# Peter Carroll (actor)

Peter John Carroll AM (born 1944) is an Australian actor and the father of actress Tamsin Carroll.

## Early life and education

Peter Carroll was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1944. In his youth, Carroll was a boy soprano and won five awards in the City of Sydney Eisteddfodd in 1963.
Carroll attended the University of Sydney, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts, and the University of New South Wales, where he earned a Master of Arts with Honours. While undertaking his education at the University of Sydney, he commenced amateur acting; after graduating, he worked as a drama teacher for two years.
Carroll later attended the Central School of London.
In 2003, Carroll received an honorary Doctorate of Creative Awards from the University of Wollongong.

## Honours

* Member of the Order of Australia for "significant service to the performing arts as an actor" in the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours.

## Awards

| Association | Category | Year | Work |
| Helpmann Award | Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play | 2003 | Endgame |
| Green Room Awards | Male Performer | 1986 | Masterclass |
| Green Room Awards | Best Actor | 1995 | Hamlet |
| Green Room Awards | Best Actor | 1986 | The Season at Saraparilla |
| Mo Awards | Best Supporting Musical Theatre Performer | 1992 | |
| Mo Awards | Best Actor | 2001 | The Christian Brothers |
| Glug Awards | Male Performer | 2001 | Brothers |
| Glug Awards | Performer in a Musical | 2001 | Lush |
| Variety Club Award | Musical Theatre Actor of the Year | 1988 | Sweeney Todd |
| Penguin Award | Best Performance by a Male in a Drama Series | 1988 | Rafferty's Rules |
| Sydney Theatre Critics' Circle Award | Significant Contribution to Sydney Theatre | 1988 | Life Achievement Award |
| Sydney Theatre Awards | Best Performer in a Supporting Role in a Mainstage Production | 2022 | The Tempest |

