Biography
Barry Ward is an Irish actor. He began his career as a child actor in the RTÉ/BBC series Family (1994) and Plotlands (1997), and the film Sunburn (1999). His films since include Jimmy's Hall, Blood Cells (both 2014), Extra Ordinary (2019), and Dating Amber (2020), the latter of which won him an IFTA. On television, he is more recently known for his roles in the RTÉ series Rebellion (2016) and Taken Down (2018), the Sky Atlantic series Britannia (2017–2019) and Save Me (2018–2020), and the BBC s...
Known For
Complete Filmography
On the Sea
2025
as Jack
Jack has been married to Maggie for over half his life. He works as a Hand Raker on the mussel beds in North Wales alongside his younger brother, Dyfa...
Salvable
2025
as Paddy
When a battered boxer past his prime finds his dreams and his relationships on the ropes, he falls back in with a dangerous crowd and has to take the ...
Restless
2025
as Kevin
When hard partying and volatile neighbours move in next door, a quiet woman's life begins to spiral, pushing her to the edge and triggering a slow, un...
Housewarming
2024
as Craig
Saskia has just moved into her first house, but the dream is tainted by an unexpected arrival.
Vibrations
2024
A young woman clashes with the forces of religion.
That They May Face the Rising Sun
2024
as Joe Ruttledge
Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded...
Prospect House
2024
as Lorcan / Robert Dawson
A group of protesters film a period re-enactment in a dilapidated 18th century house in a last ditch effort to save it from demolition. Through this f...
Sunlight
2023
as Leon
When Leon, a recovering addict, discovers the terminally-ill sponsor he adores is planning to self-euthanise, he feels a sense of betrayal. He begs Iv...
Bubbly
2023
as Ray
Manager Ray is about to make it big with singer Cas as she prepares for a breakout gig. But with dreams of fame flowing like cheap champagne, their re...
Burial
2022
as Mikhail 'Tor' Oleynik
Set in the last days of World War II, a small band of Russian soldiers led by intelligence officer Brana Vasilyeva, who is tasked with trafficking the...
The Ulysses Project
2022
as Leopold bloom
An irreverent, modern, non-traditional re-telling of Ulysses, told rapidly by a succession of over 75 international actors. The film maintains the rhy...
Punch-Drunk
2021
as Colin
In a café in Marseille, a man's life begins to unravel when his lunch is disturbed by a chatty stranger. Something long forgotten has become dislodged...
Dating Amber
2020
as Ian
Eddie and Amber decide to stage a relationship in order to stop everyone speculating about their sexuality. Eddie is keen to follow his dad into the m...
Beards
2019
A film about beards!
Lily Meets Charlie
2019
as Charlie
Lily, a young escort arrives at the hotel room of a new client, Charlie. To both their surprise, they happen to know each other already. Neither ever ...
Extra Ordinary
2019
as Martin Martin
A driving instructor must use her other-worldly gifts to save a lonely man’s daughter from a rock star looking to use her for Satanic purposes.
Time Traveller
2018
as John Paul McDonagh
A 'Back To The Future'-obsessed traveller boy strives to finish building his own DeLorean replica before his family are evicted from their halting sit...
Zoo
2018
as Voice of Older Tom
Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.
Take Me Swimming
2017
as Thady
A son must overcome his own conflicted feelings and honour his father's intentions to keep his mother alive, despite her expressed wish to the contrar...
Maze
2017
as Gordon Close
Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in E...
L'accabadora
2017
as Albert
Cagliari in the 1940s is a big city for those who come from a small village. Annetta arrives in the days befpre Italy enters WWII and the Allies begin...
The Journey
2017
as Ian Paisley, Jr.
Firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, are for...
Realive
2016
as West
Marc, a successful, ambitious man, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and is given a few months to live. Unable to accept death, he decides to cryoge...
The Truth Commissioner
2016
as Michael Madden
Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplom...
Pursuit
2015
as Diarmuid
Pursuit is a modern take on Irish mythology, adapting the legend of Diarmuid and Gráinne and transforming it into a road movie and gangster thriller f...
The Survivalist
2015
as Forager (uncredited)
In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm...
Insulin
2015
as The Pharmacist
Holed up in a run down pharmacy, a man helps his diabetic wife to survive on dwindling supplies of insulin, trading medicine for food from the outside...
Shooting for Socrates
2014
as Jimmy Quinn
Set in Belfast against the backdrop of the 1986 World Cup, Shooting for Socrates tells the story of a momentous time in Northern Ireland's football hi...
Jimmy's Hall
2014
as James Gralton
Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.
Blood Cells
2014
as Adam
A decade after a catastrophe destroyed his family and their farm, momentous news from home compels an exiled young man to embark upon an intense and s...
Songs for Amy
2012
as Rory
Sean O'Malley, a struggling Irish musician, writes an album for the love of his life in an attempt to redeem himself, with the help and hindrance of h...
Macbeth
2005
as Roddy
A chef and his restaurant-hostess wife resort to murder to take ownership of a high-class Glaswegian restaurant.
Watchmen
2001
as Ray
This brisk comedy of errors, penned by two-time onscreen lovers Paloma Baeza and Cillian Murphy, stakes out multiple perspectives on a series of bumbl...
The Claim
2000
as Young Dillon
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who ...
Sunburn
1999
as Robert Fiske
Davin McDerby is a handsome, irresponsible slacker who arrives in Montauk Long Island for a summer of fun. He has no intention of working too hard and...
Lipservice
1999
as Darren O Murchu
A look at exam day in a modern Irish school, where students try to pass their oral Irish language exams, even though they have little knowledge and le...
Soft Sand, Blue Sea
1998
as Trevor
13 year-old David and nine year-old Danni live in a children's home, where despite the best of adult intentions, there is conflict and sudden tragedy....
Family
1994
as John Paul Spencer
This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusiv...