Peter Davison is an English actor with many credits in television dramas and sitcoms. He became famous as Tristan Farnon in the BBC's television adaptation of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small stories. His subsequent starring roles included the sitcoms Holding the Fort and Sink or Swim, the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, Dr. Stephen Daker in A Very Peculiar Practice and Albert Campion in Campion. He also played David Braithwaite in At Home with the Braithwaites, "Dangerous" Davies in The Last Detective and Henry Sharpe in Law & Order: UK.

　Tom 出生在英国威尔士的Aberystwyth，但是是在Cardiff长大的。他有一个叫做Joseph的弟弟和一个叫做Ruth的妹妹。

在他2009年6月从威尔士皇家音乐及戏剧学院 (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama）毕业前，他花了一年时间在伦敦大学中央演讲与戏剧学院(Central School of Speech and Drama )接受训练。在还是学生时，他在和 Jaime Winstone 以及Richard Harrigton出演了电影Daddy‘s Girl(2006)，并获得了英国电影和电视艺术学院奖（BAFTA)最佳影片奖。同时他的短片Watch Me还获得了 BAFTA Cymru最佳短片奖的提名。