Uwe Karpa (born 18 September 1945 in Berlin) is a German actor, cabaret artist and voice actor.
He has been performing roles in theatre, films and television since 1965.
Karpa received his acting training in Karl-Marx-Stadt.
He performed in theatres in, among others, Frankfurt an der Oder, Berlin, Dresden and Bad Segeberg.
On television he was particularly well-known between 1996 and 2005 in the role of Staff Nurse Brenneke (Oberpfleger Brenneke) in the series Alphateam – Die Lebensretter im OP.
He had his cinematic debut in 1965 in Berlin um die Ecke.
In 2007 in Der Baader-Meinhof-Komplex he played the role of the police chief.