Carl Prekopp

{{short description|English actor (b. 1979)}}

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| birth_place = Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

| nationality = British

| occupation = Actor, voice actor, singer-songwriter

| years_active = 2002–present

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Carl James Prekopp (born 25 May 1979){{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/carlprekopp/status/1132197855819698176 |title=This morning I looked out the door at my place of work and realised this is a profoundly emotional and significant view to wake up to on my 40th birthday. |publisher=Carl Prekopp, Twitter (May 25, 2019) |accessdate=31 August 2020 }}GRO Births, Apr-Jun 1979, vol 3, page 1720 is a British actor.{{cite news |author=Lyn Gardner |title=Richard III, Riverside Studios, London |work=The Guardian |quote=It has a Richard, played by Carl Prekopp, who is the office joke and so manages to achieve a boardroom takeover almost without anyone noticing. |date=5 February 2010 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2010/feb/05/richard-iii-review-sadie-frost |accessdate=18 December 2010 }}{{cite news |author=Gillian Reynolds |title=Radio choices |work=The Independent |quote=Terry Pratchett’s Discworld glorious satirical adventure, dramatised by Robin Brooks, directed by Gordon House. Gods swarm like herring here and one of them speaks to Brutha (Carl Prekopp). |date=28 February 2006 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3650577/Todays-TV-and-radio-choices.html |accessdate=28 December 2010 }} He is acclaimed for his radio plays.{{cite news |title=Sir Ian helps to celebrate Radio 3's 70th birthday with a series of play recordings |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bolton-news-bbc-radio-3s-70th-birt/169731816/ |access-date=6 April 2025 |agency=The Bolton News |date=23 September 2016 |page=6}}

He played Richard III at the Riverside Studios (2010) and originated the part of Lawrence in Tim Firth's stage adaptation of Calendar Girls. Prekopp has appeared in BBC Radio 4 adaptations of Terry Pratchett's Mort (as the title character), Small Gods (as Brutha) and Night Watch (as young Sam Vimes). He directed the Afternoon Play Taken by Suzanne Heathcote for BBC Radio 4,{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/radio/2009/wk23/thu.shtml#thu_radio4 |title=Afternoon Play – Taken |publisher=BBC Press Office |accessdate=30 September 2017 }} and is a singer/songwriter and founding member of folk/rock band The Fircones featuring The Likely Lads actress Brigit Forsyth on cello.{{Citation needed|date=January 2008}}. In 2014, he voiced Lyman Lannister in the video game Game of Thrones. Since 2015, Prekopp has also been voicing the character of Bill Connolly in the audio drama series John Sinclair – Demon Hunter, which is based on the horror detective series of novels written by Helmut Rellergerd.

Prekopp was a supporting actor in the 2007 British feature film I Want Candy with Mackenzie Crook. He has also appeared in Law & Order: UK, Lewis, No Offence, Call the Midwife and Hard Sun. In 2015–16, Prekopp portrayed William III of England and Daniel Defoe in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Helen Edmundson's Queen Anne.{{cite web |url=http://www.rsc.org.uk/queen-anne/cast-and-creative |title=Queen Anne: Cast and creative |publisher=Royal Shakespeare Company |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151202055919/https://www.rsc.org.uk/queen-anne/cast-and-creative |archivedate=2 December 2015 |accessdate=20 January 2018 }} In 2019, he appeared as Pat in the British psychological horror film Saint Maud.