Jim Carter

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James Edward Carter, (born 19 August 1948) is an English film and television actor.

He is best known for his appearance in Downton Abbey (2010–2015), as Mr Carson, a role that has earned him four nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2012–2015).

In the film Downton Abbey (2019), he reprised his role. A Private Function (1984), A Month in the Country (1987), A Dangerous Man (1994), The Madness of King George (1995), Richard III (1996), The Madness of King George (1994), The Madness of Lady (2006), Irene Carter's (2004), My Week with Marilyn (2011), and The Good Liar (2006). Lipstick on Your Collar (1993), Cracker (1994), The Way We Live Now (2001), The Chest (1988), The Prophet's (1988), The Girl King (1996), and Dinotopia (2004).

He also appears in Cranford, a five-part BBC series (2007), alongside his partner Imelda Staunton.

On PBS, he appeared alongside Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.

Early life

Carter was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire's West Riding. His mother, a land girl and later a school secretary, served for the Air Ministry, and his father worked for the Air Ministry. Carter attended Ashville College, Harrogate, where he was head boy in his last year, and the University of Sussex, where he studied law and appeared with the fledgling Drama Society, playing Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, the first student performance at the newly built Gardner Arts Centre Theatre. He dropped out of university after two years to join a Brighton fringe theatre company.

Personal life

During rehearsals for Richard Eyre's Guys and Dolls at the National Theatre in 1981, Jim Carter and actress Imelda Staunton met in January 1982. Carter, 34, Staunton, 26, and she thought he was old enough. "We worked together for a year, rather than a whizzing mania," Staunton said. They married in 1983 and have one child, Bessie, who was born in 1993 and attended the National Youth Theatre in 2010. "He has never been the kind of actor who yearns to play Hamlet," Staunton says of Carter's performance. Maybe it's because he came from performing in the circus. He's always done what he wants to do."

Staunton later announced that after 21 years of marriage, she and Carter had only been separated for three weeks. Molly, a terrier, is a terrier.

Carter, the former chairman of Hampstead Cricket Club, whose ground is near his house. He arranged the Hampstead Cricket Club's third Celebrity Cricket Match, an annual charity tournament, on September 18, 2011.

Carter is a keen cyclist and has ridden for charity causes in the past. He rode with 25 others on a 10-day trip to Ghana in September 2011 for six days of cycling to raise funds for clean water in Tafo's tiny impoverished town. It was his tenth charity ride. The National Deaf Children's Society had hoped to raise funds for the National Deaf Children's Society, from Jordan, Costa Rica, Laos, Vietnam, India, Namibia, Namibia, Chile, Argentina, and Paris, to Paris. He had intended to raise a minimum of £2,750 but ended up with £8,670.

Carter lives in West Hampstead, North London, as of October 2019.

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Career

In "the early 1970s," he began acting professionally. "If you didn't become an actor," says the writer, "what would you have done professionally?" says the actor. "I wouldn't have followed law," he said, "I would have turned away from law to English." However, when the Brighton Combination group invited students to leave university and join them for five quid a week, it was like a door opening, and there was no time in between. I walked through that door and never looked back. I have never earned a penny from doing something other than acting. "I have never had another job."

Howard Brenton's first paid work for £5 a week was in a play called Gum and Goo for the Brighton Combination. Howard Brenton's Gum and Goo were first introduced by the Brighton Combination (in Brighton) in 1969.

In July 1968 for the Brighton Combination, he appeared in Howard Brenton's Winter Daddykins. Barry Edwards produced it, and Carter performed with Fiona Baker and Lily Sue Todd. This is supposedly the play referred to on Jenny Harris' website, which was on display in the Brighton Combination's cafe on September 9, 1968. Jenny Harris was one of the Brighton Combination's founders. In one interview, Jim Carter said she was one of the Brighton Combination's founders. She was then in charge of the National Theatre's education branch.

He appeared in the film Come Together at the Royal Court Theatre in 1970, as a member of the Brighton Combination and the Ken Campbell Roadshow, as well as other theatre stars and groups. On the front page of Plays and Players magazine issue of December 1970, the Royal Court's Come Together Festival was featured. Scenes from this festival are also included in this issue. On October 21, 1970, the Come Together Festival opened at the Royal Court Theatre and was instrumental in one of the Royal Court's finest years. The Brighton Combination and Ken Campbell were among the avant-garde judges on the courtroom. The Brighton Combination revealed "The NAB Show," a politically focused account of the National Assistance Board.

