Jim Barclay

Jim has worked as an actor, comedian, actor-teacher, street theatre performer and voice-over artiste. He can also juggle, play the piano and pitch an off-break in the ‘Corridor of Uncertainty' four times out of six. His TV credits include the title role in BBC TV's highly successful Jossy's Giants (2 series) and the lead role in the C4 Drama documentary Body Story. Other TV appearances include The Bill, Brookside, Eastenders, Grange Hill, New Tricks and 55 Degrees North.

Jim spent three years as a member of the RNT, where he appeared as all five Rivetti Brothers in the award-winning A Small Family Business, by Alan Ayckbourn, as well as Poggio in 'Tis Pity She's A Whore, Nightingale in Bartholomew Fair and Ortuno in Fuente Ovejuna.

Other theatre credits include work at Stratford East, Hornchurch, Stoke and Newcastle-upon-Tyne reps. At Farnham Redgrave he appeared as Long John Silver in Treasure Island. He toured in the TNT production of King Lear, appearing as Gloucester and Albany. Most notably, he appeared as the entire Trojan Army, a Woman with One Buttock and a Signpost for The Smallest Theatre in the World. (He admits the last characterisation might have been a little wooden.)

As a comedian, Jim compered the Comedy Store for two years and has also performed his act on Channel 4, at the Edinburgh Festival and in the middle of a traffic roundabout in Gravesend, Kent. His act largely consisted of telling jokes which were intended to precipitate the downfall of capitalism; now that he has achieved this ambition, Jim has turned his attention to more serious matters and is currently writing a one-man show about utopias.

View Jim's Showreel via his Spotlight page.