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{{short description|English pornographic film actress}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Cathy Barry
| image = Cathy Barry iafd.jpg
| caption = Barry at the 2003 [[Adult Entertainment Expo]]
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| birth_place = [[Bristol]], England
| death_date =
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| spouse = Philip Joseph Barry<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/18/residents-oppose-plans-to-turn-porn-studio-into-houses/|title=Residents oppose plans to turn porn studio into houses|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=18 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hush-hush.co.uk/porn-star-interviews/cathy-barry/|title=Porn Star Interview - Cathy Barry » Hush-Hush|date=9 June 2007 }}</ref>
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=3}}<ref name=iafd>{{IAFD name|CathyBarry|f}}</ref>
| alias = Cathy Berry, Cindy Q
| website = {{URL|cathybarry.com}}
}}
'''Cathy Barry''' is an English [[glamour model]] and [[pornographic actress]]. Along with her filmmaker husband Phil Barry, she also runs the adult film production and distribution company Pumpkin Media TV.<ref name="archive.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.ukafta.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815061429/http://www.ukafta.com/ |archive-date=2009-08-15 |title=WINNERS AWARDS LIST 2008
==Career==
Born in [[Bristol]],<ref name=OffBio>{{cite web |url=http://www.cathybarry.com/cathyscorner/biography/biography.html |title=My Biography |website=CathyBarry.com |access-date=2010-12-16}}</ref><ref name=2003ScoreInterview>{{cite journal |last=Rosen |first=Dave |title=The SCORE Interview: Cathy Barry |journal=SCORE |date=November 2003 |volume=12 |issue=11 |page=34 |url=https://issuu.com/banzor/docs/2003---score-magazine-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905030451/https://issuu.com/banzor/docs/2003---score-magazine-11 |archive-date=2015-09-05 |access-date=28 April 2014}}</ref> Barry left school at the age of 16 and took a temporary packing job at a bra factory.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cathybarry.com/cathyscorner/biography/biography.html |title=The official website of British porn star Cathy Barry |website=Cathybarry.com |access-date=10 August 2017}}</ref> She was then asked to model the bras for the company, and she appeared on the packaging for those bras.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hush-hush.co.uk/porn-star-interviews/cathy-barry/ |title=Porn Star Interview - Cathy Barry |date=9 June 2007 |website=Hush-hush.co.uk |access-date=13 August 2017}}</ref> This led to other modelling jobs, which included one for a local [[body piercing]] shop and a radio station, [[Galaxy 101]], at age 18. One of the radio station photos was used for a [[billboard]] advertisement, which led to her getting into glamour modeling. Later, she started [[lap dancing]] and table dancing in men's clubs.<ref name=2003ScoreInterview/>
She has appeared in and on the front cover of publications including ''[[The Daily Sport]]'', ''[[Penthouse (magazine)|Penthouse]]'', ''[[Nuts (magazine)|Nuts]]'', ''[[The Score Group|Score Magazine]]'', ''[[Bizarre (magazine)|Bizarre]]'', and ''[[Gent (magazine)|Gent]]'', amongst others.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.starnow.co.uk/cathybarry1 |title=Cathy Barry is an Actor, Model and Dancer based in Bristol, United Kingdom |website=starnow.co.uk |access-date=17 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cathybarry.com:80/html/scrapbook.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010807162325/http://www.cathybarry.com/html/scrapbook.htm |archive-date=7 August 2001 |title=Cathy Barry |date=7 August 2001
Around age 22, Barry started doing solo and then girl-girl videos, before progressing into boy-girl videos for larger production companies such as [[Playboy TV]]<ref name=2003ScoreInterview/> in a film called ''Countess Cathula''.
In 2004, Barry starred in a Cathula follow up film entitled ''Cathula II - Vampires of Sex'', which featured celebrity-gangster [[Dave Courtney]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/cathula-ii-vampires-sex-2005-0 |title=''CATHULA II - VAMPIRES OF SEX'' |website=bbfc.co.uk |access-date=17 August 2017}}</ref>
In 2005, Barry was featured in promotional material which
In 2006, she starred in the adult film ''The Affair'' with Omar Williams. Although some critics attacked the film for bad filming that made it look amateurish,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bgafd.co.uk/films/details.php/id/a0905 |title=The Affair |website=bgafd.co.uk |access-date=15 January 2019}}</ref> other critics praised the movie.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.strictlynews.com/sbn/live/Reviews/movies/2187.html |title=Review of ''The Affair'' |access-date=2008-01-03 |publisher=Strictly News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002014422/http://www.strictlynews.com/sbn/live/Reviews/movies/2187.html |archive-date=2011-10-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In the same year, she starred in the comedy crime film ''[[Six Bend Trap]]'', which featured Dave Courtney and actress [[Lisa Riley]].
Through 2008 and 2011, Barry appeared on UK porn channel [[Television X]]. Since 2010, she has appeared as a presenter on the UK adult television channel Red Light Central TV.
