Peter Capaldi
Acting
🎂 1958-04-14
Peter Dougan Capaldi 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.
Cast credits(153)
Laurence Barker
1997
Claude Langton
1989
Caecilius
2005
The Doctor
2005
Older Cameron Walker
2011
Self
2007
Thinker
2021
Self
2006
Mark
2007
Ozzie
1979
Self
1990
W.H.O. Doctor
2013
Uncle Nigel (voice)
2008
Raymond Carter
2002
Narrator
1983
Lucien Calvin
2001
John
1982
John Frobisher
2006
Vernon 'Vera' Reynolds
1991
Gideon Shepherd
2022
Cardinal Richelieu
2014
Reginald Curry
2017
Zeno Vedast
1987
Professor Alistair MacLeish
2003
Azolan
1988
Reginald Curry
2014
DCI Daniel Hegarty
2024
Gareth
1997
1994
Malcolm Tucker
2005
Angus Flint
1988
1989
The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025
Alan Rusbridger
2013
2001
Gordon Fleming
2004
Himself
2012
Jean Cocteau
2004
Frank Ryland
2010
Rabbit (voice)
2018
Randall Brown
2011
Jellicoe
1996
Self
2018
Kehaar (voice)
2018
The Doctor (12) (uncredited)
2013
Malcolm Tucker
2007
King Charles I
2008
Samuel Kent
2011
The Doctor (12)
2014
Self
2014
Birgo Lander
1997
Jeremy Church
2001
Self
2013
The Doctor
2015
Max Roy
2005
Malcolm Tucker
2009
Mr. Micawber
2019
Danny Oldsen
1983
Dillon
1988
Lord Fellamar
1997
Twelfth Doctor
2015
The Doctor (12)
2013
Islington
1996
Dolben
2019
Jim
2006
Self / The Doctor (archive footage)
2014
David Cohn
2002
The Doctor
2014
Mr. Whiskers
1999
Self
2025
Malcolm Tucker
2007
Priest
2005
Simon
1994
1989
Everard
1986
Balthazar
2010
The Doctor
2016
The Doctor (12)
2017
The Doctor (12) (archive footage)
2024
Dr. Ronnie Pilfrey
2003
Dr. Pete
2011
The Doctor
2014
Rory McHoan
1996
Mike Francis
2007
David Critchley
1993
The Doctor
2016
Henry Appleton
2007
John
1993
George Harrison
1985
Siegfried Sassoon (Older)
2021
Derek
2003
Peter Healy
2009
Tony
1998
The Doctor
2016
Mr Gilzean
1997
Andy McEntee
2006
Narrator
2022
Twelfth Doctor
2015
Self - Narrator
2008
Duncan Fielding
1996
The Doctor
2015
2009
David Hunter
2002
1999
The Doctor
2015
1994
Assistant Keeper
1985
Trevor
2008
Max
2010
The British Ambassador
1989
Narrator
2012
1994
Self - Guest
1988
Scott Dare
1987
DI Terry Machin
2003
Narrator
2005
Thomas Walde
1991
Father Steve
2005
Robert Wood
1989
Roland
2021
John
2004
Ken Cracken
1991
Willie
1989
Joe
1982
Peter Van Gellis
2011
Young Sorleyson
1990
Hilton Gilfoyle
2001
Isaac
1992
Narrator (voice)
2006
Mr Vladimir
1992
Leonardo da Vinci
2013
Jamie Kirkwood
1987
Narrator
2006
2006
voice actor
2011
Gavin Bellini
1993
Self
2014
Mick Galligan
1995
Self
2021
Narrator
2004
Narrator
2016
The Tourist
2011
Narrator
2019
Self - Presenter
2013
David Critchley
1993
Luke Wakefield
1992
Thomas Walde
1993
1991
Self - Presenter
2009
James Boswell (voice)
1998
Man
1997
James Mulwray
2004
