Peter Capaldi

ActorProducerDirectorWriter Apr 14 (age 67) Glasgow, Scotland, UK 1971–2025 (54 year career)

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Biography

Peter Dougan Capaldi (born April 14, 1958) 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…

Known For

Film

The Suicide Squad

Thinker

Film

World War Z

W.H.O. Doctor

Film

Doctor Who

The Doctor

Film

Paddington

Reginald Curry

Film

Paddington 2

Reginald Curry

Film

Christopher Robin

Rabbit (voice)

Film

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

The Doctor (12) (uncredited)

Film

Dangerous Liaisons

Azolan

Filmography

Acting (160)

Movies (93)

Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War

2025

as The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.4

Lights Out

2025

as The 12th Doctor

The Academy of Armando

2025

as Self

1.0

Doctor Who at the Proms

2024

as The Doctor (12) (archive footage)

7.2

Riverwoods: An Untold Story

2022

as Narrator

The Suicide Squad

2021

as Thinker

7.5

Benediction

2021

as Siegfried Sassoon (Older)

6.1

National Theatre Live: Constellations

2021

as Roland

10.0

Quentin Blake – The Drawing of My Life

as Self

Martin's Close

as Dolben

The Personal History of David Copperfield

2019

as Mr. Micawber

6.4

How to See a Black Hole: The Universe's Greatest Mystery

as Narrator

Christopher Robin

as Rabbit (voice)

Paddington 2

as Reginald Curry

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time

2017

as The Doctor (12)

8.0

Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio

2016

as The Doctor

7.4

Prison, My Parents & Me

2016

as Narrator

Doctor Who: Friend from the Future

2016

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Doctor's Meditation

2015

as The Doctor

8.5

Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song

as The Doctor

Paddington

as Reginald Curry

Doctor Who: Last Christmas

2014

as The Doctor

7.7

Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven

2014

as The Doctor

8.0

Doctor Who: Deep Breath

2014

as The Doctor (12)

7.8

Doctor Who: Earth Conquest - The World Tour

2014

as Self

7.2

Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion

2014

as Self / The Doctor (archive footage)

8.1

World War Z

2013

as W.H.O. Doctor

6.8

Inside the Mind of Leonardo

as Leonardo da Vinci

The Fifth Estate

as Alan Rusbridger

Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor

2013

as Self

5.0

Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor

2013

as The Doctor (12) (uncredited)

8.2

Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor

2013

as The Doctor (12)

8.1

Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?

2013

as Self - Presenter

The Cricklewood Greats

2012

as Himself

7.0

The Natural World--Komodo: The Deadly Bite

2011

The Murder at Road Hill House

2011

as Samuel Kent

6.1

Big Fat Gypsy Gangster

as Peter Van Gellis

Bistro

as Max

In the Loop

as Malcolm Tucker

A Portrait of Scotland

2009

as Self - Presenter

Magicians

as Mike Francis

Spinners and Losers

as Malcolm Tucker

The Rise of the Nutters

as Malcolm Tucker

Pinochet in Suburbia

as Andy McEntee

Aftersun

as Jim

Michael Powell

as Narrator

House of 9

as Max Roy

Wild Country

as Father Steve

The Best Man

as Priest

Modigliani

as Jean Cocteau

Napoleon's Waterloo

as Narrator

Salvage

2004

as James Mulwray

6.0

Niceland (Population. 1.000.002)

as John

Unconditional Love

as DI Terry Machin

Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War

as Derek

Max

as David Cohn

Solid Geometry

as David Hunter

Hotel!

as Hilton Gilfoyle

The Greatest Store in the World

as Mr. Whiskers

What Rats Won't Do

as Tony

Boswell's Boswell

as James Boswell (voice)

