Barnaby Edwards (born 20 August 1969) is a British actor, writer, director and artist. He is known as a performer for the British science-fiction television series ''

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'', in the role of a

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operator. He has also written, directed, produced or performed in over 80 Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories. Alongside frequent radio and voice over work, Edwards has narrated over 40 unabridged audiobooks for

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and others.

Early life

Edwards graduated from the

University of Exeter The University of Exeter is a research university in the West Country of England, with its main campus in Exeter, Devon. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of ...

in 1991 with a degree in Fine Art and French. He subsequently went on to train at the Guildford School of Acting, where he won the Postgraduate Award for Acting in 1992.

Career

Edwards has worked in the theatre, television, radio and audio plays, as a director and writer. Edwards is also an artist and his pictures hang in galleries and private collections across Europe as well as being exhibited widely within the UK. Following a successful show at the Blue Lias gallery in

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, Barnaby was asked to form one third of the Three West Country Artists exhibition in 1998. The Kingfisher Gallery in

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held a major exhibition of his work encompassing nearly thirty new paintings, and in 2006 he exhibited a selection of pieces at the FSA Summer Exhibition. Edwards regularly lectures on art history and art techniques, both in Britain and farther afield. He has given talks on subjects as diverse as European Narrative Painting, Pastel Techniques, Victorian Sea Paintings, Life Drawing, and Greek and Roman Myths in Western Art. He also gives practical tuition both to individuals and to groups, including art workshops on landscape, figure and still life. In 2010, Edwards set up Textbook Stuff, specialising in audiobooks of classic short stories and poems. Readers include

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, Peter Guinness, John Sessions,

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and

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. The company distributes via

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and other online distributors. In November 2013 he appeared in the one-off 50th anniversary comedy homage ''

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''. Beginning in 2016, Edwards has narrated the audiobook editions of ''The Bernicia Chronicles'', a series of historical novels by author Matthew Harffy.

Acting

Film

*'' Children of Men'' – Ministry of Arts official *''

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'' – John Rugby *'' The Plotters'' – Robert Keyes *''Shadows of a Stranger'' – Marley's Ghost

Television

*''

'' (BBC) – principal

operator (2005 onwards) *''

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'' (BBC) –

operator *'' Children's BAFTAs'' (BBC) –

operator *'' Doctor Who Confidential'' (BBC) – as himself *'' Totally Doctor Who'' (BBC) – as himself *'' The Giblet Boys'' (cITV) – Jeweller *''The Why Files'' (LIVE TV) – Hoax Interviewees *''

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'' (BBC) – Queen Vic darts captain *'' Thirty Years in the TARDIS'' (BBC) –

operator *''

'' – Himself

Theatre

*''

'' – John Rugby (at Shakespeare's Globe and in LA & New York) *''

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'' – actor and artistic director *''

Hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play (the ...

'' – actor *''

Twelfth Night ''Twelfth Night, or What You Will'' is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola an ...

'' – actor *''

Macbeth ''The Tragedy of Macbeth'', often shortened to ''Macbeth'' (), is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, estimated to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the physically violent and damaging psychological effects of political ambiti ...

'' – actor *''The Amazing Tale of

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and Sleigh Rider'' – actor *''Rope'' – actor

Radio

*''Dick Barton'' – actor *''The Father of English Football'' – actor *''Dostoevsky'' – actor *''Cultural Baggage'' – actor

Doctor Who audio plays (Fifth Doctor)

*'' Loups-Garoux'' – Victor *'' The Eternal Summer'' – Vicar

Doctor Who audio plays (Sixth Doctor)

*'' The Marian Conspiracy'' – Francois de Noailles *'' The Spectre of Lanyon Moor'' – Philip Ludgate *'' Assassin in the Limelight'' – The Traveller

Doctor Who audio plays (Seventh Doctor)

*'' Bang-Bang-a-Boom!'' – Robot Waiter

Doctor Who audio plays (Eighth Doctor)

*''

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'' – Rathbone *'' Sword of Orion'' – Digley *'' The Stones of Venice'' – Pietro *'' Minuet in Hell'' – Scott *'' Shada'' – Professor Caldera *'' Horror of Glam Rock'' – Bendy Roger *''

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'' – Clive *'' Max Warp'' – Announcer *'' Brave New Town'' – The Voice *'' Grand Theft Cosmos'' – The Guardian *'' Sisters of the Flame'' – Galactinet *'' Hothouse'' – Newsreader *'' The Eight Truths'' – Newsreader *''

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'' – Newsreader

Other audio plays

*'' Bernice Summerfield: Beyond the Sun'' – Leon *'' Bernice Summerfield: Walking To Babylon'' – John Lafayette *'' Bernice Summerfield: Birthright'' – John Lafayette *'' Cyberman: Scorpius'' – Paul Hunt *'' Cyberman: Fear'' – Paul Hunt *'' Cyberman: Conversion'' – Paul Hunt *'' Cyberman: Telos'' – Paul Hunt *'' Cyberman 2: Outsiders'' – Paul Hunt *'' Cyberman 2: Terror'' – Paul Hunt *'' Cyberman 2: Machines'' – Paul Hunt *'' Cyberman 2: Extinction'' – Paul Hunt

Directing

Television/film/video

*'' Bacardi: The Making of a Commercial'' *''The Dolphin Myth'' *''In-store Credit''

Theatre

*''

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'' *''

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'' *''

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs "Snow White" is a German fairy tale, first written down in the early 19th century. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection ''Grimms' Fairy Tales'', numbered as Tale 53. The original title was ''Sneewittch ...

