Peter Capaldi filmography

Peter Capaldi is a Scottish actor, director and writer. His first acting role was in a 1974 performance of the play An Inspector Calls. He made his first onscreen appearance in the 1982 film Living Apart Together as Joe Edwards. He portrayed Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It (2005–2012) and the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who (2013–2017), the former of which he received four British Academy Television Award nominations,^[1][2][3] winning for Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010.^[4] When he reprised the role of Tucker in the feature film In the Loop, Capaldi was honoured with several film critic award nominations for Best Supporting Actor.^[5][6][7]

Capaldi won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for his 1993 short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life.^[8][9] He went on to write and direct the drama film Strictly Sinatra and directed two series of the sitcom Getting On. Capaldi also played Mr Curry in the family film Paddington (2014) and its sequel Paddington 2 (2017).

Capaldi has done a significant amount of voice acting including Rabbit in Christopher Robin (2018) and Jeff Wylie in Haunted Hogmanay (2006) and its sequel Glendogie Bogey (2008). He has performed in various radio plays, his first being If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich (1995) on BBC Radio 4. Capaldi also voiced Officer Grieves in Our Brave Boys (2002–05) on BBC Radio 7^[10] and Ludwig van Beethoven on Beethoven Can Hear You on BBC Radio 3. He performed as Professor Marcus in the stage play The Ladykillers.