Carrie and Barry is a sitcom, shown 2004 - 2005 on BBC One

BBC One

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, starring Neil Morrissey

Neil Morrissey

Neil Anthony Morrissey is an English actor, media personality and businessman. He is best known for his role as Tony in Men Behaving Badly....

, Claire Rushbrook

Claire Rushbrook

Claire Rushbrook is an English film and television actress best known for her lead and support roles in various episodic television series.-Background:...

, Mark Williams

Mark Williams (actor)

Mark Williams is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter and presenter. He is best known as one of the stars of the popular BBC sketch show The Fast Show, as well as for his role as Arthur Weasley in the Harry Potter films....

 and Michelle Gomez

Michelle Gomez

Michelle Gomez is a Scottish actress best known for her comedy roles in Green Wing and The Book Group.-Early life:Her father, originally from Montserrat, was a photographer, while her mother ran a modeling agency...

.

Produced by Hartswood Films

Hartswood Films

Hartswood Films is a British television production company, founded and run by producer Beryl Vertue. The company is noted for its sitcom output, which includes Men Behaving Badly, Is It Legal? and Coupling...

, it reunited Morrissey with personnel from Men Behaving Badly

Men Behaving Badly

Men Behaving Badly is a British comedy that was created and written by Simon Nye. It follows the lives of Gary Strang and his flatmates, Dermot Povey and Tony Smart It was first broadcast on ITV in 1992...

: specifically writer Simon Nye

Simon Nye

Simon Nye is an English comic television writer, best known for creating the hit sitcom Men Behaving Badly, writing all of the four ITV Panto, co-writing the 2006 film Flushed Away, co-writing Reggie Perrin and creating the latest adaption of William Brown in the Just William CBBC...

, executive producer Beryl Vertue

Beryl Vertue

Beryl Vertue is an English television producer and media executive. She is founder and chairman of the independent television production company Hartswood Films....

 and director Martin Dennis. It was produced by Sue Vertue

Sue Vertue

Sue Vertue is a British television producer. She has produced many comedy shows, including Mr. Bean and Coupling.Vertue worked for Tiger Aspect, a production company run by Peter Bennett-Jones, where she produced episodes of Mr. Bean, The Vicar of Dibley and Gimme Gimme Gimme.Vertue met writer...

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Neil Morrissey

Neil Morrissey

Neil Anthony Morrissey is an English actor, media personality and businessman. He is best known for his role as Tony in Men Behaving Badly....

 plays part-time taxi driver Barry and Claire Rushbrook

Claire Rushbrook

Claire Rushbrook is an English film and television actress best known for her lead and support roles in various episodic television series.-Background:...

 (Linda Green

Linda Green

Linda Green is a British television comedy-drama series that lasted for two series, screened in 2001 and 2002. The twenty half-hour episodes were broadcast on BBC One and produced for the BBC by the independent Red Production Company....

) is his beautician wife Carrie. The couple find themselves with the daily challenges of keeping the spice in their marriage and the fun in their day jobs — as well as having to deal with Barry's teenage daughter Sinéad (Sarah Quintrell

Sarah Quintrell

Sarah Quintrell is a British actress. She plays Sinéad in the BBC TV sitcom Carrie and Barry. She trained at Manchester Metropolitan School of Theatre from 2000 to 2003.-Credits:...

) from his disastrous first marriage.

Mark Williams

Mark Williams (actor)

Mark Williams is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter and presenter. He is best known as one of the stars of the popular BBC sketch show The Fast Show, as well as for his role as Arthur Weasley in the Harry Potter films....

 plays Barry's mate Kirk, who co-owns his black cab (he does the night shifts) whilst Michelle Gomez

Michelle Gomez

Michelle Gomez is a Scottish actress best known for her comedy roles in Green Wing and The Book Group.-Early life:Her father, originally from Montserrat, was a photographer, while her mother ran a modeling agency...

is Carrie's acid-tongued best friend and fellow beautician Michelle.

External links

• Carrie and Barry at British TV Comedy