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Barry Pepper

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He is not a star, but he is an actor who leaves his skin in each role. Barry Pepper has especially excelled in roles related to the military, although his range is quite extensive.

Born in Campbell River, a major city in British Columbia, Canada, on April 4, 1970, Barry Pepper is the youngest of three brothers. His childhood was curious, since when he was five years old his parents embarked the whole family on a ship that they had built themselves, the “Moonlighter”, and they spent five years traveling to places like Tahiti and Hawaii. Raised by his parents, Pepper remembers that not having a television, he became a creative boy who learned to use his imagination, and used to perform skits with his family for fun.

Back in Canada, the family set up a farm next to a town populated by artists and hippies. At school he excelled in art-related subjects, while he turned out to be an excellent rugby player.

He studied marketing and graphic design, before discovering his passion for acting and enrolling at the Actors Studio in Vancouver. She made her debut in the telefilm Crime between friends , and shortly after signed as one of the protagonists of Madison, a series in the vein of Sensation of living , but in a Canadian version, which made her popular in her country. He had a prominent role in Titanic (1996) , a telefilm with Catherine Zeta-Jones .

His first prominent role in the cinema was given to him by none other than Steven Spielberg in his celebrated Saving Private Ryan , where he was Daniel Jackson, one of the soldiers brought together for his mission by the character of Tom Hanks , specifically the one who ended up defending a Bell tower.

From that moment on, he was raffled off for secondary in pull productions, such as Public Enemy , The Green Mile , Battlefield: The Earth . He reprized in war movies in When We Were Soldiers , where he was a war photographer, and stood out in Last Night , as one of the youthful friends of Edward Norton ‘s character . He was also a border agent in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada , and again a soldier in Clint Eastwood ‘s Flags of Our Fathers ., in which he had to be the head of the unit, died shortly after taking the photo in which several men raised the American banner.

Happily married to Cindy, since November 1997, he fathered a daughter, Annaliese, in 2000.

In his filmography, the outlaw Ned Pepper stands out, with whom he shares the last name, in Valor de ley (True Grit) , where he appears so characterized that it was hard to recognize him.

Well positioned for the future, Barry Pepper doesn’t stop. He has been Bobby Kennedy in the mini-series The Kennedys , and has shot a drama, as yet untitled, with Terrence Malick .

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