"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"
"cynicism will test the demand for political satire in an Obama-infatuated America."" Michael Phillips of the ""Chicago Tribune"" put the film as #9 on his top ten list of 2009. The film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 94% of the reviews they tallied for the film were positive, based on 166 reviews. ""In The Loop"" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2010. In the Loop In the Loop is a 2009 British satirical black comedy film directed by Armando Iannucci. The film is a spin-off from his BBC Television series ""The Thick of It"""
"the family comedy film ""Paddington"" and its sequel ""Paddington 2"". In 2018, he voiced Rabbit in the Disney film ""Christopher Robin"". Prior to taking over the lead role in ""Doctor Who"", Capaldi was best known for playing spin doctor Malcolm Tucker in the Armando Ianucci-written BBC sitcom ""The Thick of It"", which he played from 2005 to 2012. Tucker is said to be largely, if loosely, based upon Tony Blair's right-hand man Alastair Campbell, although Capaldi has said that he based his performance more on Hollywood power players, such as the often abrasive Harvey Weinstein. A film spin-off from ""The"
"Thick of It"", Iannucci's political satire set in the fictional government Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship. The first series debuted on the BBC in 2005, and became a critical success. Roche wrote for all four series of the programme, as well as its spin-off film ""In the Loop"", which was nominated for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay). His other writing credits include ""The All New Harry Hill Show"" (ITV1), ""Alistair McGowan's Big Impression"" (BBC Two), ""Smith & Jones"" (BBC One), ""Dead Ringers"" (BBC Radio 4), ""Miranda"" (BBC Two), the disability mockumentary drama ""Cast Offs"" for"
"while his mother was born in Glasgow to an Italian family. Before emigrating, Iannucci's father wrote for an anti-fascist newspaper as a teenager and joined the Italian partisans at 17. He came to Scotland in 1950 and ran a pizza factory in Springburn. Iannucci has two brothers and a sister. His childhood home was near that of actor Peter Capaldi, who went on to play Malcolm Tucker in ""The Thick of It"", a TV show created by Iannucci; although their parents knew each other well, he and Capaldi did not know each other in childhood. Iannucci was educated at St"
"Thick of It"" returned to the BBC for a third season later in 2009. The film was released to critical acclaim. Reception to the film's premiere at the Sundance Film Festival was particularly positive. Damon Wise, writing in ""The Times"" was particularly complimentary, giving the film five stars, stating ""It's hard to settle on a standout element because it's all so outstanding, from the performances to the one-liners to the plot."" Screen International's David D'Arcy was complimentary, but noted that the release of the film may be poorly timed, given the new presidency of Barack Obama, stating ""its exuberant, boundless"
"Award for Best Short Film for his short film ""Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life"". He went on to write and direct the drama film ""Strictly Sinatra"" and helmed two series of the sitcom ""Getting On"". Capaldi was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to Nancy (""née"" Soutar) and Gerald John Capaldi. His paternal grandfather was Italian while the rest of his ancestry is Scottish and Irish. His parents ran an ice cream business in the Springburn district, where they were neighbours and acquaintances of the family of Armando Ianucci, creator of ""The Thick of It"", although the two men did not"
"doctor Malcolm Tucker in the BBC comedy series ""The Thick of It"". Capaldi had previously appeared on the show as Caecilius in ""The Fires of Pompeii"". He also played John Frobisher in the ""Doctor Who"" spin-off """". In October 2013, actress Neve McIntosh stated in an interview that recurring characters Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint and Strax (known to fans as ""the Paternoster Gang"") were due to return in the series premiere ""Deep Breath"". On 24 February 2014, it was announced that ""Gavin & Stacey"" actor Samuel Anderson will join the cast as the recurring character Danny Pink, a teacher and"
"television and radio programmes, including ""Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge"" and ""I'm Alan Partridge"". Iannucci also fronted the satirical ""Armistice"" review shows and in 2001 created his most personal work, ""The Armando Iannucci Shows"", for Channel 4. Moving back to the BBC in 2005, Iannucci created the political sitcom ""The Thick of It"" and the spoof documentary ""Time Trumpet"" in 2006. Winning funding from the UK Film Council, he directed a critically acclaimed feature film, ""In the Loop"", featuring characters from ""The Thick of It"" in 2009. As a result of these works, he has been described by"