## Theatre

| Year | Title | Role | Type |
| 1961 | Roundup on the Moon | | Pocket Playhouse |
| 1962 | Queen of Hearts | | Genesian Theatre |
| 1962 | Major Barbara | | Pocket Playhouse |
| 1962 | Our Hearts Were Young and Gay | | Genesian Theatre |
| 1962 | Wakefield Mystery Plays | | Cell Block Theatre, Darlinghurst |
| 1962 | Hubert and Arthur | | Genesian Theatre |
| 1962 | Anchor Nugget | | Pocket Playhouse |
| 1963 | An Ideal Husband | | Pocket Playhouse |
| 1963 | Hobson's Choice | | Genesian Theatre |
| 1963 | Emma | | Genesian Theatre |
| 1963 | The Alchemist | | Genesian Theatre |
| 1963 | The Journey of the Three Kings | | Genesian Theatre |
| 1964 | She Stoops to Conquer | | Genesian Theatre |
| 1964 | Much Ado About Nothing | | Genesian Theatre |
| 1964 | Richard III | | Genesian Theatre |
| 1964 | The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra | | Genesian Theatre |
| 1965 | The Golden Legend | | Genesian Theatre |
| 1965 | Adam's Apple | | Genesian Theatre |
| 1967 | The Swan | | Genesian Theatre |
| 1970 | Blood Wedding | | Old Tote Theatre |
| 1971 | The Trial of Lucullus | | National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) |
| 1971 | The Tragedy of King Richard II | | Genesian Theatre |
| 1971 | Hippolytus | | Old Tote Theatre |
| 1972 | Wakefield Mystery Plays | Christ | Hobart City Hall for Tasmanian Arts Festival |
| 1972 | Antigone | | National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) |
| 1973 | Back to Methuselah | | National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) |
| 1973 | Spoiled | Schoolmaster | Independent Theatre |
| 1974 | The Seagull | Dr Dorn | Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1974 | Jesters | Jack | Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1974 | The Bacchoi | Pentheos | Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1974 | Well Hung | | Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1974 | Kookaburra | | Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1974 | My Foot, My Tutor | | Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1975 | The Ride Across Lake Constance | | Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1975 | Ginge's Last Stand | Ginger Meggs | Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1975 | Richard III | Claren / Tyrell | Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1975-76 | The Christian Brothers | | National Australian tour with Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1975 | Much Ado About Nothing | Benedick | Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1976 | Mates and Brothers | | The Playhouse & Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1976 | The Joss Adams Show | | Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1976 | One of Those Girls | | Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1976 | It Takes a While to Know One | | Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1976 | Sextet | | Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1976 | The Recruiting Officer | Captain Brazen | Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1976 | The Duchess of Malfi | Bosloa | National Australian tour |
| 1976 | A Handful of Friends | Russell McAlister | Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1977 | Murder in the Cathedral | Thomas A' Beckett | The New Dolphin Theatre for Perth Festival |
| 1977 | Twelfth Night | Feste / Fabian | Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1977 | Much Ado About Nothing | Benedick | Space Theatre, Adelaide & Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1978 | Wakefield Mystery Plays | Christ | New Fortune Theatre for Perth Festival |
| 1978-79 | The Christian Brothers | The Christian Brother | National Australian tour with Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1978 | Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 | Hotspur Pistol | Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1979 | A Cheery Soul | Mr Custance / Mrs Jebb / Swaggie | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1979 | The Caucasian Chalk Circle | Narrator / Ozdak | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1979-80 | Twelfth Night | Malvolio | The Playhouse, Adelaide with State Theatre Company of South Australia |
| 1980 | The Sunny South | Ivo Carne | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1980-81 | Evita | Peron | National Australian tour with Adelaide Festival Centre |
| 1981 | Chinchilla | Chinchilla | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1982 | The Suicide | Semyon | Nimrod Theatre Company |
| 1982 | Macbeth | | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1982 | The Perfectionist | Stuart Gunn | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1984 | As You Desire Me | Bruno PierI | Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1984 | Master Class | Stalin | South Australia with The Stage Company |
| 1985 | Master Class | Stalin | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1985 | Jonah Jones | Mr Packard | Wharf Theatre & The Playhouse, Adelaide with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1986 | Master Class | Stalin | Playhouse, Melbourne with The Stage Company |
| 1986 | The Madras House | | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1986 | Pearls Before Swine | | Belvoir Street Theatre & Seymour Centre |
| 1987-88 | Emerald City | Colin | Playhouse, Melbourne for Melbourne Theatre Company |
| 1987-88 | Sweeney Todd | Sweeney Todd | Playhouse, Melbourne, Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney & Riverstage, Brisbane with Melbourne Theatre Company |
| 1988 | Noel and Gertie | Noël Coward | Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company / Morley Davis |
| 1988 | A Stephen Sondheim Evening | | Theatre Royal, Sydney |
| 1988 | Hedda Gabler | Tesman | Playhouse, Melbourne with Melbourne Theatre Company |
| 1989 | Summer Rain | Harold | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1989 | Romeo and Juliet | Friar Laurence | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1989 | Harold in Italy | Marius | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1989 | Joan of Arc at the Stake | Brother Dominic | Melbourne Concert Hall with Victoria State Opera for Melbourne Spoleto Festival |
| 1990-91 | Les Miserables | Thenardier | Australia / New Zealand tour with Cameron Mackintosh |
| 1991 | Dial M For Murder | Inspector Hubbard | Marian Street Theatre |
| 1991-92 | Money and Friends | Stephen | National Australian tour with Queensland Theatre |
| 1992 | Uncle Vanya | Uncle Vanya | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1992 | Jesus Christ Superstar | Pontius Pilate | Harry M. Miller |
| 1992-93 | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | Jacob / Potipher | State Theatre, Melbourne, Lyric Theatre Brisbane & Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney with The Really Useful Group |
| 1994 | Mrs. Warren's Profession | Praed | Marian Street Theatre |
| 1994 | King Lear | | Sydney Opera House |
| 1994-95 | Hamlet | Polonius / Priest / Francisco / Sailor | Space Theatre, Adelaide & Playhouse, Melbourne with Belvoir Theatre Company |
| 1994 | The Threepenny Opera | Earl of Gloucester | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1994 | On Your Dial | | Tilbury Hotel, Woolloomooloo |
