David Tennant

David Tennant
David Tennant.jpg
Tennant at the premiere of the new Doctor Who series, 2007
Born David John McDonald
18 April 1971 (1971-04-18) (age 38)
Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland
Occupation Actor
Years active 1988-present
Official website

David Tennant (born David John McDonald;[3] 18 April 1971) is a Scottish actor. Already a well-known theatre actor, Tennant achieved wider fame for his TV roles in Casanova and Doctor Who, as well as his film role as Barty Crouch, Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. He was ranked the 24th most influential person in the British media, in the 9 July 2007 MediaGuardian supplement of The Guardian. Tennant also appeared in the paper's annual media rankings in 2006.

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Biography

Early life

David Tennant was born in Bathgate, West Lothian[3] and grew up in Ralston, Renfrewshire, where his father (the Reverend Alexander ("Sandy") McDonald) was the local Church of Scotland minister (and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1997). Tennant was educated at Ralston Primary and Paisley Grammar School where he enjoyed a fruitful relationship with English teacher Moira Robertson, who was among the first to realise his true potential.[4] He also attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, where he was friends with Louise Delamere.

At the age of three, Tennant told his parents that he wanted to become an actor because he was a fan of Doctor Who.[5] Although such an aspiration might have been common for any British child of the 1970s, Tennant says he was "absurdly single-minded" in pursuing his goal. He adopted the professional name "Tennant" — inspired by Neil Tennant, the lead singer of the Pet Shop Boys[6] — because there was another David McDonald already on the books of the Equity union. His second choice for a stage name was David Brandon and his third choice was Chris McDonald.

Early work

Tennant's first professional role upon graduating from drama school was in a staging of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui co-starring Ashley Jensen, one of a few plays in which he performed as part of the agitprop 7:84 Theatre Company. Tennant also made an early television appearance as a transsexual barmaid in Rab C Nesbitt.

Tennant met comic actress and writer Arabella Weir during the making of the BBC's Takin' Over The Asylum in which they both appeared. When he moved to London shortly afterwards he lodged with her for five years and became godfather to her youngest child. He has subsequently appeared alongside Weir in many productions; as a guest in her spoof television series, Posh Nosh; in the Doctor Who audio drama Exile and as panelists on the West Wing Ultimate Quiz on More4.

Tennant developed his career in the British theatre, frequently performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company for whom he specialised in comic roles such as Touchstone in As You Like It, Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors (a role he recorded for the 1998 Arkangel Complete Shakespeare production of the play) and Captain Jack Absolute in The Rivals, although he also played the tragic role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet. It was announced on 30 August 2007 that he is returning to the RSC, to play Hamlet (alongside Patrick Stewart) and Berowne (in Love's Labours Lost) from July to November 2008.[7]

In 1995, Tennant appeared at the Royal National Theatre, London, playing the role of Nicholas Beckett in Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw. The plot required Tennant to appear near-naked on stage, wearing nothing but a police hat.

During the Christmas season of 2002, Tennant also starred in a series of television commercials for Boots the Chemists.[8].

Tennant appeared in several high-profile dramas for the BBC, including Takin' Over the Asylum (1994), He Knew He Was Right (2004), Blackpool (2004), Casanova (2005) and The Quatermass Experiment (2005). In film, he has appeared in Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things, and as Barty Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. One of his earliest big screen roles was in Jude (1996), in which he shared a scene with his Doctor Who predecessor Christopher Eccleston, playing a drunken undergraduate who challenges Eccleston's Jude to prove his intellect.

Doctor Who (2005–2010)

Tennant's name was put forward as a possible candidate for the role of the Ninth Doctor for the new series that began in March 2005, although the role eventually went to Christopher Eccleston. With Eccleston's announcement on 31 March 2005 that he would not be returning for a second series, the BBC confirmed Tennant as his replacement in a press release on 16 April 2005. He made his first, brief appearance as the Tenth Doctor in the episode "The Parting of the Ways" (2005) after the regeneration scene, and also appeared in a special 7-minute mini-episode shown as part of the 2005 Children in Need appeal, broadcast on 18 November 2005.