"in 2005 and won a number of awards. Iannucci directed a spin-off film, ""In the Loop"", which was released in 2009 and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. A pilot for an American version of ""The Thick of It"" was produced as a candidate for the 2007–08 season on ABC. The ABC pilot, also titled ""The Thick of It"", was developed for American audiences by writers Mitch Hurwitz and Richard Day and followed a low-level member of the United States Congress and his staff. Iannucci had a production credit on the show, but he was not otherwise"
"coincidentally ended up occurring only two days after Peter Capaldi was announced as the new star of ""Doctor Who"". (Even more coincidental, a cast commentary included as part of a photo gallery featurette for the episode ""Rise of the Nutters"" included in the DVD set, recorded several years earlier, has several cast members jokingly deciding to start a rumour that Capaldi is to be the next Doctor.) ""The Thick of It: The Scripts"", a book containing the scripts from the first two series and the 2007 specials, was published on 1 September 2007. A tie-in book, ""The Thick Of It:"
"Tucker fires him from cabinet before he is able to do so. A new Minister for International Development arrives at the office. The actors include Tom Hollander, who went on to appear in one episode of ""The Thick of It"", Gina McKee, Steve Coogan, and seven American actors including James Gandolfini, Mimi Kennedy, David Rasche and Anna Chlumsky, the last of whom later starred in Iannucci's HBO satire ""Veep"". Several actors from ""The Thick of It"" appear in the film, including Peter Capaldi, Chris Addison, Paul Higgins, James Smith, Alex MacQueen, Olivia Poulet, and Joanna Scanlan, and also, in very"
"1990 and 2006 was the voice of ""Mind The Gap"" on the London Underground Piccadilly line. Bentinck has a wealth of theatre, television and film credits. He appeared in ""The Thick of It"" in 2005 and 2007 and starred with David Jason in ""The Royal Bodyguard"" in 2012. As himself, Bentinck has appeared on ""Call My Bluff"", won a round of ""University Challenge"", ""Celebrity Mastermind"", ""Pointless Celebrities"" and beaten Judith Keppel on science in ""Celebrity Eggheads"". Bentinck has revoiced Gérard Depardieu in the film ""Nouvelle France"", and Chow Yung Fat in ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"". He has provided post-production voices"
"e-mails between Malcolm Tucker and another Iannucci character, Alan Partridge, on the topic of Britain's exit from the European Union was published in The Big Issue in October 2017 in print and online. Videos The Thick of It The Thick of It is a British comedy television series that satirises the inner workings of modern British government. It was first broadcast for two short series on BBC Four in 2005, initially with a small cast focusing on a government minister, his advisers and their party's spin-doctor. The cast was significantly expanded for two hour-long specials to coincide with Christmas and"
"and ""Spaced"". On stage, Scanlan has worked with Thea Starrock in her production of ""Cloud 9"" at the Almeida Theatre and ""Top Girls"", with Rufus Norris in ""Vernon God Little"" at The Young Vic and featured in Polly Teale's ""Madame Bovery"". Joanna Scanlan Joanna Scanlan (born 27 October 1961) is an English actress and screenwriter. She is known for her roles in British television series, such as ""The Thick of It"" (2005–12), ""Getting On"" (2009–12), ""Puppy Love"" (2014), and ""No Offence"" (2015–present). She was nominated for three BAFTA TV Awards for ""Getting On"", including two for Best Writing. Her film"
"Turin, Italy to film thriller """"Ulysses"""" with Danny Glover. His producing credits include attribution as an associate producer for the """"Alien Express"""" (2005) and 6 producer credits in ""The Martini Shot"" (2010), ""The Wicked Within"" (2010), ""Rush"""" (2013), ""Blood of Redemption"" (2013), with recent ""Certain Justice"" (2013), and ""Badge of Honor"" (2014) added to his list. He lives in Los Angeles, California. He is an avid Glasgow Celtic fan and has a Bengal cat called Jackson. He is married to former NFL San Diego Chargers Cheerleader Amanda Fitz. Gianni Capaldi Gianni Capaldi is a Scottish film and television actor as"
"and Sam Bain, co-created the Channel 4 comedy-drama ""Babylon"". Armstrong wrote the first and last of the 6 initial episodes and co-wrote the pilot with Sam Bain. Alongside Armando Iannucci, Simon Blackwell and Tony Roche, Armstrong wrote for the first three series of the BAFTA-winning BBC Four comedy ""The Thick of It"", and its 2009 film spin-off ""In the Loop"". ""In The Loop"" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2009, and won Best British Screenplay at the 2009 Evening Standard British Film Awards. Alongside ""The Thick of It""'s writing team, Armstrong wrote one episode of"
