Peter Capaldi Net Worth

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.
• The big reason that Doctor Who (2005) is still with us is because of every single viewer who ever turned on to watch this show, at any age, at any time in its history and in their history and who took it into their heart -- because Doctor Who (2005) belongs to all of us. Everyone made Doctor Who.
• I destroyed all my geek stuff because I didn't want to be a geek, and I regret it to this day. Consumed in the geek bonfire of the vanities was a collection of autographs and letters from Peter Cushing, Spike Milligan and Frankie Howerd, the first Doctor Whos, actual astronauts and many more. I wish I'd known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.
• 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!'

Interesting Facts about Peter Capaldi

1. He was the lead singer of a punk rock band, Dreamboys, which included Craig Ferguson as the drummer and Temple Clark as the bassist.
2. He is a patron of the Association for International Cancer Research and of a Scottish children's charity, the Aberlour Child Care Trust.
3. He had been to an audition in the morning where he felt that he was made "to jump through hoops" for a small role by people he had worked with before. This frustrating audition gave him the mind-set at the next audition on that day, for the role of Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It (2005). Armando Iannucci found him perfect for the role.
4. He played a character called "W.H.O. Doctor" in World War Z (2013) before being cast in the lead role for Doctor Who (2005).
5. He is the first actor to play the Doctor in the revamped Doctor Who (2005) to be born before the original series first premiered.
6. He is the only Oscar winner to play the Doctor, although not for acting; he won it for best live-action short film.
7. He is the second actor to play the Doctor who also played a previous role in the show. The first was Colin Baker.
8. He is the third Scottish actor to play the role of the Doctor in the TV series, following Sylvester McCoy, who played the Seventh Doctor, and David Tennant, who played the Tenth Doctor.
9. He is only the third actor to play the Doctor who was older than the actor he replaced in the role. The others were Jon Pertwee, who was a year older than Patrick Troughton, and Colin Baker, who was eight years older than Peter Davison. Capaldi is tied with the First Doctor, William Hartnell, as the oldest actor to be cast in the role. Both were aged 55 when cast.
10. His paternal grandfather, Giovanni Batiste Capaldi, was Italian, born in Picinisco, Frosinone, Lazio, Italy. The rest of Peter's ancestry is Scottish and Irish.
11. Like David Tennant, he was a lifelong Doctor Who (1963) fan before he got to play the role.
12. He auditioned for a place in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) but was rejected.
13. When he was 15, he wrote a letter to the Radio Times in tribute to Roger Delgado who played The Master in the original Doctor Who (1963) series.
14. He became an actor because of his love of Doctor Who (1963) and the hope that he would one day get to appear on the show.
15. Long before World War Z (2013), he was considered for a another zombie film: He was favored to play Rawlings in Lifeforce (1985).
16. On The All New Alexei Sayle Show (1994), he played intoxicated time traveler Doug Hatton in the recurring 'Drunk in Time' sketch.
17. He is a huge fan of the HBO show Game of Thrones (2011). In Season 9 of Doctor Who (2005) he worked alongside Maisie Williams, who plays Arya Stark.
18. He was seriously considering giving up acting when he was cast as Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It (2005).
19. Special rings were designed for his roles in The Musketeers (2014) and Doctor Who (2005) in order to hide his own wedding ring, which he doesn't like to take off.
20. He is a huge fan of David Bowie, whose "Station to Station" album cover from 1976 was an influence on his own costume as the Doctor according to an article in the Radio Times.