Barry Watson

Michael Barrett "Barry" Watson is an American television and film actor born on April 23, 1974 in Traverse City, Michigan. His father worked as an attorney and his mother as a paralegal. At the age of eight, he began his modelling career in Dallas, Texas and studied acting at the Dallas Young Actors Studio with director Linda Seto. Watson was fourteen when his parents divorced. After a year, he took off for Burbank, California and almost immediately got a six month contract on the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives. After his contract ended, Watson moved back to Texas, and finished his secondary studies at Richardson High School in 1992.
Watson then moved back to Los Angeles determined to pursue acting. He made guest appearances on The Nanny, Baywatch, Nash Bridges and Sister, Sister. Eventually he was chosen for a minor role on the Aaron Spelling series Malibu Shores. Though his role was brief, it led him to Aaron Spelling's next project 7th Heaven. It was on the WB's 7th Heaven that Watson finally gained recognition as Matt Camden. During his ten-year stint on the series, Watson also had notable appearances in the films Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999), Sorority Boys (2002), and Boogeyman (2005).
In 2002, Watson was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease, a form of lymphatic cancer. While undergoing chemotherapy, he stopped work as an actor but was instead involved as a writer for 7th Heaven. With his cancer going into remission in 2003, Barry continued on with his character on the show until it ended in 2006. He was never out of work after that as he portrayed the title role of Brian O'Hara on the ABC sitcom What About Brian (2006-2007) and played Todd, the ex-boyfriend and roommate of Samantha (Christina Applegate) on another ABC sitcom Samantha Who? (2007-2009). In 2011 he played Pax in My Future Boyfriend, an ABC Family original movie.