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David John McDonald was born on
18th April 1971 in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, UK. The son
of a minister of the Church of Scotland, David Tennant recognized
his desire to become an actor at the age of three or four.
David changed his surname to Tennant
because another actor had the same surname. He decided on Tennant
after looking in 'Smash hits' magazine and seeing Neil Tennant of
the Pet shop boys.
David attended the Royal Scottish Academy
of Music and Drama, and later developed his career in theatre,
appearing several times with the Royal
Shakespeare Company. He appeared in many productions with the
Royal Shakespeare company including Touchstone in As You
Like It, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Antipholus
of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors and Captain
Jack Absolute in The Rivals.
Already a well known theatre performer
with the Royal Shakespeare Company, he further improved his career
by breaking into the television and later the film industry, appearing
in Casanova (as Giacomo Casanova), Blackpool (as
DI Peter Carlise), Secret smile (as Brendan Block)
as well as a number of other TV shows before
landing the role of the Doctor in the hit TV series Doctor
Who in 2005. After the second series of Doctor Who aired
on the BBC we were all treated to seeing David appear in a heartfelt
drama Recovery. He played a man called Alan who
was knocked over and suffered brain damage. As part of the research
for the role David went to Headway the
brain injury association. He is now a patron of Headway.
Movie roles in the film industry include
appearing in the ever popular Harry Potter And The Goblet
Of Fire starring as Bartemius (Barty) Crouch Jr, Stephen
Fry's Bright Young Things as Ginger Littlejohn and
starring alongside Johnny Depp in LA Without A Map.
In November 2007 David appeared in Learners,
which is a comedy. His character is Chris the Driving Instructor.
David will also appear in Ricky Gervais's comedy show Extras in
a Christmas special acting as himself. A Doctor Who Christmas special
aired on Christmas Day starring alongside Kylie Minogue in Voyage
of the Damned. Series 4 of Doctor Who has completed and David will
be only partaking in the Doctor Who specials (4) in one Christmas
2008 and the other 3 in 2009. This is due to David being back on
stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company in Hamlet and Love
Labour's Lost. Hamlet sold out very quickly. It has recently
been announced that David will take Hamlet to London West End Stage
in December 2008.
Other projects coming up include HBO's Einstein
and Eddington, David is playing Sir Arthur Eddington alongside
Andy Serkis. This is expected to air on BBC 2, Autumn 2008.
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