Peter Capaldi Peter Capaldi Peter Dougan Capaldi (born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor, writer and director. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in "Doctor Who" and Malcolm Tucker the spin doctor in "The Thick of It", for which he has received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010. When he reprised the role of Tucker in the feature film "In the Loop", Capaldi was honoured with several film critic award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. As a director, Capaldi won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and the BAFTA
Malcolm Tucker writ runs through the lifeblood of Westminster like raw alcohol, at once cleansing and corroding" ("The Daily Telegraph"); "If you make eye contact with Malcolm Tucker, you have spilled his pint" ("The Times"); and "Iago with a BlackBerry" ("The Spectator"). Malcolm is one of four "Spin doctors" featured on the show, the others being Cal Richards (Tom Hollander), Steve Fleming (David Haig), and Stewart Pearson (Vincent Franklin), the former three of whom make up the three spin doctors that are universally feared by ministers and civil servants alike. Cal Richards, nicknamed "The Fucker", is arguably the one person in British