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Barbie Hsu (徐熙媛)

Barbie Hsu (徐熙媛, Da S, Big S), Taiwanese actress, singer, and host (1976–2025). Debuted 1994 as S.O.S with sister Dee Hsu; starred as Shan Cai in Meteor Garden (2001); died of influenza-related pneumonia in Japan at 48.

Barış Arduç

Barış Arduç (born 1987) is a Turkish TV and film actor of Albanian descent, known for Kiralık Aşk's Ömer İplikçi, Alparslan, and Netflix's Kulüp.

Barkhad Abdi

Barkhad Abdi (Somali: Barkhad Cabdi, born 1985, Mogadishu) is a Somali-American actor; his debut as pirate captain Muse in Captain Phillips (2013) won a BAFTA and brought Oscar, Golden Globe, and SAG nominations, launching credits including Blade Runner 2049 and The Curse.

Barnard Hughes

Barnard Hughes, born Bernard Aloysius Kiernan Hughes (1915–2006), American character actor who won the 1978 Tony for Da, an Emmy for Lou Grant, and starred in Doc, Mr. Merlin, and The Lost Boys.

Barney Martin

Barney Martin (1923–2005), American character actor, NYPD detective turned performer; played Morty Seinfeld on Seinfeld, Amos Hart in Chicago's original Broadway cast, and appeared in The Producers and Arthur. Not the 1953 Cincinnati Redlegs pitcher.

Barrett Doss

Barrett Doss, American actress and singer, played Vic Hughes on ABC's Station 19 (2018–2024) and Rita Hanson in Broadway's Groundhog Day (2017, Theatre World Award); films Marshall and The Noel Diary; now Emily Henderson in Netflix's Little House on the Prairie.

Barrett Foa

Barrett Foa, American actor, singer, and dancer; Eric Beale on NCIS: Los Angeles; Broadway roles include Princeton/Rod in Avenue Q, Mamma Mia!, and Leaf Coneybear in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; not the Barrett civil engineering or robotics firms.

Barrie Chase

Barrie Chase (born October 20, 1933) is an American dancer and actress, daughter of screenwriter Borden Chase, best known as Fred Astaire's final TV dance partner (1958–1968) and for Cape Fear, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, and The Flight of the Phoenix.

Barry Bostwick

Barry Bostwick (Barry Knapp Bostwick), American actor and singer born 1945 in San Mateo, California; original Broadway Danny Zuko in Grease (1972), Tony winner for The Robber Bridegroom (1977), Brad Majors in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Golden Globe winner for War and Remembrance, and Mayor Randall Winston on Spin City.

Barry Corbin

Barry Corbin, born Leonard Barrie Corbin in Lamesa, Texas, in 1940, is an American character actor with over 200 roles, best known as Maurice Minnifield on Northern Exposure.

Barry Dennen

Barry Dennen (1938-2017), American actor and singer; Emcee in the original West End Cabaret and Pontius Pilate in the album, Broadway, and film versions of Jesus Christ Superstar; memoirist of Barbra Streisand; video game voice actor.

Barry Evans (actor)

Barry Evans, also styled Barry Joseph Evans, was an English actor (1943–1997) who starred as Michael Upton in Doctor in the House and Doctor at Large and as Jeremy Brown in Mind Your Language. Not the EastEnders character.

Barry Fitzgerald

Barry Fitzgerald (William Joseph Shields, 1888–1961), Irish Abbey Theatre character actor and Hollywood star; first Irish Oscar winner, uniquely nominated for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for Going My Way (1944), later Michaeleen Óg in The Quiet Man.

Barry Flatman

Barry Flatman, born 1950 in Victoria, British Columbia, is a Canadian character actor known for Earth: Final Conflict, Saw III, Fargo, voicing X-Men's Vindicator, and 57 episodes as Don Shade on Private Eyes.

Barry Foster (actor)

Barry Foster (John Barry Foster) was an English actor, star of ITV's Van der Valk and Bob Rusk in Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972); died 11 February 2002 aged 70 in Guildford while appearing in Art.

