Barry Ward
Biography
Barry Ward is an Irish actor. He began his career as a child actor in the RTÉ/BBC series Family (1994) and Plotlands (1997), and the film Sunburn (1999). His films since include Jimmy's Hall, Blood Cells (both 2014), Extra Ordinary (2019), and Dating Amber (2020), the latter of which won him an IFTA.
On television, he is more recently known for his roles in the RTÉ series Rebellion (2016) and Taken Down (2018), the Sky Atlantic series Britannia (2017–2019) and Save Me (2018–2020), and the BBC series The Capture (2019).
Ward grew up in Blanchardstown, a northwestern suburb of Dublin. He went to school at St. Declan's College in Cabra. He studied English and Philosophy at NUI Maynooth.
Ward lives in East London with his partner Laura Kavanagh, who works in film, and their son Tom
