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Peter Capaldi
Known for: ActingPeter 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.
Filmography 44
The Suicide Squad
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as Thinker 
World War Z
+1
as W.H.O. Doctor 
Criminal Record
as DCI Daniel Hegarty 
The Personal History of David Copperfield
+1
as Mr. Micawber 
The Devil's Hour
as Gideon Shepherd 
The Thick of It
as Malcolm Tucker 
Bean
as Gareth 
Paddington 2
as Reginald Curry 
Paddington
as Reginald Curry 
Christopher Robin
as Rabbit (voice) 
The Fifth Estate
as Alan Rusbridger 
Watership Down
as Kehaar (voice) 
Dangerous Liaisons
as Azolan 
Local Hero
as Danny Oldsen 
The Hour
as Randall Brown 
Benediction
as Siegfried Sassoon (Older) 
House of 9
as Max Roy 
In the Loop
as Malcolm Tucker 
The Lair of the White Worm
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as Angus Flint 
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
as The Doctor (12) (uncredited) 
Max
as David Cohn 
The Best Man
as Priest 
Captives
as Simon 
Fallen Angel
as Henry Appleton 
Smilla's Sense of Snow
as Birgo Lander 
Modigliani
as Jean Cocteau 
Selling Hitler
as Thomas Walde 
Midnight Man
as Trevor 
Doctor Who: Last Christmas
as The Doctor 
Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor
as The Doctor (12) 
The Nativity
as Balthazar 
Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
as The Doctor (12) 
Doctor Who at the Proms
as The Doctor (12) (archive footage) 
Doctor Who: The Husbands of River Song
as The Doctor 
The Murder at Road Hill House
as Samuel Kent 
The Treasure Seekers
as Jellicoe 
Doctor Who: The Return of Doctor Mysterio
as The Doctor 
What Rats Won't Do
as Tony 
The Secret Agent
as Mr Vladimir 
Big Fat Gypsy Gangster
as Peter Van Gellis 
Wild Country
as Father Steve 
Riverwoods: An Untold Story
as Narrator 
Martin's Close
as Dolben 
Pinochet in Suburbia
as Andy McEntee