Elizabeth Anne Carr (born 21 April 1972) is an English actress, comedian, broadcaster and international disability rights activist.
Podcast[6] with Mat Fraser from 2006 to 2013, and in 2011 worked as a researcher for the BBC comedy panel show Have I Got News for You.
[7] In 2013, she joined the long-running BBC crime thriller series Silent Witness as regular character Clarissa Mullery.
[12] In December of the same year, it was announced that she had joined the cast of Good Omens for the second series, as the angel Saraqael.
[16] She is frank about her life as a disabled person and the inherent comedy it brings: "I've had some tuts, which is fantastic...
'"[17] Carr became involved in politics, disabled rights, and activism while studying at the University of Nottingham.
In May 2008 she joined with ADAPT, a prominent disability rights group in the United States, to raise money for it and to protest against presidential candidate John McCain's position on a bill permitting Americans qualifying for Medicaid coverage of nursing home costs to instead spend it on home-based, or community care, making it easier for disabled people to remain in their own homes.
[19] In 2011, Carr was part of a Newsnight debate on assisted suicide, following the screening on the BBC of Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die, which included Jeremy Paxman and David Aaronovitch.