Carl Ashley Raphael Barât (born 6 June 1978) is an English musician and most recently, actor. He was the frontman and lead guitarist of Dirty Pretty Things and the co-frontman with Peter Doherty of the indie rock band The Libertines.
Carl Barât was born in Basingstoke, England on 6 June 1978, spending most of his childhood just outside of the Hampshire town of Whitchurch in the hamlet called Wells In The Field. In a September 2004 interview with ...
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Carl Ashley Raphael Barât (born 6 June 1978) is an English musician and most recently, actor. He was the frontman and lead guitarist of Dirty Pretty Things and the co-frontman with Peter Doherty of the indie rock band The Libertines.
Carl Barât was born in Basingstoke, England on 6 June 1978, spending most of his childhood just outside of the Hampshire town of Whitchurch in the hamlet called Wells In The Field. In a September 2004 interview with Blender Magazine, Barât mentioned having a French, Russian and Polish ethnic background.
As a youth, Barât divided his time between his divorced parents. His father, a former artist, worked in an armaments factory, and his mother, Chrissie, was part of the commune-dwelling counterculture and a member of peace groups such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Barât spent part of his childhood living with his mother on a commune in Somerset. He has one sister, actress-turned-singer Lucie Barât, who played Helen's handmaiden in the 2004 film...
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