13 Facts About Chris Barrie

Chris Barrie worked as a vocal impressionist on the ITV sketch show Spitting Image and as Lara Croft's butler Hillary in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.

Chris Barrie was born on 28 March 1960 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany, to a father who was serving in the British Army, and later attended Methodist College, a boarding school, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Chris Barrie began his television career as a sports personality impersonator on The David Essex Showcase in 1982.

Chris Barrie adopted the surname "Barrie" as there was already an actor named Chris Brown on the Equity UK lists.

Chris Barrie provided the voice of Ronald Reagan in the pop song "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, as well as various vocalizations for other tracks by FGTH and Art of Noise.

Chris Barrie appeared as an impressionist on the BBC's Carrott's Lib between 1983 and 1984, and he starred in his own sketch show Pushing Up Daisies from 1984 to 1985 alongside Hale and Pace and Carla Mendonca.

Chris Barrie passed up the offer because of the constraint of the five-series contract.

Chris Barrie starred in the 2020 special Red Dwarf: The Promised Land, alongside the main cast of Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules and Robert Llewellyn.

Chris Barrie appeared as Brittas in the stand alone fitness mini-series Get Fit with Brittas in 1997.

Barrie's TV work includes Britain's Greatest Machines with Chris Barrie, screened on the National Geographic channel from 4 June 2009.

The latest in this series Massive Speed with Chris Barrie was shown on Discovery Channel from November 2006.

Chris Barrie has been married twice: first to Monica De Meo from 1987 to 1990 and then to Alecks with whom he has two sons.

In 2010, Chris Barrie was awarded an honorary DTech by Loughborough University for his contribution to promoting Engineering and Technology.