carter studied at london academy of music and dramatic art. his west end theatre credits include "someone like you" with petula clark, "a man for all seasons" with martin shaw, "cat on a hot tin roof" with brendan fraser and ned beatty, "we rock you", "i love you, you're perfect, now change", "les misérables", "the phantom of the opera", "a midsummer night's dream", "the taming of the shrew", "always" at the victoria palace with shani wallis and "side by side by sondheim". he was nominated for a laurence olivier award for his performance as the prince/wolf in "into the woods".