Peter Capaldi is a British actor whose career began in 1982 and who was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1958; his first album, St. Christopher, was released in 2021.
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- Latest album
- Sweet Illusions (2025)
- Born
- 1958 · Glasgow
- Origin
- Italy
- Active since
- 1982
About — The artist
Peter Dougan Capaldi (; born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor, director, singer and guitarist. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction series Doctor Who (2013–2017) and Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It (2005–2012), for which he received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010.
Capaldi won an 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. He went on to write and direct the drama film Strictly Sinatra (2001) and directed two series of the sitcom Getting On (2009–2010). Capaldi also played Mr Curry in the family film Paddington (2014) and its sequel Paddington 2 (2017), as well as the Thinker in The Suicide Squad (2021).
He appeared as Professor Marcus in the stage play The Ladykillers. He won a BAFTA Scotland award for Outstanding Contribution to Film & Television. Capaldi wrote a rock album titled St. Christopher. He is married to actress Elaine Collins and the pair have a child together.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article “Peter Capaldi” (en), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Discography
- St. Christopher 2021
- Sweet Illusions 2025