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Chris Barrie (born March 28, 1960) is a British actor, best known as a vocal impressionist (notably in the ITV sketch show Spitting Image) and for his role as Arnold Rimmer in the cult BBC2 comedy Red Dwarf.
He was born Christopher Jonathan Brown in Hannover, Lower Saxony, West Germany, and boarded at Methodist College Belfast, in Northern Ireland. After dropping out of Brighton Polytechnic, he began his TV career as a sports personality impersonator on The David Essex Showcase. In addition to playing Arnold Rimmer, he is also famous for his role as leisure centre manager Gordon Brittas in the BBC1 sitcom The Brittas Empire, which was broadcast from 1991-97 and ran for seven series, totalling 52 episodes.
Barrie also hosted the television series Chris Barrie's Massive Engines on the Discovery Channel and Mean Machines on Channel 5. In 2006, he appeared as a regular team captain in the BBC2 quiz show Petrolheads, and is the star of the upcoming film Back In Business, in which he plays Tom Marks.
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