Pip Carter is an English actor.

Career

He attended Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School in

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. Before starting his professional career, Carter trained at the

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(RADA) where he appeared in productions of '' The Cosmonaut's Last Message...'', '' Platonov'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Theatre

Carter's work in theatre includes: ''

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'' and '' The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other'' at the National Theatre, London. He also appeared in

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's new play, '' Never So Good'' at the National Theatre, London., David Hare's new play ''Gethsemane'', also at the National Theatre, for which he was nominated as Best Supporting Actor in a Play in the Whatsonstage Theatregoers Choice Awards and in '' The White Guard'' at the National Theatre, London and ''

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'' at the Gate Theatre, London. He appeared in Nina Raine's '' Tiger Country'' at the Hampstead Theatre in early 2011 and from November 2011 to January 2012 as Edward Thomas in Nick Dear's biographical play ''The Dark Earth and the Light Sky''. In 2016 he appeared as Sergei Voynitzev in '' Platonov'' and Medvedenko in ''

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'' in the Young ''

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'' season at the National Theatre. In 2017 he appeared in the premiere production of

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at the

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, London.

Television

On television he has appeared in '' Party Animals'' (

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) and ''

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'' (

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). In 2011 he appeared as Wystan - the poet

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- in BBC Two's drama '' Christopher and His Kind'' about

Christopher Isherwood Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include '' Goodbye to Berlin'' (1939), a semi-autobiographical ...

's time in Berlin in the 1930s. In 2014, he played Freddy Lagarde in '' Salting the Battlefield''. In 2017 he appeared in ''

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'' as Colin Tennant. He played Paul Hopkiss in Episode 1 Series 4 of Lewis with Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox.

References

External links

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Pip Carter's page at Troika
English male stage actors People educated at Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School English male television actors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Male actors from Kent Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art {{england-actor-stub