Chantelle Barry (born 18 March 1980) is an Australian musician and actress from
Perth
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, best known for being in the original line-up of
girl group
A girl group is a music act featuring two or more women in music, female singers who generally vocal harmony, harmonize together. The term "girl group" is also used in a narrower sense in the United States to denote the wave of American female p ...
Bardot before leaving the group suddenly under controversial circumstances.
Career
Music
In 1999, Barry auditioned for the first series of the Australian version of the talent show ''
Popstars
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'', competing against over 2,500 hopefuls who turned up to auditions around the country which required both singing and dancing experience. After a series of elimination rounds Barry, along with
Belinda Chapple
Belinda Barbara Chapple (born 15 January 1975) is an Australian singer, creative director and interior designer. She is a former member of female pop group Bardot.
Career
Chapple's pop music career began in 1995 during a brief stint as a memb ...
,
Sophie Monk
Sophie Charlene Akland Monk (born 14 December 1979) is a British-born Australian singer, actress, television personality, and model. She was a member of the Pop music, pop girl group Bardot (Australian band), Bardot, winners of the first season ...
, Sally Polihronas and
Katie Underwood
Katie Ashley Underwood (born 23 December 1975) is an Australian singer-songwriter and meditation teacher. She is best known for being a member of Bardot, winners of the first Australian series of ''Popstars'' in 2000.
Since departing the gr ...
were chosen to form a group and moved in together in Sydney to work on their debut single
"Poison".
However after only a few weeks Barry was asked to resign from the nascent, still-unnamed girl group after stealing money from Sophie Monk, but the reason for her departure was not revealed at the time. She first confirmed the circumstances around her departure in a 2006 appearance on the TV show ''
Where Are They Now?'', and further elaborated on the incident in later interviews.
[ Barry states that she had taken Monk's weekly $100 money allowance from an envelope left in Barry's room with the intention of giving it back to her, but forgot to do so and was therefore removed from the group. Subsequently she was paid $1000 and offered a solo record deal to leave the group and to stay silent on the matter at the time, leading to the widespread speculation over her firing.][ She was replaced by ]Tiffani Wood
Tiffany "Tiffani" Jane Wood (born 8 November 1977) is an Australian singer and songwriter, and former member of female pop group Bardot.
Career
In 1999, Wood auditioned for the first Australian season of ''Popstars'', a reality television show ...
in the final line-up of what would become Bardot. Polihronas would later state that Barry was "exploited" by the show and made out to be "the villain".[
She later left Australia, and placed third in the Song of the Year songwriting contest,][
In August 2009, she officially launched her debut solo album ''Simple Things'' in the U.S., followed by albums ''Songbird'' in 2012, and more recently, ''Lovers Gonna Love'' in 2018.
In 2020, Barry recorded her own version of "Poison".][
]
Acting
Barry has appeared in several independent films and in small roles on the television series '' Water Rats'', ''General Hospital
''General Hospital'' (often abbreviated as ''GH'') is an American daytime television soap opera created by Frank and Doris Hursley which has been broadcast on American Broadcasting Company, ABC since April 1, 1963. Originally a half-hour seria ...
'', ''Entourage
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'', ''How I Met Your Mother
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'', ''The Paul Reiser Show
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'' and ''NCIS NCIS or N.C.I.S. may refer to:
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* National Criminal Intelligence Service, the predecessor to the Serious Organised Crime Agency of the United Kingdom
* Naval Criminal Investigative Service, a United States law enforcement and intelli ...
''. In 2008 Barry played the recurring role of Nina, a friend of main character Naomi Clark Naomi Clark may refer to:
*Naomi Clark (90210 character)
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on the television series '' 90210''.Valiant Comics
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character Roku
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As of 2024, Roku is the U ...
, the main antagonist of the '' Ninjak vs. the Valiant Universe'' live-action miniseries.
Barry also works as a voice actor. In 2016, she played Ava Thorne in the Oculus Rift
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video game ''Edge of Nowhere
''Edge of Nowhere'' is an action-adventure virtual reality video game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Oculus Studios. The player controls adventurer Victor Howard as he ventures into Antarctica in order to find his fiancée's lost ex ...
'', and is credited as the voice of the "Narrator" in an episode of the 2018 Netflix
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series ''Disjointed
''Disjointed'' is an American television sitcom created by David Javerbaum and Chuck Lorre and starring Kathy Bates. Twenty episodes of the series were ordered from Warner Bros. by Netflix, with the first 10 episodes premiering on August 25, 20 ...
''. Barry also did additional voice work for the video games ''Mad Max
''Mad Max'' is an Australian media franchise created by George Miller and Byron Kennedy. It centres on a series of post-apocalyptic and dystopian action films. The franchise began in 1979 with '' Mad Max'', and was followed by three sequels: ...
'', '' Agents of Mayhem'', ''Marvel's Spider-Man
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'', ''Days Gone
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'' and voiced the character Chloe in ''Metal Gear Survive
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''.
In 2019, Barry voiced Baphomet on the DC Universe
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web television series ''Doom Patrol
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'', and provided the voice of Sheila in ''Spyro Reignited Trilogy
''Spyro Reignited Trilogy'' is a 2018 platform game compilation developed by Toys for Bob and published by Activision. It includes remakes of the first three games in the ''Spyro'' series: ''Spyro the Dragon'' (1998), '' Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!' ...
''. She voiced Ghost
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in 2020's ''Iron Man VR
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'' and Shael in 2021's ''Horizon Forbidden West
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''. In 2024, Barry voiced Selina Kyle
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in '' Batman: Arkham Shadow'' and Maya in '' Call of Duty: Black Ops 6s Zombies mode.
Other
Barry has appeared in two pictorials for ''FHM
''FHM'' (For Him Magazine) was a printed British multinational men's lifestyle magazine that was published in several countries. It contained features such as the ''FHM'' 100 Sexiest Women in the World.
The final printed issue of British ''F ...
'', one in the months after leaving Bardot and another in 2007.[
]
Personal life
Barry married American actor Scott Whyte
Scott Whyte is an American actor, best known for his role as Chris Anderson on '' City Guys''. He has also appeared in television series such as ''That '70s Show'' and ''Just Shoot Me!'' and the films '' D2: The Mighty Ducks'' and its sequel, '' ...
in 2018. She has been based in Los Angeles
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since 2002.[
Barry is of Burmese and ]Italian
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* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance languag ...
heritage.
References
External links
*
Barry's Music Nation profileChantellebarry.com
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1980 births
Australian women pop singers
Australian women singer-songwriters
Australian television actresses
Australian film actresses
Actresses from Perth, Western Australia
Living people
Bardot (Australian band) members
21st-century Australian singers
21st-century Australian women singers
Australian voice actresses
Australian video game actresses
Australian people of Burmese descent
Australian people of Italian descent
Australian singers of Italian descent
21st-century Australian singer-songwriters