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Front Row: Actor Liz Carr on Silent Witness and Hollywood

30/08/2021

Actor Liz Carr on Silent Witness and Hollywood

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Actor Liz Carr on Silent Witness and Hollywood

Actor Liz Carr looks back at her career, and how it took her from the Wirral to Hollywood.

Liz Carr looks back over her career, from an illness at the age of seven and becoming a wheelchair user, to acting, comedy, broadcasting, and now Hollywood.

Liz Carr's role in Silent Witness was a groundbreaking step in the depiction of disability in primetime TV drama. The actor, comedian and broadcaster, who has used a wheelchair since childhood, looks back at her early years, her law degree, and how that led her to life of activism for disability rights.

Liz spent six years playing Clarissa Mullery in the BBC drama series, and she discusses the work she has been offered since she left, with latest projects being a major new Jack Thorne TV drama about disability rights, a new stage version of Larry Kramer's classic 1980s AIDS play The Human Heart at the National Theatre, and her first Hollywood film, Infinite, starring Mark Wahlberg and Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Presenter Elle Osili-Wood
Producer Jerome Weatherald

Main image: Liz Carr
Image credit: Charlie Carter

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