David Tennant Tops Poll Of Greatest Scottish Actors



A Scottish poll to identify the country's greatest cultural icons has placed David Tennant at the top of the Greatest Ever Actor category. The Scottish Times and Sunday Times launched the survey and asked their readers' panel to cast their vote across seven different categories highlighting the best of the country's cultural heritage. The results are now in and the greatest Scottish cultural Top 10s have been revealed.

David tops his category head of fellow Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi, Trainspotting actors Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle and James Bond himself Sean Connery.

GREATEST EVER ACTOR

1. David Tennant
2. Sean Connery
3. Robert Carlyle
4. Peter Capaldi
5. Ewan McGregor
6. James McAvoy
7. Tilda Swinton
8. Martin Compston
9. Deborah Kerr
10. Shirley Henderson

Winners of the other categories are:

  • Greatest Ever Singer - Annie Lennox
  • Greatest Ever Album - Proclaimers: Sunshine On Leith
  • Greatest Ever Novel: Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
  • Greatest Ever TV Show - Still Game
  • Greatest Ever Cultural Venue - Glasgow Apollo
  • Greatest Ever Poet - Robert Burns
For the full results click here.


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