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Alan Carr is a Actor British born on 14 june 1976 at Weymouth (United-kingdom)

Alan Carr

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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 14 june 1976 (47 years) at Weymouth (United-kingdom)

Alan Graham Carr (born 14 June 1976) is an English comedian and television personality.

Carr was born in Weymouth, Dorset, and spent most of his childhood in Northampton before moving in his early 20s to Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, where he began his comedy career. Carr's breakthrough was in 2001, winning the City Life Best Newcomer of the Year and the BBC New Comedy Award.

In the ensuing years, his career burgeoned on the Manchester comedy circuit before he became well-known for hosting The Friday Night Project with Justin Lee Collins. This led to the release of a short-lived entertainment show Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong in 2008 and, eventually, his popular comedy chat show Alan Carr: Chatty Man, which has been airing on Channel 4 since 2009.

Carr also hosted a radio show, Going Out with Alan Carr, on BBC Radio 2 for three years as well as releasing his autobiography Look Who It Is! (2008) and going on three arena tours: Tooth Fairy Live (2007), Spexy Beast Live (2011) and Yap, Yap, Yap! (2015).

Carr is represented by the agency Off the Kerb. He has won two British Comedy Awards and two National Television Awards and has received a BAFTA TV Award.

Biography

His father, whose family come from North East England, is a former Northampton Town and Nuneaton Borough F.C. manager, and current Newcastle United chief scout Graham Carr. Carr has a younger brother, Gary.

Carr went to Weston Favell School, Northampton and graduated from Middlesex University with a 2:1 BA (Hons) degree in Drama and Theatre Studies.

After completing his degree in his early 20s, Carr moved to Manchester, seeking a better life and aspiring to be a comedian. He moved into a house full of activity in Chorlton-cum-Hardy after which he moved to Stretford; which he cites as an inspiration for his comedic work. Carr soon became a regular on the Manchester comedy circuit, including Alan Carr's Ice Cream Sunday at the Manchester Comedy Store. Carr also made friends with fellow comedians based on the Manchester circuit, including Jason Manford, Justin Moorhouse and John Bishop.

Despite being openly gay, he does not consider his sexuality to be a focal part of his act, once saying, "I just think gay people need to get over themselves. Just because you're gay and on the telly doesn't mean you're a role model. I'm just a comedian. That's all I am. What am I meant to do? Do I go down the Julian Clary route and talk about fisting and poppers? I don't talk about being gay and I think what better equality for gays than that?"

On 21 September 2006, Carr and entertainer Lionel Blair helped save a man who was about to fall from a pier in Blackpool. The man was holding on by his fingertips, but the two men managed to pull him to safety.

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Debbie Isitt
Debbie Isitt
(1 films)
Katy Perry
Katy Perry
(1 films)
Ashley Jensen
Ashley Jensen
(1 films)
Ben Crompton
Ben Crompton
(1 films)
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Filmography of Alan Carr (3 films)

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Katy Perry: Part of Me, 1h35
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about television, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films, Autobiographical documentary films
Actors Katy Perry, Russell Brand, Darren Criss, Shannon Woodward, Judy Garland, Adele
Roles Self (archive footage)
Rating59% 2.961642.961642.961642.961642.96164
The film features interviews with Perry and her loved ones documenting the trajectory of her life, containing various clips from her childhood and teenage years as well as her career and personal life (ranging from December 1999 to March 2012). The film is spliced with performances from her worldwide California Dreams Tour, which had 127 concerts from February 20, 2011 to January 22, 2012. Most of the performances were recorded on November 23, 2011, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, but also included performances in Tokyo and São Paulo. Some of her friends such as Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Jessie J make cameos in the film. The documentary includes scenes of Perry dealing with the breakdown of her marriage with English actor/comedian Russell Brand.
Nativity!
Nativity! (2009)
, 1h45
Directed by Debbie Isitt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Christmas films
Actors Martin Freeman, Ashley Jensen, Jason Watkins, Marc Wootton, John Sessions, Alan Carr
Roles The Critic
Rating63% 3.1983153.1983153.1983153.1983153.198315
Paul Maddens (Martin Freeman) is a "frustrated, under-achieving primary school teacher" who once had ambitions of being successful as an actor, producer or director. Every year St. Bernadette's Catholic school in Coventry, where he teaches, competes with a local Protestant private school (Oakmoor) to see who can produce the best nativity play. Maddens hates Christmas because his ex-girlfriend Jennifer Lore (Ashley Jensen), who attended drama school with him, left him at Christmas before he could propose to her. Despite this, the St. Bernadette's headteacher Mrs Bevans (Pam Ferris) tasks him with running their nativity play this year, and gives him a new class teaching assistant called Mr Poppy (Marc Wootton), who turns out to be as much of a child as the rest of Mr Maddens's class.
Pub Royale
Pub Royale (1997)
, 35minutes
Origin United-kingdom
Themes Spy films
Actors Alan Carr
Roles James Brum Agent 021

The film loosely follows the central plot of Fleming's novel. British secret agent James Brum infiltrates the Pub Royale where he beats opponent Le Dough at a high-stakes monopoly game. Escaping from Le Dough's beautiful mistress Lenya, Brum gives chase to Le Dough on a modified bicycle to rescue love-interest Lambretta. In the climax Brum sellotapes live hedgehogs to the road which puncture the tyres of Le Dough's sports car and it hurtles over a cliff.