Cathy Barry is an English glamour model and pornographic actress. Along with her filmmaker husband Phil Barry, she also runs the adult film production and distribution company Pumpkin Media TV.
Born in Bristol , [9] [10] Barry left school at the age of 16 and took a temporary packing job at a bra factory. One of the radio station photos was used for a billboard advertisement, which led to her getting into glamour modeling. Later, she started lap dancing and table dancing in men's clubs. Around age 22, Barry started doing solo and then girl-girl videos, before progressing into boy-girl videos for larger production companies such as Playboy TV [10] in a film called Countess Cathula.
In , she starred in the adult film The Affair with Omar Williams. Although some critics attacked the film for bad filming that made it look amateurish, [22] other critics praised the movie. In , Barry underwent a breast implant operation that was broadcast live on the Five show Cosmetic Surgery Live. It was reported as being the biggest breast enlargement operation to be performed in the UK. The surgeon performing the operation was later called before his hospital's ethics committee.
Barry played herself in episode 6 of Unseen Skins on the Skins website. In , Barry appeared throughout the two-part BBC2 documentary Hardcore Profits , which investigated the workings and effects of the global pornographic industry. The programmes were presented by Tim Samuels. Growing up, Barry had nicknames such as "Jeff" as she had the same surname as Olympic shot put thrower Jeff Capes —Capes being her maiden name and "Centrefold".
Barry has stated that she is bisexual. In , Barry was at the centre of an appeal in the Bristol Post after a duck from her family's home in Kingswood, South Gloucestershire had gone missing. During the political scandal around Scottish businessman Adam Werritty 's access to the Ministry of Defence , images were published in the national press of an earlier meeting between Barry and Liam Fox , the minister at the centre of the scandal. In , it was widely reported in the UK media that residents of St George, Bristol opposed planned changes to a building that Barry's husband Phil had run as an adult film studio Bristol Film Studios since [47] and that Cathy Barry worked from, into a multiple occupancy house.
