Peter Capaldi
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Apr 14, 1958 (age 68)
- Place of birth
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Credits
- 168
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), directed and performed in The Cricklewood Greats, an affectionate spoof documentary about a fictitious film studio, which tracks real developments and trends throughout the history of British cinema. Film roles include Oldsen in Local Hero, Angus Flint in Ken Russell's The Lair of the White Worm, and Mr Curry in Paddington and its sequel, Paddington 2. As a director, Capaldi won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for his short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life. He went on to write and direct the drama film Strictly Sinatra and helmed two series of sitcom Getting On.
Known for
Filmography
TFI Unplugged
2026TV
Self
Doctor Who: Wish World & The Reality War
2025Movie
The Doctor (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Academy of Armando
2025Movie
Self
Doctor Who at the Proms
2024Movie
The Doctor (12) (archive footage)
Criminal Record
2024TV
DCI Daniel Hegarty
The Devil's Hour
2022TV
Gideon Shepherd
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022TV
Self
Riverwoods: An Untold Story
2022Movie
Narrator
Quentin Blake – The Drawing of My Life
2021Movie
Self
Benediction
2021Movie
Siegfried Sassoon (Older)
National Theatre Live: Constellations
2021Movie
Roland
But Why?
2021Movie
Older Man (uncredited)
The Suicide Squad
2021Movie
Thinker
Being Beethoven
2020TV
Beethoven (voice)
The Big Night In
2020Movie
Self
Martin's Close
2019Movie
Dolben
The Personal History of David Copperfield
2019Movie
Mr. Micawber
How to See a Black Hole: The Universe's Greatest Mystery
2019Movie
Narrator
Watership Down
2018TV
Kehaar (voice)
Christopher Robin
2018Movie
Rabbit (voice)
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
2018TV
Self
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
2017Movie
The Doctor (12)
Paddington 2
2017Movie
Reginald Curry
Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio
2016Movie
The Doctor
Prison, My Parents & Me
2016Movie
Narrator
Class
2016TV
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Friend from the Future
2016Movie
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
2015Movie
The Doctor
Doctor Who: The Doctor's Meditation
2015Movie
The Doctor
Doctor Who: Last Christmas
2014Movie
The Doctor
Paddington
2014Movie
Reginald Curry
Doctor Who: Dark Water / Death in Heaven
2014Movie
The Doctor (12)
Doctor Who: Deep Breath
2014Movie
The Doctor (12)
Doctor Who Extra
2014TV
Self
Doctor Who: Earth Conquest - The World Tour
2014Movie
Self
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
2014Movie
Self / The Doctor (archive footage)
The Musketeers
2014TV
Cardinal Richelieu
Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor
2013Movie
The Doctor (12)
Who's Afraid of Machiavelli?
2013Movie
Self - Presenter
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
2013Movie
The Doctor (12) (uncredited)
The Fifth Estate
2013Movie
Alan Rusbridger
Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor
2013Movie
Self
World War Z
2013Movie
W.H.O. Doctor
Inside the Mind of Leonardo
2013Movie
Leonardo da Vinci
Punk Britannia
2012TV
Narrator
The Cricklewood Greats
2012Movie
Himself
Black Mirror
2011TV
Older Cameron Walker
Big Fat Gypsy Gangster
2011Movie
Peter Van Gellis
The Natural World--Komodo: The Deadly Bite
2011Movie
The Natural World--Komodo: The Deadly Bite
2011TV
voice actor
The Hour
2011TV
Randall Brown
The Field of Blood
2011TV
Dr. Pete
The Murder at Road Hill House
2011Movie
Samuel Kent
The Nativity
2010TV
Balthazar
The Madness of Peter Howson
2010Movie
Self - Narrator (Voice)
Accused
2010TV
Frank Ryland
Conan
2010TV
Self - Guest
Bistro
2010Movie
Max
10 Minute Tales
2009TV
The Man
A Portrait of Scotland
2009Movie
Self - Presenter
Getting On
2009TV
Peter Healy
In the Loop
2009Movie
Malcolm Tucker
The Penguins of Madagascar
2008TV
Uncle Nigel (voice)
The Devil's Whore
2008TV
King Charles I
Cold Blood
2008TV
Self - Narrator
Midnight Man
2008TV
Trevor
Spinners and Losers
2007Movie
Malcolm Tucker
Magicians
2007Movie
Mike Francis
Fallen Angel
2007TV
Henry Appleton
The Graham Norton Show
2007TV
Self
Skins
2007TV
Mark
The Rise of the Nutters
2007Movie
Malcolm Tucker
The Martians and Us
2006TV
Narrator
Torchwood
2006TV
John Frobisher
Aftersun
2006Movie
Jim
Aftersun
2006TV
The One Show
2006TV
Self
Trawlermen
2006TV
Narrator (voice)
Pinochet in Suburbia
2006Movie
Andy McEntee
Wild Country
2005Movie
Father Steve
Michael Powell
2005Movie
Narrator
The Best Man
2005Movie
Priest
House of 9
2005Movie
Max Roy
The Thick of It
2005TV
Malcolm Tucker
Doctor Who
2005TV
Caecilius, The Doctor
Salvage
2004Movie
James Mulwray
Napoleon's Waterloo
2004Movie
Narrator
Modigliani
2004Movie
Jean Cocteau
Sea of Souls
2004TV
Gordon Fleming
Niceland (Population. 1.000.002)
2004Movie
John
Peep Show
2003TV
Professor Alistair MacLeish
Fortysomething
2003TV
Dr. Ronnie Pilfrey
The Afternoon Play
2003TV
Billy Shannon
Unconditional Love
2003Movie
DI Terry Machin
Foyle's War
2002TV
Raymond Carter
Max
2002Movie
David Cohn
Solid Geometry
2002Movie
David Hunter
Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War
2002Movie
Derek
Judge John Deed
2001TV
Waking the Dead
2001TV
Lucien Calvin
In Deep
2001TV
Jeremy Church
Hotel!
