Liz Carr

Liz Carr
Born	1972
Nationality	UK
Education	Nottingham University
Occupation	actress and comedian
Known for	acting and activism

Liz Carr (born 1972) is a British actress, stand-up comedian,broadcaster and international disability rights activist, who studied law at Nottingham University.

Carr has used a wheelchair since the age of seven due to a rare condition called arthrogryposis multiplex congenita and frequently refers to her condition in her stand-up as "meus thronus kaputus". She is frank about her life as a disabled person and the inherent comedy that brings — "I've had some tuts, which is fantastic... I look quite frail to some people, so it's like, 'She's talking about sex, she's swearing.' Every stereotype you didn't expect. People generally look terrified. 'Oh my God, is she going to be funny? Can we laugh at this?'".

She has been part of a number of comedy groups, including Abnormally Funny People with Tanyalee Davis, Steve Day, Steve Best, Simon Minty, and Chris McCausland.

In 2007 she was runner up in the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year competition.

Carr co-hosted the BBC's Royal Television Society award winning Ouch! Podcast with Mat Fraser from 2006 to 2013, and in 2011 worked as a researcher for the BBC comedy panel show Have I Got News for You.

Carr was in her thirties when she took on her first professional acting role playing Mother Courage before heading to the Young Vic with another Bertolt Brecht play, The Exception and the Rule. In 2013, she joined the long-running BBC crime thriller series Silent Witness as regular character Clarissa Mullery.

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