Born:
April 18, 1971
Birthplace: Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland
Trivia:
His grandfather, Archie McLeod, was a professional football player with Derry City F.C. in Northern Ireland during the 1930s. Acted in school productions through primary and secondary school. As a teenager he wanted to join the actors' union Equity, which already had a person registered with his birth name (David McDonald); he adopted the stage surname Tennant, after Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys. In 2005, became the tenth incarnation of the mysterious time traveller in the sci-fi cult favourite Doctor Who, the show that made him want to be an actor (when Tom Baker was playing the role in the 1970s). Was named 'Coolest Man on TV' in a Radio Times survey in 2007. In 2007, under his birth name, was added to the 159th edition of Who's Who, the United Kingdom's oldest biographical yearbook. Has provided voices for the audio-book versions of Cressida Cowell's How To Train Your Dragon series. Supports the Association for International Cancer Research and Headway Essex, a brain-injury charity. Was voted the third best dressed man in The UK in the GQ readers' poll in 2013. Is an ambassador for Worldwide Cancer Research. His wife is the daughter of Peter Davison who played the fifth Dr Who.