Anthony Barclay

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Anthony Barclay
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Known for Judge John Deed , Common as Muck , New Tricks
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Anthony Barclay is an English actor who has appeared in productions including Domina for Sky Atlantic, The Irregulars for Netflix, Britannia for Sky Atlantic and Common as Muck for the BBC. He played Anthony Berg in Shaun Severi's film Citizen versus Kane which won the Canal+ Award at Clermont Ferrand International Film Festival and which earned Barclay a Best Actor nomination.[ citation needed ]

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Barclay is the son of Danny Williams, a 1960s balladeer best known for the song "Moon River" which he got to No1 in 1961 before going on to have hits both in the UK and the USA. He has three children with former wife Doon Mackichan [1] and one child with current wife, Antonia Fiber-Barclay.

Career highlights

He played Young Buddy in Stephen Sondheim's Follies in the West End, [2] and worked again with Sondheim as The Balladeer in Sam Mendes' production of Assassins at London's Donmar Warehouse. Notable roles in theatre include: Aziz in Sasha Wares production of Timberlake Wertenbaker's Credible Witness [3] at The Royal Court, alongside Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis; Hogarth in The Iron Man by Ted Hughes and Pete Townsend at The Young Vic Theatre; Feste in Lucy Bailey's production of Twelfth Night [ citation needed ] at The Royal Exchange; Agamemnon in The Iphigenia Quartet at The Gate Theatre, London and Japheth in John Caird and Stephen Schwartz's production of Children of Eden in London's West End.

Notable roles on television include: Corvinus in Domina , Josephus the Levantine AKA The Traveller in Britannia season 2 , Herod Antipas in Jesus: His Life , Florian in Carla Lane's Screaming , Sunil in Common As Muck, Karl Harper in Coronation Street , Sir Tim Listfield in Judge John Deed and Carlos Alvarez in New Tricks.

Barclay spent 2010-13 working with Steven Berkoff in Berkoff's Biblical Tales at the Hampstead Theatre; in Oedipus: After Sophocles at the Nottingham Playhouse, the Liverpool Playhouse, the Pleasance Grand in Edinburgh and the Memminger Theatre in South Carolina for the Spoleto Festival, USA; and Line-Up/Gas in the Steven Berkoff Season at the Jermyn Street Theatre in London; notable because Steven Berkoff was one of the main inspirations for Barclay as a young actor after he saw Berkoff's production of West at the Donmar Warehouse.

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References

  1. ↑ Shoard, Catherine (4 December 2008). "'My whole life has been a black comedy'". The Guardian . London: Guardian News & Media Limited . Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  2. ↑ Hutchins, Michael H. (29 May 2014). "Follies". Sondheim Guide. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  3. ↑ Kellaway, Kate (18 February 2001). "Really losing the plot". Guardian . London: Guardian News & Media Limited . Retrieved 15 March 2012.


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