1. Keith Patrick Barry was born on 2 October 1976 and is an Irish mentalist, hypnotist, magician and activist for the elderly.
20 Facts About Keith Barry
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Keith Barry graduated from NUI Galway in 1998 with an honours chemistry degree, but left his science career behind in the year 2000 to pursue a career in entertainment and motivational speaking.
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In 2004, Keith Barry starred in his own MTV television special entitled Brainwashed.
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Keith Barry suffered severe trauma to his left leg but astonishingly returned to the stage later the same year at Vicar Street.
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Keith Barry's TED talk is in the top 20 most viewed TED Talks of all time and follows from his first ever live stage performance which was at TED in Monterey, California in 2004.
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Keith Barry returned to TED in 2005 and was the special guest performer then on the opening night.
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On 29 December 2007, Barry performed in a live Saturday night prime-time special on ITV in the UK titled Keith Barry - The Escape Live.
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Keith Barry was tied to a chair with thick ropes by two members of the audience.
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Keith Barry has performed live on The Ellen DeGeneres Show seven times and The Paul O'Grady Show four times.
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In February 2010, Keith Barry finished a pilot for a new series on The Discovery Channel in the US.
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Also in 2010 and 2011, Keith Barry toured extensively with his live show "The Asylum", which finished its run in May 2011.
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On this tour, Keith Barry set the record as the most successful solo act ever to play The Olympia Theatre in Dublin.
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In June 2012, Keith Barry stated his disapproval of TV's late-night anti-intellectual offering Psychic Readings Live and challenged one of its presenters, Psychic Wayne, to prove his psychic powers.
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Keith Barry advised Woody Harrelson for his role as a mentalist in the 2013 film, Now You See Me, and again for its 2016 sequel, Now You See Me 2.
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Keith Barry prepped Harrelson for a successful performance on the Late Show with David Letterman during the marketing of the first film.
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In 2014, Keith Barry starred on TV3 with his show Brain Hacker, which featured distinguished guests from the world of magic including Tony 'Doc' Shiels, Max Maven and Uri Geller.
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Between 2015 and 2016, Keith Barry starred as the hypnotist on the ITV game show You're Back in the Room hosted by Phillip Schofield.
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Keith Barry was the hypnotist on the Australian version on Nine Network hosted by Daryl Somers, and starred in the US version on The CW network hosted by Taye Diggs.
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The second series of The Keith Barry Experience aired in 2022.
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In 2009, Keith Barry hosted the Irish version of Deal or No Deal on TV3.