Career
Carmichael attended Gateacre Community Comprehensive School in Liverpool. She did her A-levels at Liverpool College, Mossley Hill, Liverpool.
She then did a drama film and television degree, at Bristol University with peers Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes, and had a five year relationship with the then-unknown drama student David Walliams.
After leaving University, Carmichael's first venture into professional entertainment was Judy's Punch, a puppet show "with a twist". Carmichael appeared in a television commercial for Bounce fabric softener in spring 1996 with Mark Moraghan. She has also appeared in a Diet Coke commercial alongside Tamsin Greig in 2001.
Since then her TV credits include playing DC Jo McMullen in Liverpool 1 and roles in And The Beat Goes On, the Galton and Simpson series with Paul Merton, Wing and a Prayer, Karaoke and Bread.
She has trodden the boards of the Bristol Old Vic and Royal Exchange Theatre and played opposite Stephen Berkoff in Storm and Drang and Brighton Beach Scumbag. She's been booed off a pub stage in the ground-breaking double act, The Liz Hurleys, with lifelong friend Jessica Hynes.
Carmichael's most famous role was Twist Morgan in the Channel 4 sitcom Spaced. She worked with Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes. The sitcom lasted for two series.
In 2001, she starred in her first film, Dead Babies, based on the novel written by Martin Amis and has been seen in One Foot in the Grave, the second series of Liverpool 1 and as the female lead in the period fantasy drama The Infinite Worlds of H. G. Wells.
She landed the role of florist Lucy Richards in Coronation Street in 2002 and was involved in the Peter Barlow Bigamist storyline.
2009 has seen a rise in Carmichael's acting status, with her starring in Series 4 of the hit school drama series, Waterloo Road, as headteacher Rachel Mason's (Eva Pope) sister, Melissa Ryan and a role in Mistresses as the mysterious Elaine Thompson.
Carmichael also has a lead role in Danny Stack's short supernatural thriller film, Origin, playing a mother desperate to keep her family together when her son falls ill after he's bitten by a mysterious creature. According to Stack's Twitter, the film is scheduled for a 20 July release.
She has also appeared as an interviewee in the documentary Walliams and Lucas: New Heroes of Comedy in February 2008.
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