Barry Ward
Acting
Biography
Barry Ward is an Irish actor. He began his career as a child actor in the RTÉ/BBC series Family (1994) and Plotlands (1997), and the film Sunburn (1999). His films since include Jimmy's Hall, Blood Cells (both 2014), Extra Ordinary (2019), and Dating Amber (2020), the latter of which won him an IFTA. On television, he is more recently known for his roles in the RTÉ series Rebellion (2016) and Taken Down (2018), the Sky Atlantic series Britannia (2017–2019) and Save Me (2018–2020), and the BBC series The Capture (2019).
Place of Birth: Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland
Known For
Family
This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusive. Paula drinks, objects to Charlie's thievery and adultery without the will to chuck him out. John Paul worships his father who's initiating him into the world of beer and football but recoils at Charlo's treatment of mum; asthma and misbehavior at school follow. Daughter Nicola is a young woman, starting work in a garment factory. When Charlo begins to stare at her, she's frightened and Paula's furious.
The End of the F***ing World
James is 17 and is pretty sure he is a psychopath. Alyssa, also 17, is the cool and moody new girl at school. The pair make a connection and she persuades him to embark on a darkly comedic road trip in search of her real father.
Family
The Spencer family live in a working class estate in Dublin.
The Capture
When soldier Shaun Emery's conviction for a murder in Afghanistan is overturned due to flawed video evidence, he returns to life as a free man with his young daughter. But when damning CCTV footage from a night out in London comes to light, Shaun's life takes a shocking turn and he must soon fight for his freedom once again.
Protection
Follows a witness protection officer who finds herself at the center of a breach; compromised by an extramarital romance with a coworker; but resolute in her resolve to fight back and unearth the real cause of corruption within her unit.
Pistol
The story of a band of spotty, noisy, working-class kids with “no future,” who shook the boring, corrupt Establishment to its core, threatened to bring down the government and changed music and culture forever.
Bad Sisters
The tight-knit Garvey sisters have always looked out for one another. But when the toxic brother-in-law they all wanted dead actually dies, it turns their lives upside down and tests their bond like nothing before.
Insulin
Holed up in a run down pharmacy, a man helps his diabetic wife to survive on dwindling supplies of insulin, trading medicine for food from the outside world. When a stranger comes looking for insulin, and refuses to be turned away, both husband and wife must face the reality of her rapidly shortening life.
ShakespeaRe-Told
Four of Shakespeare's plays are dramatically relocated to the modern day.
Watchmen
This brisk comedy of errors, penned by two-time onscreen lovers Paloma Baeza and Cillian Murphy, stakes out multiple perspectives on a series of bumbling petty crimes. Late in the evening, friends Phil (Cillian Murphy) and Ray (Barry Ward) look out of their window as two unidentified men hid from the police outside the door of a neighboring house. They cannot resist the temptation to find out what they are hiding...
Filmography
as Victor
as Russell
as Jack
as Paddy
as Kevin
as DS Paul Brandice
as Craig
as Joe Ruttledge
as Leon
as Jason Mohan
as Ray
as Mikhail 'Tor' Oleynik
as Fergal Loftus
as Leopold bloom
as John's Dad
as Colin
as Thomas Cromwell
as DI Steve McCusker
as Ian
as Mike
as Arnie Rivers
as Charlie
as Martin Martin
as Charlie Hall
as John Paul McDonagh
as Voice of Older Tom
as Barry McGory
as Sawyer
as Thady
as Leslie
as Gordon Close
as Albert
as Ian Paisley, Jr.
as West
as Michael Madden
as Arthur Mahon
as Diarmuid
as Forager (uncredited)
as The Pharmacist
as Jimmy Quinn
as James Gralton
as Adam
as Rory
as Voice
as Roddy
as Ray
as Young Dillon
as Robert Fiske
as Darren O Murchu
as Trevor
as Fionn Mulligan
as John Paul Spencer
as John Paul Spencer