| 1994 | Cats | Asparagus / Bustopher Jones / Growltiger | Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney with Really Useful Group |
| 1995 | The Tempest | Alonzo | National Australian tour with Belvoir Street Theatre |
| 1995 | The Blind Giant is Dancing | Doug | Belvoir Theatre Company |
| 1996 | Hamlet | Polonius | National Australian tour with Belvoir Theatre Company |
| 1996 | Miracle City | Millard Sizemore | Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1996 | Heretic | Franz Boaz / Tom Harrison / John Barnes / Professor Stanner & more | National Australian tour with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1996 | Crazy for You | Bela Zangler | Theatre Royal with Gordon Frost Productions |
| 1997 | A Hard God | Martin Cassidy | Playhouse, Adelaide for State Theatre Company of South Australia |
| 1998 | Into the Woods | Mysterious Man / Narrator | Playhouse, Melbourne for Melbourne Theatre Company |
| 1998 | After the Ball | Ron | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1998 | Navigating | Dick Shaw | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1998 | Julie Anthony is Lush | Various | Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1998 | You're Gonna Love Tomorrow | | Sydney Opera House Trust |
| 1999 | The Taming of the Shrew | Baptista | Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney with EHJ Productions |
| 1999 | She Stoops to Conquer | Sir Charles / Mr Hardcastle | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 1999 | Macbeth | King Duncan & cast | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2000 | The Sunshine Club | Reverend Morris | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2000 | Simply Weill | | Sydney Opera House with The Follies Company |
| 2000 | Troilus and Cressida | Nestor | Melbourne Athenaeum, Playhouse, Canberra, Sydney Opera House with Bell Shakespeare Company |
| 2001 | Lush | Various | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2001 | The Christian Brothers | The Christian Brother | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2002 | Man of La Mancha | | Regent Theatre, Melbourne & Capitol Theatre, Sydney with Gordon Frost Productions |
| 2002 | Endgame | Nagg | Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company for Sydney Festival |
| 2003 | The Christian Brothers | | National Australian tour with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2004 | Harbour | Sandy | Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2004 | The Republic of Myopia | President & Maximillian Sault | Roslyn Packer Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2004 | Victory: Choices in Reaction | Clegg | Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2004 | Thyestes | Thyestes | Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2004 | Eureka! - The Musical | Governor Hotham | Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne with Essgee Entertainment |
| 2005 | The Chairs | Poppet | Belvoir Street Theatre |
| 2005 | Stuff Happens | Paul I'Neil / David Manning / Dominique de Villepin | Seymour Centre & Comedy Theatre, Melbourne with Belvoir Theatre Company |
| 2005 | Stella and the Moon Man | Mr Pleiades | Theatre of Image with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2005 | The Cherry Orchard | Firs | Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2006 | Kookaburra Launch Concert | | Lyric Theatre, Sydney |
| 2006 | Mother Courage and Her Children | Commander-in-Chief | Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2006 | The Lost Echo | | Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2006 | The Bourgeois Gentleman | Jourdain | Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2007-08 | The Season at Sarsaparilla | Girlie | Sydney Opera House & Playhouse, Melbourne with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2007 | The Art of War | Brian | Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2007 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Snug / Egius / Mustardseed | Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2008 | The Serpent's Teeth | Basim | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2009 | The War of the Roses | Northumberland, Gloucester | Sydney Festival & His Majesty's Theatre, Perth for Perth International Arts Festival with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2009 | The Crucible | Giles Corey | Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2009 | Happy Days | Willie | Malthouse Theatre & Belvoir Street Theatre |
| 2009 | The Book of Everything | Father / Bumbiter | Belvoir Street Theatre |
| 2009 | Peter Grimes | Dr Crabbe | Opera Australia |
| 2010 | King Lear | The Fool | National Australian tour with Bell Shakespeare |
| 2010 | The Pirates of Penzance | Major-General | Sydney Opera House with Opera Australia |
| 2011 | Doctor Zhivago | Alexander | Lyric Theatre, Sydney, Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne with Gordon Frost Productions |
| 2011 | No Man's Land | Spooner | Bille Brown Theatre & Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company & Queensland Theatre |
| 2012 | Old Man | Albert | Belvoir Street Theatre for B Sharp |
| 2012-13 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Grandpa Potts | Capitol Theatre, Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, Festival Theatre, Adelaide with TML Enterprises |
| 2014 | Night on Bald Mountain | Mr Hugo Sword | Malthouse Theatre |
| 2014 | The Consul | | Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne |
| 2014 | Oedipus Rex | Oedipus | Belvoir Street Theatre |
| 2014 | A Christmas Carol | Marley & other characters | Belvoir Street Theatre |
| 2015-16 | Krapp's Last Tape | Krapp | Scenic Workshop Adelaide, Theatre Royal, Hobart MONA FOMO Tour with State Theatre Company of South Australia |
| 2015 | Seventeen | Tom | Belvoir Street Theatre |
| 2016 | The Great Fire | Donald | Belvoir Street Theatre |
| 2016 | Twelfth Night | Malvolio | Belvoir Street Theatre |
| 2017 | Mark Colvin's Kidney | David, Bruce & others | Belvoir Street Theatre |
| 2017 | Macbeth | King Duncan | Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide with State Theatre Company of South Australia |
| 2017 | Three Sisters | Phillip | Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2018 | The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui | Dogsboroogh | Roslyn Packer Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2018 | An Enemy of the People | Morton Kiil | Belvoir Street Theatre |
| 2019 | Mary Stuart | Shrewsbury | Roslyn Packer Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2019 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Reverend Tooker | with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2019 | Life of Galileo | 7th Actor | Belvoir Street Theatre |
| 2021 | The Cherry Orchard | Firs | Belvoir Street Theatre |
| 2022 | Girl from the North Country | Mr Perry | Australia & New Zealand tour with GWB Entertainment |
| 2022 | The Tempest | Ariel | Roslyn Packer Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2023 | Into the Woods | Man / Narrator / Cinderella's father | Hayes Theatre with Belvoir Street Theatre |
| 2023 | Do Not Go Gentle | Evans | Roslyn Packer Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2023 | The Dismissal | Chief Justice Garfield Barwick | Seymour Centre |

