Barnaby Edwards

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Barnaby Edwards is a British actor, writer, director and artist. He is most famous for his work on the popular British science-fiction series Doctor Who. His various roles include being a Dalek operator for the revived series in many Dalek stories. He has also directed various Big Finish Doctor Who audios.

Edwards graduated from Exeter University in 1991 with a degree in Fine Art and French. He subsequently went on to train at the Guildford School Of Acting, where he won the Postgraduate Award for Acting in 1992.

Since then Edwards has worked in the theatre, television, radio and audio plays. He has gone on to be both a director and writer and heavily involved in various productions with Big Finish.

As well as his theatrical work, Edwards is an accomplished artist and his pictures hang in galleries and private collections across Europe as well as being exhibited widely within the UK. Following a successful show at the Blue Lias gallery in Lyme Regis, Barnaby was asked to form one third of the acclaimed Three West Country Artists exhibition in 1998. Devon’s new Kingfisher Gallery recently held a major exhibition of his work encompassing nearly thirty new paintings and in 2006 he exhibited a selection of pieces at the FSA Summer Exhibition.

Barnaby regularly lectures on art history and art techniques, both in Britain and farther afield. He has given talks on subjects as diverse as European Narrative Painting, Pastel Techniques, Victorian Sea Paintings, Life Drawing, and Greek and Roman Myths in Western Art. He also gives practical tuition both to individuals and to groups, and recently ran a well-attended series of art workshops on landscape, figure and still life.