David Tennant: 8 Facts About Characters and Roles

1. #004

   From his first appearance as the Doctor in June 2005 until he gave up the role in January 2010, he was the second-longest-serving actor to play the lead continuously on television (Tom Baker is the longest, having been on screen from 1974 to 1981) and the third-longest overall (Sylvester McCoy first appeared in September 1987 and left after Doctor Who: The Movie (1996), though the series did not air between 1990 and 1995).

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2. #007

   He auditioned for the lead role in the American NBC series Hannibal. Tennant did not get the part, but showrunner Bryan Fuller said in a magazine interview that Tennant's audition was very impressive and that he wanted to write him in as a guest star playing an unbalanced serial killer.

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3. #027

   David Tennant is an esteemed classical actor who has played numerous leading roles for the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Touchstone in "As You Like It," Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet," Antipholus of Syracuse in "The Comedy of Errors" and Captain Jack Absolute in "The Rivals."

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4. #045

   On The Paul O'Grady Show (2004), Tennant revealed that he had auditioned for the role of "the Blue Meanie" in the remake of Yellow Submarine (1968).

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5. #046

   He was a guest headliner in the comedy stage show 'Celebrity Autobiography' at the Leicester Square Theatre in London. Tennant gave his first performance two days after returning to England from New Mexico, where he was filming Fright Night.

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6. #057

   While Tennant played the Doctor in Doctor Who (2005), his attractiveness and sex appeal were heavily emphasized. Wendy Padbury called him "gorgeous." When Michael Parkinson interviewed him in 2007, he even recounted that a journalist had described him as the first "Time Phwoar." However, he was not actually the first actor cast in the role with that idea in mind. John Nathan-Turner chose Peter Davison partly because he had "a large following with feminine viewers," and Jo Wright said Paul McGann was her first choice partly because he was "very good-looking."

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7. #070

   In 2007, Tennant became the second actor to play the Doctor in Doctor Who to be interviewed as a guest on Britain's most famous talk show, Parkinson (1971). The first was Jon Pertwee, who was interviewed in 1980, six years after leaving the role.

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8. #090

   Los Angeles: attending auditions for acting work and to promote Spies of Warsaw.

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