Archie Carpenter is a fictional character from the British soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Stephen Beard.

In March 2010, executive producer Paul Marquess wrote the character out of Hollyoaks as part of his rejuvenation of the series, which included multiple cast changes.

Broadcast in the United Kingdom, the series focused on teenagers living in the wealthy British village of Alderley Edge.

[1] In one story created for the character, Archie and his friends Kris Fisher (Gerard McCarthy), Zak Ramsey (Kent Riley) and Elliot Bevan (Garnon Davies) find £100,000 in cash in an attic of their new flat they share.

[6] In early 2010 it was announced that Allan had stepped down from the position of executive producer, with Paul Marquess taking over the role.

[7] It was soon revealed that he planned revamp Hollyoaks, changing the productions team,[8] then began a cast cull starting with the axing of three established characters.

[9] Stephanie Waring (who plays Cindy Hutchinson) then revealed that all remaining cast members feared their characters would be next to depart from the series.

[10] One month later the cast cull continued as Marquess announced his plans to axe a further 11 characters, including Archie at the end of Beard's contract.

[11] He finished filming in early 2010[11] In December 2008, Leila accused Archie of stealing chocolates from her advent calendar however it was later revealed she had been sleepwalking and stole them herself.

Archie, along with Kris Fisher (Gerard McCarthy), Elliot Bevan (Garnon Davies) and Zak Ramsey (Kent Riley), move into Warren Fox's (Jamie Lomas) old flat after his death.

However, Kris runs to Nancy Hayton's (Jessica Fox) house with the money and plans to go to the police.

During Freshers week, Archie has a one-night stand with India Longford (Beth Kingston) and humiliates her by ignoring her publicly.

The unknown caller informs him that Zoe is charged with the murder of her best friend and Archie's ex-girlfriend, Sarah, who has just died in a skydiving accident when her parachute failed to deploy which resulted in her death.

Archie develops a drug habit and drops an ecstasy tablet in Nancy's flat which is then nearly taken by her young nephew Charlie Dean (Joshua McConville).

They quipped "normally, Archie couldn't find his way out of a paper bag so it's funny how the death of Sarah Barnes and his sister Zoe's subsequent incarceration have transformed him into Sherlock Holmes.