Katy Carmichael
Encyclopedia
Katy Carmichael is an English
actress and a professional entertainer. She has been on stage many times in Liverpool
, but is most notably recognised for her role of Lucy Barlow/Richards in the ITV
soap Coronation Street
, Twist Morgan in the Channel 4
sitcom Spaced
and Melissa Ryan in Waterloo Road
.
. She did her A-levels at Liverpool College, Mossley Hill, Liverpool
.
She then did a drama film and television degree, at Bristol University with peers Simon Pegg
and Jessica Hynes, and had a five year relationship with the then-unknown drama student, David Walliams
.
After leaving University, Carmichael's first venture into professional entertainment was Judy's Punch, a puppet show "with a twist". Katy appeared in a television commercial for 'Bounce' fabric softener in Spring 1996 with fellow Scouse thespian Mark Moraghan
. She has also appeared in a Diet Coke
commercial alongside Tamsin Greig
in 2001.
Since then her TV credits include playing DC Jo McMullen in Liverpool 1
and roles in And The Beat Goes On, the Galton and Simpson series with Paul Merton
, Wing and a Prayer, Karaoke and Bread.
She has trodden the boards of the Bristol Old Vic
and Royal Exchange Theatre and played opposite Stephen Berkoff in Storm and Drang and Brighton Beach Scumbag. She's been booed off a pub stage in the ground-breaking double act, The Liz Hurleys, with life-long friend Jessica Hynes.
Carmichael's most famous role was Twist Morgan in the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced
. She worked with close friends Simon Pegg
and Jessica Hynes. The sitcom lasted for two series.
In 2001, she starred in her first film, Dead Babies, based on the novel written by Martin Amis
and has been seen in One Foot in the Grave
, the second series of Liverpool 1
and as the female lead in the period fantasy drama The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells
.
She landed the role of florist Lucy Richards in Coronation Street
in 2002 and was involved in the famous "Peter Barlow: Bigamist" storyline.
2009 has seen a rise in Katy's acting status, with her starring in Series 4 of the hit school drama series, Waterloo Road
, as headteacher Rachel Mason's (Eva Pope
) sister, Melissa Ryan and a role in Mistresses
as the mysterious Elaine Thompson.
Katy also has a lead role in Danny Stack's short supernatural thriller film, Origin, playing a mother desperate to keep her family together when her son falls ill after he's bitten by a mysterious creature. According to Stack's Twitter
, the film is scheduled for a 20 July release.
She has also appeared as an interviewee in the documentary Walliams and Lucas: New Heroes of Comedy in February 2008.
She currently lives in Bristol
with her husband, actor Tristan Sturrock, and her three children, son Hector and two daughters Bronte and Juno.
Carmichael appeared in an advert for British newspaper Daily Express
as a teacher.
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
actress and a professional entertainer. She has been on stage many times in Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
, but is most notably recognised for her role of Lucy Barlow/Richards in the ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
soap Coronation Street
Coronation Street
Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
, Twist Morgan in the Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
sitcom Spaced
Spaced
Spaced is a British television sitcom written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, and directed by Edgar Wright. It is noted for its rapid-fire editing, frequent pop culture references and jokes, eclectic music, and occasional displays of surrealism and non-sequitur humour...
and Melissa Ryan in Waterloo Road
Waterloo Road (TV series)
Waterloo Road is an award-winning British television drama series, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, the series focuses on the lives of the school's teacher and students, and confronts social...
.
Personal life and career
Carmichael attended Gateacre Community Comprehensive School in LiverpoolLiverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
. She did her A-levels at Liverpool College, Mossley Hill, Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
.
She then did a drama film and television degree, at Bristol University with peers Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg is an English actor, comedian, writer, film producer, and director. He is best known for having co-written and stared in various Edgar Wright features, mainly Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and the comedy series Spaced.He also portrayed Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the 2009 Star Trek film...
and Jessica Hynes, and had a five year relationship with the then-unknown drama student, David Walliams
David Walliams
David Edward Walliams is an English comedian, writer and actor, known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the TV sketch show Little Britain and its predecessor Rock Profile...
.
