1. Todd Carty is best known for TV roles as Tucker Jenkins in Grange Hill and Tucker's Luck, Mark Fowler in EastEnders, and PC Gabriel Kent in The Bill.
32 Facts About Todd Carty
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Todd Carty grew up in Kilburn, West Hampstead and Harrow on the Hill, London.
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Todd Carty has two younger sisters named Billie Joe and Bobby Sue, who respectively work as a lawyer and a teacher.
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Todd Carty was educated at the Phildene Stage School, a co-educational independent school in Chiswick in west London.
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Todd Carty had other advertising and Public Information Film roles, including one with Doctor Who actor Jon Pertwee for the Green Cross Code.
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Todd Carty took over the role of original character Mark Fowler in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders in 1990, following the death of the original actor, David Scarboro.
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Todd Carty played the role for 13 years, becoming one of the longer-running male cast members.
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We will all miss Todd Carty, who is one of our best-loved actors, and wish him every success in the future.
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Todd Carty has since revealed he broke his EastEnders contract a year earlier than planned to take on this new role.
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In 2019, Todd Carty shared his memories of playing Gabriel in an interview for The Bill Podcast.
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Todd Carty starred as Randy Candy in the film The Candy Show.
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Todd Carty was the subject of a This Is Your Life tribute in 2000.
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Todd Carty acted in The School that Roared as the eccentric Mr Haig, and was the second-unit director.
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Todd Carty appeared as Mr Keller in the 2010 film Blame.
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Todd Carty has guest-starred as Ray Hallam in the Christmas special of the TV series Heartbeat, and in BBC's Holby City, as villain Cameron Cooke.
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In 2003, Todd Carty reprised the role of Tucker Jenkins in Grange Hill, as the uncle of one of the pupils, Patrick "Togger" Johnson.
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Todd Carty appeared as Tucker in the final televised episode of Grange Hill, screened on Monday 15 September 2008 on BBC One.
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In June 2014, Todd Carty was a contestant on Celebrity MasterChef.
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Todd Carty appeared as Mike in the film Silver Birches in 2017.
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Todd Carty appeared in the fourth series of the UK version of Dancing on Ice, which began on 11 January 2009.
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Todd Carty partnered professional skater Susie Lipanova and was heavily criticised by the judging panel for his apparent lack of skating ability.
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Todd Carty competed with Alexandra Schauman in the ninth and final series of Dancing on Ice until it returned in 2018, which was an "All-Stars" series.
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In 1989, Todd Carty reprised the role of Tucker in the musical stage version of the television series Grange Hill: Grange Hill: Tucker's Return, at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch.
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Todd Carty appeared in a BBC Radio 4 Play of the day "Bringing Eddie Home" by John Peacock, based on a true story of the fight by East End couple Edna and Jack Wallace to get their son's body brought home from Aden, and the ensuing fight for the rights of British Service service personnel.
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Todd Carty played the role of the younger Jack Wallace and the play included other ex-EastEnders actors Bill Treacher, Tilly Vosburgh, Edna Dore and Joe Absolom.
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Todd Carty starred as Patsy, from May 2010, to 2015, in the Monty Python touring production of Spamalot.
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Todd Carty has played Ali Baba in the BBC Christmas pantomime Aladdin, and starred as Buttons in Cinderella at the Gatehouse Theatre Stafford from 14 December 1993 to 2 January 1994.
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In December 2008, Todd Carty starred as the evil Ferdinand Fleshcreep in Jack and the Beanstalk at the Queen's Theatre in Barnstaple.
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Todd Carty starred as Buttons in Cinderella at the Pavilion Theatre Worthing from 10 December 2009 to 3 January 2010.
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Todd Carty again played Flashcreep in Jack and the Beanstalk, in a production at the Newark Palace Theatre in Newark-on-Trent.
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In July 2007 Todd Carty made his debut as director of several episodes of the BBC's daytime soap opera, Doctors.
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Todd Carty directed his first feature film, The Perfect Burger, made with the Co-operative British Youth Film Academy, set in the Leicestershire town of Hinckley.