Barry Robert Pepper is a Canadian actor. He was born on April 4, 1970, in Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada. He is the son of a lumberjack. When he was five years old, his family set sail in a homemade ship, navigating through the South Pacific islands for five years. Due to the lack of television as entertainment, the family created and performed sketches for each other. When the family had finished their travels, they returned to Canada and set up a shop on Denman Island. Pepper has been married to Cindy Pepper since 1997. The two have one child together.
Pepper is best known for roles such as Jonnie Goodboy Tyler in Battlefield Earth, Sergeant Michael Strank in Flags of Our Fathers, Dean Stanton in The Green Mile, Private Daniel Jackson in Saving Private Ryan, Roger Maris in 61*, and "Lucky" Ned Pepper in True Grit.
Pepper portrayed Vince in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, released in 2015, and reprised his role in the Maze Runner: The Death Cure, released in 2018.
Filmography[]
Film[]
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Enemy of the State (1998)
- The Green Mile (1999)
- Battlefield Earth (2000)
- We All Fall Down (2000)
- 61* (2001)
- We Were Soldiers (2002)
- 25th Hour (2002)
- The Snow Walker (2003)
- Unknown (2006)
- Seven Pounds (2008)
- Casino Jack (2010)
- True Grit (2010)
- The Lone Ranger (2013)
- Kill the Messenger (2014)
- Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
- Monster Trucks (2016)
- Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
- Crawl (2019)
- The Painted Bird (2019)
- Running With The Devil (2019)
- Trigger Point (2021)
- Awake (2021)
- Solitary (TBA)
Television[]
- Madison (1993–1996)
- The Sentinel (1996)
- Viper (1996)
- Titanic (1996)
- The Kennedys (2011)
Video Games[]
- [PROTOTYPE] (2009)
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009)
Awards & Nominations[]
Pepper won the Online Film Critics award for best ensemble in Saving Private Ryan and was nominated for his performance as well in 1999. He was then nominated a year later for his performance in The Gree Mile. After working on Battlefield Earth, a film considered a one of the worst films of all time, he won a Raspberry for worst supporting actor in a movie. From 2001-2002, Pepper was nominated for three awards for his performance in 61*. Pepper in 2004 was nominated and won an award for best lead actor on a drama film. After that, between the period of 2006-2010, Pepper was nominated for several awards but did not win any. However, in 2011, Pepper won two back-to-back Gemini award and an Emmy award for his outstanding performance in The Kennedys. His last nomination was for his work on When love is not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story.