Variety; Getty Images; Everett Collection He’s helped write movies that are widely adored and have collectively earned more than $1 billion. He’s co-created a sitcom that has become one of the BBC’s most successful exports, with a U.S. adaptation now onto its sixth season.
And yet, Simon Farnaby is perhaps most recognizable for mugging his rather expressive and jovial face, usually beneath a crop of untamed curly hair, across a series of scene-stealing comic cameos. And in almost every one of them — including all three “Paddington” movies and his latest feature, the all-star “The Magic Faraway Tree” — his character is called Barry.
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