Caroline Carver (actor)
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Caroline Carver is an English actress. Best known for the roles of many British television/movies including Ingrid in The Aryan Couple (2004 film)
and Sandy in My First Wedding
and Princess Jessica in the TV movie The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
. She is married to fellow actor Kenny Doughty
.
and television
. She played the young adult Hattie in the 1999 film Tom's Midnight Garden
based on the book of the same name, alongside Anthony Way
and Joan Plowright
. Early film work also includes The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
(1999).
She won an Royal Television Society Best Actress Award for her performance in The Scarlet Pimpernel (TV series)
opposite Richard E. Grant
. Her television work has ranged from costume drama
, such as Sharpe's Peril
, modern drama, including Spooks
, Jonathan Creek
, and Rosemary & Thyme
, to medical drama
in the shape of Holby City
and Doctors.
She recently wrote and produced the award winning short film You Me and Captain Longbridge
.
The Aryan Couple (2004 film)
The Aryan Couple is a 2004 drama directed by John Daly. It was the director's ninth film and motion picture to be released by Atlantic Film Productions...
and Sandy in My First Wedding
My First Wedding
My First Wedding is a 2006 romantic comedy film.- Synopsis :A young lady about to get married realizes that she has a problem: she fantasizes about every man she sees. She goes to confess at church but unknowingly confesses to a young man who is not a priest. He agrees to help her, but falls in...
and Princess Jessica in the TV movie The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns is a 1999 Hallmark Entertainment made-for-TV fantasy movie. It stars Randy Quaid, Colm Meaney, Kieran Culkin, Roger Daltrey, Caroline Carver and Whoopi Goldberg...
. She is married to fellow actor Kenny Doughty
Kenny Doughty
Kenny Doughty is an English actor who trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Married to the actress Caroline Carver.-Filmography as Director:-Filmography as Actor:...
.
Work
Throughout her career, Carver has worked both in filmFilm
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
and television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
. She played the young adult Hattie in the 1999 film Tom's Midnight Garden
Tom's Midnight Garden
Tom's Midnight Garden is a children's novel by Philippa Pearce. It won the Carnegie Medal in 1958, the year of its publication. It has been adapted for radio, television, the cinema, and the stage.-Plot summary:...
based on the book of the same name, alongside Anthony Way
Anthony Way
Anthony Way is an English chorister and classical singer who shot to fame after appearing as a chorister in a BBC TV series. He has since had success as a recording artist, with gold and platinum discs to his credit.-Biography:...
and Joan Plowright
Joan Plowright
Joan Ann Plowright, Baroness Olivier, DBE , better known as Dame Joan Plowright, is an English actress, whose career has spanned over sixty years. Throughout her career she has won two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award and has been nominated for an Academy Award, an Emmy, and two BAFTA Awards...
. Early film work also includes The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns is a 1999 Hallmark Entertainment made-for-TV fantasy movie. It stars Randy Quaid, Colm Meaney, Kieran Culkin, Roger Daltrey, Caroline Carver and Whoopi Goldberg...
(1999).
She won an Royal Television Society Best Actress Award for her performance in The Scarlet Pimpernel (TV series)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (TV Series)
The Scarlet Pimpernel is a series of television drama programmes loosely based on Baroness Emmuska Orczy's series of novels, set during the French Revolution....
opposite Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant is a Swaziland-born British actor, screenwriter and director. His most notable role came in the film Withnail and I. He holds dual British and Swazi citizenship.-Early life:...
. Her television work has ranged from costume drama
Costume drama
A costume drama or period drama is a period piece in which elaborate costumes, sets and properties are featured in order to capture the ambiance of a particular era.The term is usually used in the context of film and television...
, such as Sharpe's Peril
Sharpe's Peril
Sharpe's Peril is a British television drama, part of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, based on the novels of Bernard Cornwell.- Production history :...
, modern drama, including Spooks
Spooks
Spooks is a British television drama series that originally aired on BBC One from 13 May 2002 – 23 October 2011, consisting of 10 series. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a...
, Jonathan Creek
Jonathan Creek
Jonathan Creek is a British mystery series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick. Primarily a crime drama, the show is also peppered with broadly comic touches...
, and Rosemary & Thyme
Rosemary & Thyme
Rosemary & Thyme is a British television mystery series that starred Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris as gardening detectives Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme. The show began on ITV in 2003, and the third series ended in August 2007...
, to medical drama
Medical drama
A medical drama is a television program, in which events center upon a hospital, an ambulance staff, or any medical environment.In the United States, most medical episodes are one hour long and, more often than not, are set in a hospital. Most current medical Dramatic programming go beyond the...
in the shape of 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...
and Doctors.
She recently wrote and produced the award winning short film You Me and Captain Longbridge
You Me and Captain Longbridge
You Me and Captain Longbridge is a 15 min short film directed by Kenny Doughty and written & produced by Caroline Carver. The film stars Callum Williams as the 11 year old Luke, Chris Larkin as Captain Longbridge and Joseph Fiennes as the voice of Luke as an adult...
.
Screen credits
- New Tricks (2010) - Helen Vestry
- Doctors (2009) - Elaine Lenton
- IrreversiIrreversiIrreversi is a 2010 dramatic film directed by Michael Gleissner and shot in Hong Kong as the English language version of Gleissner's Mandarin language film Hui lu, which he filmed and directed at the same time in the same locations but with an entirely different cast...
(2009) - Terry - Sharpe's PerilSharpe's PerilSharpe's Peril is a British television drama, part of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, based on the novels of Bernard Cornwell.- Production history :...
(2008) - Mrs Tredinnick - The Royal TodayThe Royal TodayThe Royal Today was a British medical soap opera, a spin-off of the similarly themed drama, The Royal. The concept is that whilst The Royal is set in the late 1960s, The Royal Today featured the same hospital in the present day, with a new set of characters working in the same location...
(2008) - Heather Dunstan - The Aryan CoupleThe Aryan Couple (2004 film)The Aryan Couple is a 2004 drama directed by John Daly. It was the director's ninth film and motion picture to be released by Atlantic Film Productions...
(2004) - Ingrid Vassman - SpooksSpooksSpooks is a British television drama series that originally aired on BBC One from 13 May 2002 – 23 October 2011, consisting of 10 series. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a...
(2004) - Catherine Townsend - Rosemary & ThymeRosemary & ThymeRosemary & Thyme is a British television mystery series that starred Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris as gardening detectives Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme. The show began on ITV in 2003, and the third series ended in August 2007...
, 'The Gongoozlers' (2004) - Penny - George and the Dragon (2004) - Sister Angela
- My First WeddingMy First WeddingMy First Wedding is a 2006 romantic comedy film.- Synopsis :A young lady about to get married realizes that she has a problem: she fantasizes about every man she sees. She goes to confess at church but unknowingly confesses to a young man who is not a priest. He agrees to help her, but falls in...
(2004) - Sandy - Holby CityHolby CityHolby 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...
(2003) - Sonia Shaw - Jonathan CreekJonathan CreekJonathan Creek is a British mystery series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick. Primarily a crime drama, the show is also peppered with broadly comic touches...
(2003) - Sally Ellen Oakley - Jeffrey Archer: The TruthJeffrey Archer: The TruthJeffrey Archer: The Truth was a 2002 BBC satirical comedy drama on the life of Jeffrey Archer, with the title role played by Damian Lewis. Its duration was 90 minutes and its premiere occurred on 1 December 2002. It was written and directed by Guy Jenkin....
(2002) - Secretary - AloneAlone (2001 film)Alone is a Croatian film directed by Lukas Nola. It was released in 2001....
(2001) - Sarah - Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock HolmesMurder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock HolmesMurder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes is a BBC television drama series originally broadcast in 2000 and 2001. It was inspired by the fact that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle based the character of Sherlock Holmes on his tutor at the University of Edinburgh Dr Joseph Bell, and that Bell did...
, The Kingdom of Bones (2001) - Gladys Donovan - Animated Tales of the WorldAnimated Tales of the WorldAnimated Tales of the World is a 2001 American animated series that aired on HBO. It won two Primetime Emmy Awards in 2001, for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation and Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for Peter Macon.-External links:...
, Ewenn Congar: a Story from France (2001) - Ines (voice) - The Inspector Lynley MysteriesThe Inspector Lynley MysteriesThe Inspector Lynley Mysteries is a series of BBC television programmes about Detective Inspector Thomas "Tommy" Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton of Scotland Yard and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers...
, A Great Deliverance (2001) - Danny - In a Land of PlentyIn A Land Of PlentyIn A Land Of Plenty is a 10-episode British television drama serial produced by Sterling Pictures and Talkback for BBC Two in the United Kingdom. Adapted from a novel by Tim Pears by Kevin Hood and Neil Biswas, and first broadcast in the United Kingdom in 2001, the serial describes a sprawling...
(2001) - Zoe - The Scarlet PimpernelThe Scarlet Pimpernel (TV Series)The Scarlet Pimpernel is a series of television drama programmes loosely based on Baroness Emmuska Orczy's series of novels, set during the French Revolution....
, A Good Name (2000) - Claudette de Bridoire - The Magical Legend of the LeprechaunsThe Magical Legend of the LeprechaunsThe Magical Legend of the Leprechauns is a 1999 Hallmark Entertainment made-for-TV fantasy movie. It stars Randy Quaid, Colm Meaney, Kieran Culkin, Roger Daltrey, Caroline Carver and Whoopi Goldberg...
(1999) - Princess Jessica - Tom's Midnight GardenTom's Midnight Garden (film)Tom's Midnight Garden is a 1999 family fantasy film directed by Willard Carroll and starring Nigel Le Vaillant, Marlene Sidaway and Serena Gordon. After going to stay with his uncle a boy is disappointed that he doesn't have a garden he can play in. However, he discovers a secret garden that only...
(1999) - Hatty - The Last TrainThe Last TrainThe Last Train is a British six-part post-apocalyptic television drama serial first broadcast on the ITV network in 1999. It has since been repeated on ITV2 in 1999/2001 and on numerous occasions on the UK Sci-Fi Channel...
(1999) - Hild - A Rather English MarriageA Rather English MarriageA Rather English Marriage is a novel by Angela Lambert, first published in 1992, and later adapted for television by Andrew Davies for the BBC.-Plot summary:...
(1998) - Young Grace - City Central, A Night on the Town (1998) - Alison