Peter Capaldi

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Peter Dougan Capaldi (born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor, writer, and producer.

In Doctor Who (2013–2017) and Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It, he portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who (2013–2017), for which he has received four British Academy Television Award nominations, including Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010.

Capaldi received multiple film critic award nominations for Best Supporting Actor when he reprised Tucker in the film In the Loop. Capaldi, a filmmaker, received the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and Best Short Film for his short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life.

He went on to write and direct Strictly Sinatra's dramatic film, as well as two sequels to the sitcom Getting On.

Early life

Capaldi was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to Nancy (née Soutar) and Gerald John Capaldi. His paternal grandfather was Italian, but the majority of his ancestry is Scottish and Irish. Although his parents did not know each other as children, they operated an ice cream business in the Springburn district, where they were neighbors and acquaintances of Armando Iannucci, the maker of The Thick of It. He was educated at St Teresa's Primary School in Possilpark, St Matthew's Primary School, Bishopbriggs, and St Ninian's High School, Kirkintilloch, before attending the Glasgow School of Art.

Capaldi demonstrated an early aptitude for success by staging a puppet show in primary school. He was a member of the Antonine Players, who appeared at the Fort Theatre in Bishopbriggs while attending high school. He was the lead singer and guitarist in The Dreamboys, a punk rock band whose drummer was future comedian Craig Ferguson. Together, the two performed a cabaret act as Bing & Dean Hitler and wrote an alternative pantomime of Sleeping Beauty. Capaldi continued to perform musical comedy cabaret in the guises of "bank clerk about town" Gavin Meekie, as one half of husband-and-wife evangelists Tom & Sammy Jo.

Personal life

Capaldi married Elaine Collins in Strathblane, a suburb of Glasgow, in 1991. Collins, an actor and writer, appeared in 1983 in a touring performance for the Paine Plough Theatre Company. They have a daughter together. They live in Muswell Hill, London.

Capaldi grew up Catholic but became an atheist.

Capaldi, along with Cate Blanchett, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jesse Eisenberg, Douglas Booth, Keira Knightley, Juliat Stevenson, Kit Harington, and Stanley Tucci, was featured in a video from the UN Refugee Agency to help raise concerns about the global refugee crisis on September 12, 2016. The actors appear on "What They Did" in "What They Did" in which Jenifer Toksvig's poem, which also includes a petition to governments to increase asylum to provide more shelter, opening job opportunities, and education.

Lewis Capaldi, Capaldi's second cousin, has been removed. In the film "Someone You Loved," the two stars appeared together.

Capaldi is a patron of Worldwide Cancer Research and the Aberlour Child Care Trust, a Scottish charity.

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Career

Capaldi has appeared in more than 40 films and television shows since his debut in Local Hero (1983). George Harrison, a member of Beatles Opinion (1988) and Dangerous Liaisons (1988), and he appeared in The Lair of the White Worm (1988) and Dangerous Liaisons (1988), and he appeared as Ozzy in a 1985 episode of Minder. Benjamin Sisko appeared in 1992 and auditioned for, but did not get, the role in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

In the BBC drama series Mr Wakefield's Crusade, Capaldi's first starring role was as Luke Wakefield, a strange man who imagines he has seen a murder. In two episodes of the sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, he portrayed fictional Songs of Praise producer Tristan Campbell, as well as a transgender woman in ITV's Prime Suspect. Islington, the angel in Neil Gaiman's gothic fantasy Neverwhere, he portrayed the angel Islington.

Capaldi is also an audiobook narrator, and his numerous books include several of Iain Banks' works. In the 1996 television adaptation of Banks' The Crow Road, Rory appeared as Rory.

He played a bipolar mathematician in the 1999 Channel 4 series Psychos. Capaldi appeared as a university professor in the Peep Show and also appeared as a prime suspect in the 2007 series of Waking the Dead. In the BBC Radio Ministry of Defence comedy Our Brave Boys, he voiced Chief Petty Officer Grieves. Capaldi appeared in the E4 teen comedy drama series Skins as Mark Jenkins (Sid's dad). In 2008, he appeared in a second series again, but his character was not present in the third episode. He appeared in "Death in Chorus" and ITV1's Fallen Angel, according to the Midsomer Murders episode "Death in Chorus." He appeared in the 2007 British comedy film Magicians.

