Matthew Jerome Barr (born February 14, 1984) is an American actor. He
currently stars as Danny McNamara in the actionâ€"adventure television
series Blood & Treasure (2019). He is also known for his roles as
Johnse Hatfield in Hatfields & McCoys with Kevin Costner, Mike Fleming
in Commander in Chief, Ian Banks in One Tree Hill, Christopher
Sullivan in the mystery-horror limited series Harper's Island, and Dan
Patch in The CW's series Hellcats.Matthew Jerome Barr was born on
February 14, 1984, in Allen, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, to Mike Barr,
a former football coach at Purdue University and Southern Methodist
University, who is now in the real estate business, and DeDe Barr, a
portrait artist. Barr has a younger brother, Luke, and sister, Sara.
When Barr was in fourth grade, his family moved to Fairview, Texas,
another Dallas suburb.Barr was active in the Allen High School theater
program, and had major roles in many school plays and musical theater
productions. This included the role of Tommy in Meredith Willson's The
Music Man, and a court jester in the school's madrigal dinner.While a
high school senior, Barr learned that Richard Linklater was planning a
film about football in Austin, Friday Night Lights. He auditioned for
a role. Although this movie ended up being put on hold for another two
years and Linklater was replaced by Peter Berg as director, Barr made
some favorable impressions. Producer Ann Walker Mclay, Linklater, and
collaborator and director Clark Lee Walker offered him the lead role
in their film Levelland that was being shot in Austin in the late
spring and early summer of 2002.
currently stars as Danny McNamara in the actionâ€"adventure television
series Blood & Treasure (2019). He is also known for his roles as
Johnse Hatfield in Hatfields & McCoys with Kevin Costner, Mike Fleming
in Commander in Chief, Ian Banks in One Tree Hill, Christopher
Sullivan in the mystery-horror limited series Harper's Island, and Dan
Patch in The CW's series Hellcats.Matthew Jerome Barr was born on
February 14, 1984, in Allen, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, to Mike Barr,
a former football coach at Purdue University and Southern Methodist
University, who is now in the real estate business, and DeDe Barr, a
portrait artist. Barr has a younger brother, Luke, and sister, Sara.
When Barr was in fourth grade, his family moved to Fairview, Texas,
another Dallas suburb.Barr was active in the Allen High School theater
program, and had major roles in many school plays and musical theater
productions. This included the role of Tommy in Meredith Willson's The
Music Man, and a court jester in the school's madrigal dinner.While a
high school senior, Barr learned that Richard Linklater was planning a
film about football in Austin, Friday Night Lights. He auditioned for
a role. Although this movie ended up being put on hold for another two
years and Linklater was replaced by Peter Berg as director, Barr made
some favorable impressions. Producer Ann Walker Mclay, Linklater, and
collaborator and director Clark Lee Walker offered him the lead role
in their film Levelland that was being shot in Austin in the late
spring and early summer of 2002.
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