“I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.”

Scottish actor, director, singer and guitarist

Peter Dougan Capaldi is a Scottish actor, director, singer and guitarist. He is known for playing the twelfth Doctor in Doctor Who from 2013 to 2017, and Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It from 2005 to 2012. He also received four British Academy Television Award nominations for The Thick of It, and won Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010. Alongside his acting, he has worked as a director and musician.