Rod Barry

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Rod Barry
Birthdate:	1973
Birth location:	upstate New York
Measurements:	8" uncut
Height:	5' 10"
Weight:	175 lbs
Eye colour:	Blue
Hair colour:	Dark Blond
Orientation:	Heterosexual
Ethnicity:	French-Canadian and Irish-American
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Rod Barry is a pornographic actor (porn star) from the United States who has appeared in more than 161 scenes in pornographic films and on internet video shows since he entered the industry in 1996. While most of his films have been gay pornographic films, he has also made bisexual and heterosexual videos.

In addition to film, Barry has worked as an escort, model, and dancer. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

Barry won a Grabby Award for "Best Supporting Actor" in 1998 for his performance in A Lesson Learned and the "Best Supporting Actor" award at the 2003 GayVN Awards for White Trash. He has worked for many of the leading directors, including Chi Chi LaRue, John Rutherford, Wash West, Steven Scarborough, Michael Zen, Mike Donner, and Doug Jeffries. In 2005 he directed Down The Drain, his first gay adult video, for All Worlds Video. Since then he has directed a series of Argentinean Auditions 1 and 2 for [All Worlds Video]. He was inducted into the GayVN Hall of Fame at the 10th annual award ceremony in February 2008.

Barry served in the United States Marine Corps before being discovered by Dirk Yates. His first movie was The Few, The Proud, The Naked #6. He has been in many military-themed movies during his career in the gay porn industry. Barry most frequently performs in the top role in his films; he bottomed for the first time in Beach Buns for Logan Reed. Since then he has become a completely versatile performer -- bottoming most recently for Chad Hunt in Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita and for Ricky Martinez in Forced Entry -- which has been nominated for 'Best Threesome' in 2007.

Barry's sexual identity has been frequently the topic of some debate. At the beginning of his career, in an interview with director Jerry Douglas in Manshots magazine (June 1998), Barry told Douglas when he was asked, "I wouldn't say, heterosexual. I'd say sexual. Sexual is you like an orgasm and you don't care how you get it." (p.73) More recently, he told Howard Stern in a 2006 interview on his radio show that he is "gay for pay" and only does gay films for the money. In the same interview he called himself "a freak" while denying he was gay. He has also performed in more than a hundred straight hardcore scenes in videos and on the internet for companies such as Devils Films and kink.com.

In 2008, Barry was inducted in the GayVN Hall of Fame