"message to fans. This has so far been the last appearance of the character. Armando Iannucci stated in 2012 that series 4 would most likely be ""The Thick of It""'s last, but could return for a few specials or something in the future. Following Capaldi's casting as the Doctor in Doctor Who, Iannucci revealed that the show is definitely over for good. He joked that he has no plans for Tucker to appear in ""Veep"" as Tucker is either dead or in prison. However, following Iannucci's exit from the show in 2015 and Capaldi revealing he was set to direct"
"2003 on the topical Channel 4 show ""Gash"". He went on to write on all four series of Iannucci's political sitcom ""The Thick of It"" and co-wrote its spin-off film ""In The Loop"", which was nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. Other work with Iannucci includes """" and ""Time Trumpet"". The two collaborated again on the HBO comedy ""Veep"", with Blackwell co-writing the pilot episode and serving as writer and executive producer on the subsequent four seasons, for which he won two Primetime Emmy Awards. Blackwell wrote for Chris Morris's 2010 black comedy film ""Four Lions"", alongside Jesse"
"his film ""Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life"", which was tied with fellow nominee ""Trevor"", leading to both films being announced as joint winners, and won BAFTA Award for Best Short Film a year before that. He also wrote and directed ""Strictly Sinatra"" in 2001, and in 2009 he wrote and presented ""A Portrait of Scotland"", a documentary detailing 500 years' history of Scottish portrait painting. Capaldi directed several episodes of the 2009 BBC Four sitcom ""Getting On"". In 2012, Capaldi wrote (with Tony Roche), directed and performed in ""The Cricklewood Greats"", an affectionate spoof documentary about a fictitious film"
"on the BBC's ""Britain's Best Sitcom"", Iannucci devised, directed and was chief writer of ""The Thick of It"", a political satire-cum-farce for BBC Four. It starred Chris Langham as an incompetent cabinet minister being manipulated by a cynical Press Officer, Malcolm Tucker. It was first broadcast for two short series on BBC Four in 2005, initially with a small cast focusing on a government minister, his advisers and their party's spin-doctor. The cast was significantly expanded for two hour-long specials to coincide with Christmas and Gordon Brown's appointment as prime minister in 2007, which saw new characters forming the opposition"
"James Smith (actor) James Smith (born 1948) who trained at LAMDA, is an English actor well known for his part in the BBC's ""The Thick of It"" (22 episodes) as senior special adviser Glenn Cullen and as Michael Rodgers, Director of Diplomacy at the Foreign Office in ""In the Loop"", the film spin off of ""The Thick of It"". From 9 August 2010 Smith plays Clive in the BBC comedy ""Grandma's House"". He also took a minor non-speaking role as Lord Carrington in the 2011 film ""The Iron Lady"". In 2014 he appeared in ""Boomers"" as Trevor. He played Graham"
"Watkins in the 2017 mockumentary, ""Carnage"". James Smith (actor) James Smith (born 1948) who trained at LAMDA, is an English actor well known for his part in the BBC's ""The Thick of It"" (22 episodes) as senior special adviser Glenn Cullen and as Michael Rodgers, Director of Diplomacy at the Foreign Office in ""In the Loop"", the film spin off of ""The Thick of It"". From 9 August 2010 Smith plays Clive in the BBC comedy ""Grandma's House"". He also took a minor non-speaking role as Lord Carrington in the 2011 film ""The Iron Lady"". In 2014 he appeared in"
"The Thick of It The Thick of It is a British comedy television series that satirises the inner workings of modern British government. It was first broadcast for two short series on BBC Four in 2005, initially with a small cast focusing on a government minister, his advisers and their party's spin-doctor. The cast was significantly expanded for two hour-long specials to coincide with Christmas and Gordon Brown's appointment as prime minister in 2007, which saw new characters forming the opposition party added to the cast. These characters continued when the show switched channels to BBC Two for its third"
"explained: Noting that ""The Thick of It"" had been inspired by the Blair government's attacks on the BBC in the wake of the Iraq war, the magazine ""Cinema Scope"" described ""In The Loop"" as a retelling of the chain of events that inspired Iannucci to devise the series."" In an article for ""The Guardian"", Iannucci wrote: Iannucci has stated: ""We don't go up to White House level, we deal mainly with state department underlings, the kind of people that actually make decisions with enormous political consequences."" ""In the Loop"" was a collaboration between BBC Films and the UK Film Council."
