamland (2009).[53]

In October 2008, Tennant announced that he would be leaving the role after a series of specials (2008–2010), stating "I think it's better to go when there's a chance that people might miss you, rather than to hang around and outstay your welcome". The BBC considered ending Doctor Who with Tennant's departure.[54][55] The final story he filmed as the incumbent Tenth Doctor was "The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith", a serial of the Doctor Who spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures broadcast in October 2009.[56][57] His final episode, "The End of Time: Part Two", aired on 1 January 2010[57] and concluded with the Tenth Doctor's regeneration into the Eleventh Doctor, portrayed by Matt Smith.[58]

Tennant's performance as the Doctor has received widespread acclaim,[49][59][17] and is often ranked alongside Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor as one of the best and most popular incarnations of the character.[49][60][61] Tennant was voted "Best Doctor" in 2006 and 2009 in polls conducted by Doctor Who Magazine.[62][63] He also won the National Television Award for Most Popular Actor in 2006 and 2007.[64][65] The Tenth Doctor was voted the "coolest character on television" and the "nation's favourite Doctor" in polls conducted by Radio Times in 2007 and 2013 respectively.[66][67] In 2016, Digital Spy readers voted the Tenth Doctor the best TV character of the 21st century.[68]

Reprisals

Tennant at GalaxyCon Richmond in 2023, posing with the Tenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver

Tennant returned to Doctor Who for the 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor", broadcast on 23 November 2013, co-starring Smith, Jenna Coleman, Billie Piper and John Hurt.[69] The comedy short film The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, directed by Peter Davison, was released later that day on the BBC Red Button service, with Tennant making a cameo appearance as a fictionalised version of himself.[70][71]

In October 2015, Big Finish Productions announced that Tennant would reprise his role in the new audio drama series Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor Adventures.[72] Since May 2016, Tennant has led the series alongside former television co-stars including Catherine Tate as Donna Noble and Piper as Rose Tyler.[73][74] Tennant reprised his role on 13 July 2018 as part of the live Muppets show The Muppets Take the O2 in London.[75]

In May 2022, it was announced that Tennant and Tate would return to the show to commemorate its 60th anniversary.[76][77] Although audiences previously assumed Tennant would be returning as the Tenth Doctor, the ending of "The Power of the Doctor" in October 2022 revealed Tennant's debut as the Fourteenth Doctor.[78][79][80] The three 60th anniversary special episodes aired from November to December 2023,[79][81] and concluded with the Fourteenth Doctor's "bi-generation" which introduced the Fifteenth Doctor, portrayed by Ncuti Gatwa.[79][82]

2005–2010

Tennant appeared in the ITV drama Secret Smile in December 2005.[83] He played sociologist Richard Hoggart in the 2006 BBC drama The Chatterley Affair, a dramatisation of the 1960 Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial, directed by James Hawes.[84][85] In early 2007, he played a man with a brain injury in the BBC drama Recovery, written by Tony Marchant.[86][87] Tennant subsequently became a patron of Headway Essex, a charity that had been closely involved in the production.[2] Later that same year he starred as a devout Christian driving instructor in Learners, a television film written by and starring Jessica Hynes.[88][89] In November 2008, Tennant played Sir Arthur Eddington in the biographical film Einstein and Eddington, co-produced by the BBC and HBO.[90]

Tennant at San Diego Comic-Con 2009

Tennant described theatre work as his "default way of being".[91] In August 2008, he began playing Prince Hamlet in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Hamlet at the Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, directed by Gregory Doran, with Patrick Stewart as King Claudius.[92][93] Tennant's popularity as the Doctor increased anticipation for the production.[92][94] During that season, Doran also cast Tennant as Berowne in the RSC's Love's Labour's Lost; rehearsals began two days after Hamlet opened and the two plays ran concurrently. In December 2008, Hamlet transferred to the Novello Theatre in London's West End.[95][2] Tickets went on sale in September and sold out within under three hours.[96][97] However, Tennant suffered a prolapsed disc[96][98] during previews[99] and pulled out of the play hours before the Novello opening night performance.[98][100] His understudy Edward Bennett took over the role[101][102] from 8 December 2008[98] to 2 January 2009[96][99] while Tennant underwent back surgery.[103][96] Tennant resumed the role on 3 January 2009,[96][99] and continued until the run ended on 10 January.[103][96]

