Robert Hugh Carvel was born on 6 September 1977 and is a British actor.
21 Facts About Bertie Carvel
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Bertie Carvel has twice won a Laurence Olivier Award: for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for his role as Miss Trunchbull in Matilda the Musical, and for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance as Rupert Murdoch in Ink.
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Bertie Carvel starred in ITV drama The Sister in 2020.
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Bertie Carvel was born in Marylebone, London, the son of a psychologist mother and John Bertie Carvel, a journalist.
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Bertie Carvel gained a first class honours degree in English at the University of Sussex, going on to win a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2003 after a three-year course.
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Bertie Carvel was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for his performance in Parade in 2008.
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Bertie Carvel won the award in the same category in 2012 for his performance as Miss Trunchbull in Matilda the Musical, a production that won six other Oliviers.
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Bertie Carvel won the UK's TMA Award for Best Performance in a Musical and was similarly nominated for the London's Evening Standard Award.
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Bertie Carvel played Enrico in Damned By Despair at the National Theatre.
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From August to October 2015, Bertie Carvel played both Pentheus and Agave in Bakkhai at the Almeida Theatre.
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Bertie Carvel directed the play Strife at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, which opened in August 2016.
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In September 2017, Bertie Carvel played the role of Rupert Murdoch in the play Ink by James Graham, which debuted at the Almeida Theatre before transferring to the West End.
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Bertie Carvel has appeared in several other film, TV and theatre roles, including The Wrong Mans, Babylon, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Bombshell, Hawking, The Crimson Petal and the White, Money and Midsomer Murders.
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Bertie Carvel appeared as Bamatabois in the film Les Miserables, based on the musical of the same name.
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Bertie Carvel is the voice of the male Imperial Agent in the MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic.
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In 2009, Bertie Carvel played Wormwood in Focus on the Family's audio adaptation of The Screwtape Letters, alongside Andy Serkis as Screwtape.
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Since 2021, Bertie Carvel has starred as Adam Dalgliesh in Helen Edmundson's Dalgliesh.
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Bertie Carvel plays former Prime Minister Tony Blair in the fifth and sixth series of The Crown.
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Bertie Carvel is a Patron of the Globe Theatre's education department's 'Playing Shakespeare' programme, which provides free educational resources and free theatre tickets to secondary school students.
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Bertie Carvel was re-elected for a further two-year term in 2015.
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Bertie Carvel is married to actress Sally Scott, whom he wed on 5 January 2019 after dating for ten years.