| Peter Capaldi | |
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 Capaldi in January 2008 |
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| Born | 1958 (age 50–51) Glasgow, Scotland |
| Occupation | Actor, film director |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Spouse(s) | Elaine Collins |
Peter Capaldi (born 1958) is an award-winning Scottish actor and film director, best known for his splenetic and profanity-laden portrayal of a New Labour-esque spin doctor in the successful British TV comedy series The Thick of It.
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Early life
Capaldi was born in Glasgow. He was educated at St Teresa's Primary School in the city's Possilpark district[1], St Matthew's Primary School in Bishopbriggs[2]and at St Ninian's High School, Kirkintilloch,[3] (three years behind The Blue Nile's front-man Paul Buchanan), before attending the Glasgow School of Art.
Capaldi displayed an early talent for performance by putting on a puppet show in primary school. While still at high school he was a member of the Antonine Players, who performed at the Fort Theatre, Bishopbriggs. As an art student, Capaldi was the lead singer in the punk rock band "Dreamboys", which included as drummer, the future comedian, Craig Ferguson.[4][5]
Career
Capaldi is best known for his portrayal of New Labour spin doctor Malcolm Tucker in the BBC sitcom The Thick of It, written by fellow Scottish-Italian Armando Iannucci. Tucker is said to be largely if loosely based upon Tony Blair's right-hand man Alastair Campbell. In 2006 Capaldi was nominated for the BAFTA and RTS best comedy actor awards. A movie version of The Thick of It titled In the Loop was released in 2009.
Capaldi has appeared in over forty films and television programmes since his appearance as Danny Oldsen in Local Hero (1983). He had a lead role in Ken Russell's The Lair of the White Worm (1988) and in Stephen Frears' Dangerous Liaisons (1988). He featured as Ozzy in a 1985 episode of Minder titled Life in the Fast Food Lane, in which he helped Arthur Daley shift dodgy car phones that caused other radio technology nearby to malfunction.
In 1995 Capaldi won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film and a BAFTA for Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life. He also wrote Soft Top, Hard Shoulder (winner of the audience award at the London Film Festival) and wrote and directed Strictly Sinatra.
He played Chief Petty Officer Grieves in the BBC Radio Ministry of Defence Comedy Our Brave Boys.
Capaldi played fictional Songs of Praise producer Tristan Campbell in two episodes of the sitcom Vicar of Dibley and a transvestite in ITV's Prime Suspect 3. He made an appearance in the hit sitcom Peep Show as a university professor, starred in Aftersun with Sarah Parish, and played a prime suspect in the 2007 series of Waking the Dead. In the Neil Gaiman gothic fantasy Neverwhere he portrayed the Angel Islington.
In 2007 Capaldi appeared as Mark Jenkins (Sid Jenkins' dad) in the E4 teen comedy/drama Skins where he returned for a second series in 2008 only to be killed off in the 3rd episode, and as characters in the Midsomer Murders episode "Death in Chorus" and ITV1's Fallen Angel. He also appeared in the British Comedy film Magicians. He played a fictional version of Caecilius in "The Fires of Pompeii", a 2008 episode of the science-fiction series Doctor Who.[6] He returned to the Doctor Who franchise in 2009, playing civil servant John Frobisher in the third series of Torchwood.[7] He also appeared as King Charles I in the Channel 4 series The Devil's Whore, screened in 2008.
He provided a voice for the animated feature for Haunted Hogmanay by Kolik Films in 2006.
Capaldi directed the 2009 BBC Four sitcom Getting On, written by and starring Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine, in one episode of which he appeared as a doctor. Later that same year he wrote and presented A Portrait of Scotland, a documentary about 500 years history of Scottish portrait painting.[8]
Capaldi is also a successful audio book narrator. His many titles include several of the works of Iain Banks. He starred as Rory in the TV version of Banks' The Crow Road.
Personal life
In a 2009 BBC Radio 2 interview with Jonathan Ross, Capaldi described himself as having come from an "Old Labour background."[citation needed] He is a patron of the Association for International Cancer Research and of the Scottish children's charity the Aberlour Child Care Trust.[9] He lives in Crouch End with his wife, Elaine Collins, and their daughter.