He began filming the new series of Doctor Who in late July 2005. His first full-length outing as the Doctor was a sixty-minute special, "The Christmas Invasion", first broadcast on Christmas Day 2005.

Tennant has expressed enthusiasm about fulfilling his childhood dream. He remarked to an interviewer for GWR FM, "Who wouldn't want to be the Doctor? I've even got my own TARDIS!" In 2006, readers of Doctor Who Magazine voted Tennant "Best Doctor", over perennial favourite Tom Baker.[9] In 2007, Tennant's Doctor was voted the "coolest character" on UK television in a Radio Times survey.[10]

Tennant had previously had a small role in the BBC's animated Doctor Who webcast Scream of the Shalka. Not originally cast in the production, Tennant happened to be recording a radio play in a neighbouring studio, and when he discovered what was being recorded next door managed to convince the director to give him a small role. This personal enthusiasm for the series had also been expressed by his participation in several audio plays based on the Doctor Who television series which had been produced by Big Finish Productions, although he did not play the Doctor in any of these productions. In 2004 Tennant played a lead role in the Big Finish audio play series Dalek Empire III. He played the part of Galanar, a young man who is given an assignment to discover the secrets of the Daleks. In 2005, he starred in UNIT: The Wasting for Big Finish, recreating his role of Brimmicombe-Wood from a Doctor Who Unbound play Sympathy for the Devil. He also played an unnamed Time Lord in another Doctor Who Unbound play Exile. UNIT: The Wasting, was recorded between Tennant getting the role of the Doctor and it being announced. He also played the title role in Big Finish's adaptation of Bryan Talbot's The Adventures of Luther Arkwright (2005). In 2006 he recorded abridged audio books of The Stone Rose by Jacqueline Rayner, The Feast of the Drowned by Stephen Cole and The Resurrection Casket by Justin Richards, for BBC Worldwide. Tennant is close friends with actress Billie Piper.

Tennant continued to play the Tenth Doctor into the revived programme's fourth series in 2008. However, on 29 October 2008, Tennant announced that he would be standing down from the role after three full series.[11] He will continue to play the Doctor for four special episodes, due to be broadcast in 2009. The Daily Mirror has also reported that Tennant is forbidden from attending Doctor Who fan conventions while he is playing the role.[12] He said at the Children in Need concert that his favourite Doctor Who story is Genesis of the Daleks. He has also stated that his favourite monsters are the Zygons.

He made his directorial debut directing the Doctor Who Confidential episode that accompanies Steven Moffat's episode "Blink", entitled "Do You Remember The First Time?", which aired on 9 June 2007. In 2007, Tennant's Tenth Doctor appeared alongside Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor, at age 56, in a Doctor Who special for Children in Need, written by Steven Moffat entitled "Time Crash". This was the first "multi-Doctor" story in the series since The Two Doctors in 1985.[13] Tennant also later performed alongside Davison's daughter in the 2008 episode "the Doctor's Daughter" with her taking the lead role as "Jenny".

In an interview on Jonathan Ross' BBC Radio 2 show, Catherine Tate said that Tennant may be leaving after the next series.[14] However this has since been denied by Tennant in an interview he gave to Ripley Today.[15] He had also mentioned to the TV-Guide What's On TV, that he is going to keep the public guessing as to when he resigns from Doctor Who.[16] It had been previously confirmed that Tennant will return for the 2009 specials.[17]

On 8 July 2008 The Independent on Sunday reported that Tennant had acting commitments with the Royal Shakespeare Company which precluded a Doctor Who series in 2009.[18] However, Tennant has been signed up to appear in further Doctor Who specials: the Christmas 2008 special and four specials which will air in 2009 and early 2010.

