Karl Theobald

Karl Julian Theobald is an English actor, comedian and musician. His band Grifter Kid and the Midnight Raiders have 5 albums released on their own label. Karl has played 'Landlord' in Plebs and Martin Dear in Channel 4 sitcom Green Wing. He has three children and is married to artist and musician Rowan Lambourne -Gibbs.

Early life

Theobald was born in Lowestoft, to Wendy Theobald. He grew up in Lowestoft, for seventeen years, where he studied at The Denes High School and went to dance school at an early age. He graduated from the Drama Centre London in 1998, to work with Theatre de Complicite.

Career

Theobald is the one-time comedy partner of Russell Brand; they formed a double act during the 1990s called Theobald and Brand on Ice. This has been mentioned by Brand on his BBC Radio show and in his autobiography, My Booky Wook. As well as appearing in Green Wing, Theobald has written comedy for the television programmes The Sketch Show and Smack the Pony. He also appeared in the radio sitcom The Exterminating Angels.
In 2008, Theobald joined the cast of ITV science fiction series Primeval as Oliver Leek. He appeared in the 2010 film Get Him to the Greek, alongside Brand, playing his assistant. In 2014, he starred in the independent British feature film Downhill, with Ned Dennehy, Jeremy Swift and Richard Lumsden, which is a comedy about four men attempting Alfred Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk. The film is directed by James Rouse and the screenplay was written by Torben Betts.

Radio

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	The Exterminating Angels	Steve Angel	Main role
2007	Edge Falls	Phil	Episode: #1.4
2008	Potting On	Dave	Main role
2012	Vital Statistics	Agent Y	Main role
2017	Ed Reardon's Week	Jack	Episode: #12.4
2019	We've Got a Pill for That	N/A