Jim Carter was born on 19 August 1948 in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Downton Abbey (2019). He has been married to Imelda Staunton since October 1983. They have one child.

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Jim Carter, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Kevin Doyle, Joanne Froggatt, Phyllis Logan, Lesley Nicol, and Sophie McShera in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025)

Jim Carter, Rich Fulcher, Rakhee Thakrar, and Natasha Rothwell in Wonka (2023)

Rupert Everett, Jim Carter, Julian Rhind-Tutt, and Barry Stanton in The Madness of King George (1994)

Jim Carter, Barry Stanton, and John Wood in The Madness of King George (1994)

Jim Carter, Geoffrey Palmer, and Barry Stanton in The Madness of King George (1994)

Jim Carter, Phyllis Logan, Lesley Nicol, and Sophie McShera in Downton Abbey (2019)

Jim Carter, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Kevin Doyle, Joanne Froggatt, Phyllis Logan, Lesley Nicol, Robert James-Collier, Sophie McShera, and Michael Fox in Downton Abbey (2019)

Jim Carter, Phyllis Logan, and Michelle Dockery in Downton Abbey (2019)

Anthony Hopkins, Mark Wahlberg, Erik Aadahl, Jim Carter, Peter Cullen, Laura Haddock, and Isabela Merced in Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes in Shakespeare in Love (1998)

Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith, Imelda Staunton, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Carter, Raquel Cassidy, Brendan Coyle, Kevin Doyle, Joanne Froggatt, Matthew Goode, Phyllis Logan, Lesley Nicol, Penelope Wilton, Allen Leech, Robert James-Collier, Michelle Dockery, Harry Hadden-Paton, Sophie McShera, Tuppence Middleton, Laura Carmichael, and Michael Fox in Downton Abbey (2019)

Jean-Claude Van Damme in Legionnaire (1998)

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