
Age: 68
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Peter Dougan Capaldi (born April 14, 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 in In the Loop, Capaldi was honoured with several film critic award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. In 2012, Capaldi wrote (with Tony Roche), directed and performed in The Cricklewood Greats, an affectionate spoof documentary about a fictitious film studio, which tracks real developments and trends throughout the history of British cinema. Film roles include Oldsen in Local Hero, Angus Flint in Ken Russell's The Lair of the White Worm, and Mr Curry in Paddington and its sequel, Paddington 2. As a director, Capaldi won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and the BAFTA 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 sitcom Getting On.

Peter Capaldi

Dominic Stone
for Dominic Stone in V for Vendetta (1995)
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Set in a dystopian and post-apocalyptic future, the United Kingdom is a police state run by the oppressive and fascist Norsefire government. Soon, a mysterious, masked vigilante simply known as the letter "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight back against the oppressors of the world he now lives in. After saving the life of a young woman named Evey Hammond from the secret police, he discovers an ally in his fight against England's iron rulers, all the while a New Scotland Yard detective Eric Finch, who's trying to catch V, becomes an unlikely player in the end to England's oppression.