Barnaby Kay

Barnaby Kay
Born	Barnaby Kay (1969-04-09) 9 April 1969 (age 55) St Pancras, London, England
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1993–present
Spouse	Nicola Walker ​ (m. 2006)​
Children	1
Father	Richard Kay

Barnaby Kay (born 9 April 1969) is a British actor who has played roles in television, stage, film and performance art. He was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Personal life

Kay was born at St Pancras, London and is the son of actor Richard Kay (1937–1987) and Jaqueline (née Maxwell) and the grandson of entertainer Arthur Kay (died 1970).

He met actress Nicola Walker when they worked together with the Out of Joint Theatre Company, in a 1994 touring production of The Man of Mode and The Libertine;^[1] they married in 2006, and have a son together.^[2]

Career

Among other roles, Kay has appeared in The Five (2016), Wallander (2012–15), Doctor Who (2015), New Tricks (2013–14), Frankie (2013), Public Enemies (2011), Wuthering Heights (2009), Holby City (2008), Midsomer Murders (2005), Spooks (2004), Prime Suspect (2003), Serious and Organised (2003), Silent Witness (2002), Conspiracy (2001), The Bill (2000), Casualty (1999), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Croupier (1998), Jonathan Creek (1997), Cracker (1996), The Vet (1995) and Minder (1994).

Theatre

Kay's theatre work includes A Streetcar Named Desire at the Donmar Warehouse (2009),^[3] Orlando in As You Like It at the Novello Theatre (2006), Closer at the National Theatre (1999–2000), Pierre Bezuhov in Warring Peas at the Hampstead Theatre (2008), Tinky Winky, Teletubbies tour (2011-2016), Steve Calhanm in Eric Larue at the Soho Theatre (2006), and Alexander Petrovich Kalabushkin in Dying For It at the Almeida Theatre (2007).^[4]

Radio

• The Lovecraft Investigations^[5]

• 2018 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.^[6] BBC Radio 4.
• 2019 The Whisperer in Darkness.^[7] BBC Radio 4.
• 2020 The Shadow Over Innsmouth.^[8] BBC Radio 4.
• 2023 The Haunter of the Dark. BBC Radio 4.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	The Man Who Knew Too Little	SWAT Team Leader
	Oscar and Lucinda	Wardley-Fish
1998	Croupier	Car Dealer
	Shakespeare in Love	Nol
2000	Eisenstein	Andrei
2008	Arn: The Kingdom at Road's End	Riddare
2010	Arn: The Knight Templar	Riddare
2012	Red Tails	Commanding General Westlake
	The Deadfall	The Previous Occupier	Short film
2013	Fire Horse	Roddy	Short film
2023	Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One	Put-Pocket Passenger

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Minder	Riley	Episode: "The Long Good Thursday"
1995	The Vet	Tom Sims	Episode: "Relative Values"
	The Ghostbusters of East Finchley	DC Asho	Episode: "Episode 6"
1996	Cracker	Dennis Philby	Episode: "White Ghost"
1997	Jonathan Creek	D.C. Spelling	Episode: "The House of Monkeys"
1999	Casualty	Gareth Mullins	Episode: "Mother's Day"
	The Blonde Bombshell	Alan Lake	Miniseries; 1 episode
2000	The Bill	Howard Fallon	Recurring role; 6 episodes
2001	Life As We Know It	Harry Cameron	Recurring role; 3 episodes
2001	Conspiracy	Rudolf Lange	TV movie
2002	AKA Albert Walker	Mike Darke	TV movie
2002	Silent Witness	DS Clive Johnson	Episode: "The Fall Out"
2003	Serious & Organised	Oliver Wolcott	Episode: "Unfaithful"
	Prime Suspect	DC Michael Philips	Episode: "The Last Witness"
2004	Spooks	John Fortescue	Episode: "Love and Death"
2005	Midsomer Murders	Dr. Osgood	Episode: "Bantling Boy"
2005	The Government Inspector	Tom Kelly	TV movie
2007	Life Line	Tony	TV movie
2008	Holby City	Aaron Fellows	Recurring role; 4 episodes
	The Fixer	Danny Spader	Episode: "Episode 4"
2009	Wuthering Heights	Saul	Miniseries; 2 episodes
2010	Dispatches	Narrator	Recurring role; 2 episodes
2011	Without You	Joe Lipton	Miniseries; 3 episodes
2012	Treasure Island	Tom Morgan	Miniseries; 2 episodes
	Public Enemies	Will	Miniseries; 3 episodes
	Dead Boss	Justin	Miniseries; 4 episodes
	Midsomer Murders	Adrian Sharp	Episode: "Written in the Stars"
	Holby City	Eamonn Gleeson	Episode: "Hail Caesar"
2012–2015	Wallander	Lennart Mattson	Recurring role; 5 episodes
2013	Frankie	Toby Ellis	Episode: "Episode 4"
2013–2014	New Tricks	DAC Ned Hancock	Recurring role; 4 episodes
2014	One Child	Mr. Anderson	Miniseries; 2 episodes
2015	Doctor Who	Heidi	Episode: "The Girl Who Died"
2016	The Five	DI Liam Townsend	Miniseries; 5 episodes
2022	Anatomy of a Scandal	Detective Sergeant Willis	Episode: "Episode 1"
2023	Screw	Governor Mayhew	Series regular; 6 episodes

References

1. "Past Productions: The Man of Mode / The Libertine | by George Etherege, Stephen Jeffreys | 1994". Out of Joint Theatre Company. 1994. Archived from the original on 19 May 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2025. ... at the University of Warwick Arts Centre on 20 October 1994 and then on tour, culminating at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 6 December 1994.
2. Palmer, Katie (9 May 2022). "How did Nicola Walker meet husband Barnaby Kay?". Daily Express. Archived from the original on 18 February 2024. Retrieved 18 February 2024. The pair were together for almost 20 years before they married in 2006.
3. whatsonstage.com Archived 16 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine What's On Stage website
4. "Barnaby Kay". London Theatre Database. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
5. "The Lovecraft Investigations". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
6. "BBC Radio 4 - The Whisperer in Darkness, Ep 1. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward". BBC. 2 January 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
7. "BBC Radio 4 - The Whisperer in Darkness, Ep 1. The Whisperer in Darkness". BBC. 30 November 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2019.
8. "BBC Radio 4 - the Lovecraft Investigations, Ep. 8 – the Shadow over Innsmouth". www.bbc.co.uk. 19 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.

External links

• Barnaby Kay at IMDb
• 'Macbeth at the Albery - The Inside Story' (2002)
• Kay on the Royal Shakespeare Company website