2001Movie
Hilton Gilfoyle
My Family
2000TV
Colin Judd
The Greatest Store in the World
1999Movie
Mr. Whiskers
Psychos
1999TV
Mark Collins
What Rats Won't Do
1998Movie
Tony
Boswell's Boswell
1998Movie
James Boswell (voice)
I Hate Christmas Too
1997Movie
Man
The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
1997TV
Lord Fellamar
Shooting Fish
1997Movie
Mr Gilzean
Bean
1997Movie
Gareth
Midsomer Murders
1997TV
Laurence Barker
Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997Movie
Birgo Lander
The Treasure Seekers
1996Movie
Jellicoe
The Crow Road
1996TV
Rory McHoan
Neverwhere
1996TV
Islington
Giving Tongue
1996Movie
Duncan Fielding
Lost for Words
1996Movie
The Tourist
Runway One
1995Movie
Mick Galligan
The Vicar of Dibley
1994TV
Chandler & Co
1994TV
Larry
Captives
1994Movie
Simon
The All New Alexei Sayle Show
1994TV
Jealousy
1993Movie
John
Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
1993Movie
David Critchley
Rik Mayall Presents
1993TV
David Critchley
Selling Hitler
1993Movie
Thomas Walde
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
1993Movie
Gavin Bellini
The Secret Agent
1992Movie
Mr Vladimir
The Secret Agent
1992TV
Mr. Vladimir
Mr. Wakefield's Crusade
1992Movie
Luke Wakefield
The Cloning of Joanna May
1992TV
Isaac
Titmuss Regained
1991TV
Ken Cracken
Selling Hitler
1991TV
Thomas Walde
Prime Suspect
1991TV
Vernon 'Vera' Reynolds, Vera Reynolds
Do Not Disturb
1991Movie
Bruce
Have I Got News for You
1990TV
Self
Chain
1990TV
Robert McRae
December Bride
1990Movie
Young Sorleyson
Stay Lucky
1989TV
Rosie the Great
1989Movie
The British Ambassador
Dream Baby
1989Movie
Willie
Shadow of the Noose
1989TV
Robert Wood
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989TV
Claude Langton
Communicators From Hell
1989Movie
Colleagues From Hell
1989Movie
Dangerous Liaisons
1988Movie
Azolan
Rab C. Nesbitt: Seasonal Greet
1988Movie
Preacher
This Morning
1988TV
Self - Guest
The Love Child
1988Movie
Dillon
The Lair of the White Worm
1988Movie
Angus Flint
The Story of a Recluse
1987Movie
Jamie Kirkwood
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1987TV
Zeno Vedast
Up Line
1987Movie
Scott Dare
Up Line
1987TV
Scott Dare
God's Chosen Car Park
1986Movie
Everard
Turtle Diary
1985Movie
Assistant Keeper
John and Yoko: A Love Story
1985Movie
George Harrison
Screen Two
1985TV
Bruce Coldfield, Simon
Travelling Man
1984TV
John
Spectrum
1984TV
Himself
Natural World
1983TV
Narrator
Dramarama
1983TV
The British Ambassador
Local Hero
1983Movie
Danny Oldsen
Living Apart Together
1982Movie
Joe
Minder
1979TV
Ozzie
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971TV
Dolben
Doctor Who
TV
The Twelfth Doctor