Credits
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
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| 1984 | Crown Court | Eamonn Donnelly | Episode 294, "Big Deal" |
| 1985 | Minder | Ozzy | Series 6, Episode 2, "Life in the Fast Food Lane |
| Travelling Man | Series 2, Episode 6, "Blow-Up" | ||
| John and Yoko: A Love Story | George Harrison | ||
| 1986 | C.A.T.S. Eyes | Series 2, Episode 2, "Powerline" | |
| 1989 | Rab C. Nesbitt | Preacher | Pilot, "Rab C. Nesbitt's Seasonal Greet" |
| Shadow of the Noose | Robert Wood | TV mini-series | |
| Dramarama | British Ambassador | Series 7, Episode 7, "Rosie the Great" | |
| 1990 | Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Zeno Vedast | Series 1, Episode 1, 2, 3, "Some Lie and Some Die" |
| 1991 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Claude Langton | Series 3, Episode 5, "Wasps' Nest" |
| Selling Hitler | Thomas Walde | TV mini-series | |
| Titmuss Regained | Ken Cracken | Episodes "Today", "Tomorrow", "And the Next Day" | |
| 1992 | Early Travellers in North America | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| 1993 | The Comic Strip Presents... | John | Series 5, Episode 6, "Jealousy" |
| Stay Lucky | Robin | Series 4, Episode 2, "The Driving Instructor" | |
| 1994 | Chandler & Co | Larry Blakeson | |
| The All New Alexei Sayle Show | Time Traveller | "Drunk in Time" | |
| 1994 | The Vicar of Dibley | Tristan Campbell | Series 1, Episode 1, "Songs of Praise (1994) Christmas Special, "The Christmas Lunch Incident" (1996) |
| 1996 | Delta Wave | Dinsdale Draco | |
| Neverwhere | Islington | Episodes 2 - 6 | |
| The Crow Road | Rory McHoan | 4 Episodes | |
| 1997 | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | Lord Fellamar | Episodes 3 - 6 |
| 2001 | Michael Calderwood | Series 1, Episode 6, " |
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| 2003 | In Deep | Jeremy | Series 3, Episode 7, "Character Assassination: Part 1" |
| Fortysomething | Dr. Ronnie Pilfrey | Episodes 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 | |
| Judge John Deed | Alan Roxborough, M.P. | Series 3, Episode 3, Conspiracy | |
| 2004 | Sea of Souls | Gordon Fleming | Episode 1, 2, Seeing Double |
| My Family | Colin Judd | Series 5, Episode 10, "Dentist to the Stars" | |
| Foyle's War | Raymond Carter | Series 3, Episode 4, "War of Nerves" | |
| Peep Show | Professor MacLeish | Series 2, Episode 4, "University Challenge" | |
| 2005 | The Afternoon Play | Billy Shannon | Series 3, Episode 5, "The Singing Cactus" |
| 2005 | The Thick of It | Malcolm Tucker | 2005–present |
| 2006 | Donovan | Dr. Angus Baldwin | Series 1, Episode 3 |
| Midsomer Murders | Lawrence Barker | Series 9, Episode 5, "Death in Chorus" | |
| Pinochet in Suburbia | Andy McEntee | TV film | |
| 2007 | Waking the Dead | Lucien Calvin | Series 6, Episode 5, 6, "The Fall" |
| Coming Up | Joe | "Brussels" | |
| Fallen Angel | Henry Appleton | ||
| 2007 | Skins | Mark Jenkins | Series 1, Episode 5, "Sid", Episode 6, "Michelle" (2007) Series 2, Episode 3, "Sid" (2008) |
| 2008 | Doctor Who | Caecilius | Series 4, Episode 2, "The Fires of Pompeii" |
| Midnight Man | Trevor | ||
| Glendogie Bogey | Jeff Wylie | Voice | |
| The Devil's Whore | King Charles I | ||
| 2009 | Torchwood | John Frobisher | "Children of Earth" |
| Getting On | Doctor | Episode 2 He also directed all the three episodes |
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| A Portrait of Scotland | Presenter | He also wrote the script |
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
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| 1982 | Living Apart Together | Joe | |
| 1983 | Local Hero | Oldsen | |
| 1984 | Turtle Diary | Assistant Keeper | |
| 1987 | The Love Child | ||
| 1988 | The Lair of the White Worm | Angus Flint | |
| Dangerous Liaisons | Azolan | ||
| 1991 | December Bride | Young Sorleyson | |
| 1992 | Soft Top Hard Shoulder | Gavin Bellini | |
| 1994 | Captives | Simon | |
| 1997 | Bean | Gareth | |
| Shooting Fish | Mr. Gilzean | ||
| 1998 | What Rats Won't Do | Tony | |
| 1999 | The Greatest Store in the World | Mr. Whiskers | |
| 2000 | Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War | Derek | |
| 2002 | Max | David Cohn | |
| 2003 | Shotgun Dave Rides East | Rob | |
| 2004 | Modigliani | Jean Cocteau | As Peter Capadli |
| Niceland (Population. 1.000.002) | John | ||
| "Wild Country" | Father Steve | ||
| 2005 | House of 9 | Max Roy | |
| The Best Man | Priest | ||
| 2007 | Magicians | Mike Francis | |
| 2009 | In the Loop | Malcolm Tucker | BIFA: Nominated for Best Actor Nominated — Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor |
References
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ "St Ninian's High School - Famous Ex Pupils". http://www.st-ninians.e-dunbarton.sch.uk/page_viewer.asp?section=Famous+Ex+Pupils&sid=133. Retrieved 14 September 2009.
- ^ "No more Mr Nice Guy". http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/aug/31/broadcasting.arts. Retrieved 26 September 2009.
- ^ Ferguson, Craig: American on Purpose. Harper Collins, 2009.
- ^ "Doctor Who sets the controls for Rome, AD 79". What's on TV. 2007-09-25. http://www.whatsontv.co.uk/primetime/doctor_who/news/1994. Retrieved 2008-04-09.
- ^ BBC Press Office (2008-08-26). "Filming under way for new series of Torchwood". Press release. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/08_august/26/torchwood.shtml. Retrieved 2008-08-26.
- ^ Billen, Andrew (8 September 2009). "A Portrait of Scotland; Land Girls; Blue Murder". The Times. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6824979.ece. Retrieved 2009-09-20.
- ^ http://www.aberlour.org.uk
External links
- Peter Capaldi at the Internet Movie Database
- Independent article, dated 6 October 2005
- Guardian Film Profile
- Article on Capaldi's support of Cancer Charities
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