Brendan Carr (actor)
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Brendan Carr in is a British actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 and film producer.

Life

Born in Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth, often known to locals as Yarmouth, is a coastal town in Norfolk, England. It is at the mouth of the River Yare, east of Norwich.It has been a seaside resort since 1760, and is the gateway from the Norfolk Broads to the sea...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, Carr trained at Stagecoach School of Performing Arts while attending regular school at The Grange
The Grange School, Aylesbury
The Grange School is a co-educational secondary school in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.It is a community school, which takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 18. The school has approximately 1250 pupils....

 in his home town of Aylesbury
Aylesbury
Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire in South East England. However the town also falls into a geographical region known as the South Midlands an area that ecompasses the north of the South East, and the southern extremities of the East Midlands...

.

Carr began his acting career playing a role in a film short called Pure Vengeance alongside Scott Adkins and Gordon Alexander. He then appeared in BBC2's Masters of Combat as Master Kali's (Rachel Grant
Rachel Grant
Rachel Louise Grant de Longueuil, more commonly known as Rachel Grant, is an actress and model. Besides her acting career, she is a martial arts instructor, specializing in the Filipino martial arts Kali...

) disciple. He later went on to play Max Ryan in Jesus The Curry King alongside Pooja Shah
Pooja Shah
Pooja Shah is a British Asian actress and model of Kenyan-Asian descent. Her grandparents migrated to Kenya from Gujarat in Western India and so her ancestral roots are there....

, The film was produced by Aylesbury film company and was one of the first films to be screened digitally across cinemas in the UK via Quantum digital.

In 2004, Carr had his first big break in a movie called The Purifiers
The Purifiers
The Purifiers is a 2004 action film directed by Richard Jobson, and starring Dominic Monaghan.-External links:*...

, where he played Moz alongside Dominic Monaghan
Dominic Monaghan
Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan is an English actor. He has received international attention from playing Merry in Peter Jackson's adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and for his role as Charlie Pace on the television show Lost....

.

In 2005, Carr played Clifford in Love Struck, with Joey Ansah
Joey Ansah
Joey Ansah is a British actor and martial artist.-Early life:Joey Ansah was born in London, England of mixed ethnicity, the second son of celebrated Ghanaian fashion designer Kofi and his Devon-born wife Nicola. He lived in London for the first 10 years of his life before emigrating with his...

, which won Best Film in the London Portobello Film Festival.

Other credits include Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers
Band of Brothers is a 2001 ten-part, 11-hour television World War II miniseries based on the book of the same title written by historian and biographer Stephen E. Ambrose. The executive producers were Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, who had collaborated on the World War II film Saving Private Ryan...

(2001), The Avatar (2003), Left For Dead
Left for Dead (2004 film)
Left for Dead purports to be the UK's first independent action martial arts feature film. Directed by Ross Boyask and produced by Phil Hobden, it paved the way for a number of independent action films to follow, including Soul Searcher, The Silencer and The Purifiers.-Synopsis:Left For Dead is a...

(2004), Starhyke (2006) and the Royal Variety Performance.

In 2006-2007 Carr played Jason in Rise of the Foot Soldier, alongside Craig Fairbrass
Craig Fairbrass
Craig Fairbrass is an English actor. He is known for his distinctive Cockney accent.-Life and career:Fairbrass was born in Stepney, London. He made his acting debut in an episode of the television series Shelley in 1980. This was followed by appearances in series such as Emmerdale, Three Up Two...

, Terry Stone
Terry Stone
Terry Stone , also known as Terry Turbo, is a British actor and film producer. Before a career in film, Stone was a rave promoter, and is co-founder of Garage Nation and Rave Nation with Jason Kaye. He is most notable for his role as Tony Tucker, in the 2007 film Rise of the Footsoldier...

, Billy Murry, Ian Virgo
Ian Virgo
Ian Frederick Virgo is an American-British actor.Virgo was born in Glendale, California and moved to Caldicot, Wales in 1987, so has dual American and British nationality. He has appeared in Band of Brothers, Black Hawk Down, Casualty, Rise of the Footsoldier and EastEnders, playing Wayne...

 and Rikki Harnett.