After leaving University, Carmichael's first venture into professional entertainment was Judy's Punch, a puppet show "with a twist". Katy appeared in a television commercial for 'Bounce' fabric softener in Spring 1996 with fellow Scouse thespian Mark Moraghan
Mark Moraghan
Mark Moraghan is a British actor and singer. He has appeared in many British drama series including Peak Practice and Heartbeat...
. She has also appeared in a Diet Coke
Diet Coke
Diet Coke is a sugar-free soft drink produced and distributed by The Coca-Cola Company. It was first introduced in the United States on August 9, 1982, as the first new brand since 1886 to use the Coca-Cola trademark...
commercial alongside Tamsin Greig
Tamsin Greig
Tamsin Greig is an English actress principally known for two Channel 4 television comedy parts: Fran Katzenjammer in Black Books and Dr. Caroline Todd in Green Wing...
in 2001.
Since then her TV credits include playing DC Jo McMullen in Liverpool 1
Liverpool 1 (TV series)
Liverpool 1 is a British television drama series centred on the work of a fictional Merseyside Police vice squad. Produced by Lime Street Productions for ITV, it starred Samantha Womack and Mark Womack and ran for two series in 1998 and 1999...
and roles in And The Beat Goes On, the Galton and Simpson series with Paul Merton
Paul Merton
Paul Merton is a British comedian, writer, actor and television presenter. Known for his improvisation skill, his humour is rooted in deadpan, surreal and sometimes dark comedy...
, Wing and a Prayer, Karaoke and Bread.
She has trodden the boards of the Bristol Old Vic
Bristol Old Vic
The Bristol Old Vic is a theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, King Street, in Bristol, England. The theatre complex includes the 1766 Theatre Royal, which claims to be the oldest continually-operating theatre in England, along with a 1970s studio theatre , offices and backstage facilities...
and Royal Exchange Theatre and played opposite Stephen Berkoff in Storm and Drang and Brighton Beach Scumbag. She's been booed off a pub stage in the ground-breaking double act, The Liz Hurleys, with life-long friend Jessica Hynes.
Carmichael's most famous role was Twist Morgan in the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced
Spaced
Spaced is a British television sitcom written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, and directed by Edgar Wright. It is noted for its rapid-fire editing, frequent pop culture references and jokes, eclectic music, and occasional displays of surrealism and non-sequitur humour...
. She worked with close friends Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg is an English actor, comedian, writer, film producer, and director. He is best known for having co-written and stared in various Edgar Wright features, mainly Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and the comedy series Spaced.He also portrayed Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the 2009 Star Trek film...
and Jessica Hynes. The sitcom lasted for two series.
In 2001, she starred in her first film, Dead Babies, based on the novel written by Martin Amis
Martin Amis
Martin Louis Amis is a British novelist, the author of many novels including Money and London Fields . He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester, but will step down at the end of the 2010/11 academic year...
and has been seen in One Foot in the Grave
One Foot in the Grave
One Foot in the Grave is a BBC television sitcom series written by David Renwick. The show ran for six series, including seven Christmas specials, two Comic Relief specials, over an eleven year period, from early 1990 to late 2000...
, the second series of Liverpool 1
Liverpool 1 (TV series)
Liverpool 1 is a British television drama series centred on the work of a fictional Merseyside Police vice squad. Produced by Lime Street Productions for ITV, it starred Samantha Womack and Mark Womack and ran for two series in 1998 and 1999...
and as the female lead in the period fantasy drama The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells
The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells
The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells is a four-hour miniseries conceived by Nick Willing and released in 2001 by the Hallmark Channel. It is based on a number of short stories by H. G. Wells, and in some territories was titled The Scientist.-Production:...
.
She landed the role of florist Lucy Richards in Coronation Street
Coronation Street
Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
in 2002 and was involved in the famous "Peter Barlow: Bigamist" storyline.
2009 has seen a rise in Katy's acting status, with her starring in Series 4 of the hit school drama series, Waterloo Road
Waterloo Road (TV series)
Waterloo Road is an award-winning British television drama series, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, the series focuses on the lives of the school's teacher and students, and confronts social...
, as headteacher Rachel Mason's (Eva Pope
Eva Pope
Eva Pope is an English actress. She trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.- Career :Her first major role was playing Tanya Pooley in ITV soap-opera Coronation Street from 1993 to 1994...