Bean

1997

as Gareth

6.5

Smilla's Sense of Snow

as Birgo Lander

Shooting Fish

as Mr Gilzean

I Hate Christmas Too

as Man

The Treasure Seekers

as Jellicoe

Giving Tongue

as Duncan Fielding

Runway One

as Mick Galligan

Captives

1994

as Simon

5.8

Jealousy

1993

as John

Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love

as David Critchley

Selling Hitler

as Thomas Walde

Soft Top Hard Shoulder

1993

as Gavin Bellini

6.2

Mr. Wakefield's Crusade

as Luke Wakefield

The Secret Agent

as Mr Vladimir

The Cloning of Joanna May

as Isaac

Do Not Disturb

December Bride

as Young Sorleyson

Dream Baby

as Willie

Rosie the Great

1989

as The British Ambassador

Communicators From Hell

Colleagues From Hell

The Love Child

as Dillon

Dangerous Liaisons

as Azolan

The Lair of the White Worm

1988

as Angus Flint

5.9

The Story of a Recluse

1987

as Jamie Kirkwood

Up Line

1987

as Scott Dare

God's Chosen Car Park

1986

as Everard

Turtle Diary

1985

as Assistant Keeper

6.2

John and Yoko: A Love Story

as George Harrison

Local Hero

as Danny Oldsen

Living Apart Together

1982

as Joe

Lost for Words

as The Tourist

Television (67)

Criminal Record

2024

as DCI Daniel Hegarty

The Devil's Hour

as Gideon Shepherd

Being Beethoven

as Beethoven (voice)

James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction

as Self

Watership Down

as Kehaar (voice)

Class

as The Doctor

Doctor Who: The Fan Show

2015

The Musketeers

2014

as Cardinal Richelieu

7.0

Doctor Who Extra

2014

as Self

Doctor Who Extra

2014

as The Doctor

Punk Britannia

2012

as Narrator

7.5

Black Mirror

2011

as Older Cameron Walker

The Hour

as Randall Brown

The Field of Blood

as Dr. Pete

The Natural World--Komodo: The Deadly Bite

as voice actor

Conan

as Self - Guest

Accused

as Frank Ryland

The Nativity

as Balthazar

Getting On

as Peter Healy

10 Minute Tales

as The Man

The Penguins of Madagascar

2008

as Uncle Nigel (voice)

Cold Blood

as Self - Narrator

The Devil's Whore

as King Charles I

Midnight Man

as Trevor

The Graham Norton Show

as Self

Skins

as Mark

Fallen Angel

as Henry Appleton

The One Show

as Self

Torchwood

as John Frobisher

The Martians and Us

as Narrator

Trawlermen

2006

as Narrator (voice)

Aftersun

Doctor Who

as The Doctor

Doctor Who

as The Doctor (uncredited)

7.6

The Thick of It

2005

as Malcolm Tucker

8.1

A Ghost Story for Christmas

2005

as Dolben

Sea of Souls

2004

as Gordon Fleming

7.6

Peep Show

2003

as Professor Alistair MacLeish

8.1

The Afternoon Play

2003

as Billy Shannon

Fortysomething

2003

as Dr. Ronnie Pilfrey

Foyle's War

as Raymond Carter

Waking the Dead

as Lucien Calvin

Judge John Deed

In Deep

as Jeremy Church

Psychos

Midsomer Murders

as Laurence Barker

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

as Lord Fellamar

Neverwhere

as Islington

The Crow Road

as Rory McHoan

The Vicar of Dibley

The All New Alexei Sayle Show

1994

6.0

Chandler & Co

1994

as Larry

Rik Mayall Presents

1993

as David Critchley

7.3

Prime Suspect

1991

as Vernon 'Vera' Reynolds

Selling Hitler

as Thomas Walde

Titmuss Regained

as Ken Cracken

Have I Got News for You

1990

as Self

7.1

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Claude Langton

Stay Lucky

Shadow of the Noose

as Robert Wood

This Morning

1988

as Self - Guest

5.0

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

as Zeno Vedast

Travelling Man

as John

Spectrum

as Himself

Natural World

as Narrator

Minder

as Ozzie

A Ghost Story for Christmas

1971

as Dolben

7.4

Crew (9)

Movies (8)

The Cricklewood Greats

2012

Director

7.0

The Cricklewood Greats

Writer

Strictly Sinatra

Director

Strictly Sinatra

Writer

Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life

1993

Director

6.9

Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life

1993

Writer

6.9

Soft Top Hard Shoulder

1993

Writer

6.2

Triple Scotch & Wry

1990

Writer

Television (1)

Criminal Record

2024

Executive Producer

6.9