Carl Rice
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Carl Rice is a British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 actor.

Carl is a veteran on British TV and first appeared on screen at the age of eight in a 1980s advert for milk. The advert famously proclaimed "Accrington Stanley! Who are they?"

Following this he appeared in 15 other adverts. He also starred alongside Tony Robinson
Tony Robinson
Tony Robinson is an English actor, comedian, author, broadcaster and political campaigner. He is best known for playing Baldrick in the BBC television series Blackadder, and for hosting Channel 4 programmes such as Time Team and The Worst Jobs in History. Robinson is a member of the Labour Party...

 for three years on Channel 4's Storyworld Children's Ward
Children's Ward
Children's Ward is a British children's television drama series produced by Granada Television and broadcast on the ITV network as part of its Children's ITV strand on weekday afternoons...

for 2 series, Brookside
Brookside
Brookside is a defunct British soap opera set in Liverpool, England. The series began on the launch night of Channel 4 on 2 November 1982, and ran for 21 years until 4 November 2003...

for one year playing Gavin Matthews and countless TV shows including Jimmy McGovern's Hearts and Minds alongside Chris Eccleston and Willy Russell's Terraces alongside Mark Womack.

In 1999 Carl made his stage debut in Guiding Star, a play by Jonathan Harvey that was premiered at The Everyman Theatre in Liverpool before transferring to the Royal National Theatre for a 10 month run. Carl was shortlisted for a Lawrence Olivier award for his performance as Liam Fitzgibbon.

In 2000 he played Rene Montandon in Monsignor Renard
Monsignor Renard
Monsignor Renard was a four part ITV television drama set in occupied France during World War II. It starred John Thaw as Monsignor Augustine Renard, a French priest who is drawn into the Resistance movement. The series was later shown in the U.S...

- the ITV drama premiere set in Nazi occupied France - starring John Thaw as well as Dominic Monoghan and Juliette Caton.

He starred in two series of the comedy sketch show Scallywagga
Scallywagga
Scallywagga is a British comedy sketch show, written by Stuart Kenworthy, who has worked on Green Wing and Smack the Pony. The executive producer of series one was Kenton Allen, and the producer was Jon Montague. The pilot episode aired on 21 March 2007 when the show was known as Spacehopper...

on BBC Three
BBC Three
BBC Three is a television network from the BBC broadcasting via digital cable, terrestrial, IPTV and satellite platforms. The channel's target audience includes those in the 16-34 year old age group, and has the purpose of providing "innovative" content to younger audiences, focusing on new talent...

 playing over fifty characters in total.

He starred in comedy series Massive
Massive (TV series)
Massive is a sitcom broadcast on digital channel BBC Three. It is set in Manchester and stars Ralf Little and Carl Rice as Danny and Shay, who leave their office jobs to set up a record label when Danny inherits £10,000 following the death of his grandmother.The series began airing on BBC Three on...

on BBC Three playing Shay Finnegan alongside Johnny Vegas, Ralf Little, Joel Fry, Christine Bottomley, and Craig Parkinson.

In February 2011 he guest starred on Shameless
Shameless
Shameless is a British television drama series set in Manchester on the fictional Chatsworth council estate. Produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4, the first seven-episode series aired weekly on Tuesday nights at 10pm from 13 January 2004...

, playing Mimi Maguire's long lost brother turned sister, Bobbi.

In August 2011, Carl started filming on the Sky HD comedy Trollied
Trollied
Trollied is a British sitcom about employees in a fictional supermarket named "Valco", which debuted on Sky1 on 4 August 2011 at 9:00pm, and is the first sitcom made for Sky1 since Time Gentlemen Please in 2002...

. Carl plays Colin, a regular character who, according to several reviews, "far too realistically makes your skin crawl".

In August 2011, he also began work on the feature film Papadopoulos and Sons, which revolves around a wealthy Greek family. Carl plays Dave, the gardener at the family mansion and works alongside Stephen Dillane and Ewan Macintosh.

Carl also filmed a guest lead in Holby City
Holby City
Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...

in August 2011 playing Kenny Tolson, a tough motor bike rider who faces his dark past when he has to choose between an operation or losing a sentimental tattoo that rakes up stuff from his past.

Carl is set to shoot a guest part on Benidorm
Benidorm (TV series)
Benidorm is an award-winning British television comedy-drama that is produced by Tiger Aspect for ITV and written by Derren Litten, co-writer of The Catherine Tate Show, exploiting the working-class stereotype of this popular tourist destination....

in September/October 2011, playing Danny, a bit of a lothario who runs the booze cruise on the island.

Carl starts filming Savage in November 2011. Savage is a new drama for BBC1 written by Stephen Butchard and directed by Sam Miller (Luther). Carl plays Philip Davenport, one of the regular cops in the series. Carl is working alongside Warren Brown, Mark Womak, and Stephen Graham.

Carl will be returning to SKY HD reprising the role of Colin in a second and third series of Trollied in 2012, as a second and third series, as well as in an hour and a half Christmas special, have been commissioned. There will be 26 episodes filmed and recorded in 2012.

Carl is also currently working on a number of writing projects including a project for Ash Attalla at Rough Cut Productions, Lucy Lumsden/Stuart Murphy at SKY and has recently completed his first play in which he is in talks with a couple of major London theatres including Soho Theatre.

Carl attended St.Joseph's R.C High School from the ages 11–14. He then attended Saints Peter and Paul's R.C High School.

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