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- Height1.68 m
- Genevieve Louise Barr is a British actress and writer. She is best known for her lead debut in BBC drama series The Silence (2010) and has appeared in roles in BAFTA winning series The Fades (2012), Call the Midwife, Liar, Press and more recently, Channel 4's The Accident (2020).
Genevieve co-wrote with Jack Thorne, the award winning single drama Then Barbara Met Alan (2022), which was also nominated for WGGB best short form drama. She wrote an episode in BBC series Ralph and Katie (2022). The recipient of the Red Planet Prize, Genevieve's original series I.D. was greenlit for production by Channel 4 and starts filming later this year.- IMDb mini biography by: AJT
- She was born deaf and normally uses hearing aids. For her role in The Silence (2010), in which she plays a deaf girl who has just had a cochlear implant fitted, she was required to remove her hearing aids. She also had to learn sign language which she had never done before because she had always relied on her hearing aids supplemented by lip reading.
- She worked as a secondary school teacher in Bermondsey, South London, before becoming an actress.
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