During the National Television Awards, David announced that he would not be returning to the role after the 2009–2010 specials.[19][20]

Other work (2005–present)

Tennant's casting in Doctor Who has not prevented him from taking on other roles. He was seen in early December 2005 in ITV drama Secret Smile. His performance as Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger at the Theatre Royal, Bath and Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh was recorded by the National Video Archive of Performance for the Victoria and Albert Museum Theatre Collection. He revived this performance for the anniversary of the Royal Court Theatre in a rehearsed reading. In January 2006, he took a one-day break from shooting Doctor Who to play Richard Hoggart in a dramatisation of the 1960 Lady Chatterley's Lover obscenity trial, The Chatterley Affair. The play was written by Andrew Davies and directed by Doctor Who's James Hawes for the digital television channel BBC Four. Hoggart's son Simon Hoggart praised Tennant's performance in The Guardian newspaper.[21]

On 25 February 2007, Tennant starred in Recovery, a 90-minute BBC1 drama written by Tony Marchant. Tennant played Alan, a self-made building site manager who attempted to rebuild his life after suffering a debilitating brain injury. His co-star in the drama was friend Sarah Parish, with whom he had previously appeared in Blackpool and an episode of Doctor Who. She joked that "we're like George and Mildred - in 20 years' time we'll probably be doing a ropey old sitcom in a terraced house in Preston."[22]

Later in 2007 he starred in Learners, a BBC comedy drama written by and starring Jessica Hynes (another Doctor Who co-star, in the episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood"), in which he played a Christian driving instructor who became the object of a student's affection. Learners was broadcast on BBC One on 11 November 2007.

Tennant played Sir Arthur Eddington in the biopic Einstein and Eddington filmed in Cambridge and Hungary a BBC and HBO co-production, with Andy Serkis depicting Albert Einstein.[23] Tennant had a cameo appearance as the Doctor in the 2007 finale episode of the BBC/HBO comedy series Extras alongside Ricky Gervais.

Tennant is the voice behind the latest 2007 advertising campaign for catalogue retailer Argos, although he uses an Estuary English accent as in his role as the Doctor and not his natural Scottish voice. But for an advert for The Proclaimers new album he uses his usual Scottish accent. It is this accent he also uses for learndirect's June 2008 advertising campaign.

He is currently appearing in Love's Labour's Lost as Berowne, and in the title role of Hamlet for the RSC in the second half of 2008 and, despite his recent focus on television work, he has stated that theatre work is his "default way of being".[24]

Tennant appeared in Derren Brown's Trick or Treat first reported by The Sun.[25] In the 26 April–2 May issue of TV & Satellite Week Brown is quoted as saying "One of the appeals of Doctor Who for David is time travel, so I wanted to give him that experience. He was open and up for it, and I got a good reaction. He's a real screamer!". The episode aired on Channel 4 on 16 May 2008, and showed Tennant apparently predicting future events correctly by using automatic writing. Tennant also returned for the final episode of the series with the rest of the participants from the other episodes in the series to take part in one final experiment.

Tennant appeared in the 2008 episode "Holofile 703: Us and Phlegm" of the radio series Nebulous (an affectionate parody of Doctor Who) in the role of Doctor Beep, using his Scottish accent.

Popularity

In December 2005, The Stage newspaper listed Tennant at No.6 in its "Top Ten" listing of the most influential UK television artists of the year, citing his roles in Blackpool, Casanova, Secret Smile and Doctor Who.[26] In January 2006, readers of the British gay and lesbian newspaper The Pink Paper voted Tennant the "Sexiest Man in the Universe" over David Beckham and Brad Pitt.[27] A poll of over 10,000 women for the March 2006 issue of New Woman magazine ranked him 20th in their list of the "Top 100 Men".[28] In October 2006, Tennant was named as "Scotland's most stylish male" in the Scottish Style Awards.[29] He was named "Coolest Man on TV" of 2007 in a Radio Times survey. He also won the National Television Awards award for Most Popular Actor in 2006, 2007 and 2008. He was voted 16th Sexiest Man In The World by a 2008 Cosmopolitan survey.

