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Ethnicity
  
English

Website
  
www.casparberry.com


Name
  
Caspar Berry

Role
  
Actor

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Occupation
  
Keynote Business Speaker

Education
  
Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Cambridge

Movies and TV shows
  
Byker Grove, The Black Velvet Gown, Bring Me the Head of Mavis Da, Downtime

Similar People
  
Bharat Nalluri, Jill Halfpenny, Norman Stone, John Henderson, Richard Johns

Caspar berry corporate speaker biography


Caspar Berry is a motivational and keynote business speaker specialising in the subjects of risk, decision making, innovation and leadership. He has previously worked as an actor, screenwriter for film and television, sports commentator, entrepreneur and professional poker player.

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Education

Caspar Berry was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, before reading economics and then anthropology at Cambridge University.

Early career

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During his A levels, Berry was selected for the lead role, Gill, in the first two series of the BBC series Byker Grove. Berry also appeared in the Emmy Award winning film The Black Velvet Gown, the BBC television drama Spender and the British comedy film Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis.

Writer

Caspar Berry Caspar Berry on poker decision making and how to deal

Berry subsequently went into writing and directing. His first screenplay, Downtime, (which he wrote whilst still studying at Cambridge) was produced in 1996 by Film Four and starred Paul McGann. He went on to write Killing Time(1997) for Columbia Tri-Star and The Crow: Salvation (2000) for Dimension Films and Miramax. Berry also wrote for a number of television dramas, including Hollyoaks and Byker Grove.

Poker player

Berry changed careers at age 25 and became a professional poker player in Las Vegas for three years, where he made a living in the $10–20 and $20–40 games in the Mirage.

Broadcaster

Berry was the presenter and poker expert on a number of TV poker shows, most notably Poker Night Live (2005-2007) and Sky Poker (2007-2009), where he was one of the technical analysts. He also appeared on Sky Sports and was the poker strategy writer for Flush magazine.

Berry was an uncredited poker adviser on the 2006 James Bond movie Casino Royale, along with his credited Sky Poker co-host Dr Tom.

Twenty First Century Media

Having returned to the UK in 2002, after his professional poker spell in Las Vegas, Berry co-founded the production company Twenty First Century Media. He managed the company for several years (in partnership with his colleague Sam Morton) before selling it in 2008 to Ten Alps.

Business speaker

Following the sale of Twenty First Century Media, Berry began working as a trainer for The Mind Gym, before setting up his own speaking and training company where he now works with a range of businesses - predominantly as a speaker on calculated risks, decision making and innovation.

Filmography

Actor
2006
Poker Night Live (TV Series) as
Host
1997
Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis as
Young Man
1992
Kappatoo (TV Series) as
TV Director
- Dangerous Times (1992) - TV Director
- It's About Time (1992) - TV Director
1992
Spender (TV Series) as
Buckskin
- Fee (1992) - Buckskin
1991
The Black Velvet Gown (TV Movie) as
Older Davey Millican
1989
Byker Grove (TV Series) as
Gill
Writer
1999
Acts of Passion (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Bed Head (1999) - (as Casper Berry)
1998
Killing Time (written by)
1997
Downtime (written by)
1989
Byker Grove (TV Series) (writer)
Producer
2004
The Unprofessionals (TV Series) (producer)
Thanks
2013
Behind the Scenes of Total Hell: The Jamie Gunn Chronicles (special thanks)
Self
2007
The Open (TV Series) as
Analyst

References

Caspar Berry Wikipedia


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