Cathy Barry

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Cathy Barry
Barry at the 2003 Adult Entertainment Expo
Born
Bristol, England
Other namesCathy Berry, Cindy Q
Height5 ft 3 in (1.60 m)[1]
SpousePhilip Joseph Barry[2][3]
Websitecathybarry.com

Cathy Barry is an English glamour model and pornographic actress. Along with her filmmaker husband Phil Barry, she also runs the adult film production and distribution company Pumpkin Media TV.[4][5][6] Barry stars in her own DVD series, Cathy's Diaries.[7][8]

Career

Born in Bristol,[9][10] Barry left school at the age of 16 and took a temporary packing job at a bra factory.[11] She was then asked to model the bras for the company, and she appeared on the packaging for those bras.[12] This led to other modelling jobs, which included one for a local body piercing shop and a radio station, Galaxy 101, at age 18. One of the radio station photos was used for a billboard advertisement, which led to her getting into glamour modeling. Later, she started lap dancing and table dancing in men's clubs.[10]

She has appeared in and on the front cover of publications including The Daily Sport, Penthouse, Nuts, Score Magazine, Bizarre, and Gent, amongst others.[13][14][15][16]

Around age 22, Barry started doing solo and then girl-girl videos, before progressing into boy-girl videos for larger production companies such as Playboy TV[10] in a film called Countess Cathula.[17] She began appearing in major adult industry productions in 2000, when she was 33.[1] In addition to performing, Barry also has producer and director credits to her name.[18] In 2002, she presented a programme on UK Horizons in which she toured sex shops.[19]

In 2004, Barry starred in a Cathula follow up film entitled Cathula II - Vampires of Sex, which featured celebrity-gangster Dave Courtney.[20]

In 2005, Barry was featured in promotional material which was aired via MTV across the UK and Europe for the Mötley Crüe album Red, White & Crüe.[21]

In 2006, she starred in the adult film The Affair with Omar Williams. Although some critics attacked the film for bad filming that made it look amateurish,[22] other critics praised the movie.[23] In the same year, she starred in the comedy crime film Six Bend Trap, which featured Dave Courtney and actress Lisa Riley.[24] The film was later re-released under the title Thugs Mugs & Dogs. She also appeared in the indie film Flip A Coin[25] and the comedy horror film Exterminator City.[26][27] Barry was also interviewed in the BBC documentary Private Parts: The Trouble With My Vagina.[28][29]

Through 2008 and 2011, Barry appeared on UK porn channel Television X. Since 2010, she has appeared as a presenter on the UK adult television channel Red Light Central TV.[18][30]

Television appearances

Barry has appeared on several UK TV chat shows, including Richard & Judy, Vanessa, and Trisha.[31]

Through the early to mid 2000s, she regularly appeared on and presented several shows on the Granada Television/British Sky Broadcasting channel Men & Motors, including World of Big Boobs with Teresa May,[32] 4 Play With Cream,[33] One On One[34] and the Terry Christian-presented The G-Spot.[35]

In 2004, Barry underwent a breast implant operation that was broadcast live on the Five show Cosmetic Surgery Live. It was reported as being the biggest breast enlargement operation to be performed in the UK. The surgeon performing the operation was later called before his hospital's ethics committee.[36]

Barry played herself in episode 6 of Unseen Skins on the Skins website. In it, she sleeps with the character Chris Miles, and, upon hearing about his love for his teacher, she promises him a cheque for £700 so that he can pursue her on a school trip to Russia.[37]

In 2009, Barry appeared throughout the two-part BBC2 documentary Hardcore Profits, which investigated the workings and effects of the global pornographic industry. The programmes were presented by Tim Samuels.[38][39][40]

Awards and nominations

In 2007, Barry won the award for Best British Performer at the ETO Awards show.[41] Later that year, Barry was nominated for Best Female Actress in the UK Adult Film Awards for her role in Cathy's Diaries 9.[42] Barry also won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2007 UK Adult Film Awards[43] and Best Online Female Actress in 2008.[4]

Personal life

Growing up, Barry had nicknames such as "Jeff" (as she had the same surname as Olympic shot put thrower Jeff Capes —Capes being her maiden name) and "Centrefold".[10] She states that prior to her adult film and modelling career, she was a body builder and was also interested in going to college to become a chef. Barry has stated that she is bisexual.[10]

In 2008, Barry was at the centre of an appeal in the Bristol Post after a duck from her family's home in Kingswood, South Gloucestershire had gone missing. A Facebook group Find Cathy Barry's Duck was set up, and the duck was found and rescued from a pond in Keynsham.[44]