In the Channel 4 series The Devil's Whore, King Charles I appeared as King Charles I. Capaldi appeared in the animated film Haunted Hogmanay in 2006. In the 2010 BBC adaptation of The Nativity, Balthazar, one of the Biblical Magi, appeared.

He began playing Professor Marcus in The Ladykillers at the Liverpool Playhouse in November 2011 and then moved to the Giel Theatre in London. On April 14, 2012, the original run of the Gielin ended. Dr Pete, who received a BAFTA Scotland nomination in the television actor/actress category, was defeated by his co-star Jayd Johnson in The Field of Blood; he was defeated by his co-star Jayd Johnson. He had a brief appearance as a therapist in Big Fat Gypsy Gangster, written by and starring Ricky Grover's Getting On co-star Ricky Grover. Capaldi played Randall Brown, the current Head of News, on BBC2's The Hour in 2012. He appeared as a WHO doctor in World War Z (2013) and appeared in Maleficent (2014), but his role in the latter film was cut during post-production.

He appeared in Inside the Mind of Leonardo, a Leonardo da Vinci documentary. In 2013, he portrayed Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian, in The Fifth Estate. On BBC One, he appeared in a new interpretation of The Three Musketeers as Cardinal Richelieu.

Mr Curry, Paddington Bear's neighbor, appeared in the family comedies Paddington and its sequel Paddington 2. In 2018, Rabbit appeared in the Disney film Christopher Robin.

Capaldi, who starred in Doctor Who, was best known for his role as playing spin doctor Malcolm Tucker in the Armando Iannucci-written BBC sitcom The Thick of It, which he starred in from 2005 to 2012. Tucker is expected to be largely based on Tony Blair's right-hand man Alastair Campbell, although Capaldi has said that his role was based more on Hollywood power players, such as the often abrasive Harvey Weinstein. In the Loop, a film spin-off of The Thick of It (in which Capaldi returned to the role of Tucker), was released in 2009.

Tucker received numerous awards in Capaldi. He was nominated for the BAFTA and RTS Best Comedy Actor Awards in 2006, 2008, and 2010. He was named Best Actor in a Comedy Role by the BAFTA in 2010. He has also been named finalists for Best TV Comedian and 2012 in the United Kingdom and 2012. In 2013, he received his second BAFTA Award nomination.

Capaldi appeared in Doctor Who, the BBC science fiction film Doctor Who, in 2013 after replacing Matt Smith in the role. Capaldi first appeared in "The Day of the Doctor" in a cameo before he appeared in "The Time of the Doctor," a 2013 Christmas special. Capaldi, a lifelong admirer of the series, appeared in the 2008 film "The Fires of Pompeii" with the Tenth Doctor and his companion Donna Noble, as well as playing civil servant John Frobisher in the 2009 spin-off Torchwood: Children of Earth.

Capaldi said that he had to seriously consider the increased degree of exposure that would accompany the role before being cast. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, he said he had been invited to audition for the role of the Eighth Doctor in 1995 ahead of the production of the 1996 television film, saying, "I didn't go." I loved the show so much that I didn't believe I would get it, and I didn't want to be stuck in a huge cull of actors."

Capaldi appeared as the Doctor on the CBBC website's The Doctor and the Dalek in 2014, and in 2015 he appeared in Lego Dimensions. Capaldi re-lived his role as the Twelfth Doctor in the Doctor Who spin-off programme Class, written by young-adult author Patrick Ness.

Capaldi said in an interview with BBC Radio 2 on January 30, that the tenth series would be his last. His last episode, "Twice Upon a Time," was where he was replaced by Jodie Whittaker.

Capaldi wrote and starred in the road movie Soft Top, Hard Shoulder, which received the audience award at the London Film Festival in 1992. In 1995, he received an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for his film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life, which was tied with fellow nominee Trevor, and the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film a year before that. In 2001, he wrote and directed Strictly Sinatra, and in 2009 he produced and presented A Portrait of Scotland, a documentary about 500 years' worth of Scottish portrait painting.

Several episodes of the 2009 BBC Four sitcom Getting On were directed by Capaldi.

Capaldi wrote (with Tony Roche), directed and performed in The Cricklewood Greats, an affectionate spoof film studio that follows true events and trends in British cinema, including silent films, horror, and bawdy comedy, as well as a tragic Terry Gilliam epic (Gilliam appears as himself) in 2012.

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