Tennant's performance as Prince Hamlet was largely critically acclaimed.[86][102] Michael Billington of The Guardian praised Tennant's "active, athletic, immensely engaging Hamlet" as "one of the funniest I’ve ever seen".[94] Benedict Nightingale of The Times wrote that Doran's direction "gives Tennant the chance to show the world that he has the range to tackle the [role]... I've seen bolder Hamlets and more moving Hamlets, but few who kept me so riveted throughout."[104] Paul Taylor of The Independent and Caroline Briggs of BBC News called Tennant's performance "extremely captivating" and "undoubtedly mesmerising", respectively.[105][106] Charles Spencer of The Telegraph wrote that Tennant captured Hamlet's intelligence and wit but lacked the weight and depth of the character's fatalism.[92] Quentin Letts of the Daily Mail criticised Tennant's performance for relying too much on "quirkiness, pulling faces and various funny voices".[105]

In 2009, the Hamlet cast reunited to record a single-camera television film adaptation of the play, which was broadcast on BBC Two on Boxing Day 2009. Tennant advocated for the film to be produced: "It's what's great about the theatre - but it's also what's frustrating. When the run ends, it's gone."[93][107] In 2011, a photograph of Tennant as Hamlet featured on a stamp issued by the Royal Mail to mark the RSC's fiftieth anniversary.[108]

On 13 March 2009, Tennant co-presented the live charity event Red Nose Day 2009 with Davina McCall.[109][110] He joined Franz Ferdinand onstage to play the guitar on their song "No You Girls" on a special Comic Relief edition of Top of the Pops.[citation needed] From October 2009, Tennant hosted the Masterpiece Contemporary programming strand on PBS in the United States.[111] Tennant appeared in the 2009 film St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold.[112] In November 2009, he was cast as Rex Alexander, a lawyer with an anxiety disorder in the NBC legal drama pilot Rex Is Not Your Lawyer; it was not ordered to series.[113][114] Tennant appeared on Desert Island Discs on 27 December 2009.[115] Tennant played George Milton in a 2010 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Of Mice and Men in the Classic Serial strand.[116][117] In October 2010 he starred as Dave, a man struggling to raise four children after the death of his partner, in the British drama Single Father.[118][119]

2011–2015

Tennant starred in the 2011 television film United as Jimmy Murphy, assistant manager of Manchester United F.C., which dramatises the 1958 Munich air disaster that killed many of the team's "Busby Babes".[120][121] He guest starred in a 2011 episode of the comedy series This Is Jinsy.[122][123] In October 2011, Tennant started shooting the semi-improvised comedy film Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger (2012) in Coventry.[124][125] Tennant abandoned plans to relocate to Hollywood to marry actress Georgia Moffet in 2011.[57][126] Tennant appeared in True Love, a semi-improvised BBC One drama series broadcast in June 2012.[127][128]

Between April and June 2012, he filmed Spies of Warsaw for BBC Four, in the lead role of Jean-François Mercier. This drama series shot in Poland is an adaptation of Alan Furst's novel The Spies of Warsaw.[129][130] On 9 June 2012, he started filming the 3-part political drama series The Politician's Husband for BBC Two, playing an ambitious cabinet minister who takes drastic action when his wife's career starts to outshine his.[131][132] In 2012, Tennant also presented the comedy quiz show Comedy World Cup.[133]

In January 2012, Tennant was appointed to the Royal Shakespeare Company board, to be on the selection committee interviewing and choosing the new artistic director.[134][31] It was announced on 23 January 2013 that Tennant would return to the RSC for the company's 2013 winter season, playing the title role in Richard II at Stratford-upon-Avon (from 10 October to 16 November) and transferring to the Barbican Centre in London (from 9 December to 25 January 2014).[135][136] Tennant repeated his performance as Richard II at the Barbican Theatre in 2016[137] before transferring to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.[138]

Tennant with Jessica Jones star Krysten Ritter in 2015

Tennant's biggest post-Doctor Who television role was as DI Alec Hardy in the ITV crime drama series Broadchurch, co-starring Olivia Colman[57][139] and written by Chris Chibnall.[31] Three series were released from 2013 to 2017,[140] with the first series's finale becoming 2013's highest rated drama in the UK.[57] He reprised the role (renamed Emmett Carver) for the American remake Gracepoint (2014).[31]

Tennant appeared in The Escape Artist, a three-part series which aired on BBC One in October and November 2013.[141] Tennant starred opposite Rosamund Pike and Billy Connolly in What We Did on Our Holiday, a semi-improvised comedy film; shooting took place from 17 June to 30 July 2013 in Scotland. The film was released in September 2014.[142] Tennant voiced a character in Postman Pat: The Movie (2014).[143]