He appeared at the Combination Theatre Company in Brighton for the first time. He later joined the Newcastle University Theatre, where he appeared in, among other things, Estragon in Waiting for Godot. He traveled through America from 1974 to 1976, and on his return to Leicester, he appeared with the Phoenix Theatre. He appeared in The Hunchback of Notre Dame at the Cottesloe Theatre in 1977 and 1976. In 1978, he became a member of the Young Vic Company, playing Stephano in Richard III and Mephistopheles in Faust. He moved to America in 1978 to study juggling, unicycling, and tightrope walking. He appeared in Trebonius/Poet in a Julius Caesar production at Riverside Studios directed by Peter Gill from 21 May to May 28, 1980. In cabarets, he performs magic tricks. Michael Bogdanov directed James Carter's Richard III film in 1978, which featured James Carter and, among others, Bill Wallis and Michael Attwell. In 1978, he appeared in the Young Vic production of Bartholomew Fair. Michael Bogdanov had also directed it.

He was a member of The Madhouse Company of London, a comedy troupe that appeared in Boston in the 1970s; together with late Marcel Steiner (1931-1999), Marc Weil and Tommy Shands, he was a member of The Madhouse Company of London; 1970s to 1990. Ken Campbell was also associated with the group. The Madhouse Co. was an offshoot of Ken Campbell's Roadshow, which visited New York City and Boston. It came to an end, and Steiner and Carter returned to England. The Madhouse Co. was located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In August 1976, a woman named George Washington appeared in a newspaper. In a number of New York magazine issues from April 1974 to March 1975, the Madhouse Company of London was mentioned and reviewed, as well as its shows. In 1973, Marc Weil founded The Madhouse Company of London.

He appeared in The President of an Empty Room at the National Theatre from June to August 2005 (written by Stephen Knight and directed by Howard Davies). He had not seen theatre in 14 years when he did this. He considers his appearance in Richard Eyre's 1982 National Theatre revival of Guys and Dolls a major event. It was during this performance that he met his future wife, Imelda Staunton, who also appeared in this role. Richard Eyre and Howard Davies are two of his favorite directors, according to him. He was with the Brighton Combination before it moved to London and opened the Albany in Deptford. "The Brighton Combination took to London and opened the Albany in Deptford, and I was with them then."

The Brighton Combination, a touring fringe theatre company, became a resident of the Albany Institute in Deptford, South East London, in the early 1970s. This was considered one of Paul Curno's most important accomplishments. Director Paul Curno and "The Community" changed Albany's fortunes by fusing community service and the arts. The Albany is also a product of the fusion. In 1972, the Brighton Combination Company became a resident at the Albany in SE London, with a brief period of involvement in community development and arts development. It combined artistic and cultural studies with social activism.

In Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine, he appeared in the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, London (with Maggie Smith and Simon Callow directing, 1986–87). In January 1987, Plays and Players magazine published photos and a review of this play.

In 1984 and 1985, he appeared in The Mysteries: The Nativity, The Passion, and Doomsday at the Cottesloe Theatre. Bill Bryden narrated both performances.

In May–June 1990 at the Tricycle Theatre, directed by Michael Attenborough, he appeared in Doug Lucie's Fashion in Doug Lucie's Fashion.

Carter was the Cowardly Lion in the Royal Shakespeare Company's (RSC)The Wizard of Oz play, although his wife, Imelda Staunton, was Dorothy. In the cowboy film Rustlers' Rhapsody, he considers playing a baddie dressed in black, one of his career's highlights. Ian Judge produced the Wizard of Oz, which opened at the Barbican Theatre in Richmond on December 17, 1987. It was in repertory until February 27, 1988.

At Alton Towers theme park in Staffordshire, United Kingdom, Carter narrates the pre-shows and announcements for the ride "Hex – The Legend of the Towers."

He narrated the six-part series Home Front Britain, a life in Britain after World War II, which was produced and produced by the Discovery Channel and the British Film Institute. From the 11th of September 2009, Home Front Britain was on Discovery Channel.

Carter was featured in a Greenpeace campaign in 2013 about global warming's effects.

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