# Clive Carter

Clive Carter is a British actor and singer, best known for his role of "Claude Elliott and others" in the original London cast of Come From Away, for which he received an Olivier Award nomination. He studied at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
His West End theatre credits include Someone Like You with Petula Clark, A Man for All Seasons with Martin Shaw, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Brendan Fraser and Ned Beatty, We Will Rock You, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, Bamatabois/Grantaire and later Inspector Javert in Les Misérables, Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny in The Phantom of the Opera (A role he originated at the Sydmonton Festival workshop), A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Always at the Victoria Palace with Shani Wallis and Side by Side by Sondheim. He was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for his performance as The Wolf/Cinderella's Prince in Into the Woods.
Other UK stage credits include a national tour of Oklahoma!; Putting It Together at the Old Fire Station Theatre in Oxford; Macbeth, As You Like It, Henry V, and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore at Northcott, Exeter; A Little Night Music and Mrs. Warren's Profession at the Nottingham Playhouse; and Godspell at the Leicester Haymarket. He starred as Frank-N-Furter in a European tour of The Rocky Horror Show.
On UK television Carter has appeared in Rep, EastEnders, and Dalziel and Pascoe. He had a small role in the feature film The Da Vinci Code.
He played the role of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the West End production of the musical Wicked. He replaced Sam Kelly from Monday 29 March 2010, starring opposite Rachel Tucker and Louise Dearman. He was highly acclaimed in the role, and exited the show alongside Dearman and many other of his co-stars on Saturday 10 December 2011, after almost two years in the role. Desmond Barrit returned to the company, replacing Carter.
In October 2011, he appeared in a concert of the new musical Soho Cinders at the Queen's Theatre, London. He originated the roles of Mr. Salt in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and Harold Zidler in Moulin Rouge! The Musical at the Piccadilly Theatre. His performance in the latter earned him another nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Musical. In October 2018, Carter played Merlyn and King Pellinore in the London Musical Theatre Orchestra production of Camelot at the London Palladium.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 2001 | Learning to Love the Grey | Dr. Edward Marsh | TV film |
| 2005 | Chromophobia | Peter Soam | |
| 2006 | The Da Vinci Code | Biggin Hill | |
| 2018 | Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again | Ensemble | |
| 2021 | Rupture | Henry | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1975 | Division 4 | Brickie | Episode: "Rubber Bunny" |
| 1981 | Robin's Nest | Waiter | Episode: "Anniversary Waltz" |
| 1981 | Never the Twain | Waiter | Episode: "Of Meissen Men" |
| 1981 | Diamonds | Policeman | Episode: "My End Is My Beginning" |
| 1982 | Rep | Dudley Blake | Series regular |
| 1984 | Mitch | Jeavons | Episode: "Postman's Knock" |
| 1992 | The Bill | Michael Ash | Episode: "Hands Up" |
| 1996 | The Bill | John Ryland | Episode: "Judgement Call" |
| 2000 | The Bill | John Chandler | Episode: "Streetwise" |
| 2002 | The Bill | Allen's Solicitor | Episode: "Protection" |
| 2004 | Doctors | Peter Andrews | Episode: "Lost and Found" |
| 2004 | EastEnders | Mac | 2 episode |
| 2007 | Casualty | Sydney Cage | Episode: "Communion" |
| 2007 | Dalziel and Pascoe | Peter Mayhew | Episode: "Under Dark Stars" |
| 2007 | Roman Mysteries | Diaulus | Episode "The Enemies of Jupiter" |
| 2016 | Murder Maps | Detective Wensley | Episode: "Murder in the Roaring Twenties" |
| 2017 | Holby City | Lennie Dick | Episode: "Aces High" |
| 2022 | Dodger | Charles Kemble | Episode: "Phantom" |

## Selected theatre credits

| Year | Play | Role | Venue |
| 1997 | Always | Edward VIII | Victoria Palace Theatre, London |
| 1999 | The Nerd | Axel Hammond | Grand Theatre, Swansea & UK Tour |
| 1999 | I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change | Various | Comedy Theatre, London |
| 1999-2000 | Dick Barton: Episode II - The Curse of the Pharaoh's Tomb | Dick Barton | Warehouse Theatre, Croydon |
| 2000 | The Shakespeare Revue | Various | McAninch Arts Center, Glen Ellyn & US Tour |
| 2001 | The Rat Pack: Live from Las Vegas | Dean Martin | King's Theatre, Edinburgh |
| 2001 | Almost Like Being in Love | | Royal National Theatre, London |
| 2001-2002 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Gooper | Lyric Theatre, London |
| 2003-2005 | We Will Rock You | Khashoggi | Dominion Theatre, London |
| 2005-2006 | A Man for All Seasons | Thomas Cromwell | Theatre Royal Haymarket, London |
| 2007 | Take Flight | Otto Lilienthal | Menier Chocolate Factory, London |
| 2008 | Crooked Wood | Murrey Lester | Jermyn Street Theatre, London |
| 2009 | Priscilla, Queen of the Desert | Bob | Palace Theatre, London |
| 2010-2011 | Wicked | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Apollo Victoria Theatre, London |
| 2013 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Mr. Salt | Theatre Royal, London |
| 2017 | Oklahoma! | Andrew Carnes | Royal Albert Hall, London |
| 2018 | KING the Musical | J. Edgar Hoover | Hackney Empire, London |
| 2018 | Camelot | King Pellinore/Merlin | London Palladium, London |
| 2018-2019 | Come from Away | Claude Elliott | Abbey Theatre, Dublin & Phoenix Theatre, London |
| 2022 | Moulin Rouge! | Harold Zidler | Piccadilly Theatre, London |