Biography

Carl Barât was born on June 6, 1978 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for The Mummy (2017), Kill Your Darlings (2013) and Run Fatboy Run (2007).

Brother of the actress Lucie Barât.

He is an English musician. He was the co-front-man of The Libertines (together with Pete Doherty), which dissolved at the beginning of 2005 shortly after Doherty was asked to leave the band in 2004. In autumn of 2005 he formed Dirty Pretty Things together with Gary Powell (former drummer for the Libertines), Anthony Rossomando (Doherty's replacement in the Libertines), and Didz Hammond (former bassist for the Reading-based Cooper Temple Clause).

[2010] I am part French, Russian and Polish, so I see a little mystery and a large percentage of averageness. If I look to the side, I see an enormous nose. Its shape comes from my dad, but not its proportion. My nose is broken, and I have a wonky eye from where I smashed my face in five years ago: I got very drunk at a difficult time in my life with The Libertines and I took it out on myself with a big marble sink. Two years ago, I went to Moscow at the end of a six-year binge and drank loads of vodka while taking decongestant pills. I got pancreatitis. At the time I wasn't bothered - I was just happy to go to hospital, get high for free and watch TV. On reflection, though, it was a bit of a dalliance with mortality. I still like a little drink, especially when I am on tour, and I smoke too many cigarettes, but I am getting better at looking after myself, with the help of a special lady called Edie. And now that Edie and I are having a baby in December, there's a whole new experience I want to be in slightly better shape for. I've got a tattoo on my arm. It says Libertine in my own scrawl. Pete [Doherty] has got one on his wrist that I wrote, too. My tattoo's been replicated a lot. I was outside a venue in LA and three girls said, "Can you write Libertine on our arms, so we can get them tattooed?" After the gig, they were outside with their dad - who was really angry.