Jimmy Carr

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Carr in 2012, photo by Prphotos.com

Birth Name: James Anthony Patrick Carr

Place of Birth: Hounslow, Middlesex, England, U.K.

Date of Birth: 15 September, 1972

Ethnicity: Irish

Jimmy Carr is a British stand-up comedian, presenter, writer, and actor.

Jimmy is the son of Nora Mary and James Patrick Carr, who was an accountant and treasurer. His parents were Irish emigrants, from Limerick. Some sites have said that Jimmy’s mother has Romanichal ancestry. It is not clear if this is accurate. He was mostly raised in Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire. Jimmy has U.K. and Irish citizenship.

He has a son with his partner, Canadian commissioning editor Karoline Copping.

Jimmy’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Lawlor.

3 Responses

  1. madman says:

    His father is of Irish descent, and his mother has Swiss-German and Afrikaner ancestry.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9zEsVkLC30

    “I look like this because my dad is Irish and my mom is Roger Federer.”

    His mother also has a page on this site: http://ethnicelebs.com/roger-federer

  2. madman says:

    Please remove “possibly Romani”.

  3. visokozen says:

    Roger Federer

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