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David Tennant: Biography

David Tennant

Birth Name: David John McDonald
Birth Place: West Lothian, Scotland
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 04/18/1971, Aries
Profession: Actor

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David Tennant Fast Facts:

His grandfather, Archie McLeod, was a professional soccer player with Derry City F.C. in Northern Ireland during the 1930s, and Tennant is a member of the club's supporters.
His father, a retired minister, is a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
As a teenager in the 1980s, wanted to join the actors' union Equity, which already had a person registered with his birth name (David McDonald); he adopted the stage surname Tennant, after Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.
Cut his acting teeth with Scotland's political 7:84 Theatre Group and had several starring roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company (Romeo and Juliet; As You Like It).
In 2005, became the tenth incarnation of the mysterious time traveler in the sci-fi cult favorite Doctor Who, which debuted on the BBC in 1963, and the show, coincidentally, that made him want to be an actor (when Tom Baker was playing the role in the 1970s).
In 2007, under his birth name, was added to the 159th edition of Who's Who, the United Kingdom's oldest biographical yearbook.

David Tennant Relationships:
Alexander - Father
Helen - Mother
Blair - Brother
Karen - Sister
Barry McLaughlin - Cousin
Archie McLeod - Grandfather
Nellie Blair - Grandmother
Sophia Myles - Ex-significant Other
Georgia Moffett - Wife
Olive - Daughter
Tyler - Stepson
College:
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, Scotland (1991)

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