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Name
Lachele Carl

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1960-04-29 (66 years old)

Place of Birth
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

Lachele J. Carl (born April 29, 1960, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American actress and voice actress based in England. She studied theatre arts at Point Park College (now Point Park University) from 1977 to 1982, training in classical theatre at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, and made her film debut as Sandra Carrington in the horror film Midnight (1982). She began travelling in search of acting work, working in Japan, Europe, and South Africa, before emigrating to England in 1985 to pursue Shakespearean theatre, where she joined the TNT theatre company. She lives in Crouch End, North London, with her husband, composer Alejandro Viñao, and their son Matteo. Her most notable television role is as news anchor Trinity Wells in Doctor Who (2005–2008, 6 episodes) and its spin-offs The Sarah Jane Adventures, Torchwood, and The War Between the Land and the Sea (2023–2025), making her the only actor to play a named character in three of the four BBC Wales series. She is also well known for voicing Muck in the US dub of Bob the Builder (1999, 215 episodes). Other television credits include Grange Hill (1991), The Honourable Woman (2015), Modus (2016), Deep State (2018), Into the Badlands (2018–2019), Flesh and Blood (2020, Masterpiece), Avenue 5 (2022), Wednesday (2022, as Agnes, Netflix), and The Veil (2024). In film, Carl appeared as a TV Technician in Batman (1989, directed by Tim Burton), a Reporter in A Kiss Before Dying (1991), a TV News Anchor in Alien Autopsy (2006), Gloria in Denial (2016), FBI Director in Show Dogs (2018), and Julia Rose in Tell No Lies (2024). On stage she performed in A Streetcar Named Desire (Young Vic, broadcast as National Theatre Live in 2014) and Gods and Monsters (Southwark Playhouse).

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

2006 Alien Autopsy as TV News Anchor
2006 Bob the Builder: Built to be Wild as Muck (voice)
2005 Bob the Builder: Bob's Big Plan as Muck (US) (voice)
2008 Bob the Builder: Race to the Finish as Muck (voice)
2001 Superstition as News Reporter
2013 Bob the Builder: Hammer Time as Muck
2007 Bob the Builder: Scrambler to the Rescue as Muck
2004 Bob the Builder: Snowed Under - The Bobblesberg Winter Games as Muck
2001 Bob the Builder: Bob's White Christmas as Muck
2009 HiT Favorites: Frosty Friends as Muck (voice)
2007 HiT Favorites: Winter Wonderland as Muck (voice)
2013 Bob The Builder Animal Adventures as Muck
1991 Firestar: First Contact as Lucinda Jericho
1989 Batman as TV Technician
2003 Bob the Builder: Bob's Friends and Family as Muck / The Librarian / Molly (voice)
2003 Bob the Builder: Christmas With Bob and the Crew as Muck (voice)
2024 Tell No Lies as Julia Rose
1991 A Kiss Before Dying as Reporter
2001 Wit as Fellow 4
1988 Maigret as Sgt. Leila Normand
2016 Denial as Gloria
1998 Guru in Seven as Anthea
2010 Bob the Builder: The Best of Bob the Builder as Muck (Voice)
2014 National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire as Mexican Woman
2001 Strange Relations as Sharna
2007 Thomas & Friends: Thomas & Friends on the Big Screen as Muck (voice)
2010 HiT Favorites: Animal Tails as Muck (voice)
2010 HiT Favorites: Colors Are Fun! as Muck (voice)

2005 Doctor Who ( 0 episode )
2005 Doctor Who ( 6 episodes ) as Trinity Wells
2024 Doctor Who ( 1 episode ) as Trinity Wells
2015 Modus ( 5 episodes ) as Lori Reed
2020 Avenue 5 ( 1 episode ) as Margaret
2022 Wednesday ( 1 episode ) as Agnes
2024 The Veil ( 1 episode ) as Chief of Staff
2006 Torchwood ( 2 episodes ) as Trinity Wells
2001 Murder in Mind ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Ringfield
2007 The Sarah Jane Adventures ( 1 episode ) as American Newsreader
2007 The Sarah Jane Adventures ( 1 episode ) as Trinity Wells
2023 The Gold ( 1 episode ) as Judge Cook
1987 Star Cops ( 1 episode ) as Susan Caxton
2025 The War Between the Land and the Sea ( 3 episodes ) as Trinity Wells
2007 M.I. High ( 1 episode ) as Professor Green
1999 Bob the Builder ( 216 episodes ) as Muck (voice)

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