Brendan Carr was born on the UK coastline, specifically in Great Yarmouth, England, with his hometown being Lowestoft. He began his training at the Stagecoach School of Performing Arts while attending regular school at The Grange in his hometown of Aylesbury.
Carr started his film career by playing Eddie in a film short called Pure Vengeance alongside Scott Adkins. He later appeared in BBC2's Masters of Combat as Master Kali's disciple. His first feature film role was as Max Ryan in Jesus The Curry King alongside Pooja Shah, produced by Aylesbury film company, and was one of the first films to be screened digitally across cinemas in the UK via Quantum digital.
In 2004, Carr had one of his first big movie breaks in a film called The Purifiers, where he played Moz alongside actors like Kevin McKidd and Dominic Monaghan from Lord of the Rings and TV Series Lost. Following The Purifiers, Carr went on to play Taz (Clifford) in his first ever lead role in a full-length feature film titled Love Struck, alongside actors like Joey Ansah from the Bourne Ultimatum. The film went on to win several awards, including Best Film in the London Portobello Film Festival, which was one of Carr's proudest moments.
Other credits around this time included Band of Brothers, The Avatar, Left For Dead, Starhyke, and appearing in the Royal Variety Performance, fulfilling one of his lifelong dreams. In 2006-2007, Carr played firm member and boxer Jason in what was likened to be the British Good Fellas, Rise of the Foot Soldier, alongside Craig Fairbrass, Terry Stone, Billy Murray, Ian Virgo, and Rikki Harnett.
Straight from shooting Rise of the Foot Soldier, Carr began filming as Lead Actor Ryan on Ten Dead Men, the film starring a whole host of British talent, including Jason Maza, Silvio Simac, Lee Latchford Evans, and Poojah Shah. Although Carr played the lead actor, he actually only ever says one line in the movie as his thoughts are all narrated by horror movie legend Pinhead himself, Doug Bradley (Hellraiser). The movie was released worldwide on DVD in 2008.
In 2010, Carr played the lead villain and self-proclaimed Lord Tethryn in Movie Warrioress, the movie not released until 2013. He has also played Russian Prisoner Boris in Dragon Soccer, and is rumored to have been cast for two feature films which start shooting in 2013-2014, as well as a new Sci-Fi TV Series called Safelight-19, which starts shooting in 2013. Carr has already starred in the pilot episode for Safelight-19 as Martin Black.
Rumors have also spread that he may be playing the lead actor in a series spin-off from a very well-known Xbox computer game, although exact details are unknown.
