Peter Dougan Capaldi is a Scottish actor and director.
42 Facts About Peter Capaldi
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Peter Capaldi portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction series Doctor Who and Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It, for which he received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010.
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When he reprised the role of Tucker in the feature film In the Loop, Capaldi was honoured with several film critic award nominations for Best Supporting Actor.
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Peter Capaldi won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for his 1993 short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life.
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Peter Capaldi went on to write and direct the drama film Strictly Sinatra and directed two series of the sitcom Getting On.
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Peter Capaldi was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to Nancy and Gerald John Peter Capaldi.
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Peter Capaldi's parents ran an ice cream business in the Springburn district, where they were neighbours and acquaintances of the family of Armando Iannucci, creator of The Thick of It, although the two men did not know each other as children.
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Peter Capaldi was educated at St Teresa's Primary School in Possilpark, St Matthew's Primary School in Bishopbriggs, and St Ninian's High School, Kirkintilloch, before attending the Glasgow School of Art.
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Peter Capaldi displayed an early talent for performance by putting on a puppet show in primary school.
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Peter Capaldi has appeared in over 40 films and television shows since his appearance as Danny Oldsen in Local Hero.
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Peter Capaldi played Beatles member George Harrison in John and Yoko: A Love Story, had roles in The Lair of the White Worm and Dangerous Liaisons, and was featured as Ozzy in a 1985 episode of Minder.
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Peter Capaldi's first starring role on television was as Luke Wakefield, a strange man who imagines he has witnessed a crime, in the BBC drama series Mr Wakefield's Crusade.
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Peter Capaldi played fictional Songs of Praise producer Tristan Campbell in two episodes of the sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, and a transgender woman in ITV's Prime Suspect.
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Peter Capaldi is an audiobook narrator, and his many titles include several of the works of Iain Banks.
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Peter Capaldi starred as Rory in the 1996 television version of Banks's The Crow Road.
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Peter Capaldi made an appearance as a university professor in the sitcom Peep Show, and played a prime suspect in the 2007 series of Waking the Dead.
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Peter Capaldi voiced Chief Petty Officer Grieves in the BBC Radio Ministry of Defence comedy Our Brave Boys.
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In 2007, Peter Capaldi appeared as Mark Jenkins in the E4 teen comedy drama series Skins.
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Peter Capaldi returned for a second series in 2008 although his character died in the third episode.
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Peter Capaldi appeared in the Midsomer Murders episode "Death in Chorus" and ITV1's Fallen Angel.
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Peter Capaldi appeared in the 2007 British comedy film Magicians.
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Peter Capaldi provided his voice for the animated film Haunted Hogmanay in 2006.
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Peter Capaldi played Balthazar, one of the Biblical Magi, in the 2010 BBC adaptation of The Nativity.
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Peter Capaldi had a small role as a therapist in Big Fat Gypsy Gangster, written by and starring his Getting On co-star Ricky Grover.
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In 2012, Peter Capaldi played Randall Brown, the new Head of News, on the BBC2 drama The Hour.
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Peter Capaldi appeared as a WHO doctor in World War Z, and had a role in Maleficent, but his part in the latter film was cut during post-production.
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Peter Capaldi starred in Inside the Mind of Leonardo, a documentary about Leonardo da Vinci.
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Peter Capaldi appeared as Paddington Bear's neighbour Mr Curry in the family comedy film Paddington and its sequel Paddington 2.
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Tucker is said to be largely, if loosely, based upon Tony Blair's right-hand man Alastair Campbell, although Peter Capaldi has said that he based his performance more on Hollywood power players, such as the often abrasive Harvey Weinstein.
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Peter Capaldi won the 2010 BAFTA Television Award for Male Performance in a Comedy Role.
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Peter Capaldi won the 2010 and 2012 British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actor.
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Peter Capaldi was revealed in 2013 as the Twelfth Doctor in the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who, succeeding Matt Smith in the role.
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Peter Capaldi first appeared as the Doctor in a cameo in the 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor", before appearing in the 2013 Christmas special, "The Time of the Doctor".
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In 2014, Peter Capaldi voiced the Doctor on the CBBC website's game The Doctor and the Dalek and in 2015 voiced him in Lego Dimensions.
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In 2016, Peter Capaldi reprised his role as the Twelfth Doctor in the Doctor Who spin-off programme Class, written by young-adult author Patrick Ness.
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On 30 January 2017, in an interview on BBC Radio 2, Peter Capaldi confirmed that the tenth series would be his last.
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In 1992, Peter Capaldi wrote and starred in the road movie Soft Top, Hard Shoulder, which won the audience award at the London Film Festival.
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Peter Capaldi wrote and directed Strictly Sinatra in 2001, and in 2009 he wrote and presented A Portrait of Scotland, a documentary detailing 500 years' history of Scottish portrait painting.
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Peter Capaldi directed several episodes of the 2009 BBC Four sitcom Getting On.
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Peter Capaldi married Elaine Collins in Strathblane near his home city of Glasgow in 1991.
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Peter Capaldi grew up Catholic but is an atheist.
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Peter Capaldi is a patron of Worldwide Cancer Research, and the Scottish children's charity, the Aberlour Child Care Trust.