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Cathy Barry is an English
glamour model A model is a person with a role either to promote, display or advertise commercial products (notably fashion clothing in fashion shows) or to serve as a visual aid for people who are creating works of art or to pose for photography. Though ...
and
pornographic actress A pornographic film actor or actress, pornographic performer, adult entertainer, or porn star is a person who performs sex acts in video that is usually characterized as a pornographic movie. Such videos tend to be made in a number of dist ...
. Along with her filmmaker husband Phil Barry, she also runs the adult film production and distribution company Pumpkin Media TV. Barry stars in her own
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series, ''Cathy's Diaries''.


Career

Born in
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, Barry left school at the age of 16 and took a temporary packing job at a bra factory. She was then asked to model the bras for the company, and she appeared on the packaging for those bras. This led to other modelling jobs, which included one for a local
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shop and a radio station,
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, at age 18. One of the radio station photos was used for a
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advertisement, which led to her getting into glamour modeling. Later, she started lap dancing and table dancing in men's clubs. She has appeared in and on the front cover of publications including ''
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'', ''
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'', '' Nuts'', '' Score Magazine'', '' Bizarre'', and ''
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'', amongst others. Around age 22, Barry started doing solo and then girl-girl videos, before progressing into boy-girl videos for larger production companies such as
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in a film called ''Countess Cathula''. She began appearing in major
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productions in 2000, when she was 33. In addition to performing, Barry also has producer and director credits to her name. In 2002, she presented a programme on
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in which she toured
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s. In 2004, Barry starred in a Cathula follow up film entitled ''Cathula II - Vampires of Sex'', which featured celebrity-gangster
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. In 2005, Barry was featured in promotional material which were aired via
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across the UK and Europe for the
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album
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. In 2006, she starred in the adult film ''The Affair'' with Omar Williams. Although some critics attacked the film for bad filming that made it look amateurish, other critics praised the movie. In the same year, she starred in the comedy crime film ''
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'', which featured Dave Courtney and actress
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. The film was later re-released under the title ''Thugs Mugs & Dogs''. She also appeared in the indie film ''Flip A Coin'' and the comedy horror film ''Exterminator City''. Barry was also interviewed in the
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documentary ''Private Parts: The Trouble With My Vagina''. Through 2008 and 2011, Barry appeared on UK porn channel
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. Since 2010, she has appeared as a presenter on the UK adult television channel Red Light Central TV.


Television appearances

Barry has appeared on several UK TV chat shows, including ''
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'', ''
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'', and ''
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''. Through the early to mid 2000s, she regularly appeared on and presented several shows on the
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channel
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, including ''World of Big Boobs'' with Teresa May, ''4 Play With Cream'', ''One On One'' and the
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-presented ''The G-Spot''. In 2004, Barry underwent a
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operation that was broadcast live on the
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show ''
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''. It was reported as being the biggest breast enlargement operation to be performed in the UK. The surgeon performing the operation was later called before his hospital's ethics committee. Barry played herself in episode 6 of ''Unseen Skins'' on the '' Skins'' website. In it, she sleeps with the character Chris Miles, and, upon hearing about his love for his teacher, she promises him a cheque for £700 so that he can pursue her on a school trip to Russia. In 2009, Barry appeared throughout the two-part
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documentary ''Hardcore Profits'', which investigated the workings and effects of the global pornographic industry. The programmes were presented by
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.


Awards and nominations

In 2007, Barry won the award for Best British Performer at the ETO Awards show. Later that year, Barry was nominated for Best Female Actress in the
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for her role in ''Cathy's Diaries 9''. Barry also won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2007 UK Adult Film Awards and Best Online Female Actress in 2008.


Personal life

Growing up, Barry had nicknames such as "Jeff" (as she had the same surname as Olympic
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thrower Jeff Capes —Capes being her maiden name) and "Centrefold". She states that prior to her adult film and modelling career, she was a
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and was also interested in going to college to become a chef. Barry has stated that she is
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. In 2008, Barry was at the centre of an appeal in the ''
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'' after a duck from her family's home in
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had gone missing. A Facebook group ''Find Cathy Barry's Duck'' was set up, and the duck was found and rescued from a pond in
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. During the 2011 political scandal around Scottish businessman Adam Werritty's access to the
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, images were published in the national press of an earlier meeting between Barry and
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, the minister at the centre of the scandal. In 2016, it was widely reported in the UK media that residents of St George, Bristol opposed planned changes to a building that Barry's husband Phil had run as an adult film studio (Bristol Film Studios) since 1995 and that Cathy Barry worked from, into a multiple occupancy house. Residents were concerned that short term rental contracts would attract people who would not integrate with the community. The changes went ahead. Phil Barry had produced and directed multiple videos featuring his wife.


See also

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