Pip Carter
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Pip Carter is an English actor.
Career
He attended Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School in Rochester, Kent.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} Before starting his professional career, Carter trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA)[http://www.rada.org/grad06/car.html PIP CARTER] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080224102423/http://www.rada.org/grad06/car.html |date=24 February 2008 }} where he appeared in productions of The Cosmonaut's Last Message..., Platonov, In the Jungle of Cities, The Good Soldier and Assassins.
=Theatre=
Carter's work in theatre includes: Present Laughter and The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other[http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/thehour National Theatre : Productions : The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517044711/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/thehour |date=17 May 2008 }} at the National Theatre, London. He also appeared in Howard Brenton's new play, Never So Good at the National Theatre, London.,[http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/neversogood National Theatre : Productions : Never So Good] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512144804/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/neversogood |date=12 May 2008 }} David Hare's new play Gethsemane, also at the National Theatre,[http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/gethsemane National Theatre : Productions : Gethsemane] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107212133/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/gethsemane |date=7 January 2010 }} for which he was nominated as Best Supporting Actor in a Play in the Whatsonstage Theatregoers Choice Awards[http://awards.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=849 Whatsonstage 2009 Theatregoers Choice Awards] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117080904/http://awards.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=849 |date=17 January 2010 }} and in The White Guard at the National Theatre, London[http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/54551/productions/the-white-guard.html National Theatre : Productions : The White Guard] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100916103908/http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/54551/productions/the-white-guard.html |date=16 September 2010 }} and Joseph K at the Gate Theatre, London. He appeared in Nina Raine's Tiger Country at the Hampstead Theatre in early 2011[https://web.archive.org/web/20101204202238/http://www.whatsonstage.com/news/theatre/london/E8831291251018/Plays+Cast%3A+Hampstead+Tiger%2C+Penelope+%26+Twelfth.html WhatsOnStage : Plays Cast: Hampstead Tiger, Penelope & Twelfth] and from November 2011 to January 2012 as Edward Thomas in Nick Dear's biographical play The Dark Earth and the Light Sky.{{cite web | url=http://www.almeida.co.uk/event/darkearth | title=The Dark Earth and the Light Sky }}{{failed verification|date=September 2014}}
In 2016 he appeared as Sergei Voynitzev in Platonov and Medvedenko in The Seagull in the Young Chekhov season at the National Theatre. In 2017 he appeared in the premiere production of Consent at the Royal National Theatre, London.{{cite web |url=https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/consent |title=Consent |website=National Theatre |date=4 November 2016 |access-date=8 April 2017}}
=Television=
On television he has appeared in Party Animals (BBC Two) and John Adams (HBO). In 2011 he appeared as Wystan - the poet W. H. Auden - in BBC Two's drama Christopher and His Kind{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ztfl9|title = BBC Two - Christopher and His Kind}}{{failed verification|date=September 2014}} about Christopher Isherwood's time in Berlin in the 1930s. In 2014, he played Freddy Lagarde in Salting the Battlefield. In 2017 he appeared in The Crown as Colin Tennant. He played Paul Hopkiss in Episode 1 Series 4 of Lewis with Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox.
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|2553988}}
- [http://www.troikatalent.com/MD/Carter_Pip.htm Pip Carter's page at Troika]
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Category:English male stage actors
Category:People educated at Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School
Category:English male television actors
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Male actors from Kent
Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
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