Todd Carty

At 60 years old, Todd Carty has this physical status:

Todd Carty (born Todd John Jennings, 1963) is an English-Irish actor and producer who has appeared on television screens in a number of roles.

His stage appearances have ranged from pantomime to serious drama, radio plays, voiceovers, advertisements, and films.

Tucker Jenkins of Grange Hill and Tucker's Luck, Mark Fowler of EastEnders, and psychopathic policeman Gabriel Kent in The Bill is best known for his portrayals.

Early life

Carty was born in Willesden, London, as Todd R Carty to Margaret M. Carty, an unmarried Irish mother who hails from Limerick. Margaret married Thomas Jennings in 1972, but later adopted Carty and changed his name to Todd John Jennings. Carty is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, thanks to his parents. He grew up in Kilburn, West Hampstead, and Harrow on London's Hill. Billie Joe and Bobby Sue, his younger sister, who work as both a lawyer and a tutor, are both brothers. Carty attended the Phildene Stage School, a co-educational independent school in Chiswick, West London.

Personal life

Carty lives in Muswell Hill, North London. He has been in a relationship with his business partner, writer/writer, and film director Dina Clarkin, the daughter of Irish actor Tony Clarkin. The two children, James and Thomas, have known each other since childhood through their parents, and they have two boys. Carty outlined how he first met Clarkin when she was a 5-year-old child actress and he a 14-year-old boy through their parents in an interview with the Daily Mirror. Carty says Dina is his soul mate.

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Career

Carty's first television appearance in the United Kingdom was in an advertisement for Woolworths at the age of four. He had other film and public information film roles, including one with Doctor Who actor Jon Pertwee on the "Green Cross Code."

Carty appeared in Lionel Bart's autobiographical musical Lionel for the first time on stage. However, Tucker Jenkins' career in his youth was mostly defined by his television appearance in the BBC children's drama Grange Hill (1978–1982) and the spin-off series Tucker's Luck (1983–1985).

His film work included Please Sir!

In 1990, Carty took over the role of original character Mark Fowler in BBC One's soap opera EastEnders, following the death of original actor David Scarboro. Carty appeared in the role for 13 years, making him one of the longest-running male cast members. Mark Fowler was being written out of the series in July 2002, the producers and Carty agreed that it would be a mutual decision. Carty had made a "fantastic contribution" to the soap, and Mark had been a "pivotal figure," executive producer Louise Berridge said, but the script had changed: "Todd and I had discussed it for a long time, and we decided that it was time for Mark to hang up his leather jacket for the last time." We'll all miss Todd, one of our best-loved actors, and we wish him every success in the future." Carty turned 50 in February 2003 and rode out of the Square on his motorcycle. In 2004, the actor died off camera.

Carty began playing PC Gabriel Kent in ITV's The Bill from 2003 to 2005, after leaving EastEnders in 2003. Carty has since discovered that he ended his EastEnders contract a year earlier than planned to begin his new role.

In an interview with The Bill Podcast in 2019, Todd Carty discussed his memories of playing Gabriel.

In the film The Candy Show (1989), Carty appeared as Randy Candy. Carty appeared with former EastEnders co-star Nick Berry in The Black Velvet Band, a Spaghetti Western-style drama set in EastEnders in 1997.

Carty was the focus of a This Is Your Life tribute in 2000. Wendy Richard, Norman Wisdom, Nick Berry, his partner Dina Clarkin, sons James Carty and Thomas Carty, and actor Tony Clarkin were among his guests.

Carty returned to the big screen in 2005's film Treasure of Albion as the aristocrat Harvey Van Bollingbroke. Carty served as the eccentric Mr Haig in The School that Roared (2009) as the second-unit head and also the second unit chief. Mr Keller appeared in the 2010 film Blame as Mr Keller.

Carty appears in the Christmas special of the television series Heartbeat, as Ray Hallam, and as villain Cameron Cooke in BBC's Holby City. He appeared in BBC's Doctors in 2008, as Kev Blake.

Carty reconstructed Tucker Jenkins in Grange Hill in 2003 as the uncle of one of the pupils, Patrick "Togger" Johnson. He appeared in just one episode, but he was brought back to film for Grange Hill's final series, which was broadcast in 2008 as a one-off special episode to commemorate the long-running BBC show's 30th anniversary. Carty appeared as Tucker in the last televised episode of Grange Hill, which was shown on BBC One on Monday, September 15, 2008.

