| Matt Barr | |
| Birth Name: | Matthew Jerome Barr |
| Birth Date: | 14 February 1984 |
| Birth Place: | Allen, Texas, US |
| Years Active: | 2004–present |
Matthew Jerome Barr (born February 14, 1984) is an American actor, best-known as Danny McNamara in the CBS/Paramount+ action–adventure television series Blood & Treasure[1] and as Johnson "Johnse" Hatfield in Hatfields & McCoys.
Barr also played Mike Fleming in Commander in Chief, Ian Banks in One Tree Hill, Christopher Sullivan in the mystery-horror limited series Harper's Island, and Dan Patch in The CW series Hellcats.
Matthew Jerome Barr[2] was born on February 14, 1984, in Allen, Texas, a suburb of Dallas,[3] 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.[4]
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.
He portrayed David "Puck" Rainey, one of the alumni of , in Pedro, Nick Oceano's 2008 biographical film on the life of AIDS educator Pedro Zamora.[5] [6] 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,[7] and .[8]
Barr was cast as a series regular in the CW series Hellcats,[9] playing Dan Patch, in 2010. The series premiered on September 8, 2010. However, after one season the series was cancelled.[10] He had a role as Billy "The Kid" Rhodes on the USA Network series Necessary Roughness in 2011.[11] [12] 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.[13] 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.[14]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Levelland | Zach Stanley | ||
| 2005 | Brandon Vandecamp | |||
| 2007 | Ten Inch Hero | Brad | ||
| 2007 | Protecting the King | David Stanley | ||
| 2008 | Open Your Eyes | Jesus | Short film | |
| 2008 | Tyler | |||
| 2008 | Pedro | David "Puck" Rainey | ||
| 2012 | Seven Below | Adam | ||
| 2013 | Parkland | Paul Mikkelson | ||
| 2016 | Undrafted | Anthony | ||
| 2017 | Wild Man | Zuber Driver | ||
| 2017 | Ryan |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | ER | Billy | Episode: "Impulse Control" | |
| 2004 | Cell phone bomber | Episode: "Not Landing" | ||
| 2005 | Medium | 17-year-old boy | Episode: "Pilot" | |
| 2005 | American Dreams | Nick | Episode: "California Dreamin'" | |
| 2005 | Over There | Cracker | Episode: "Pilot" | |
| 2005 | Head Cases | Will | Episode: "Malpractice Makes Perfect" | |
| 2005 | Commander in Chief | Mike Fleming | Recurring role; 5 episodes | |
| 2006 | Bones | Logan Corman | Episode: "The Woman in the Garden" | |
| 2006 | Wes Seyfried | Episode: "The College Try" | ||
| 2006 | Hooker Royce | Television film | ||
| 2006–2007 | One Tree Hill | Ian "Psycho Derek" Banks | Recurring role; 7 episodes | |
| 2007 | Thomas Brighton | Episode: "Some Buried Bones" | ||
| 2008 | Swingtown | Matt | Episode: "Surprise!" | |
| 2009 | Harper's Island | Christopher "Sully" Sullivan | Main role; 13 episodes | |
| 2009 | Gossip Girl | Keith van der Woodsen | Episode: "Valley Girls" | |
| 2009 | Castle | Travis McBoyd | Episode: "Inventing the Girl" | |
| 2009 | Mike (uncredited) | Episode: "The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary" | ||
| 2009 | Trauma | Troy Carnahan | 2 episodes | |
| 2010 | Friday Night Lights | Ryan Lowry | 2 episodes | |
| 2010 | Bellermine Quisk | Episode: "The Panty Sniffer" | ||
| 2010–2011 | Hellcats | Dan Patch | Main role; 18 episodes | |
| 2011 | Necessary Roughness | Billy "The Kid" Rhodes | Episode: "Spinning Out" | |
| 2012 | Hatfields & McCoys | Johnson "Johnse" Hatfield | Main role; 3 episodes | |
| 2013 | Romeo Killer: The Chris Porco Story | Christopher Porco | Television film | |
| 2014–2015 | Sleepy Hollow | Nick Hawley | Main role; 9 episodes | |
| 2017 | Dating Game Killer | Detective Ryan | Main role | |
| 2016 | The Interestings | Goodman Wolf | Main role | |
| 2017–2018 | Valor | Captain Leland Gallo | Lead role | |
| 2019–2023 | Blood & Treasure | Danny McNamara | Lead role | |
| 2021 | Walker | Hoyt Rawlins | Recurring role | |
| 2022–2023 | Hoyt Rawlins | Lead role[15] |