Peter Capaldi's biography

Peter Dougan Capaldi is 64 years old actor born at Glasgow. Peter was born on Monday 14th of April 1958. He is often nicknamed as Peter Dougan Capaldi, Peter Capaldi, PCap. According to year of birth 1958 Peter belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 14th of April means he is Aries. Aries is the most active sign of Zodiac, one born with this sign is a very quick learner, aggressive and passionate.

He is native british english speaker. He is white scottish. He is citizen of United Kingdom. He is roman catholic. Peter´s primary profession is to be actor. You can know Peter also as screenwriter, film director, film actor, television actor, voice actor, television director, music artist. Peter is recently known as executive producer. He received Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life in 1995

Peter Capaldi's schools

We found 2 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Glasgow School of Art, St Constantine's.

Detailed informations about Peter´s schools

He studied high school - St Teresa's Primary School inPossilpark, Glasgow, St Matthew's Primary School in Bishopbriggs, St Ninian's High School, Kirkintilloch.

Peter studied university - Graphic Design, Glasgow School of Art (1980).

Peter Capaldi's career

His main focus is to be actor. Peter is famous thanks to The Thick of It , In the Loop and The 12th Doctor on Doctor Who (2014). You could see Peter also in Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life, The Thick of It, In the Loop and many more.

Is Peter Capaldi gay ?

Peter is known to be straight.

Awards and competitions

Peter Capaldi's Awards

Peter received award for Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for work Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life in 1995
He received award for BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for work Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life in 1994
Peter received award for British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance for work The Thick of It in 2010
He received award for Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor for work In the Loop in 2010
Peter received award for Chlotrudis Award for Best Cast for work In the Loop in 2010

Peter Capaldi's Nominations

Peter was nominated for Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for work Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life in 1995
He was nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for work Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life in 1994
He was nominated for British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance for work The Thick of It in 2010
Peter was nominated for British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance for work The Thick of It in 2006
Peter was nominated for British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance for work The Thick of It in 2008
Peter was nominated for British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance for work The Thick of It in 2013
Peter was nominated for British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for work The Hour in 2013
Peter was nominated for British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance for work The Thick of It in 2013
Peter was nominated for British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor for work The Hour in 2013
Peter was nominated for Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor for work In the Loop in 2010
He was nominated for Chlotrudis Award for Best Cast for work In the Loop in 2010
Peter was nominated for British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance for work The Thick of It in 2010
Peter was nominated for Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor for work In the Loop in 2009
He was nominated for London Film Critics Circle Award for Actor of the Year for work In the Loop in 2009
He was nominated for BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film for work In the Loop in 2009
He was nominated for Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor for work In the Loop in 2009
He was nominated for British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance for work The Thick of It in 2008
He was nominated for British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Performance for work The Thick of It in 2006
Peter was nominated for BAFTA Award for Best Short Film for work Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life in 1994

What else you don't know about Peter Capaldi ?

Peter´s middle name is Dougan.

What Peter Capaldi has done for a first time

He is the first actor to play the Doctor in the revamped Doctor Who (2005) to be born before the original series first premiered.
He is the second actor to play the Doctor who also played a previous role in the show. The first was Colin Baker.

Peter Capaldi's quotes

Being asked to play the Doctor is an amazing privilege. Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and delight. I can't wait to get started.
I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really in the cards.
Hollywood producers aren't going to say, 'Get me that swearing, grey-haired, headless chicken. We need him for our new High School Musical (2006) movie!'
A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.
It's weathered many a storm, but the British film industry is, thankfully, still afloat.
I'm pretty good for an old geek.
I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.
I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.
I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing.
I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.
I haven't played Doctor Who (1963) since I was 9 on the playground.
I don't like parties. There was never a party I was at where I didn't wish I was somewhere else.
The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them.
Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.
My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.
I've been really terrible in a lot of things because I learned by making mistakes. That makes you a different kind of actor, because you have to figure out for yourself what you do.
I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.
I don't want to find myself at the age of 60 waiting by the telephone for someone else to decide if I am capable of being in what might be a crummy TV production.
Even though I am a lifelong Doctor Who (1963) fan, I've not played him since I was nine. I downloaded old scripts and practised those in front of the mirror.
What you're doing is acting with yourself. Well, I'm my favourite actor, so in a way it's quite straightforward for me.
When I was acting, I was always asking abut the mechanics of filmmaking. I decided I would learn what everyone on set was doing, so I would feel less threatened.
What I've learnt being an actor is that you've got to be lucky. I got less lucky, and nobody was interested. If a part came up, it would be for the main corpse's friend's brother who was having problems with his marriage.
The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that's what I do.
The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters' lives.
The biggest thing I have realised was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and that not everybody can like you. The process of filmmaking is so difficult, there's no point in doing it unless you can do it the way you want.
STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future.
When you're a child, you just want to be whichever Doctor is on TV, whether that's William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee or Tom Baker.
The nice thing about Doctor Who (2005) is, whatever people say, you know someone somewhere loves you. And they always will. The more everyone else hates you, the more that person will say, "He's my Doctor".
[on Doctor Who (2005)] The things I've always adored are still there. That relationship between light and dark, the domestic and the epic. There's a feeling you could step from a supermarket car park on Earth into the Andromeda Nebula or whatever.
Doctor Who (2005), like time, cannot stand still. It must always move and change.
[on his performance in Local Hero (1983)] I don't think I had any capacity to act. I think I was just a bit of a... twat.
The Ladykillers (1955), the movie, is one of those rare things that's an almost perfect movie but it's just full of all this great stuff that you can't leave alone. It's very, very stylish, it has this almost ghoulish quality about it.
If you put me in a real TARDIS, I dread to think what would happen to the universe.
I could sit and watch Jon Pertwee do anything. I could just sit and watch him read the telephone book. He's such authority and if you're in trouble you want those doors to swing open and Jon Pertwee to come storming in with a flap of his cape.
I love the last episode of Frontier in Space (Doctor Who: Frontier in Space: Episode Six (1973)). Isn't that one of the great Doctor Who (1963) episodes ever? Because you've got everything in that.
Patrick Troughton is one of the most extraordinary actors, just his delicacy, his ability to jump from being irate to being kindly and clownish.
My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.
[on Doctor Who (2005)] It has to slip between the epic and the domestic. The great trick of Doctor Who (2005) is that he'll be at the edge of the galaxy watching stars being born, but he'll drop you off in the mall outside KFC.
[on declining an OBE] Well, I'm not really that interested. I think it's lovely that people get them, but it's not really my thing.
I've always liked a good horror film. I find them comforting, rather than disturbing. Those films remind me of my childhood. I was brought up Catholic, so when I watched horror I think I saw something familiar - gore.

Peter Capaldi's height, body shape, eye color

Lets describe how Peter Capaldi looks. We will focus on Peter´s height, body shape, eye color and hair color. He is tall as 6' 0" (183 cm). Body build is slim. Peter´s eyes are tinted grey. Peter´s hair is shade of salt and pepper.

Peter Capaldi