Tony Barry has acted in over 50 feature films and 45 television series, from Australia and New Zealand to the UK & Korea. His most recent role has been as Sgt Callahan in Baz Luhrmann's Australia. He has performed in stage plays in Australia, New Zealand and Japan, and been an active supporter of the Australian film and television industry and a proud and serving member of Actors Equity and then MEAA during his entire 40-year performance history.

Tony’s recent transformation from King Lear to Ben Chifley follows closely his lead role in Lennie Cahill Shoots Through, an Australian feature film which won Best Feature Film Tampa, Florida, 2004. He has continued to shine from the early days; in 1976 he was nominated for a Logie Award as Alan Marshall’s father in I Can Jump Puddles. His most recent nomination, an AFI, for best supporting actor in a television production for his role as Frank Flannery in Hell Has Harbor Views on the ABC. ’05.

He was given a Penguin Award in 1981 for the Best Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Mini-series, for his role as Nipper Jackson in the ABC’s multi-award winning Scales of Justice.. His national touring of ‘A Local Man’, a one-man stage play written for him by Bob Ellis & Dr. Robin McLachlan on the life on Ben Chifley, Australia’s most loved Prime Minister, highlights Tony’s considerable stage skills and enjoys much success. Current Projects include Baz Lurhrman’s “AUSTRALIA” and a mixed media event with Serge Emoll, celebrating the lives of two of this countries most influential Jazz musicians, scat master, Joe”Be Bop” Lane and trumpeter Keith Sterling and a further season of A Local Man in Adelaide, 2008.

He has adapted his acting skills not only in teaching and encouraging people in self expression but also to spearhead his focus on political and social issues, be it compering, speaking, radio interviewing, or performing in political documentaries. Tony has decades of experience working with disadvantaged people such as those in correctional centres and youth at risk. His thrust in teaching film-makers over the years has been to inspire and prompt them to say something worthwhile, to make a nourishing contribution to society rather than simply another commercial product. He has designed and delivered programmes for under-employed arts workers and also directed training videos for teachers of students with Asbergers.

A local man at heart, Tony Barry has a long history of, and continues his involvement in humanitarian issues concerning social and political justice, from aboriginal deaths in custody to the current wave of asylum seekers. He is patron of the Heart of Gold International Film Festival, held annually in October in Gympie, Queensland .

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