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
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy is an interview series shown on BBC Four. In the series, Dawn French interviewed some of the most prolific comedians of the century from Phyllis Diller to Catherine Tate and asked about life, love, family and comedy. The series was shown as three episodes featuring clips from French's various interviews with different comedians, however, from 25 to 30 December 2006 BBC Four showed six full interviews of 20–30 minutes. They are (in order of re-broadcast on BBC Four) Whoopi Goldberg, Catherine Tate, Kathy Burke, Julie Walters, Victoria Wood