Peter Capaldi

Peter Capaldi is one of those rare triple-threats who actually earns the label — he won an Academy Award as a director (for the short film Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life back in 1995) before most people had any idea who he was, which tells you everything about the depth sitting behind those famously fierce eyebrows. Then he went and created Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It, arguably the most terrifyingly funny spin-doctor ever put on television, a character so precisely observed it felt almost dangerous to laugh at. And then — as if to prove he could do absolutely anything — he stepped into Doctor Who as the Twelfth Doctor and brought a kind of brooding, Glaswegian gravitas to a role that could easily tip into silliness. He never lets it. Whatever he's in, the moment he appears on screen the air pressure changes, and that's not a trick you can learn; it's just what a genuine actor does.

Name (English)

Peter Capaldi

Name (Japanese)

ピーター・カパルディ

Reading

ぴーたー・かぱるでぃ

Born

April 14, 1958 (age 68)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dog

Origin

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Height

2 cm

Occupation

actor / screenwriter / film director / film actor / television actor

Awards & achievements

• 1995 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
• 1994 BAFTA Award for Best Short Film
• 2010 British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance
• 2010 Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor
• 2010 Chlotrudis Award for Best Cast

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%94%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%91%E3%83%AB%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3

Tags

• actor
• screenwriter
• film director

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.