Lachele Carl
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 29, 1960 (age 66)
- Birthplace
- 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
Filmography
The War Between the Land and the Sea
TV · as Trinity Wells · 3 eps
Tell No Lies
Movie · as Julia Rose
Doctor Who
TV · as Trinity Wells · 1 ep
The Veil
TV · as Chief of Staff · 1 ep
The Gold
TV · as Judge Cook · 1 ep
Wednesday
TV · as Agnes · 1 ep
Avenue 5
TV · as Margaret · 1 ep
Denial
Movie · as Gloria
Modus
TV · as Lori Reed · 5 eps
National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire
Movie · as Mexican Woman
Bob the Builder: Hammer Time
Movie · as Muck
Bob The Builder Animal Adventures
Movie · as Muck
Bob the Builder: The Best of Bob the Builder
Movie · as Muck (Voice)
HiT Favorites: Animal Tails
Movie · as Muck (voice)
HiT Favorites: Colors Are Fun!
Movie · as Muck (voice)
HiT Favorites: Frosty Friends
Movie · as Muck (voice)
Bob the Builder: Race to the Finish
Movie · as Muck (voice)
Bob the Builder: Scrambler to the Rescue
Movie · as Muck
HiT Favorites: Winter Wonderland
Movie · as Muck (voice)
Thomas & Friends: Thomas & Friends on the Big Screen
Movie · as Muck (voice)
Thomas & Friends: Carnival Capers
Movie · as Muck (voice)
The Sarah Jane Adventures
TV · as American Newsreader, Trinity Wells · 1 ep
M.I. High
TV · as Professor Green · 1 ep
Alien Autopsy
Movie · as TV News Anchor
Bob the Builder: Built to be Wild
Movie · as Muck (voice)
Torchwood
TV · as Trinity Wells · 2 eps
Bob the Builder: Bob's Big Plan
Movie · as Muck (US) (voice)
Doctor Who
TV · as Trinity Wells
Bob the Builder: Snowed Under - The Bobblesberg Winter Games
Movie · as Muck
Bob the Builder: Bob's Friends and Family
Movie · as Muck / The Librarian / Molly (voice)
Bob the Builder: Christmas With Bob and the Crew
Movie · as Muck (voice)
Superstition
Movie · as News Reporter
Bob the Builder: Bob's White Christmas
Movie · as Muck
Wit
Movie · as Fellow 4
Strange Relations
Movie · as Sharna
Murder in Mind
TV · as Dr. Ringfield · 1 ep
Bob the Builder
TV · as Muck (voice) · 216 eps
Guru in Seven
Movie · as Anthea
Firestar: First Contact
Movie · as Lucinda Jericho
A Kiss Before Dying
Movie · as Reporter
Batman
Movie · as TV Technician
Maigret
Movie · as Sgt. Leila Normand
Star Cops
TV · as Susan Caxton · 1 ep