Matt Barr

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Matthew Jerome Barr{{cite web |url=http://www.tv.com/matt-barr/person/266745/summary.html |title=Matt Barr |publisher=TV.com |access-date=September 14, 2010}} was born on February 14, 1984, in Allen, Texas, a suburb of Dallas,{{cite web |url=http://www.mattbarr.net/id4.html |title=Biography |publisher=mattbarr.net |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723203645/http://www.mattbarr.net/id4.html |archivedate=July 23, 2011 |access-date=September 14, 2010}} 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's paternal grandfather, Jerome Barr, was born Barzilauskas/Barziloski; a generational name to the Lithuanian surname Bardzilauskas.

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.

Half a year after the filming of Levelland ended, in January 2003, Barr moved to Los Angeles, where his first acting job was a scene on the television show ER.{{cite web|url=http://allenimage.com/archives/showArticle.php?id=83|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130116111814/http://allenimage.com/archives/showArticle.php?id=83|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-01-16|title=Fairview's Matt Barr - One Man Acting Out His Dream|last=Helmick-Richardson|first=Peggy|date=July 2007|work=Allen Image|access-date=June 21, 2012}}

Some of Barr's roles include playing Ian Banks, Peyton Sawyer's (played by Hilarie Burton) stalker on One Tree Hill. Barr has also portrayed guest and recurring roles on popular television series ER, Bones, The O.C. and Commander in Chief. He starred as David Stanley in the direct to DVD film Protecting the King as Elvis Presley's youngest step-brother. Barr appeared in the 2008 film The House Bunny as Tyler, one of the university students.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

He portrayed David "Puck" Rainey, one of the alumni of The Real World: San Francisco, in Pedro, Nick Oceano's 2008 biographical film on the life of AIDS educator Pedro Zamora.[http://www.pedrothemovie.com/ Pedro]. official site. Pedrothemovie.com. Retrieved on 2012-05-31.[http://www.pedrothemovie.com/cast_crew.html Cast and crew page of "Pedro"]. Pedrothemovie.com. Retrieved on 2012-05-31. In 2009, Barr co-starred in the mystery/horror miniseries Harper's Island as Christopher "Sully" Sullivan. Between 2009 and 2010, he guest starred in many TV series, such as Castle, Trauma, Friday Night Lights,[http://fridaynightlightsfan.com/2010/01/05/fancast-matt-bar-to-appear-on-fnl/ "Fancast: Matt Bar to Appear on FNL"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100930021935/http://fridaynightlightsfan.com/2010/01/05/fancast-matt-bar-to-appear-on-fnl/ |date=2010-09-30 }} Friday Night Lights Fan; January 5, 2010 and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.[http://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings/20100325cbs07/&date=04/01/2010 "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Time Change)"] The Futon Critic; Accessed September 14, 2010

Barr was cast as a series regular in the CW series Hellcats,[http://www.tv.com/oth-alums-join-cws-hellcats/webnews/84933.html "OTH Alums Join CW's Hellcats"] TV.com; May 20, 2010 playing Dan Patch, in 2010. The series premiered on September 8, 2010. However, after one season the series was cancelled.{{Cite news|title=The CW Renews One Tree Hill and Nikita, Cancels Hellcats |url=http://www.tvguide.com/news/Tree-Hill-Nikita-Renewed-1033215.aspx|last=Stanhope|first=Kate|date=May 17, 2011 |work=TV Guide |access-date=January 13, 2012}} He had a role as Billy "The Kid" Rhodes on the USA Network series Necessary Roughness in 2011.{{cite web|url=http://mattbarrfan.com/2011/06/matt-to-appear-in-usas-necessary-roughness/|title=Matt To Appear In USA's Necessary Roughness|work=MattBarrFan.com|date=June 30, 2011|access-date=October 7, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012220627/http://mattbarrfan.com/2011/06/matt-to-appear-in-usas-necessary-roughness/|archive-date=October 12, 2014|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/07/14/cable-ratings-royal-pains-necessary-roughness-world-cup-lead-franklin-bash-espys-more/98069/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717123529/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/07/14/cable-ratings-royal-pains-necessary-roughness-world-cup-lead-franklin-bash-espys-more/98069/|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 17, 2011|title=Update Cable Ratings: 'Royal Pains' 'Necessary Roughness'; World Cup Lead + 'Franklin & Bash,' 'ESPYs' & More|publisher=TVbytheNumbers |last=Seidman|first=Robert|date=July 14, 2011|access-date=October 7, 2014}} In 2012, Barr assumed a leading role, starring in the Kevin Costner miniseries Hatfields & McCoys for the History Channel. He portrayed Johnson "Johnse" Hatfield, who fell in love with Roseanna McCoy.[https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/05/30/matt-barr-on-playing-johnse-hatfield-in-hatfields-mccoys "Matt Barr on Playing Johnse Hatfield in 'Hatfields and McCoys'"], The Wall Street Journal, May 30, 2012. In 2013, he portrayed Christopher Porco in the TV movie Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story.

In 2014, Barr appeared in a recurring role on Sleepy Hollow as Nick Hawley in season 2.{{cite web |url=http://tvline.com/2014/05/27/sleepy-hollow-season-2-cast-matt-barr-bounty-hunter/ |title=Exclusive: Sleepy Hollow Taps One Tree Hill Actor to Aid Ichabod & Abbie |last=Roots |first=Kimberly |work=TVLine |date=May 27, 2014 |access-date=October 7, 2014}}

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