Barry Gordon

Barry Gordon (born 1948, Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American actor, singer, attorney, and Screen Actors Guild president 1988–1995, known for "Nuttin' for Christmas," a Tony-nominated A Thousand Clowns, and voicing Donatello in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Barry Keoghan

Barry Keoghan (born 1992, Summerhill, Dublin) is an Irish actor known for The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Dunkirk, The Banshees of Inisherin (BAFTA win, Oscar nomination), and Saltburn; cast as Ringo Starr in Sam Mendes's Beatles films.

Barry Livingston

Barry Livingston (born 1953) is an American actor, full name Barry Gordon Livingston, best known as Ernie Douglas on My Three Sons (1963–72); later character actor in Zodiac, Argo, Jersey Boys, and author of The Importance of Being Ernie.

Barry Miller (actor)

Barry Miller (Barry Lee Miller, born 1958, Los Angeles) is an American actor known for Bobby C. in Saturday Night Fever, Fame, Peggy Sue Got Married, and his 1985 Tony-winning Biloxi Blues role.

Barry Morse

Barry Morse (1918-2008), British-Canadian actor of over 3,000 roles, known as Lt. Philip Gerard in The Fugitive and Professor Victor Bergman in Space: 1999, Shaw Festival director.

Barry Nelson

Barry Nelson (1917-2007), born Haakon Robert Nielsen, was an American stage, film, and TV actor, the first to play James Bond, as American "Jimmy" Bond in CBS's live 1954 Climax! Casino Royale; later Tony-nominated for The Act and Stuart Ullman in The Shining.

Barry Newman

Barry Foster Newman (1930–2023), American actor known for Kowalski in Vanishing Point (1971) and the NBC legal drama Petrocelli, for which he received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations; died May 11, 2023.

Barry Pepper

Barry Pepper (Barry Robert Pepper), Canadian actor born 1970 in Campbell River, British Columbia; known for Private Jackson in Saving Private Ryan, Roger Maris in 61, and his Emmy-winning Robert F. Kennedy in The Kennedys.

Barry Shabaka Henley

Barry Shabaka Henley, born Barry Joseph Henley (1954, New Orleans), American character actor; stage name from a 25th-Dynasty pharaoh. Known for Collateral, Miami Vice, The Terminal, Uncle Tunde on Bob Hearts Abishola, and Obie-winning Jitney.

Barry Sloane

Barry Sloane (Barry Paul Sloane), Liverpool-born English actor and musician born 1981; known for Hollyoaks' Niall Rafferty, Revenge's Aiden Mathis, SIX's Joe Graves, stage Jerusalem, and voicing Captain Price in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

Barry Watson (actor)

Barry Watson (Michael Barrett Watson, born 1974) is an American actor known as Matt Camden on 7th Heaven (1996–2006), later lead roles in What About Brian and Samantha Who?, and a 2002 Hodgkin's lymphoma survivor.

Barry Williams (actor)

Barry Williams, born 1954 as Barry William Blenkhorn, is the American actor and singer who played Greg Brady on The Brady Bunch (1969–1974), later a Broadway performer, bestselling author of Growing Up Brady, and continuing Brady nostalgia figure.

Barton Fitzpatrick

Barton Fitzpatrick, also Barton Fitzpatrick of The Chi, is an American actor, producer, and singer born 1995 in Chicago; known for Reg Taylor on Showtime's The Chi and Blaxton in Power Book IV: Force, a role written for him.

Barun Sobti (बरुण सोबती)

Barun Sobti (बरुण सोबती), born 1984 in Delhi, is an Indian actor known as Arnav Singh Raizada in Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon and for OTT roles in Asur, Kohrra, and Raat Jawan Hai, with 18 award wins.

Bashir Salahuddin

Bashir Salahuddin (born 1976, Chicago) is an American actor, writer, and comedian, co-creator of South Side and Sherman's Showcase with Diallo Riddle, a Late Night with Jimmy Fallon writer, and actor in GLOW and Top Gun: Maverick.