Anthony Barclay

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Anthony Barclay is a British actor who has appeared in productions including Judge John Deed and Common as Muck. 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]

Barclay is the son of Danny Williams, a 1960s balladeer best known the song Moon River. He has three children with former wife Doon Mackichan.[1]

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; Feste in Lucy Bailey's production of Twelfth Night [citation needed] at The Royal Exchange, and Japheth in John Caird and Stephen Schwartz's production of Children of Eden in London's West End.

Notable roles on television include: Florian in Carla Lane's Screaming, Sunil in Common As Muck, Karl Harper in Coronation St and Sir Tim Listfield in Judge John Deed'.

Barclay spent 2010-2013 working with Steven Berkoff in Berkoff's Biblical Tales, Hampstead Theatre; Oedipus: After Sophocles, Nottingham/ Liverpool Playhouses, Pleasance Grand, Edinburgh and The Memminger Theatre, South Carolina for the Spoleto Festival, USA; and Line-Up/ Gas in the Steven Berkoff Season at the Jermyn St Theatre, off West End, London.

References

  1. Catherine Shoard (2008-12-04). "Why Doon Mackichan, star of Smack the Pony and The Day Today, has fallen for Joe Orton". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-02-24. 
  2. "Sondheim Guide / Follies". Sondheimguide.com. Retrieved 2012-02-24. 
  3. Kate Kellaway (2001-02-18). "Really losing the plot | From the Observer | The Observer". London: Guardian. Retrieved 2012-03-15. 

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