^ Choosing to Die: Newsnight Debate at IMDb.^ Disabled Arrested At McCain Office, CBS News, May 1, 2008, Retrieved March 20, 2023.Archived from the original on 28 June 2013. Archived from the original on 29 November 2013. Archived from the original on 8 August 2022. Archived from the original on 18 August 2017. ^ O'Hara, Interview by Mary (21 June 2006).^ " 'This has everything to do with disability': Interview with Wirral-born Silent Witness actress Liz Carr on subject of assisted suicide – The Diocese of Shrewsbury – The Diocese of Shrewsbury"."Merseyside actress attacked by man armed with SCISSORS". The assailant was subsequently arrested and detained under the Mental Health Act 2007. On 10 August 2017, Carr and her personal assistant were the victims of an attack by a man armed with scissors. In the video, they danced to the Dirty Dancing theme and the local fire brigade held Carr and her chair, aloft. Her father gave a speech in which he joked he was prohibited from using words like "brave." Carr and her partner pre-recorded their first dance. In 2010 Carr entered into a civil partnership with longtime partner Jo Church in what Carr called "A Wheelie Special Wedding". She subsequently won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 2022 Laurence Olivier Awards. Emma Brookner in the West End revival of The Normal Heart at the Royal National Theatre, marking the first time a disabled person had played the role on stage. Between September and December 2021, she played Dr. In December of the same year, it was announced that she had joined the cast of Good Omens for the second season, as the angel Saraqael. In March 2021, it was announced that Carr had joined the cast of The Witcher as Fenn in the show's second season. In 2020, she appeared as a university lecturer in the miniseries Devs. In 2019, Carr starred in The OA as Dr Marlow Rhodes.
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On 5 February 2020 it was announced that she had departed the series after eight years. In 2013, she joined the long-running BBC crime thriller series Silent Witness as regular character Clarissa Mullery.
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Ĭarr 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.Ĭarr 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 2007 she was runner-up in the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year competition. 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.
She opposed Lord Falconer's Assisted Dying Bill, stating: "I fear we've so devalued certain groups of people-ill people, disabled people, older people-that I don't think it's in their best interests to enshrine in law the right of doctors to kill certain people." Career Comedy In 2011, Carr was part of a Newsnight debate on assisted suicide, following the screening on the BBC of Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die, which included Jeremy Paxman and David Aaronovitch. In May 2008 she joined with ADAPT, a prominent disability rights group in the United States, to raise money for it and to protest presidential candidate John McCain's position on a bill permitting Americans qualifying for Medicaid coverage of nursing home costs to instead spend it on home-based, or community care, making it easier for disabled people to remain in their own homes.
She has been a disability rights campaigner in the UK and has spoken at many rallies.
Following her graduation she left law to work as a disability equality trainer. 'Oh my God, is she going to be funny? Can we laugh at this?'" Ĭarr became involved in politics, disabled rights, and activism while studying at the University of Nottingham. 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. She is frank about her life as a disabled person and the inherent comedy it brings: "I've had some tuts, which is fantastic. Disability activism Ĭarr has used a wheelchair since the age of seven owing to arthrogryposis multiplex congenita and frequently refers to her condition in her stand-up as "meus thronus kaputus". She studied law at the University of Nottingham. She attended Upton Hall School FCJ in Upton, Merseyside and Birkenhead High School in Birkenhead. Liz Carr is an English actress, comedian, broadcaster and international disability rights activist.Ĭarr was born 21 April 1972 in Port Sunlight and grew up in Bebington, Merseyside.
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