Tennant appeared on the Radio 4 panel show Just a Minute; his episode was broadcast on 9 February 2015, and he was the show's most successful debut contestant.[144][145] Tennant portrayed the telepathic supervillain Kilgrave in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series Jessica Jones, produced by Marvel and Netflix, which aired from 2015 to 2019.[146][147]

2016–2023

Tennant at a Good Omens panel at New York Comic Con 2018

In February 2016, Tennant began filming Mad to Be Normal (previously titled Metanoia), a biopic of the Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing.[148] The film premiered a year later at the Glasgow Film Festival.[149] In 2017, Tennant appeared in writer/director Daisy Aitkens' first feature film, You, Me and Him. The film was co-produced by Tennant's wife, Georgia.[150] Between March and June of that year Tennant appeared in Patrick Marber's Don Juan in Soho at the Wyndham's Theatre.[151] He also became the voice of Scrooge McDuck for Disney XD's DuckTales reboot, replacing the character's longtime voice actor Alan Young, who died in May 2016.[152]

Tennant played villain Cale Erendreich in the thriller film Bad Samaritan (2018), written by Brandon Boyce and directed by Dean Devlin.[153] Tennant plays Crowley in the series Good Omens,[154] the first season of which was released on Amazon Prime Video on 31 May 2019 and on BBC Two on 15 January 2020.[155][156] In February 2019, Tennant launched his own podcast, titled David Tennant Does a Podcast With... The podcast's episodes have featured Olivia Colman, Whoopi Goldberg, Jodie Whittaker, Ian McKellen, Jon Hamm, Gordon Brown, Jennifer Garner, Catherine Tate, Krysten Ritter, James Corden, Samantha Bee, Tina Fey, and Michael Sheen.[157][158]

Tennant at GalaxyCon Raleigh in 2019

Tennant starred as a doctor suspected of murdering his family in Deadwater Fell, a Scottish miniseries, which premiered in January 2020 on Channel 4. He also received his first credit as an executive producer for the series.[159][160][161] In September 2020, he portrayed Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen in Des, an ITV crime drama miniseries.[162] For his performance, he won the 2021 International Emmy Award for Best Actor.[163]

From 2020 to 2022 he starred and produced three seasons of the TV series Staged, with Michael Sheen.[citation needed] In 2021, he played the leading role of Phileas Fogg in an adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days, broadcast on the BBC, PBS, France 2, ZDF and RAI.[citation needed]

In September 2022, Tennant starred as Reverend Harry Watling in BBC1's Inside Man, written by Steven Moffat.[164] The series premiered on 26 September 2022 to mixed reviews from viewers and critics alike.[165][166][167][168] In December 2022, Tennant starred as British-naturalised Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko in the ITV1 drama Litvinenko.[169]

In August 2023, Tennant once again provided the voice for the droid Huyang in the live-action Star Wars series Ahsoka, having voiced the character in two episodes of season 5 of The Clone Wars in 2012. His character, also voiced by Tennant, had a cameo in an episode in season 2 of Young Jedi Adventures in 2024.[citation needed] He played the title role in Max Webster's production of Macbeth, opposite Cush Jumbo as Lady Macbeth, which ran at the Donmar Warehouse in 2023[170][171] as well as the Harold Pinter Theatre in 2024.[172]

Tennant in 2023

2024–present

Tennant hosted the 77th and 78th British Academy Film Awards in February 2024 and February 2025 respectively.[173][174] Tennant joined the ensemble cast of Rivals, the Disney+ television adaptation of Jilly Cooper's Rutshire Chronicles novels, as Lord Tony Baddingham. The first two seasons of Rivals premiered in October 2024 and May 2026.[175][176] In 2025, Tennant starred as The Guardian journalist Nick Davies, alongside Toby Jones as Alan Rusbridger, in The Hack, an ITV drama about the News International phone hacking scandal.[177][178] Tennant played Ian Ventham in the 2025 film The Thursday Murder Club.[179]

In 2026, Tennant was cast in the sixth season of the Hulu television series Only Murders in the Building.[180]

Public image

Tennant was named "Coolest Man on TV" in a 2007 Radio Times survey.[181] He is a five-time winner of the public-voted National Television Award for Most Popular Actor/Outstanding Drama Performance, having won in 2006,[64] 2007,[65] 2008,[182] 2010[183] and 2021.[184]

