Born 28 February 1962 in Billingham (England), Barry Duffield moved in Australia with his family in 1969 where they finally set up in Nhulunbuy in the north of the country.
He studied at the Woodridge North State School, a state primary school until 1972, and then at the Nhulunbuy Area School until 1979. From 1997 to 1998, he chose the South Seas Film and Television School of New-Zealand to improve his skills in writing and direction. At the end of it he got his first and only diploma.
He also worked for the Australian Royal Air Force from June 1980 to June 1993.
Barry started his acting career in 1987 in Darwin, Australia and continued it in Brisbane where he played in Australia's Most Wanted, a reality crime TV series and in the film No Escape in 1994.
Since 1988, he has been a part of the Robert Bruce Agency which represents TV shows, cinema and theater actors.
Then, he went to New-Zealand where he played in numerous TV shows like Young Hercules in the role of Maximus, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys playing Kazankis and Xena: warrior Princess in 1998 with Lucy Lawless in the main role with whom he will play in Spartacus.
He married Susan Flemming, whom he met in 1996, on 26 September 1999. They live together in Auckland.
Since 2000, he has been a Director and a sceentwriter for DreamChaser productions.
In 2006, he played the Dr Poulton in the second movie Treasure Island Kids called The Monster of Treasure Islands.
In 2010, he made the voice of a bodyguard in Yogi bear with Justin Timberlake.
In 2012, he joined the cast of Spartacus in the second season called Spartacus : Vengeance in which he played the German warrior Lugo freed to help Spartacus in the rebellion against the Romans.
Barry is also the author of two comic books : Deadman's Land for which he was the quarter finalist of the Big Break Screenwriting Contest in 2013, and, still quarter finalist, but this time in 2014, of Scriptapalooza Screenwriting. His second comic book is called Tandoori Apocalypse and a new one is set to be released in 2017.
In 2014, he played in the drama of Peter Burger Field Punishment N°1 in the role of Dunkirk Warder.
