Karl Theobald

Karl Theobald is an English actor, comedian and musician. Born in Lowestoft, he trained at the Drama Centre London, graduating in 1998 before working with Theatre de Complicite. In the 1990s he and Russell Brand performed as the double act Theobald and Brand on Ice. His television credits include Martin Dear in the Channel 4 sitcom Green Wing and the Landlord in Plebs, and he has written comedy for The Sketch Show and Smack the Pony. He had a role in the radio sitcom The Exterminating Angels and joined the ITV science fiction series Primeval in 2008 as Oliver Leek. In film he was Brand's assistant in Get Him to the Greek (2010) and starred in Downhill (2014), a British independent feature directed by James Rouse about four men tackling Alfred Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk. His band Grifter Kid and the Midnight Raiders has released five albums on its own label.