Born in Bathgate, Scotland, he entered the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as a teenager, earning a BA in Dramatic Studies and adopting the stage name Tennant to avoid a naming clash. Early screen appearances followed his drama-school graduation, but his breakthrough arrived when he was cast as the Tenth Doctor in the revived Doctor Who, a role he carried from 2005 to 2010 and revisited in 2023 as… Read more
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
Known for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005 How to Train Your Dragon 2010 The Simpsons 1989 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World 2019 Series ★ 8.4 Final Space 2018
Lord Commander (voice) Series ★ 8.4 Dragons: Race to the Edge 2015
Spitelout (voice) Series ★ 7.9 Broadchurch 2013
DI Alec Hardy ★ 7.9 Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars 2009
The Doctor ★ 8 Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song 2015
The Doctor (10) (picture) (uncredited) ★ 7.8 Doctor Who: The Runaway Bride 2006
The Doctor Series ★ 7.9 Staged 2020
David ★ 7.6 Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned 2007
The Doctor ★ 8.3 Much Ado About Nothing 2011
Benedick ★ 7.5 Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead 2009
The Doctor ★ 7.7 Doctor Who: Time Crash 2007
The Doctor (10) ★ 7.4 Doctor Who: The Next Doctor 2008
The Doctor Series ★ 8.4 Takin' Over the Asylum 1994
Campbell Series ★ 7.7 W1A 2014
Narrator (voice) Series ★ 7.3 Around the World in 80 Days 2021
Phileas Fogg ★ 7.6 Good Omens: Lockdown 2020
Crowley (voice) Series ★ 7.5 Litvinenko 2022
Alexander Litvinenko Series ★ 7.2 Criminal: UK 2019
Dr. Edgar Fallon ★ 7.3 Hamlet 2009
Hamlet Series ★ 7.2 Des 2020
Dennis Nilsen Series ★ 7.4 Twenty Twelve 2011
Narrator (voice) Series ★ 7.4 Natural World 1983
Narrator ★ 7.3 Inside Einstein's Mind: The Enigma of Space and Time 2015
Narrator (Voice UK) Series ★ 7.1 The Escape Artist 2013
Will Burton Series ★ 7.1 The Sarah Jane Adventures 2007
The Doctor Series ★ 7 Rab C. Nesbitt 1990
Davina Series ★ 7 gen:LOCK 2019
Dr. Weller (voice) Series ★ 7 Casanova 2005
Giacomo Casanova Series ★ 6.9 Blackpool 2004
DI Peter Carlisle Series ★ 6.8 The Politician's Husband 2013
Aiden Hoynes ★ 6.7 Doctor Who: The Infinite Quest 2007
The Doctor (voice) Series ★ 6.6 The Hack 2025
Nick Davies ★ 6.4 Recovery 2007
Alan Hamilton Series ★ 6.7 Clone High 2023
David Tennant (voice) Series ★ 6.6 Spies of Warsaw 2013
Jean-François Mercier ★ 6.9 United 2011
Jimmy Murphy Series ★ 6.9 The Four Seasons 2025
Gianpiero Series ★ 6.7 Gracepoint 2014
Emmett Carver ★ 6.8 Einstein and Eddington 2008
Arthur Eddington ★ 6.2 The Highway Rat 2018
The Highway Rat (voice) ★ 6.2 So You Want To Be A Pirate! 2012
Charles Darwin Series ★ 6.2 Thunderbirds Are Go! 2015
Tyco Reeves (Voice) Series ★ 6.5 Fish Hooks 2010
Oscar's Brain (voice) ★ 5.7 Mad to Be Normal 2017
RD Laing ★ 6.3 Bright Young Things 2003
Ginger Littlejohn ★ 5.6 You, Me and Him 2018
John ★ 5.8 L.A. Without a Map 1999
Richard ★ 6.7 What We Did on Our Holiday 2014
Doug McLeod Series ★ 6.1 Deadwater Fell 2020
Tom Kendrick ★ 6.7 Bad Samaritan 2018
Cale Erendreich Series ★ 5.1 Camping 2018
Walt ★ 6.3 Jude 1996
Drunk Undergraduate ★ 6 Glorious 39 2009
Hector ★ 5.1 Postman Pat: The Movie 2014
Wilf (voice) ★ 6.6 The Thursday Murder Club 2025
Ian ★ 6.5 The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! 2012
Charles Darwin (voice) ★ 5.5 Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! 2012
Donald / Roderick Peterson ★ 6 The Decoy Bride 2011
James Arber ★ 5.6 St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold 2009
Captain Lord Pomfrey / Sir Piers Pomfrey Also behind the camera The films and series they directed.
Full directing filmography ★ 6 Painkiller Jane 2007 ★ 8 Doctor Who Confidential 2005 Start from another title 
