He also appeared as an impressionist on the BBC's Carrott's Lib between 19, and he starred in his own sketch show Pushing Up Daisies (re-titled Coming Next for the following season) from 1984 to 1985 alongside Hale and Pace and Carla Mendonça. Barrie provided the voice of Ronald Reagan in the pop song ' Two Tribes' by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, as well as various vocalizations for other tracks by FGTH and Art of Noise. He was a regular on Saturday Live, amongst performers like Fry and Laurie, Rik Mayall and Ben Elton. He adopted the surname 'Barrie' as there was already an actor named Chris Brown on the Equity UK lists. He began his television career as a sports personality impersonator on The David Essex Showcase in 1982. After dropping out of his Combined Studies course at Brighton Polytechnic, he became a grave filler. Barrie is most renowned for starring as Arnold Rimmer in 13 seasons of the sci-fi space comedy Red Dwarf between 19, and as Gordon Brittas in 7 seasons of the BBC leisure centre sitcom The Brittas Empire (1991–1997),īarrie was born in Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany, to a father who was serving in the British Army, and attended Methodist College Belfast boarding school in Northern Ireland. He worked as a vocal impressionist on the ITV sketch show Spitting Image (1984–1996) and as Lara Croft's butler Hillary in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003). Chris Barrie (born Christopher Jonathan Brown, 28 March 1960) is a British actor, comedian, and impressionist.

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