Peter Carroll

Early life and education Peter Carroll was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1944 and grew up in Greenwich on Sydney’s lower north shore. He was educated by the Marist Brothers during the 1950s. In his youth, Carroll was a boy soprano and won five awards in the City of Sydney Eisteddfodd in 1963.

Carroll attended the University of Sydney, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts, and the University of New South Wales, where he earned a Master of Arts with Honours. While undertaking his education at the University of Sydney, he commenced amateur acting, His first professional stage role was in a 1961 production of Roundup on the Moon at the Pocket Playhouse in Sydney. He gained early stage experience with regular performances at the Genesian Theatre, one of Sydney's longest established theatre companies. He then became an integral part of the formative days at Sydney's Nimrod Theatre Company. winning a Mo Award for his performance in a 2001 Sydney Theatre Company production of the show. His other notable credits include the miniseries Melba (1988) starring Hugo Weaving, in which he played David Mitchell,

In 2003, Carroll received an honorary Doctorate of Creative Awards from the University of Wollongong.

Awards Year Association Category Work Result 1977 Queen's Jubilee Medal for the Arts 1978 Australian Film Institute Awards Best Supporting Actor The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith 1986 Green Room Awards Best Male Performer Master Class Green Room Awards Best Actor The Season at Sarsaparilla 1988 Variety Club of Australia Awards Musical Theatre Actor of the Year Sweeney Todd Penguin Award Best Performance by a Male in a Drama Series Rafferty's Rules Sydney Theatre Critics' Circle Award Significant Contribution to Sydney Theatre Lifetime Achievement Award Mo Awards Best Actor in a Musical Sweeney Todd 1989 Green Room Awards Best Supporting Actor in a Musical Les Misérables 1992 Mo Awards Best Supporting Musical Theatre Performer Man of La Mancha 1992 Mo Awards Best Supporting Male Musical Theatrical Performer Jesus Christ Superstar 1995 Green Room Awards Best Actor Hamlet 2001 Mo Awards Best Actor The Christian Brothers Glugs Theatrical Awards Male Performer Brothers Glugs Theatrical Awards Best Performer in a Musical Lush Mo Awards Best Actor The Christian Brothers 2002 Helpmann Awards Best Male Actor in a Play The Christian Brothers 2003 Helpmann Awards Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play Endgame 2004 Helpmann Awards Best Male Actor in a Musical The Republic of Myopia 2007 Helpmann Awards Best Male Actor in a Play The Season at Sarsaparilla 2008 Green Room Awards Best Male Performer The Season at Sarsaparilla 2009 Play Inaugural Awards Lifetime Achievement from MEAA 2015 Helpmann Awards Best Male Actor in a Play Oedipus Rex 2018 Helpmann Awards Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui 2022 Sydney Theatre Awards Best Performer in a Supporting Role in a Mainstage Production The Tempest

As crew Year Title Role Type 1986 Crocodile Dundee Dialogue Coach Feature film 1995 All Men Are Liars Voice Coach Feature film

Television Year Title Role Type 1974 Hamlet Marcellus / Fortinbras / Player King TV movie Spoiled TV movie 1978 Cass Tom TV movie Cop Shop Martin Sadler 2 episodes1979 The John Sullivan Story Commissar Petrovic TV movie Ride on Stranger Mervyn Leggatt Miniseries, 3 episodes 1982 Aliens Time Lapse Politician Limbo City Dean The Sullivans Issues Father Learned Friends 1982; 1992 A Country Practice Mr. Brown / Stewart Innes 3 episodes 1983 Mississippi Challenge Narrator TV movie The Dismissal Narrator / Liberal Party Official Miniseries, 1 episode A Descant for Gossips Robert Moller Miniseries Who Killed Baby Azaria? Mr. Phillips QC Docufilm The Franklin Adventure Narrator Documentary 1983–1985 Five Mile Creek Charles Withers 32 episodes1984 Eureka Stockade Narrator MiniseriesEast Meets West Narrator Documentary 1986 Whose Baby Narrator Miniseries, 2 episodes Cyclone Tracy Narrator Miniseries, 3 episodes Australia's Faceless Father TV movie1987 Melba David Mitchell Miniseries, 8 episodes Captain James Cook Dr. Daniel Solander Miniseries, 2 episodes 1988 Custody Narrator TV movie Rafferty's Rules Percy Eliot 1 episode The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy Louis-Pierre Dillais Miniseries Prejudice Narrator TV movie1989 Police State Narrator TV movie Cassidy Gotham Miniseries, 2 episodes 1994 Three Men and a Baby Grand Performer Sammy Swain 1996 Water Rats Joseph Craig 1 episode 1997 Doom Runners William TV movie 2000 Farscape Gahv 1 episode Tales of the South Seas Spenser 1 episode 2000–2003 Grass Roots Warwick Marchant / Rev. Peter Summerhaze Seasons 1–2, 10 episodes 2001 The Farm Fenwick QC Miniseries, 3 episodes Corridors of Power Voice in Toilet 1 episode The Diamond of Jeru Clifton Vandover TV movie Changi Dr. Hurrell Miniseries, 2 episodes A Compassionate Rage Narrator Documentary 2012 Rake Judge Walpole 1 episode2019 Bloom Old Frank Warlie 1 episode The Letdown Dr Julian 1 episode2021 Aftertaste Jim 6 episodes The Moth Effect Frank Bump Bruce 1 episode 2022 Colin from Accounts George 1 episode 2024 Heartbreak High Roger 2 episodes 2025 Optics Frank Fritz 1 episode

Narration (undated) Stations of the Cross Pandas: The Fight for Survival D.H. Lawrence Pirates of the South Seas Wollongong Colliery Dispute Children in Distress