In December 2005, The Stage placed Tennant at No. 6 in its "Top Ten" list of the most influential British television artists of the year, citing his roles in Blackpool, Casanova, Secret Smile, and Doctor Who.[185] The Stage also included Tennant in the top 20 of the same list in December 2008.[citation needed] In July 2007, Tennant was ranked No. 24 in the MediaGuardian 100, a list of the most powerful people in the British media, and was described as "the most powerful actor in television".[186]

In January 2006, readers of the British gay and lesbian newspaper The Pink Paper voted him the "Sexiest Man in the Universe".[187] In March 2006, a poll of 10,000 women for New Woman placed Tennant at No. 20 in their Top 100 Men list.[188] In October 2006, he was named "Scotland's most stylish male" in the Scottish Style Awards.[189] He was voted 16th Sexiest Man in the World by a 2008 Cosmopolitan survey.[190]

Tennant is an ambassador for Worldwide Cancer Research and the Multibank charity.[191][192]

Political and social views

A self-proclaimed liberal and socialist,[193] Tennant is a supporter of the Labour Party and appeared in a party political broadcast for them in 2005.[22][194] He declared his support for Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the 2010 elections,[194] lending his voice to a Labour election broadcast.[195] In 2012, he introduced Labour Party leader Ed Miliband onstage at the Labour Party Conference.[196][circular reporting?] In 2015, he again lent his voice to a Labour election broadcast.[197]

Tennant remained neutral on the issue of Scottish independence in the run-up to the 2014 referendum, stating that it was not his business as he no longer lived in Scotland.[198] Following Brexit, which he called "depressing", he said in 2017 that he would support an independent Scotland in the event of a second referendum.[199][196]

Tennant is a supporter of the LGBTQ+ community, particularly those who identify as non-binary, and has frequently worn pride pins during interviews and public events.[200][201][202] He received the LGBT+ Celebrity Ally award at the 2024 British LGBT Awards for his ongoing support for the LGBTQ+ Community.[200][203] While accepting the award, Tennant criticised Women and Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch for her views on trans issues, saying that "acknowledging that everyone has the right to be who they want to be and live their life how they want to live it" should not merit special recognition, but that "until we wake up and Kemi Badenoch doesn't exist anymore — I don't wish ill of her, I just wish her to shut up — whilst we do live in this world I am honoured to receive this [award]".[203] Badenoch, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and author J. K. Rowling criticised Tennant's remarks.[204][205] Labour leader Keir Starmer stated he "wouldn't have engaged the way [Tennant] did,[205] and Labour candidate Dawn Butler expressed support for Tennant's position.[204][206]

Personal life

Tennant dated British actress Anne-Marie Duff in 2000[28] and English actress Sophia Myles in 2006.[188]

Tennant married English actress Georgia Tennant (née Moffett) in December 2011, making him the son-in-law of actress Sandra Dickinson and Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison.[57][207] The couple met in 2008 during the filming of the Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter".[57][208] They have five children, including Ty Tennant, Moffett's son from a previous relationship whom Tennant adopted, and live in the Chiswick district of London.[209][208] In addition to Ty, their next two eldest have also acted, and appeared in Rivals and You, Me and Him.[210][211][212]

Tennant rarely discusses his private life in interviews, citing his belief that "relationships are hard enough with the people you're having them with, let alone talking about them in public".[213] Tennant described his parents as "liberal, progressive Christians" and believes religion "must have" shaped his character. He stated that "organised religion gave [him] a good moral compass" and is an occasional churchgoer.[193][214]

Acting credits and accolades

In 2016, Tennant was awarded an honorary doctorate in Drama by his alma mater, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.[215][216]

Bibliography

Forewords

  • Tennant, David (2006). Foreword. Doctor Who: The Inside Story. By Russell, Gary. BBC Books. ISBN 978-0563486497.
  • Tennant, David (2011). Foreword. Elisabeth Sladen: The Autobiography. By Sladen, Elisabeth. Aurum Press. ISBN 978-1845134884.
  • Tennant, David (2017). Foreword. Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs. By Davison, Peter. John Blake. ISBN 978-1786061126.

See also

References

Citations

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Sources

Further reading

  • Smallwood, Robert (editor) (2000). Players of Shakespeare 4: Further Essays in Shakespearean Performance by Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company, David Tennant on playing Touchstone in As You Like It, pp. 30–44. Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0-521-79416-1
  • Smallwood, Robert (editor) (2005). Players of Shakespeare 5: Further Essays in Shakespearean Performance by Players with the Royal Shakespeare Company, David Tennant on playing Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, pp. 113–130. Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0-521-67698-3
  • Mitchell, Molly (2009). David Tennant. London: Orion Publishing Group; ISBN 978-1-4091-0469-8
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