===Television appearances===
Barry has appeared on several UK TV chat shows, including ''[[Richard & Judy]]'', ''[[Vanessa (UK TV series)|Vanessa]]'', and ''[[Trisha Goddard (TV series)|Trisha]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cathybarry.tv/filmography.html |title=Cathy Barry |website=cathybarry.tv |access-date=17 August 2017}}</ref>
Through the early to mid 2000s, she regularly appeared on and presented several shows on the [[Granada Television]]/[[British Sky Broadcasting]] channel [[Men & Motors]], including ''World of Big Boobs'' with Teresa May,
In 2004, Barry underwent a [[breast implant]] operation that was broadcast live on the [[Five (TV channel)|Five]] show ''[[Cosmetic Surgery Live]]''. It was reported as being the biggest breast enlargement operation to be performed in the UK. The surgeon performing the operation was later called before his hospital's ethics committee.<ref>{{cite
Barry played herself in episode 6 of ''Unseen Skins'' on the ''[[Skins (TV series)|Skins]]'' website. In it, she sleeps with the character [[Chris Miles (Skins)|Chris Miles]], and, upon hearing about his love for his teacher, she promises him a cheque for [[pound sterling|£]]700 so that he can pursue her on a school trip to Russia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/S/skins/unseen_p2.html |title=Unseen Skins |access-date=2007-06-21 |publisher=[[Channel 4]]}}</ref>
In 2009, Barry appeared throughout the two-part [[BBC2]] documentary ''Hardcore Profits'', which investigated the workings and effects of the global pornographic industry. The programmes were presented by [[Tim Samuels]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-on-demand/6049524/BBC-iPlayer-choices-Monday-31-August.html |title=BBC |
==Awards and nominations==
In 2007, Barry won the award for Best British Performer at the ETO Awards show.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.strictlynews.com/sbn/live/Articles/sexandporn/eto-show-2007.html |title=ETO Show 2007 |access-date=2008-01-03 |publisher=Strictly News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002014300/http://www.strictlynews.com/sbn/live/Articles/sexandporn/eto-show-2007.html |archive-date=2011-10-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Later that year, Barry was nominated for Best Female Actress in the [[UK Adult Film Awards]] for her role in ''Cathy's Diaries 9''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.strictlynews.com/sbn/live/industry/news/adult-film-awards-nominations.html |title=UK Adult Film Awards – Nominations |access-date=2008-01-03 |publisher=Strictly News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002014335/http://www.strictlynews.com/sbn/live/industry/news/adult-film-awards-nominations.html |archive-date=2011-10-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Barry also won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2007 UK Adult Film Awards<ref>{{cite web |url=http://strictlynews.com/sbn/live/industry/news/adult-films-awards-2007-winners.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100219125700/http://strictlynews.com/sbn/live/industry/news/adult-films-awards-2007-winners.html |archive-date=2010-02-19 |title=UK Adult Film Awards 2007 - The Winners |date=19 February 2010
==Personal life==
Growing up, Barry had nicknames such as "Jeff" (as she had the same surname as Olympic [[shot put]] thrower [[Jeff Capes]] —Capes being her maiden name) and "Centrefold".<ref name=2003ScoreInterview/> She states that prior to her adult film and modelling career, she was a [[body builder]] and was also interested in going to college to become a chef. Barry has stated that she is [[bisexual]].<ref name=2003ScoreInterview/>
In 2008, Barry was at the centre of an appeal in the ''[[Bristol Post]]'' after a duck from her family's home in [[Kingswood, South Gloucestershire]] had gone missing. A Facebook group ''Find Cathy Barry's Duck'' was set up, and the duck was found and rescued from a pond in [[Keynsham]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Cathy-Barry-reunited-missing-duck/story-11279512-detail/story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150706030307/http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Cathy-Barry-reunited-missing-duck/story-11279512-detail/story.html |archive-date=2015-07-06 |title=Cathy Barry reunited with missing duck |date=6 July 2015
During the 2011 political scandal around Scottish businessman [[Adam Werritty]]'s access to the [[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Defence]], images were published in the national press of an earlier meeting between Barry and [[Liam Fox]], the minister at the centre of the scandal.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://swns.com/news/liam-fox-photographed-with-porn-star-cathy-barry-21335/ |title=Yes, Minister: Liam Fox photographed with porn star Cathy Barry |website=Swns.com |access-date=13 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811054942/http://swns.com/news/liam-fox-photographed-with-porn-star-cathy-barry-21335/ |archive-date=11 August 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8823874/Liam-Fox-and-Adam-Werritty-as-it-happened-12-October.html |title=Liam Fox and Adam Werritty: as it happened 12 October |website=Telegraph.co.uk |date=12 October 2011 |access-date=13 August 2017}}</ref>
In 2016, it was widely reported in the UK media that residents of [[St George, Bristol]] opposed planned changes to a building that Barry's husband Phil had run as an adult film studio (Bristol Film Studios) since 1995<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theabstract.co.uk/projects/bristoluncensored/page2/page2.html |title=Biographies |website=Theabstract.co.uk |access-date=10 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170426201313/http://www.theabstract.co.uk/projects/bristoluncensored/page2/page2.html |archive-date=26 April 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and that Cathy Barry worked from, into a multiple occupancy house. Residents were concerned that short term rental contracts would attract people who would not integrate with the community.<ref>{{cite
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