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Peter Capaldi
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1958-04-14
Discography
- If I Could Pray.2020
- St. Christopher (edit)2021
- St. Christopher2021
- In Person2022
- Bin Night2024
- Is It Today2024
- Sweet Illusions2025
- Sweet Illusions2025
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Peter Dougan Capaldi (born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor, film director and former member of the early '80s post-punk band The Dreamboys. In 2021, he released his debut solo studio album St. Christopher. Outside of music, he is most known for portraying the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in the science fiction series Doctor Who and Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It, for which he received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010. <a
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives
· 1999 · cited 84,910x
- A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation
· 1987 · cited 42,195x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,722x
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,726x
- <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,303x
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Key facts
- Born
- Peter Dougan Capaldi , ( 1958-04-14 ) 14 April 1958 (age 68) , Glasgow , Scotland
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom Italy
- Education
- Glasgow School of Art ( BA )
- Occupations
- Actor director writer musician producer
- Years active
- 1974–present
- Known for
- Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It Twelfth Doctor in Doctor Who
- Works
- Filmography
- Spouse
- Elaine Collins ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1991 )
- Relatives
- Lewis Capaldi (cousin)
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- Peter Capaldi by Gage Skidmore.jpg
- Height
- 1.83
- Number of children
- 1
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- Peter Capaldi
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Peter Dougan Capaldi (/kəˈpældi/; 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).