'' *''

Aladdin Aladdin ( ; , , ATU 561, 'Aladdin') is a Middle-Eastern folk tale. It is one of the best-known tales associated with '' One Thousand and One Nights'' (often known in English as ''The Arabian Nights''), despite not being part of the original ...

'' *''

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'' *''Office Suite'' *'' Absent Friends'' *''English Sketches'' *''Kicking Bardom'' "Mad Men r Crazy"

Audiobooks (drama)

* ''The Waringham Chronicles.''

Textbook Stuff audiobooks (horror)

*'' Charles Dickens: The Signalman & Other Ghostly Tales'

*'' Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, Bram Stoker: Dracula's Guest & Other Dark Tales'

*'' The Pit and the Pendulum, Edgar Allan Poe: The Pit and the Pendulum & Other Macabre Tales'

*'' M. R. James, M. R. James: Casting the Runes & Other Uncanny Tales'

*'' Sheridan Le Fanu, Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla'

Textbook Stuff audiobooks (poetry)

*'' Edward Thomas (poet), Edward Thomas: Selected Poems'

*'' Christina Rossetti, Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems'

*'' Andrew Marvell, Andrew Marvell: Selected Poems'

*'' Robert Browning, Robert Browning: Selected Poems'

*'' The Brontës, The Brontës: Selected Poems'

Textbook Stuff audiobooks (non-fiction)

*'' Karl Marx, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto'

Radio plays

*'' The Phantom of the Opera (Big Finish), The Phantom of the Opera'' (broadcast on BBC7)

''Doctor Who'' audio plays (Fifth Doctor)

*'' Exotron'' *'' Son of the Dragon'' *'' The Mind's Eye'' *'' The Bride of Peladon'' *''

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'' *'' The Boy That Time Forgot'' *'' Time Reef'' *'' Return to the Web Planet'' *'' Castle of Fear'' *'' The Eternal Summer'' *'' Plague of the Daleks'' *'' Cobwebs'' *'' The Whispering Forest'' *'' Cradle of the Snake''

''Doctor Who'' audio plays (Sixth Doctor)

*'' Doctor Who and the Pirates'' *'' Assassin in the Limelight'' *'' The Doomwood Curse'' *'' Paradise 5'' *'' The Wreck of the Titan''

''Doctor Who'' audio plays (Seventh Doctor)

*'' Frozen Time''

''Doctor Who'' audio plays (Eighth Doctor)

*'' The Chimes of Midnight'' (broadcast on BBC7) *''

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'' *'' The Girl Who Never Was'' *'' Horror of Glam Rock'' (broadcast on BBC7) *'' Phobos'' (broadcast on BBC7) *'' Dead London'' (broadcast on BBC7) *'' Max Warp'' (broadcast on BBC7) *'' The Skull of Sobek'' (broadcast on BBC7) *'' Grand Theft Cosmos'' (broadcast on BBC7) *'' The Zygon Who Fell to Earth'' (broadcast on BBC7) *'' Hothouse'' *'' The Beast of Orlok'' *''

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'' *'' The Book of Kells'' *'' Deimos'' *'' The Greater Good''

Writing

Television/film/video

*'' Bacardi: The Making of a Commercial'' *''The Dolphin Myth'' *''In-store Credit''

Theatre

*''English Sketches'' *''Kicking Bardom''

Radio plays

*'' The Phantom of the Opera (Big Finish), The Phantom of the Opera'' (broadcast on BBC7)

''Doctor Who'' audio plays (Fifth Doctor)

*'' The Bride of Peladon'' *'' The Emerald Tiger''

''Doctor Who'' audio plays (Sixth Doctor)

*'' The Wreck of the Titan''

''Doctor Who'' audio plays (Eighth Doctor)

*'' The Beast of Orlok'' *'' The Book of Kells''

Personal life

Edwards' long-term partner is actor

. Guesting at the 2017 Pride Cymru event ''Who's Queer Now'', a symposium celebrating the impact and influences of ''Doctor Who'' on LGBT people, the couple revealed that they were celebrating their 25th anniversary.

References

External links

Textbook StuffBarnaby Edwards Official SiteThe Phantom Of The Opera audio play Official Site
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Audio interview with Barnaby Edwards – Goodies Podcast 17
{{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, Barnaby 1969 births Living people English male television actors English male voice actors Alumni of the University of Exeter