Genevieve Barr was born on 12 December 1985 and is an English actress and writer of stage and screen.
15 Facts About Genevieve Barr
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Genevieve Barr played the lead role in the BBC award-winning series The Silence.
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Genevieve Barr was born deaf into a hearing family with no hereditary record of deafness, and has three younger siblings.
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Genevieve Barr was fitted with hearing aids at age four and attended mainstream education at Harrogate Ladies' College, studying English and History at Edinburgh University, before graduating in 2008.
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Genevieve Barr was married in 2016 and had her first child in 2018.
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In 2011, after The Silence came out, Genevieve Barr went on to roles in Shameless and BBC3's award-winning drama The Fades.
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In 2013, Genevieve Barr starred alongside Jane Horrocks in an episode of ITV's True Love, directed by Dominic Savage, and played a Victorian prostitute in the BBC production Murder on the Victorian Railway.
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In 2016 after a long stint of theatre work, Genevieve Barr returned to television with ITV's hit show Liar which has now been commissioned for a second season.
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In 2017, Genevieve Barr played the role of Features Editor Charlotte in BBC's Press.
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Genevieve Barr played Artemis in the film which starred Michaela Coel and Arinze Kene and was directed by BAFTA winning director, Tinge Khrishnan.
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Genevieve Barr was involved in the Maltesers advert, part of a huge international campaign celebrating diversity.
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Genevieve Barr played the role of Sarah on an international tour of Brian Friel's Translations, led by actor Adrian Dunbar.
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Genevieve Barr was most recently seen alongside Sarah Lancashire in Jack Thorne's four parter The Accident for Channel 4.
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Genevieve Barr won the prolific Red Planet Prize for ITV with her script Curio, and has co-written a single drama for BBC and Netflix with Jack Thorne, Then Barbara Met Alan released in 2022.
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Genevieve Barr is part of the writing team for Ralph and Katie, Peter Bowker's upcoming The A Word spinoff.