Katy Carmichael

Katy Carmichael (born 1971) is an English actress and a professional entertainer. She has been on stage many times in Liverpool, but is most notably recognised for her role of Lucy Barlow/Richards in the ITV soap Coronation Street, Twist Morgan in the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced and Melissa Ryan in Waterloo Road.

Personal life and career

Carmichael attended Gateacre Community Comprehensive School in Liverpool. She did her A-levels at Liverpool College, Mossley Hill, Liverpool.

She then did a drama film and television degree, at Bristol University with peers Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes, and had a five year relationship with the then-unknown drama student, David Walliams.

After leaving University, Carmichael's first venture into professional entertainment was Judy's Punch, a puppet show "with a twist". Katy appeared in a television commercial for 'Bounce' fabric softener in Spring 1996 with fellow Scouse thespian Mark Moraghan. She has also appeared in a Diet Coke commercial alongside Tamsin Greig in 2001.

Since then her TV credits include playing DC Jo McMullen 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.

She 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...
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