Trivia

A devout Cricket lover, Jim Carter has been Chairman of Hampstead Cricket Club since 2010.

A 1984 diary entry by Alan Bennett (scriptwriter of A Private Function (1984)) mentions Carter amusing himself on the set between takes by doing conjuring tricks. In the finished film he performs a magic trick as Inspector Noble, and in Shakespeare in Love (1998) can be seen juggling.

Became a father for the first time at age 45 when his wife Imelda Staunton gave birth to their daughter Bessie Beatrice Carter - aka Bessie Carter - on October 25, 1993.

He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2019 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Drama. He is an actor in London, England.

Met wife-to-be Imelda Staunton when they both appeared in the revival of the Broadway musical "Guys and Dolls" at the National Theatre, London, in 1982.

Was a member of the "Madhouse Company of London", a comedy troupe which performed in Boston in the 1970s. Other members were Marcel Steiner, Marc Weil and Tommy Shands. Ken Campbell, who appears in A Fish Called Wanda (1988) as George Thomason's lawyer was also associated with the troupe.