Lachele Carl
Acting
Born April 29, 1960, 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).
Filmography
- The War Between the Land and the Sea — Trinity Wells
- Doctor Who — Trinity Wells
- 2024Tell No Lies — Julia Rose
- The Veil — Chief of Staff
- The Gold — Judge Cook
- Wednesday — Agnes
- Avenue 5 — Margaret
- 2016Denial — Gloria
- Modus — Lori Reed
- 2014National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire — Mexican Woman
- 2013Bob The Builder Animal Adventures — Muck
- 2013Bob the Builder: Hammer Time — Muck
- 2010Bob the Builder: The Best of Bob the Builder — Muck (Voice)
- 2010HiT Favorites: Animal Tails — Muck (voice)
- 2010HiT Favorites: Colors Are Fun! — Muck (voice)
- 2009HiT Favorites: Frosty Friends — Muck (voice)
- 2008Bob the Builder: Race to the Finish — Muck (voice)
- 2007Bob the Builder: Scrambler to the Rescue — Muck
- 2007HiT Favorites: Winter Wonderland — Muck (voice)
- M.I. High — Professor Green
- The Sarah Jane Adventures — American Newsreader, Trinity Wells
- 2007Thomas & Friends: Thomas & Friends on the Big Screen — Muck (voice)
- 2006Alien Autopsy — TV News Anchor
- 2006Bob the Builder: Built to be Wild — Muck (voice)
- Torchwood — Trinity Wells
- 2005Bob the Builder: Bob's Big Plan — Muck (US) (voice)
- Doctor Who — Trinity Wells
- 2004Bob the Builder: Snowed Under - The Bobblesberg Winter Games — Muck
- 2003Bob the Builder: Bob's Friends and Family — Muck / The Librarian / Molly (voice)
- 2003Bob the Builder: Christmas With Bob and the Crew — Muck (voice)
- 2001Bob the Builder: Bob's White Christmas — Muck
- Murder in Mind — Dr. Ringfield
- 2001Strange Relations — Sharna
- 2001Superstition — News Reporter
- 2001Wit — Fellow 4
- Bob the Builder — Muck (voice)
- 1998Guru in Seven — Anthea
- 1991A Kiss Before Dying — Reporter
- 1991Firestar: First Contact — Lucinda Jericho
- 1989Batman — TV Technician
- 1988Maigret — Sgt. Leila Normand
- Star Cops — Susan Caxton