Peter Capaldi was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to Nancy on 4th August 2013 on a BBC special programme. He had to hide it from his daughter who remarked to him why it is his name never came up during the buzz. It was a huge relief not to have to keep the secret anymore. His agent called and said "Hello Doctor" when informing him he had gotten the part.
He was the lead singer of a punk rock band, Dreamboys, which included Craig Ferguson as the drummer and Temple Clark as the bassist.
He is a patron of the Association for International Cancer Research and of a Scottish childrens charity, the Aberlour Child Care Trust.
He had been to an audition in the morning where he felt that he was made "to jump through hoops" for a small role by people he had worked with before. This frustrating audition gave him the mind-set at the next audition on that day, for the role of Malcolm Tucker in "The Thick of It" . Armando Iannucci found him perfect for the role.
He played a character called "W.H.O. Doctor" in World War Z before being cast in the lead role for "Doctor Who" .
He is the first actor to play the Doctor in the revamped "Doctor Who" to be born before the original series first premiered.
He is the only Oscar winner to play the Doctor, although not for acting-for best live-action short film.
He is the second actor to play the Doctor who also played a previous role in the show. The first was Colin Baker.
He is the third Scottish actor to play the role of the Doctor in the TV series, following Sylvester McCoy , who played the Seventh Doctor, and David Tennant , who played the Tenth Doctor.
He is only the third actor to play the Doctor who was older than the actor he replaced in the role. The others were Jon Pertwee , who was a year older than Patrick Troughton , and Colin Baker , who was eight years older than Peter Davison. Capaldi is tied with the First Doctor, William Hartnell , as the oldest actor to be cast in the role. Both were aged 55 when cast.
His paternal grandfather, Giovanni Batiste Capaldi, was Italian, born in Picinisco, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy. The rest of Peters ancestry is Scottish and Irish.
Like David Tennant , he was a lifelong "Doctor Who" fan before he got to play the role.
He auditioned for a place in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) but was rejected.
When he was 15, he wrote a letter to the Radio Times in tribute to Roger Delgado who played The Master in the original "Doctor Who" series.
He became an actor because of his love of "Doctor Who" and the hope that he would one day get to appear on the show.
Long before World War Z , he was considered for a another zombie film-he was favored to play Rawlings in Lifeforce .
On "The All New Alexei Sayle Show" , he played intoxicated time traveler Doug Hatton in the re-occurring sketch Drunk in Time.
He was offered the chance to audition for the Eight Doctor in Doctor Who but turned it down as he felt he was unlikely to get it. The part eventually went to Paul McGann.
He is a huge fan of the HBO show "Game of Thrones" . In Season 9 of "Doctor Who" he worked alongside Maisie Williams , who plays Arya Stark.
He was seriously considering giving up acting when he was cast as Malcolm Tucker in "The Thick of It" .
Special rings were designed for his roles in "The Musketeers" and "Doctor Who" in order to hide his own wedding ring, which he doesnt like to take off.
He is a huge fan of David Bowie , whose "Station to Station" album cover from 1976 was an influence on his own costume as the Doctor according to an article in the Radio Times.
He declined an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for his services to drama.
In 1992 he auditioned for another famous sci-fi role, Commander Sisko in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" .
The big reason that "Doctor Who" (2005) is still with us is,because of every single viewer who ever turned on to watch this show,at any age, at any time in its history and in their history and who,took it into their heart -- because "Doctor Who" (2005) belongs,to all of us. Everyone made Doctor Who.
I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are,just different expressions of the same thing.
The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them.
Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.
One of the very, very exciting things I have found here in L. A. is that,no one talks to you about being Scottish. Whereas, if you are in London,and you are trying to put films together and be a film-maker, there is,a kind of unspoken sense that, if you are Scottish, you have something,to overcome or else you cannot really do that project.
I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor,improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they,were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego,would win.
At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and,wisdom with me, even allowing me to take part in a show at the,Edinburgh Festival. Without STG and the Ramshorn Theatre, I would not,have found access to the world of drama that I later made my,profession.
When I was acting, I was always asking abut the mechanics of filmmaking.
I decided I would learn what everyone on set was doing, so I would feel,less threatened.
"Doctor Who" (2005) , like time, cannot stand still. It must,always move and change.
If you put me in a real TARDIS, I dread to think what would happen to,the universe.
I love the last episode of Frontier in Space,("Doctor Who" (1963) {Frontier in Space: Episode Six (#10. 14)} ).
My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that,one day the geek would inherit the Earth.
My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.
Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.
At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and wisdom with me, even allowing me to take part in a show at the Edinburgh Festival. Without STG and the Ramshorn Theatre, I would not have found access to the world of drama that I later made my profession. .