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Type |
| 1977 | The Last Wave | Michael Zeadler | Feature film |
| 1978 | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | McCready | Feature film |
| 1978 | Newsfront | Newsco scriptwriter | Feature film |
| 1986 | The More Things Change... | Roley | Feature film |
| 1980 | Fatty Finn | Teacher | Feature film |
| 1980 | The Girl Who Met Simone de Beauvoir in Paris | | |
| 1998 | Waking Ned | Villager of Tullymore | Feature film |
| 2000 | A Wreck A Tangle | Science Voiceover | Feature film |
| 2000 | Sunday | Herb | |
| 2001 | Black and White | Viscount Simonds | Feature film |
| 2006 | Happy Feet | Elder | Animated feature film |
| 2011 | Sleeping Beauty | Man 1 | Feature film |
| 2018 | Crazy Rich Asians | Lord Calthorpe | Feature film |
| 2021 | The Power of the Dog | Old Gent | Feature film |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Type |
| 1978 | Cass | Tom | TV movie |
| 1979 | The John Sullivan Story | Commissioner Petrovic | TV movie |
| 1979 | Ride on Stranger | Mervyn Leggatt | TV miniseries |
| 1982-92 | A Country Practice | Mr. Brown / Stewart Innes | TV series |
| 1983 | Five Mile Creek | Charles Withers | TV series |
| 1983 | A Descant for Gossips | Robert Moller | TV miniseries |
| 1993 | Who Killed Baby Azaria? | Mr. Phillips QC | TV docufilm |
| 1983 | The Dismissal | Narrator / Liberal MP | TV miniseries |
| 1984 | Eureka Stockade | Narrator | TV miniseries |
| 1987 | Melba | David Mitchell | TV miniseries |
| 1987 | Captain James Cook | Dr. Daniel Solander | TV miniseries |
| 1988 | Custody | Narrator | TV movie |
| 1988 | Rafferty's Rules | Percy Eliot | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1989 | The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy | | TV miniseries |
| 1989 | Cassidy | Gotham | TV miniseries |
| 1996 | Water Rats | Joseph Craig | TV series |
| 1997 | Doom Runners | William | TV movie |
| 2000 | Tales of the South Seas | Gahv | TV series |
| 2001 | The Farm | Fenwick | TV miniseries, 3 episodes |
| 2001 | Changi | Dr. Hurrell | TV miniseries |
| 2001 | Corridors of Power | Voice in Toilet | TV series |
| 2001 | The Diamond of Jeru | Clifton Vandover | TV movie |
| 2000-03 | Grass Roots | Rev. Peter Summerhaze | TV series |
| 2012 | Rake | Judge Walpole | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2019 | Bloom | Old Frank Warlie | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2019 | The Letdown | Dr Julian | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2021 | Aftertaste | Jim | TV series, 6 episodes |
| 2021 | Bump | Bruce | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2022 | Colin from Accounts | George | TV series, 1 episode |

### Narration

* Mississippi Challenge
* Children in Distress
* D.H. Lawrence
* Pandas: The Fight for Survival
* The Dismissal (1983, miniseries)
* Eureka Stockade (1984, miniseries)
* The Crossing (1990, film)
* East Meets West
* A Compassionate Rage
* Stations of the Cross

### Other

* Crocodile Dundee (1986) – Dialogue Coach
* All Men Are Liars (1995) - Voice Coach