Peter Capaldi

Peter Capaldi (born 14th April, 1958) is a Scottish actor, screenwriter and award-winning director. He is known to television audiences for a variety of roles, particularly Malcolm Tucker in the BBC political comedy The Thick of It (2005-2012), partly because of his character's propensity for verbal profanity.

In 1993, Capaldi wrote and directed Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life, a short film which won an Academy Award and a BAFTA. He reprised his role as Malcolm Tucker for the spin-off film In the Loop in 2012.

In 2013, Capaldi was announced as the twelfth actor to take on the lead role in the television series Doctor Who. Capaldi is himself a dedicated fan of the programme, and as a teenager sought to run an official fan club for the series. He had already appeared in the series in 2008, playing a different character, and as another in a spin-off series, Torchwood.