) sister, Melissa Ryan and a role in Mistresses
Mistresses (TV series)
Mistresses is a British serial drama television programme that follows the lives of four female friends and their involvement in an array of illicit and complex relationships...
as the mysterious Elaine Thompson.
Katy also has a lead role in Danny Stack's short supernatural thriller film, Origin, playing a mother desperate to keep her family together when her son falls ill after he's bitten by a mysterious creature. According to Stack's Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
, the film is scheduled for a 20 July release.
She has also appeared as an interviewee in the documentary Walliams and Lucas: New Heroes of Comedy in February 2008.
She currently lives in Bristol
Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
with her husband, actor Tristan Sturrock, and her three children, son Hector and two daughters Bronte and Juno.
Carmichael appeared in an advert for British newspaper Daily Express
Daily Express
The Daily Express switched from broadsheet to tabloid in 1977 and was bought by the construction company Trafalgar House in the same year. Its publishing company, Beaverbrook Newspapers, was renamed Express Newspapers...
as a teacher.
Filmography
- Bread (1991) Connie
- Revelations (1994) Caroline Thomas
- Six Pairs of Pants (1995) Various Characters
- Joking ApartJoking ApartJoking Apart is a BBC television sitcom written by Steven Moffat about the rise and fall of a relationship. It juxtaposes a couple, Mark and Becky , who fall in love and marry, before getting separated and finally divorced...
(1995) Waitress - In the Bleak Midwinter (1995) Mad Puppet Woman
- And the Beat Goes On (1996) Cathy Williams
- Karaoke (1996) 2nd Hostess
- Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson's... (1997) Penny / Sandra Evans
- Liverpool 1Liverpool 1 (TV series)Liverpool 1 is a British television drama series centred on the work of a fictional Merseyside Police vice squad. Produced by Lime Street Productions for ITV, it starred Samantha Womack and Mark Womack and ran for two series in 1998 and 1999...
(1998) DC Jo McMullen - Dead BabiesDead Babies (film)Dead Babies, , is a 2000 film directed by William Marsh. It is based on the novel of the same name by Martin Amis....
(2000) Lucy Littlejohn - One Foot in the GraveOne Foot in the GraveOne Foot in the Grave is a BBC television sitcom series written by David Renwick. The show ran for six series, including seven Christmas specials, two Comic Relief specials, over an eleven year period, from early 1990 to late 2000...
(2000) Katy - SpacedSpacedSpaced is a British television sitcom written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, and directed by Edgar Wright. It is noted for its rapid-fire editing, frequent pop culture references and jokes, eclectic music, and occasional displays of surrealism and non-sequitur humour...
(1999–2001) Twist Morgan - The Infinite Worlds of H. G. WellsThe Infinite Worlds of H. G. WellsThe Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells is a four-hour miniseries conceived by Nick Willing and released in 2001 by the Hallmark Channel. It is based on a number of short stories by H. G. Wells, and in some territories was titled The Scientist.-Production:...
(2001) Jane Robins - Fishing (2001) Girl
- Bookcruncher (2002) Elsa
- CasualtyCasualty (TV series)Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
(2002) Samantha Griffin - Clocking OffClocking OffClocking Off is a British television drama series which ran on the BBC One network for four series from 2000 to 2003. It was produced for the BBC by the independent Red Production Company, and created by Paul Abbott...
(2002) Miranda Clarkson - Coronation StreetCoronation StreetCoronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
(2002–2003) Lucy Richards - HexHex (TV series)Hex is a British television programme developed by Shine Limited and aired on the Sky One satellite channel. The story is about a remote English country school that becomes the battleground between a demonic entity and the witches who oppose it...
(2004) Peggy - Cutting ItCutting ItCutting It was a popular BBC television programme set in Manchester, England, which ran for four series between 2002 and 2005.- Series 1 :...
(2005) Justine Jenson - Coming Up (2006) Harris
- MistressesMistresses (TV series)Mistresses is a British serial drama television programme that follows the lives of four female friends and their involvement in an array of illicit and complex relationships...
(2009) Elaine Thompson - Waterloo RoadWaterloo Road (TV series)Waterloo Road is an award-winning British television drama series, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, the series focuses on the lives of the school's teacher and students, and confronts social...
(2009) Melissa Ryan - Origin (2009) Claire Holmes