Katy Carmichael

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name = Katy Carmichael


birthdate =
location = England
yearsactive = 1993 - present

Katy Carmichael is a professional entertainer who has been on stage many times in Liverpool. She has been in several TV shows: Spaced, Coronation Street, Clocking Off, and Cutting It. She attended Gateacre Community Comprehensive School in Liverpool. She did her A-levels at Liverpool College, Mossley Hill, Liverpool.

Katy went on to Bristol University with peers Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, and had a five year relationship with the then-unknown drama student David Walliams. After leaving University, Katy's first venture into professional entertainment was Judy's Punch, a puppet show "with a twist". Since then her TV credits include playing regular scally copper in "Liverpool 1" and roles in "And The Beat Goes On", the Galton and Simpson series with Paul Merton, "Wing and a Prayer", "Karaoke" and "Bread". Katy has trodden the boards of the Bristol Old Vic and Royal Exchange theatre and played opposite Stephen Berkoff in "Storm and Drang" and "Brighton Beach Scumbag". She's been booed off a pub stage in the ground-breaking double act, The Liz Hurleys, with life-long friend Jessica Stevenson.

Katy's most famous role was Twist Morgan in the Channel 4 sitcom "Spaced". She worked with close friends Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson. The sitcom lasted for two years.

In 2001, Katy starred in her first film, "Dead Babies", based on the novel written by Martin Amis and has recently been seen in "One Foot in the Grave", the second series of "Liverpool 1" and the period drama "The Infinite World of HG Wells".

She landed the role of florist Lucy Richards in "Coronation Street" in 2003 and was involved in the famous Peter Barlow: Bigamist storyline.

She also appeared in a television commercial for 'Bounce' fabric softener in Spring 1996 with fellow Scouse thespian Mark Moraghan. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO56mzkEk5M&mode=related&search=]

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