Personal life

Tennant has a brother, Blair, and a sister, Karen. His mother, Helen McDonald, died on 15 July 2007 of cancer.[30] His father, Sandy McDonald, appeared in a cameo non-speaking role as a footman in the Doctor Who episode "The Unicorn and the Wasp". Tennant traced his family tree in an episode of BBC One's popular genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?, broadcast on 27 September 2006. His episode explored both his Scottish ancestry and that from Northern Ireland, against the backdrop of the Troubles in the latter. Tennant's maternal great-great-grandfather, James Blair, was a prominent Ulster Unionist member of Derry City Council after the partition of Ireland. Tennant displayed discomfort after learning of his great-great-grandfather's membership of the Orange Order.[31] The programme also revealed that Archie McLeod, the husband of Nellie Blair who once played with Derry City, was Tennant's grandfather.[32] Tennant is now a member of the club's Exiles Supporters Club.[33]

According to an interview in issue 375 of Doctor Who Magazine, Tennant drove a Škoda in which he was caught twice on the same day on the M4 for speeding while returning to London from Cardiff in October 2006.[34] However, on Top Gear on 23 December 2007, David admitted that his Škoda had been taken in for servicing, and it was no longer financially viable, and by the time the episode had aired, he had traded it in. It has now been confirmed on Virgin Radio that Tennant drives a Toyota Prius; a supporter of ecologically friendly technologies, in 2008 Tennant was voted "Greenest Star on the Planet" in an online vote held by Playhouse Disney as part of the Playing for the Planet Awards.[35]

Tennant has been a supporter of the Labour Party and appeared in a Party political broadcast for them in 2005. He is a celebrity patron of the Association for International Cancer Research.

List of credits

Television

Year Title Role Other notes
Unknown Only Human Tyler Pilot
1988 Dramarama Neil McDonald Season 6, Episode 13, The Secret of Croftmore
1993 Rab C Nesbitt Davina Season 3, Episode 2, Touch
1993 The Tales of Para Handy John MacBryde
Unknown, pre-1994 Strathblair Hiker 2
1994 Takin' Over the Asylum Campbell Bain
1995 The Bill Steve Clemens Season 11, Episode 128, Deadline, opposite Honeysuckle Weeks, who he would also appear alongside in Foyle's War
1996 A Mug's Game Gavin Season 1, Episode 4
1997 Holding the Baby Nurse Season 1, Episode 2
1998 Duck Patrol Simon "Darwin" Brown
1999 The Mrs Bradley Mysteries Max Valentine Season 2, Episode 1, Death at the Opera. Appeared alongside Peter Davison, one of his predecessors in Doctor Who. Both would feature in a Children In Need special episode, "Time Crash"
2000 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) Gordon Stylus Season 1, Episode 1
2001 People Like Us Rob Harker Season 2, Episode 4
2002 Foyle's War Theo Howard Season 1, Episode 3, "A Lesson in Murder"
2003 Posh Nosh Jose-Luis Season 1, Episodes 3 and 8, Paella and Comfort Food
2003 Trust Gavin MacEwan Season 1, Episode 6
2003 Spine Chillers Dr. Krull Season 1, Episode 1
2004 The Deputy Christopher Williams
2004 He Knew He Was Right Rev Gibson
2004 Traffic Warden The Traffic Warden
2004 Old Street Mr. Watson
2004 Blackpool DI Carlisle 6 Episodes (60 mins each)
2005 Casanova Giacomo Casanova 3 Episodes
2005 The Quatermass Experiment Dr Gordon Briscoe
2005 - Doctor Who Tenth Doctor
2005 Secret Smile Brendan Block
2006 The Romantics Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2006 The Chatterley Affair Richard Hoggart
2006 Who Do You Think You Are? Himself
2007 Recovery Alan Hamilton
2007 Comic Relief Sketch Mr Logan/Tenth Doctor Appeared alongside Doctor Who co-star Catherine Tate[36][37]
2007 Dead Ringers Regenerated Tony Blair
2007 The Friday Night Project Guesthost
2007 The Graham Norton Show Himself Appeared alongside Jo Brand
2007 The Human Footprint Narrator
2007 Live Earth Himself
2007 Learners Chris
2007 Top Gear Himself Star in a Reasonably Priced Car
2007 Extras Christmas Special Himself/Tenth Doctor
2008 Einstein and Eddington Sir Arthur Eddington
2008 The Friday Night Project Guesthost
2008 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross Himself Appeared alongside co-star Catherine Tate
2008 Derren Brown's Trick or Treat Himself
2008 The Andrew Marr Show Himself
2008 The Sarah Jane Adventures Tenth Doctor Archive footage from Doctor Who

