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Barry Otto (born 1941) is an Australian actor.
Early life
Barry Otto was born in 1941 in Brisbane, the son of a butcher. He has a sister named Denise. Otto trained as an artist at Brisbane Central Technical College. In the 1960s, Otto worked as a commercial artist and fashion illustrator. He never formally trained as an actor.
Career
Otto began acting in amateur theatre and drawing room comedies in the 1970s. He has had film roles in Strictly Ballroom, Cosi, The Dressmaker, Kiss or Kill, Dead Letter Office, The Visitor, The Great Gatsby, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, Love's Brother (see Filmography). He portrayed Administrator Allsop in Australia in 2008. In 2015 Otto voiced the role of Mayor Wilberforce Cranklepot, a goanna, in Blinky Bill the Movie.
Personal life
Otto married Lindsay, with whom he has a daughter Miranda (an actress), born in 1967 in Brisbane. They divorced in 1973.
With his second wife Susan "Sue" Hill, Otto has a son, Eddie (a teacher and professional cricket coach), and daughter, Gracie (a filmmaker and actress), born in 1987 in Sydney.
Otto is also an artist. He often paints members of his family and has twice entered the Archibald Prize.
Otto was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2018.
Filmography
= Film
== Television
=Theatre
Awards
Otto received an AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actor in Strictly Ballroom and was nominated for Bliss, Cosi and The More Things Change....
Barry Otto at Randwick in Sydney on the Australian Film Walk of Fame.
References
External links
Barry Otto at IMDb
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Karl Barry Sharpless
- Otto Diels
- The City of Comrades
- Otto Wallach
- Otto Hahn
- Australia (film 2008)
- Mr. Nice Guy (film 1997)
- Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
- Blinky Bill the Movie
- Oscar and Lucinda (film)
- Barry Otto
- Miranda Otto
- Gracie Otto
- Otto by Otto
- Strictly Ballroom
- Blinky Bill the Movie
- Howling III
- Barry (name)
- The Punisher (1989 film)
- Vietnam (miniseries)