During the 2011 political scandal around Scottish businessman Adam Werritty's access to the Ministry of Defence, images were published in the national press of an earlier meeting between Barry and Liam Fox, the minister at the centre of the scandal.[45][46]

In 2016, it was widely reported in the UK media that residents of St George, Bristol opposed planned changes to a building that Barry's husband Phil had run as an adult film studio (Bristol Film Studios) since 1995[47] and that Cathy Barry worked from, into a multiple occupancy house. Residents were concerned that short term rental contracts would attract people who would not integrate with the community.[48][49] The changes went ahead.[50] Phil Barry had produced and directed multiple videos featuring his wife.[51][52]

See also

References

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  3. ^ "Porn Star Interview - Cathy Barry » Hush-Hush".
  4. ^ a b "WINNERS AWARDS LIST 2008". Archived from the original on 15 August 2009. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
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  7. ^ "Pumpkin Media". Pumpkinmedia.tv. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  8. ^ "Cathy's Diaries Video Series". AdultFilmDatabase.com. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  9. ^ "My Biography". CathyBarry.com. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
  10. ^ a b c d e Rosen, Dave (November 2003). "The SCORE Interview: Cathy Barry". SCORE. 12 (11): 34. Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2014.
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  15. ^ "Nuts". 15 October 2010. Retrieved 17 August 2017 – via Internet Archive.
  16. ^ "Gent Men's Magazine "Cathy Barry" "Angelica" #73". June 2003. Retrieved 17 August 2017 – via Amazon.
  17. ^ Cathula at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  18. ^ a b Cathy Barry at IMDb
  19. ^ "Bushell on the box: UK Horizons". highbeam.com. 15 December 2002. Archived from the original on 6 September 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  20. ^ "CATHULA II - VAMPIRES OF SEX". bbfc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  21. ^ "MTV pushes Motley Crue with Mercury Records". highbeam.com. 12 May 2005. Archived from the original on 17 August 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  22. ^ "The Affair". bgafd.co.uk. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  23. ^ "Review of The Affair". Strictly News. Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2008.
  24. ^ "Six Bend Trap (2007)". IMDb. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  25. ^ "British Council Film: Flip a Coin". film.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  26. ^ "Exterminator City (2005)". dreadcentral.com. 4 August 2005. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
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  28. ^ "The Trouble With My Vagina; BUSHELL ON THE BOX". highbeam.com. 28 May 2006. Archived from the original on 17 August 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  29. ^ "Private Parts: The Trouble with my Breasts". documentaryheaven.com. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  30. ^ "Cathy Barry". redlightcentral.tv. Archived from the original on 13 August 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
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  32. ^ "World of Big Boobs (TV Series)". IMDb. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  33. ^ "Cathy Barry goes Sexy Underwear Shopping". YouTube. 17 October 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  34. ^ "Career Horror Stories & Plastic Surgery with Cathy Barry". YouTube. 21 June 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  35. ^ "Cathy Barry Talks Breast Implants". YouTube. 13 March 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  36. ^ Templeton, Sarah-Kate. "Surgeon who hit big time on TV probed". The Times. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  37. ^ "Unseen Skins". Channel 4. Retrieved 21 June 2007.
  38. ^ Patrick Smith; Gillian Reynolds. "BBC". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  39. ^ "Porn Documentaries on Vimeo". filthy.media. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  40. ^ "Hardcore Profits (TV Series)". IMDb. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  41. ^ "ETO Show 2007". Strictly News. Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2008.
  42. ^ "UK Adult Film Awards – Nominations". Strictly News. Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2008.
  43. ^ "UK Adult Film Awards 2007 - The Winners". 19 February 2010. Archived from the original on 19 February 2010. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  44. ^ "Cathy Barry reunited with missing duck". 6 July 2015. Archived from the original on 6 July 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  45. ^ "Yes, Minister: Liam Fox photographed with porn star Cathy Barry". Swns.com. Archived from the original on 11 August 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  46. ^ "Liam Fox and Adam Werritty: as it happened 12 October". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
  47. ^ "Biographies". Theabstract.co.uk. Archived from the original on 26 April 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  48. ^ "Residents oppose plans to turn porn studio into houses". The Telegraph. 18 April 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  49. ^ "A porn studio is going to be turned into flats, and locals are furious". Independent.co.uk. 19 April 2016. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  50. ^ Pennock, Lewis (17 May 2017). "Old porn studio WILL become flats despite MP's plea". Bristolpost.co.uk. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  51. ^ "CATHY BARRY EXTREME INTERRACIAL – British Board of Film Classification". Bbfc.co.uk. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  52. ^ "CATHY AND CHARMAINE: THE BLUE MOVIE – British Board of Film Classification". Bbfc.co.uk. Retrieved 10 August 2017.

External links

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