In 2007, Carr played Ryan in Ten Dead Men
Ten dead men
Ten Dead Men is the follow-up to the cult independent action film Left for Dead. Produced by the same company, Ten Dead Men features many of the same actors as its predecessor. Ten Dead Men was directed by Ross Boyask and produced by Phil Hobden...

with Terry Stone
Terry Stone
Terry Stone , also known as Terry Turbo, is a British actor and film producer. Before a career in film, Stone was a rave promoter, and is co-founder of Garage Nation and Rave Nation with Jason Kaye. He is most notable for his role as Tony Tucker, in the 2007 film Rise of the Footsoldier...

, Jason Maza
Jason Maza
- Early life :Born and brought up in London, he played semi-professional football before turning to an acting career. At 18 Maza gained a place at Central School of Speech and Drama; however, he turned down his place in order to continue working as an actor....

, Silvio Simac
Silvio Simac
Silvio Simac is a Croatian/Italian martial artist who has appeared in many mainstream American action movies. He is a 14 times British Taekwondo Champion . He holds 4th Dan Black Belt in ITF Taekwondo, 5th Dan in Choi Kwang Do, 3rd Dan in Kickboxing, 1st Dan in Brithai Karate and 1st Dan Black...

 and Pooja Shah
Pooja Shah
Pooja Shah is a British Asian actress and model of Kenyan-Asian descent. Her grandparents migrated to Kenya from Gujarat in Western India and so her ancestral roots are there....

.

In 2008, Carr joined Howard Webster (Factory Publishing) as an associate producer as well as playing a Russian, Boris, in Dragon Soccer.

In 2010, Carr was Cast to play the Lead villain Lord Tethryn rouge leader of the raiders in Warrioress a film about Two powerful female warriors that must journey across a post-apocalyptic land to fight a ritual duel, and fulfill an ancient prophecy.The film is due for release in 2011 with talks of a TV series Warrioress.

In 2011, Carr showed that he is a multi talented Actor once again by breaking the mould of his typical type cast bad guy roles when he was cast to play the Lead Characterand Voice for a Comedic Crocodile in a series of TV Commercials for Crocbids.

Following on from Croc Bids Carr was Cast in a New Sci-Fi TV Series called safelight-19, In the series Carr plays Rookie Outrider Martin Black, Although maintaining his hard man Presence Carr's Character Black is a Novice Outrider working his way through the Ranks while trying to impress his superior Gus Reynolds played by Ian Virgo. Safelight-19.

Carr is also a producer and part of Lightworx Media and the founder of sister company Sleepercell Productions. Both are film and TV production companies. Carr is co-producing Asylum, the Movie and Brutal

Filmography

  • Pure Vengeance (2001)
  • Band of Brothers (2001)
  • Masters of Combat (2001)
  • Jesus the Curry King (2002)
  • The Purifiers
    The Purifiers
    The Purifiers is a 2004 action film directed by Richard Jobson, and starring Dominic Monaghan.-External links:*...

    (2004)
  • Left for Dead
    Left for Dead (2004 film)
    Left for Dead purports to be the UK's first independent action martial arts feature film. Directed by Ross Boyask and produced by Phil Hobden, it paved the way for a number of independent action films to follow, including Soul Searcher, The Silencer and The Purifiers.-Synopsis:Left For Dead is a...

    (2004)
  • Love Struck (2005)
  • fIXers
    Fixers
    Fixers are a five-piece Experimental Psychedelic-Pop group from Oxford, England that consists of Jack Goldstein, Jason Warner, Christopher Dawson, Roo Bhasin and Michael Thompson. The band are signed to Vertigo Records....

    (2006)
  • Intergalactic Combat (2007)
  • Rise of the Footsoldier
    Rise of the Footsoldier
    Rise of the Footsoldier is a 2007 English crime film released on 7 September, 2007. It is the third film from BAFTA award winning director Julian Gilbey...

    (2007)
  • Ten Dead Men
    Ten dead men
    Ten Dead Men is the follow-up to the cult independent action film Left for Dead. Produced by the same company, Ten Dead Men features many of the same actors as its predecessor. Ten Dead Men was directed by Ross Boyask and produced by Phil Hobden...

    (2008)
  • 45
    45
    Year 45 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vinicius and Sabinus...

    (2009)
  • Dragon Soccer (2009)
  • Warrioress (2009)

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