Lachele Carl

1960-04-29 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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).