Corinne Skinner-Carter (née Skinner; born 1931) is a Trinidadian actress based in the United Kingdom.
Soon after arriving there, she married her childhood sweetheart, the educationist Trevor Carter (1930–2008) at Christ Church, Hampstead, on New Year's Eve, 1955.
[4] Her first acting role was a small part in the all-black cast of the play The Green Pastures, shown in the BBC Sunday Night Theatre in September 1958.
Other minor parts followed in TV shows such as Dixon of Dock Green, Play for Today, Coronation Street (1975) and Man About the House, until the late 1970s, when she was cast as Hortense Bennett in the television drama series Empire Road (BBC, 1978–79), her breakthrough role.
In the 1990s, Skinner-Carter appeared in mainstream shows such as Rides (BBC, 1991–93), Touch of Frost, Lovejoy and Grange Hill.