Comes over all sweetness and light, but this Mr Nice Guy actually has a really nasty side.
2007 Joins Evissa beauty salon as a hairdresser. Has an explosive secret – he's Myra McQueen's secret son, who she abandoned when she was a teen.
2008 Plots revenge on Myra and her family. Hospitalises Myra's drunk and incapable daughter Michaela by injecting her with heroin. Reports Myra for benefit fraud, tries to split up Myra's daughter Carmel from her fiancé Calvin, and pushes Myra's pregnant daughter Tina down some steps! Sleeps with Steph Dean but fails to keep her apart from her estranged fiancé Max Cunningham. Accidentally runs over and kills Max on his and Steph's wedding day.
Barry was born on February 10 1981 and brought up in Liverpool. He has two siblings, a brother, Jamie, who is a musician and a sister, Samantha, a hairdresser.
Before joining Hollyoaks Barry's biggest role was as bad boy Sean Smith in Brookside. He also once tried out for the role of Eli Dingle in Emmerdale and Hayley Cropper's son in Coronation Street.
Acting is not Barry's only talent as he is a trained musician and he was in a relatively successful rock band called Smiling Jackals from the age of 14 to 21.