Film

Year Title Role Other notes
1996 Jude Drunk Undergraduate Appeared alongside Christopher Eccleston, whom Tennant would succeed in the role of the Doctor in Doctor Who.
1997 Bite Alastair Galbraith
1998 L.A. Without a Map Richard Plays lead opposite Vinessa Shaw. Also features Johnny Depp
1999 The Last September Captain Gerald Colthurst
2000 Being Considered Larry
2001 Sweetnight Goodheart Peter A short film.
2003 Nine 1/2 Minutes Charlie A short film.
2003 Bright Young Things Ginger Littlejohn Appeared alongside James McAvoy, who is the current husband of Tennant's Ex-girlfriend.
2005 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Barty Crouch Jr. A Death Eater and son of Barty Crouch Sr. HP4, played by Roger Lloyd-Pack, who later appeared alongside Tennant on Doctor Who (episodes "Rise of the Cybermen"/"The Age of Steel").
2006 Free Jimmy Hamish (voice)

Radio and CD audio drama

Year Title Role Radio Station/Production Company
2001 Much Ado about Nothing Benedick BBC Radio 4
2001 Doctor Who: Colditz Feldwebel Kurtz Big Finish
2001 Dr Finlay: Adventures of a Black Bag Jackson BBC Radio 4
2002 Dr Finlay: Further Adventures of a Black Bag McKellor BBC Radio 4
2002 Double Income No Kids Yet Daniel BBC Radio 4
2003 Doctor Who: Sympathy For The Devil Col. Brimmecombe-Wood Big Finish
2003 Doctor Who: Exile Time Lord # 2/Pub Landlord Big Finish
2003 Caesar! - Peeling Figs for Julius Caligus BBC Radio 4
2003 Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka Caretaker BBCi
2003 The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Dangerous Beans BBC Radio 4
2003 Pompeii Narrator BBC Radio 4
2004 Dalek Empire III Galanar Big Finish
2004 Doctor Who: Medicinal Purposes Daft Jamie Big Finish
2004 Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre Narrator Time Warner
2005 UNIT: The Wasting Col. Brimmecombe-Wood Big Finish
2005 Dixon of Dock Green PC Andy Crawford BBC Radio 4
2005 The Adventures of Luther Arkwright Luther Arkwright Big Finish
2006 The Virgin Radio Christmas Panto Buttons Virgin Radio
2006 The Stone Rose Narrator BBC Audio
2006 The Resurrection Casket Narrator BBC Audio
2006 The Feast of the Drowned Narrator BBC Audio
2007 The Wooden Overcoat Peter BBC Radio 4
2008 Dixon of Dock Green Andy Crawford BBC Radio 4
2008 Pest Control Narrator BBC Audio