Carty appeared on BBC One's "Do Whatever" in May 2008, with Cameron Mackintosh, helping choose one of the selected boys to play Oliver Twist in Oliver Twist's new West End production of Oliver!

Carty and his elder son, James, were filmed together in a factual television series for Channel 5, Dangerous Adventures For Boys, based on Conn and Hal Iggulden's book The Dangerous Book for Boys. At the time of broadcasting, James Carty, 11, became the first person to drive a steam train across the North York Moors 18-mile route from Grosmont, North Yorkshire, to Pickering, which was constructed in the 1830s.

Carty was a contestant on Celebrity MasterChef in June 2014.

Carty appeared in the film Silver Birches in 2017.

Carty appeared in the fourth series of Dancing on Ice in the United Kingdom, which began on January 10, 2009. Carty was partnered by a professional skater Susie Lipanova and was chastised by the judging panel for her apparent lack of skating ability. He and Lipanova finished last week, 9.5 for their first week, and 8.5 and 8.5 for weeks four and five respectively. Carty lost control on the ice so badly that he ended up stumbling into the offstage area, losing public view, leaving Lipanova to finish the routine by himself, with the Beatles song Help. The couple advanced to the next round in what was described as one of the funniest moments ever caught on television. In the 5th round, he was eventually disqualified.

He appeared alongside Alexandra Schauman in the ninth and final series of Dancing on Ice before he appeared in 2018, which was part of the "All-Stars" series.

Les Misérables; Les Misérables; The Three Loves of Ida Bliss; We Are Happy, Wavelength, Midweek, Jellybones, Bringing Eddie Home; and The Chocolate Frigate are among Carty's radio shows. Paddington Green's narration includes: The Story of the Guardian Angels' Scene in New York, The Fame Game, Driving Mum Crazy, Snapshot-Eddie Kidd, The Jungle Creatures, and many others. Carty re-lived Tucker in the musical stage version of the television series Grange Hill: Tucker's Return to The Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch, 1989. He toured the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2008 as Detective Detective Hallett of The Business of Murder. "50 Greatest Families" on Sky One was hosted by Todd Carty and Wendy Richard (who played his screen mother Pauline in EastEnders) in March 2008.

Carty appeared in a BBC Radio 4 Play of the day "Bringing Eddie Home" by John Peacock, based on a true story of Edna and Jack Wallace's fight for their son's return to Aden and the subsequent struggle for British Service service staff. Carty played the younger Jack Wallace, and the performance also featured other ex-EastEnders actors Bill Treacher, Tilly Vosburgh, Edna Doré, and Joe Absolom.

Carty appeared in the Monty Python touring production of Spamalot from May 2010 to 2015.

Carty has appeared in the BBC Christmas pantomime Aladdin, as Buttons in Cinderella at the Gatehouse Theatre Stafford from 14 December 1993 to 2 January 1994. In Dick Whittington's Dick Whittington at the Orchard Theatre in Dartford, he later appeared alongside Barbara Windsor as the captain's mate.

In the pantomime Dick Whittington at the Wycombe Swan Theatre between 2005 and 2006, he appeared as "King Rat" with Basil Brush. In a new version of Dick Whittington, the King Rat was portrayed in a new version of Dick Whittington's Capitol Theatre, Horsham, which ran from 13 December 2007 to 6 January 2008. Carty appeared in Jack and the Beanstalk at Barnstaple's Queen's Theatre in December 2008. From 12 December 2008 to 4 January 2009, the show lasted from 12 December 2008 to 4 January 2009. Carty appeared in Cinderella at the Pavilion Theatre Worthing from ten December 2009 to three January 2010. He appeared in the Chatham Theatre pantomime production of Aladdin in December 2014 (with Twist and Pulse, produced by Jordan Productions).

In a production at the Newark Palace Theatre in Newark-on-Trent on Saturday (December 31, 2016), Carty appeared in Jack and the Beanstalk once more.

Captain Hook performed at Watersmeet Theatre in Rickmansworth from December 2019 to January 2020.

Carty and his partner, writer/director, and film editor Dina Clarkin have formed Swordfish Productions, a film production company. Carty made his debut in July 2007 as the project's daytime soap opera Doctors' director of many episodes. Carty produced The Perfect Burger (2010), his first feature film co-operative British Youth Film Academy, set in Hinckley, Leicestershire. The film was mainly shot on the Hinckley campus of North Warwickshire and Hinckley College.

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