Then in 1996, when he was just 25, Tennant joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. "They needed someone who could believably act 19 and bonkers." He could, and did, to much acclaim, and followed it up with a much-praised performance as the page boy in What the Butler Saw at the Lyttelton. Tennant played manic-depressive Campbell Bain, a role that he claims changed his life. However, things began to look up when he landed a part in the award-winning BBC TV production of Takin' Over the Asylum. His second job, as King Arthur in an Edinburgh production, got such a bad review it made him cry. He was first talent-spotted by Scottish TV at a Saturday youth theatre club, an offshoot of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where he later trained.Īfter graduating, Tennant auditioned for the groundbreaking political Scottish Theatre Group 7:84 and landed the role of Giri the Hitman in their touring production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Uiith - his first professional part. He decided to be an actor at a very young age (3 or 4) and was appearing on screen before he was even out of school. The son of a Presbyterian minister, David Tennant was brought up in Bathgate, the post-industrial town between Edinburgh and Glasgow immortalised in a song by his favorite band, The Proclaimers. Over his almost three decade long acting career, multi award winning actor David Tennant has left a trail of memorable characters over an expansive and diverse array of theatre, film, radio and television credits.
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