Jim Carter

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Biography

A highly respected theatrical actor with a lengthy, illustrious career, Carter married actress Imelda Staunton in 1983 and notched memorable small turns in a slew of high-profile films, including "Top Secret!" (1984), "Haunted Honeymoon" (1986), "The Madness of King George" (1994) and "Shakespeare in Love" (1998). Playing the male actor cast as the Nurse based on the real nurse (Staunton) of Viola (Gwyneth Paltrow), Carter and his wife …
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Job Title

Actor

Born

August 19, 1948

Career Milestones

2011

Played supporting role in "My Week with Marilyn," Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, and Kenneth Branagh

2010

Cast as Mr. Charles Carson, the butler for "Downton Abbey" (ITV, PBS)

2010

Voiced the character of the Executioner in Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland"

2007

Joined cast of BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's classic novel "Cranford" alongside wife Staunton

2007

Landed minor role in the Woody Allen drama "Cassandra's Dream"

2004

Acted in the story book comedy "Ella Enchanted"

2000

Cast as a detective in the Disney live-action sequel "102 Dalmatians"

1998

Played Ralph Bashford, a frequently drunk actor cast by The Bard as the Nurse in "Romeo and Juliet" in the award-winning "Shakespeare in Love"

1990

Appeared in fantasy film "The Witches," starring Anjelica Huston

1986

Cast as the musically gifted, sweet-natured father of Philip Marlow (Michael Gambon) in the highly acclaimed BBC miniseries "The Singing Detective"

1986

Appeared in the Gilda Radner-Gene Wilder comedy "Haunted Honeymoon"

1982

Acted in a production of "Guys and Dolls" at the National Theatre; met and fell in love with his co-star Imelda Staunton

Joined fringe theater group the Brighton Combination, which later became the London-based Albany in Deptford

Awards

2012

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in Downton Abbey

1999

Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture in Shakespeare in Love