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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.

Barkha Singh (बरखा सिंह)

Barkha Singh (बरखा सिंह), Indian actress born 1992 in Bikaner, Rajasthan; child artist in Mujhse Dosti Karoge (2002), TV's Girls On Top, web star of Engineering Girls and Please Find Attached, later Criminal Justice 4 and The Sabarmati Report.

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.

Barking Dogs Never Bite (플란다스의 개)

Barking Dogs Never Bite (플란다스의 개, Flandersui Gae) is Bong Joon-ho's 2000 South Korean debut feature, a dark comedy in which lecturer Yun-ju (Lee Sung-jae) dognaps apartment dogs while office worker Hyun-nam (Bae Doona) investigates the disappearances.

Barnabas Collins

Barnabas Collins is the vampire protagonist of the American daytime serial Dark Shadows (1966–1971), played by Jonathan Frid, who transformed the failing show into a cultural phenomenon.

Barnaby Jones

Barnaby Jones (神威勇探), CBS private-eye series 1973–1980 starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether; a Quinn Martin 'old Columbo' with a milk-drinking elderly detective, 178 episodes, Cannon crossovers.

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 (franchise)

Barney is an American children's media franchise centered on a purple Tyrannosaurus rex who teaches preschoolers through songs, known through the PBS series Barney & Friends.

Barney & Friends

Barney & Friends is an American children's television series on PBS from 1992 to 2010, starring Barney, a purple Tyrannosaurus rex who teaches young children through song and dance.

Barney Fife

Barney Fife (Bernard Fife) is the fictional, bumbling deputy sheriff of Mayberry on The Andy Griffith Show, played by Don Knotts, who won five Emmys; the character carried one bullet in his shirt pocket and left for Raleigh in 1965.

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.

Barney Miller

Barney Miller: American ABC sitcom (1975–1982, 8 seasons, 168 episodes) created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker, set in a Greenwich Village NYPD precinct, starring Hal Linden; won 3 Emmys including 1982 Outstanding Comedy Series.

Barney Rubble

Barney Rubble (Bernard Matthew Rubble) is the deuteragonist of The Flintstones (ABC, 1960-1966), Fred Flintstone's best friend, Betty's husband, Bamm-Bamm's adoptive father; modeled on Ed Norton, voiced by Mel Blanc, and also Cockney slang for trouble.

Barney Stinson

Barney Stinson is the womanizing, suit-obsessed character played by Neil Patrick Harris on CBS's How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014), a mocked embodiment of pre-feminist masculinity later criticized as misogynistic and reprised in How I Met Your Father.

Barney the Dinosaur

Barney the Dinosaur is the purple T. rex created by Dallas teacher Sheryl Leach in 1987 home videos, adapted by Connecticut Public Television into PBS's Barney & Friends (1992), a preschool phenomenon that also drew intense adult backlash before Mattel's 2024 revival.

Barney's World

Barney's World is a 2024 CGI-animated preschool series rebooting Barney & Friends, co-produced by Mattel Television and Nelvana. It premiered October 14, 2024 on Max and Treehouse TV, set in a playground with Barney, Billy, Baby Bop, and kids David, Mel, and Vivie.

Barnyard (film)

Barnyard: The Original Party Animals is a 2006 American computer-animated comedy directed by Steve Oedekerk about farm animals that act human whenever people are away.

Baron Mordo

Baron Mordo (Karl Amadeus Mordo) is a Marvel Comics sorcerer and Doctor Strange's arch-nemesis, created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in Strange Tales #111 (1963); a reworked version played by Chiwetel Ejiofor appears in the MCU films.

Baron Strucker

Baron Wolfgang von Strucker (Baron Strucker), Marvel Comics villain, Supreme Hydra leader of Hydra and Nick Fury's nemesis; debuted in Sgt. Fury #5 (1964) by Lee and Kirby; MCU Age of Ultron character.

Baron Zemo

Baron Zemo is the shared name of Marvel Comics villains Heinrich Zemo, a Nazi scientist introduced in Avengers #4 (1964), and his son Helmut, the thirteenth Baron, founder of the Thunderbolts and MCU villain played by Daniel Brühl.

Baroness (G.I. Joe)

Baroness (Anastasia DeCobray; also Anastasia Cissarovna or Cisarovna) is the fictional Cobra intelligence officer of Hasbro's G.I. Joe franchise, Destro's companion, debuting in Marvel's G.I. Joe comic, voiced by Morgan Lofting, and now an Energon Universe figure set to defect back to Cobra.

Barot House

Barot House is a 2019 Hindi-language ZEE5 Original psychological thriller directed by Bugs Bhargava Krishna, starring Amit Sadh, Manjari Fadnnis, and Aaryan Menghji, about a Daman family whose daughters are murdered; streamed from 7 August 2019.

Barracuda (upcoming film)

Barracuda is an upcoming Neil Burger action thriller starring Anthony Mackie and Dafne Keen as Karl and Jodie, fleeing in a stolen 1973 Plymouth Barracuda; filmed in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Chihuahua, wrapped May 2026, in post-production, with Amazon distribution deals.

Barracuda Queens

Barracuda Queens is a Swedish Netflix crime drama created by Camilla Ahlgren, premiering June 5, 2023, about privileged teen women in Djursholm who burgle rich neighbors, loosely inspired by the real male Lidingöligan gang; season 2 followed in 2025.

Barrandov Studios

Barrandov Studios (Barrandov Studio a.s.), founded 1931 in Prague by Miloš Havel and named after geologist Joachim Barrande, is one of Europe's largest and oldest film studios, with 18 sound stages, a 160,000 m² backlot, and over 5,000 productions including Casino Royale and the Czech New Wave.

Barren Illusions

Barren Illusions (大いなる幻影, Ôinaru gen'ei), also Barren Illusion, is a 1999 Japanese drama-romance by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, made with Film School of Tokyo students, about Haru and Michi in near-future 2005 Tokyo testing a pollen drug, premiered at Venice 1999.

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.

Barrio Triste

Barrio Triste is a 2025 found-footage feature debut by Stillz (Matías Vásquez), produced by Harmony Korine's EDGLRD with a score by Arca, about Medellín teens in 1987 who steal a news camera; it premiered at Venice Orizzonti.