Theatre

Awards

References

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  2. ↑ Cornwell, Tim (2007-11-30). "Top Scot dedicates award to his 'little angel'", The Scotsman. Retrieved on 2007-11-30. 
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  4. ↑ Scott, Marion (2005-11-27). "The Secret Diary or Dr Who, aged 14 3/4", The Sunday Mail. Retrieved on 2007-11-08. 
  5. ↑ Foss, Roger (July/August 2008). "Partners in Time", What's On Stage, p. 15. Retrieved on 2008-07-06. 
  6. ↑ Shannon, Sarah (2005-12-07). "David Tennant: His days of blissful anonymity are numbered", The Independent. 
  7. ↑ Bamigboye, Baz (2007-07-12). "Doctor Who David Tennant poised to play Hamlet", Daily Mail. Retrieved on 2007-09-03. 
  8. ↑ Boots Advert starring David Tennanton YouTube
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  10. ↑ TV's Coolest (Sky News)
  11. ↑ [1]David Tennant quits as Doctor Who
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  13. ↑ Nathan, Sara (2007-08-21). "Dr Peter is back in the Tardis", The Sun. Retrieved on 2007-08-22. 
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  15. ↑ "'I've no plans to quit, says Tennant'". Ripley Today (2007-12-19). Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
  16. ↑ "Tennant tries to stay as long as possible". What's On TV (2007-12-19). Retrieved on 2007-12-31.
  17. ↑ "BBC reveals Doctor Who 'gap year'". BBC News. bbc.co.uk (2007-03-09). Retrieved on 2007-03-09.
  18. ↑ Johnson, Andrew (2008-07-06). "Dr Two - but is this the end of Tennant?", The Independent on Sunday, Independent News & Media. Retrieved on 2008-07-08. "While there is no series next year because of Tennant's commitments to the Royal Shakespeare Company, four specials, including a Christmas one, have been scripted, and Tennant has been signed up for them. A BBC source confirmed that no actors have yet been signed up for the fifth series, which will definitely be broadcast in 2010. "There are no contracts signed and no scripts written," the source said. He also pointed out that the BBC had mounted a "military operation" to ensure no details about last night's episode leaked out. Tennant told a television interviewer last week that he hadn't yet been asked if he wanted to do series five." 
  19. ↑ "David Tennant to leave Doctor Who". BBC Doctor Who website (2008-10-29). Retrieved on 2008-10-29.
  20. ↑ "David Tennant quits as Doctor Who". BBC News (2008-10-29). Retrieved on 2008-10-29.
  21. ↑ Hoggart, Simon (2006-01-14). "Alcoholic? Not the Kennedy I knew", Simon Hoggart's week, The Guardian. Retrieved on 2008-07-05. "Dad is played by the wonderful David Tennant (Blackpool, Casanova) who has carefully prepared his appearance by watching old interviews, even studying newspaper pictures of the time and having a picture of Dad on his mobile phone. He's extremely convincing - the suit, the hair, the Yorkshire accent, and trickiest of all, the speech rhythms. The only thing wrong is his sideburns. To do this film he had to take 24 hours off from making Doctor Who in Cardiff and, as he explained, the sideburns wouldn't grow back in a day." 
  22. ↑ Dempster, Sarah (2007-02-21). "Scissor sister", The Guardian. Retrieved on 2008-07-05. 
  23. ↑ It was first broadcast in the UK on 2008-11-22. Andreeva, Nellie (2007-03-27). "HBO, BBC discover 'Einstein' project" (subscription required), The Hollywood Reporter. 
  24. ↑ "Catherine Tate interviewing David Tennant". Chain Reaction. BBC Radio 4. 2008-02-21. No. 1, series 4.
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  26. ↑ "The Stage 100 :: TV Ten", The Stage (2005-12-29). Retrieved on 2006-01-03. 
  27. ↑ "Dr Who Voted Sexiest Gay Icon", GayNZ.com (2006-01-17). Retrieved on 2006-01-18. 
  28. ↑ Arifa Akbar and Elisa Bray (2006-02-02). "Introducing world's sexiest men: Bloom, Pitt...and Cameron", The Independent. Retrieved on 2006-02-02. 
  29. ↑ Ross, Shân (2006-10-28). "Top Scots chosen for putting on the style", The Scotsman. Retrieved on 2007-01-24. 
  30. ↑ "David Tennant's mother passes away", Digital Spy (2007-07-19). 
  31. ↑ "David Tennant". Producer - Lucy Carter. Who Do You Think You Are?. BBC One. 2006-09-27.
  32. ↑ "WDYTYA? Series Three: Celebrity Gallery", BBC.
  33. ↑ "Walk a million miles...", CityWeb
  34. ↑ Todd, Ben (2006-11-05). "Dr Whoosh", Sunday Mirror. Retrieved on 2007-02-25. 
  35. ↑ "Tennant voted planet's greenest star", [[Metro (Associated Metro Limited)|]], Associated Newspapers Ltd (2008-08-13). Retrieved on 2008-08-15. 
  36. ↑ Note:Current as of Series 4
  37. ↑ BBC Doctor Who Profile, 1 May 2008, http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/characters/donna.shtml
  38. ↑ "Doctor Who lands three TV awards", BBC News (2006-09-05). Retrieved on 2006-09-05. 
  39. ↑ Cornwell, Tim (2007-11-30). "Top Scot dedicates award to his 'little angel'", The Scotsman. Retrieved on 2007-11-30. 

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NAME Tennant, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McDonald, David John
SHORT DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH 18 April 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH