Actor Liz Carr on Silent Witness and Hollywood
Liz Carr looks back over her career, from an illness at the age of seven and becoming a wheelchair user, to acting, comedy, broadcasting, and now Hollywood.
Liz Carr's role in Silent Witness was a groundbreaking step in the depiction of disability in primetime TV drama. The actor, comedian and broadcaster, who has used a wheelchair since childhood, looks back at her early years, her law degree, and how that led her to life of activism for disability rights.
Liz spent six years playing Clarissa Mullery in the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ drama series, and she discusses the work she has been offered since she left, with latest projects being a major new Jack Thorne TV drama about disability rights, a new stage version of Larry Kramer's classic 1980s AIDS play The Human Heart at the National Theatre, and her first Hollywood film, Infinite, starring Mark Wahlberg and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Presenter Elle Osili-Wood
Producer Jerome Weatherald
Main image: Liz Carr
Image credit: Charlie Carter
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The Normal Heart begins previewing at the National Theatre in London on 23rdΒ September.Β Jack Thorne and Genevieve Barr’s drama (working title: When Barbara Met Alan)Β is broadcast in the winter of 2022 on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two;Β Β andΒ The Hollywood film Infinite will be released soon.Β Β Β Β Β Β
Images: Main Image above: , image credit: Charlie Carter.Β Image to the Left: Liz Carr in Real Deal, part of the 2020 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Four series Crip Tales
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