Chris Barrie

Chris Barrie

actor, additional crew, writer

Chris Barrie was born on Mar 28, 1960 in Germany. Chris Barrie's big-screen debut came with Spitting Image - Season 1 directed by Steve Bendelack in 1984, strarring Neil Kinnock / Ronald Reagan / Michael Heseltine / .... Chris Barrie is known for Can't Smeg Won't Smeg directed by Ed Bye, Ainsley Harriott stars as Self and Chris Barrie as Rimmer. The upcoming new movie Chris Barrie plays is Saving Santa which will be released on Nov 05, 2013.

Chris Barrie was born Christopher Jonathan Brown on March 28, 1960, in a British military hospital in Hanover, Germany. He was brought up in Northern Ireland and was a boarder at Methodist College Belfast. He was Head Boy in his final year and played the lead in a "Dial M for Murder" production. He started a business course at Brighton Polytechnic but dropped out. After working at various jobs and developing his impressionist skills, he decided to shift careers to television and film.He originally met Rob Grant and Doug Naylor on Jasper Carrott's Carrott's Lib (1982), and eventually went on to perform on the radio, for a show called "Son of Cliche", which both Rob Grant and Doug Naylor were working on. Around this time, he was working on the television show, Spitting Image (1984).This association with Rob Grant and Doug Naylor later caused the two of them to have him audition for Red Dwarf (1988). A few years after the beginning of Red Dwarf (1988), he brought life to another character in the sitcom The Brittas Empire (1991).He lives in Berkshire, England, with his wife Alecks.

  • Birthday

    Mar 28, 1960

  • Place of Birth

    Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany

  • Also known

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Known For

Can't Smeg Won't Smeg
Movie
Can't Smeg Won't Smeg

19987.8

The Legends of Treasure Island
TV
The Legends of Treasure Island

19937.9

The Brittas Empire
TV
The Brittas Empire

19917.1

Red Dwarf
TV
Red Dwarf

19888.4

Blackadder the Third
TV
Blackadder the Third

19878.6

Spitting Image: The Ronnie and Nancy Show
Movie
Spitting Image: The Ronnie and Nancy Show

19878.1

Filthy Rich & Catflap
TV
Filthy Rich & Catflap

19877.1

Spitting Image
TV
Spitting Image

19847.4

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