Anthony Barclay is an English actor who has appeared in productions including '' Domina'' for ''Sky Atlantic'', ''

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'' for ''Netflix'', ''

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'' for ''Sky Atlantic'' and '' Common as Muck'' for the ''BBC''. He played Anthony Berg in Shaun Severi's film ''Citizen versus Kane'' which won the Canal+ Award at Clermont Ferrand International Film Festival and which earned Barclay a Best Actor nomination. Barclay is the son of Danny Williams, a 1960s balladeer best known for the song "

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" which got to No. 1 in 1961 before going on to have hits in both the UK and the US. Barclay has three children with former wife

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and one child with current wife, Antonia Fiber-Barclay.

Career highlights

He played Young Buddy in

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's ''

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'' in the West End, and worked again with Sondheim as The Balladeer in Sam Mendes' production of ''

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'' at London's

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. Notable roles in theatre include: Aziz in Sasha Wares production of Timberlake Wertenbaker's ''Credible Witness'' at The Royal Court alongside actress Olympia Dukakis; Hogarth in '' The Iron Man'' by Ted Hughes and Pete Townsend at The Young Vic Theatre; Feste in Lucy Bailey's production of ''

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'' at The Royal Exchange; Agamemnon in ''The Iphigenia Quartet'' at The Gate Theatre, London and Japheth in John Caird and Stephen Schwartz's production of the musical ''

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'' in London's West End. Notable appearances on television include the series '' Domina'' as the character Corvinus, ''Britannia'' (season 2) as Josephus the Levantine a.k.a. The Traveller, '' Jesus: His Life'' as Herod Antipas, Carla Lane's ''

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'' as Florian, '' Common as Muck'' as Sunil, ''

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'' as Karl Harper, ''

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'' as Sir Tim Listfield and in ''

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'' as Carlos Alvarez. Barclay spent 2010-13 working with

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in Berkoff's ''Biblical Tales'' at the

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; in ''Oedipus: After Sophocles'' at the

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, the

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, the Pleasance Grand in

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and the Memminger Theatre in

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for the Spoleto Festival, US; and ''Line-Up/Gas'' in the Steven Berkoff Season at the

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in London; notable because Berkoff was one of the main inspirations for Barclay as a young actor after he saw Berkoff's production of ''West'' at the

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