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Liz Carr
Elizabeth Anne Carr (born 21 April 1972) is an English actress, comedian, broadcaster and international disability rights activist. She is known for playing Clarissa Mullery in the BBC crime drama Silent Witness (2013–2020), for campaigning for disabled rights, and for fronting the BBC documentary Better Off Dead? (2024).
Carr was born on 21 April 1972 in Port Sunlight and grew up in Bebington, Cheshire. She attended Upton Hall School FCJ in Upton, Merseyside and Birkenhead High School in Birkenhead. She studied law at the University of Nottingham.
She has been part of a number of comedy groups, including Abnormally Funny People with Tanyalee Davis, Steve Day, Steve Best, Simon Minty and Chris McCausland.
In 2007 she was runner-up in the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year competition.
Carr co-hosted the BBC's Royal Television Society award-winning Ouch! Podcast with Mat Fraser from 2006 to 2013, and in 2011 worked as a researcher for the BBC comedy panel show Have I Got News for You.
Carr was in her thirties when she took on her first professional acting role, playing Mother Courage in Mother Courage and Her Children, before heading to the Young Vic with another Bertolt Brecht play, The Exception and the Rule. In 2013, she joined the long-running BBC crime thriller series Silent Witness as regular character Clarissa Mullery. On 5 February 2020 it was announced that she had left the series after eight years.
In 2019, Carr starred in The OA as Dr Marlow Rhodes. In 2020, she appeared as a university lecturer in the miniseries Devs.
In March 2021, it was announced that Carr had joined the cast of The Witcher as Fenn in the show's second series. In December of the same year, it was announced that she had joined the cast of Good Omens for the second series, as the angel Saraqael. Between September and December 2021, she played Dr Emma Brookner in the West End revival of The Normal Heart at the Royal National Theatre, marking the first time a disabled person had played the role on stage. She subsequently won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 2022 Laurence Olivier Awards. Carr joined the cast of series 2 of Disney+’s Loki in the role of Judge Gamble.
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Liz Carr
Elizabeth Anne Carr (born 21 April 1972) is an English actress, comedian, broadcaster and international disability rights activist. She is known for playing Clarissa Mullery in the BBC crime drama Silent Witness (2013–2020), for campaigning for disabled rights, and for fronting the BBC documentary Better Off Dead? (2024).
Carr was born on 21 April 1972 in Port Sunlight and grew up in Bebington, Cheshire. She attended Upton Hall School FCJ in Upton, Merseyside and Birkenhead High School in Birkenhead. She studied law at the University of Nottingham.
She has been part of a number of comedy groups, including Abnormally Funny People with Tanyalee Davis, Steve Day, Steve Best, Simon Minty and Chris McCausland.
In 2007 she was runner-up in the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year competition.
Carr co-hosted the BBC's Royal Television Society award-winning Ouch! Podcast with Mat Fraser from 2006 to 2013, and in 2011 worked as a researcher for the BBC comedy panel show Have I Got News for You.
Carr was in her thirties when she took on her first professional acting role, playing Mother Courage in Mother Courage and Her Children, before heading to the Young Vic with another Bertolt Brecht play, The Exception and the Rule. In 2013, she joined the long-running BBC crime thriller series Silent Witness as regular character Clarissa Mullery. On 5 February 2020 it was announced that she had left the series after eight years.
In 2019, Carr starred in The OA as Dr Marlow Rhodes. In 2020, she appeared as a university lecturer in the miniseries Devs.
In March 2021, it was announced that Carr had joined the cast of The Witcher as Fenn in the show's second series. In December of the same year, it was announced that she had joined the cast of Good Omens for the second series, as the angel Saraqael. Between September and December 2021, she played Dr Emma Brookner in the West End revival of The Normal Heart at the Royal National Theatre, marking the first time a disabled person had played the role on stage. She subsequently won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 2022 Laurence Olivier Awards. Carr joined the cast of series 2 of Disney+’s Loki in the role of Judge Gamble.