Kacey Barnfield

Kacey Louisa Barnfield (born 14 January 1988) is an English actress.

Personal life

She was born in Hackney, London. She is a second cousin of the actress Victoria Shalet.^[1] Kacey moved to Los Angeles in January 2011.

Kacey's father Malcolm (a partner at Enfield estate agency Barnfield's) and Karen (née Clarke) (a former glamour model) divorced in 2010.^[2] She has a brother Kye and a sister Tyla.

For a time, she dated England cricketer Stuart Broad.^[3]

Acting career

Kacey's acting career began in 1997 when she was just 9, appearing in advertisements and stage plays. Her first notable TV role was a guest role in the BBC drama Hope and Glory starring Lenny Henry.

In 2000, Kacey won the role of bully Maddie Gilks, girlfriend to Baz Wainwright (played by Thomas Hudson), in Grange Hill, where she found herself the central role in central plots during her five-year stint on the show.

After Grange Hill Kacey filmed Popcorn with Jodi Albert and Jack Ryder, and plays the character of Yukino. She has also appeared in the Sky1 football drama Dream Team.

Other roles include Zoe Stringer in Filthy Rich, in which she played Mike Reid's daughter shortly before he died, The Bill, where she played Chloe Fox for 3 episodes in 2004 and appeared again in October 2007 as Kelly Burgess, and Casualty in which she appeared as Claudie Waters for 2 episodes on 29 and 30 December 2007. In 2008, Kacey was the face of Clean & Clear, appearing in adverts for the skincare brand. She also starred in the Road Safety commercial 'Mess'. In 2008 she became Galaxy chocolate's 'Miss Kiss' to publicize their Christmas Mistletoe Kisses chocolates.

In 2009 and 2010 she appeared in the E4 sitcom The Inbetweeners, as Neil's sister Katie in the series 2 episode "A Night Out in London" and series 3's "Will's Dilemma".

Kacey featured as Crystal Waters in the Screen Gem's 3D film Resident Evil: Afterlife, alongside Milla Jovovich, Wentworth Miller and Ali Larter. It topped the box office in September 2010. Kacey also starred in Lake Placid 3, where she plays Ellie, this was also in 2010.

In 2011 she played the lead role of Kate in Johannes Roberts' Roadkill, a horror film about a group of teens taking an ill-fated RV trip around Ireland. Her performance was well received.^[4] Kacey is also set to appear as Barb in Jeremy Leven's movie Girl on a Bicycle. It was released in 2011.

In June 2011 Variety magazine announced that she would star in Glutton, a '3D psychological thriller' directed by David Arquette. Barnfield will play Virginia, the blind neighbour and only friend of an 86 stone man who is forced to save his sister's life. Abraham Benrubi and Patricia Arquette also star. Glutton will begin filming in Canada in summer 2011, for release in 2012.^[5]

In September 2011 Kacey was female lead of Annabel in Sy-Fy Channel's Jabberwock opposite Battlestar Galactica's Tahmoh Penniket. Directed by Stephen R. Monroe.

Filmography

Films

TV

References

External links

• Kacey Barnfield at the Internet Movie Database
• Kacey Barnfield page on Grange Hill Online