"British Comedy Award for Best Actor in 2010 for his portrayal. He was nominated for the Royal Television Society Award for Best Comedy Performance in 2006. For his portrayal of Tucker in ""In the Loop"" Capaldi was nominated for the British Independent Film Award for Best Actor, the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Evening Standard British Film Awards: Peter Sellers Award for Comedy. He came second place in the International Cinephile Society Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was also nominated for the London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actor of the Year,"
"small roles, Samantha Harrington, Eve Matheson, and Will Smith. The only characters from the show, however, are Malcolm Tucker (Capaldi) and Jamie McDonald (Higgins), with brief appearances by Tucker's secretary Sam Cassidy (Harrington) and journalist Angela Heaney (Lucinda Raikes). The other ""Thick of It"" actors who appear play new characters, albeit very similar to the ones they portrayed in the series. Likewise, Anna Chlumsky went on to portray a similar but nominally different character in the subsequent American series, ""Veep"". The writing of ""In The Loop"" followed the methods developed during ""The Thick of It"" television series. Co-writer Jesse Armstrong"
"Middle East, which the British Prime Minister and American President want. This he does by fabricating intelligence in what could be a fictionalised version of the so-called Dodgy Dossier issued by Alastair Campbell and used by the British government to justify its involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Campbell, who confessed to enjoying ""The Thick of It"" and even found it ""hilarious"", was vocal in expressing his dislike of the film version. Two months after the airing of the final episode of series four, Peter Capaldi appeared on GQ magazine's front cover as Malcolm Tucker and recorded a Christmas"
"as Rudyard Kipling, with Daniel Radcliffe playing Kipling's son, John. In 2008, he appeared in the BBC film ""Dustbin Baby"" and ""The 39 Steps"". He also appeared in the ""Midsomer Murders"" episode ""The Glitch"". In 2009 he appeared as Steve Fleming in BBC TV's ""The Thick of It"" and as Jon, husband to former MP Mo Mowlam in the drama ""Mo"" opposite Julie Walters. Also in 2009, he appeared in two episodes as the headmaster of Portwenn Primary School, Mr Straine on ITV comedy drama Doc Martin. In January 2013 Haig started appearing as Jim Hacker in a re-make of"
"the character shared certain personality traits with Tucker, specifically “a certain acid wit... the attitude, the wisecracks and the energy... he can be edgy, volatile and dangerous"". Malcolm Tucker Malcolm Tucker is the antihero of the BBC political satire, ""The Thick of It"", and is portrayed by Peter Capaldi. He is the Director of Communications for the Labour Party, in both Government and Opposition, acting as the Prime Minister's chief enforcer overseeing cabinet ministers. Tucker was originally a secondary character, with Chris Langham's Hugh Abbot as the protagonist being watched over by Tucker, but after Langham was fired from the"
"on the network's premiere channel, BBC One, every weeknight for one week in July 2009. Despite the move to BBC One, the show was cut from a standard thirteen-episode run to just five, something that lead actor John Barrowman felt was almost like a ""punishment"" from the BBC. Production on the mini-series began in August 2008, and Barrowman along with actors Eve Myles, Gareth David-Lloyd (his final appearance in the show), and Kai Owen (now given co-star billing) all returned. The serial significantly features new actors to the series over the course of its five episodes, most prominently Peter Capaldi."
"and near-future from the year 2031. One episode, featuring fictional terrorist attacks on London and the assassination of Tony Blair, was postponed and edited in August 2006 amid the terrorism scares in British airports at that time. Jane Thynne, writing in ""The Independent"", accused the BBC of lacking backbone. He created the American HBO political satire television series ""Veep"", starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, set in the office of Selina Meyer, a fictional Vice-President of the United States. ""Veep"" uses a similar cinéma-vérité filming style to ""The Thick of It"". Debuting in 2012, the show has aired six seasons, with its sixth"
"Joanna Scanlan Joanna Scanlan (born 27 October 1961) is an English actress and screenwriter. She is known for her roles in British television series, such as ""The Thick of It"" (2005–12), ""Getting On"" (2009–12), ""Puppy Love"" (2014), and ""No Offence"" (2015–present). She was nominated for three BAFTA TV Awards for ""Getting On"", including two for Best Writing. Her film appearances include ""Girl With a Pearl Earring"" (2003), ""Notes on a Scandal"" (2006), ""The Invisible Woman"" (2013), and ""Bridget Jones's Baby"" (2016). Scanlan was born in West Kirby, Wirral. She attended Brigidine convent, Denbigh, New Hall School, Chelmsford and Howell's School"