Ray Barry

Born April 1962 in South London, having worked in a number of fields, he upped sticks in 1983 and moved to Kingston Upon Hull with close friend Paul Heaton, and helped facilitate the birth of the Housemartins pop group. Remaining in Hull for a number of years he was cast to appear in some Beautiful South Videos (One Last Love Song & Don't Marry Her) as a friend of the band.

Subsequently having been approached by an established casting director he moved back to London in 1996 to take up a career as a TV actor and advertising model. Among many appearances he appeared frequently in EastEnders as the Brewery Delivery man, and as a recovering alcoholic in Father Ted, A tattoo customer in One Foot In The Grave, A factory worker in Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie, a Irish Dancer in Time Gentleman Please, and a stage hand in Finding Netherlands with Dustin Hoffman and Johnny Dep, the video recorder in the wedding scene of Love Actually, and a friend of Albert Finney when he was playing Uncle Silas.

He also appeared on numerous billboard campaigns for Telewest, Teletext, HSBC Internet Banking, British Gas, as well as numerous appearances in small adverts such as Autoglass, Danepak, Sainsburys, and Sony.

During the 1980's Ray had a short political career, representing Yorkshire and Humberside on the National Green Party Council alongside Jonathon Porritt, and was the first Green candidate to stand for what was then the Ecology Party in the City.

He continues to write, having moved back to Hull in 2022 to semi-retire, recently appeared as a soldier poet in the Northern Academy of Performing Arts production of the "Camden Girls War," and a narrator in "Double Vision."