David Tennant

Actor, Director

4/18/1971 (48 years old) West Lothian, Scotland

Filmography Facts

Movies

Ferdinand

What We Did On Our Holiday

Mary Queen of Scots (2018)

Fright Night

Bad Samaritan

Mad to Be Normal

Home Invasion (2016)

United

Shakespeare Live! From the RSC

The Pirates! Band of Misfits

The Legend of Fritton's Gold

Bright Young Things

TV

Spies of Warsaw

Broadchurch

The Escape Artist

Gracepoint

Camping

His grandfather, Archie McLeod, was a professional soccer player with Derry City F.C. in Northern Ireland during the 1930s, and Tennant is a member of the club's supporters.
His father, a retired minister, is a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
As a teenager in the 1980s, wanted to join the actors' union Equity, which already had a person registered with his birth name (David McDonald); he adopted the stage surname Tennant, after Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.
Cut his acting teeth with Scotland's political 7:84 Theatre Group and had several starring roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company (Romeo and Juliet; As You Like It).

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