---
name: "Glen Berry"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/glen-berry"
fi1m_id: "glen-berry"
imdb_id: "nm0077551"
tmdb_id: 67568
wikidata_id: "Q325841"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "21 April 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T11:06:28.302282+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Glen Berry

## Identity

Glen Berry

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/glen-berry
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** glen-berry
- **IMDb ID:** nm0077551
- **TMDB ID:** 67568
- **Wikidata ID:** Q325841
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Berry, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q325841, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0077551/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67568

Actor. Born 21 April 1978 in Romford, Essex, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 21 April 1978, Romford, Essex, England, UK
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Berry, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q325841, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0077551/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67568

## Fi1m on Glen Berry

> Glen Berry makes the shyness of first love convincing in *Beautiful Thing*, letting Jamie's awkwardness set the pace. We rate that performance highly, though the writing gives him too little life beyond the romance.

In *Beautiful Thing* (1996), Glen Berry's Jamie Gangel struggles to believe that someone might like him. Berry leaves that uncertainty untidy, and his scenes with Scott Neal's Steven Pearce move at the hesitant pace the boys can manage. We were moved by their awkwardness together, because being wanted seems almost more than either knows how to accept. The acting is raw in a way that suits the characters, and a more assured performance could easily have made the romance less persuasive.

That performance remains the clear place to begin with Berry, whose career offered little scope to see how this approach might develop. He came to that lead through small television roles, including *London Bridge* (1995), and later took minor parts in work such as *From Hell* (2001). His retirement from acting in 2003 leaves no long succession of leading roles against which to test the promise of Jamie. We can value what he achieves here without inventing the career that might have followed.

The limitation in *Beautiful Thing* is that Jonathan Harvey's writing gives the boys less to do as people than it gives them as a couple. Their emerging sexuality is clear; the ordinary details that might distinguish them outside the romance are thinner. Berry and Neal's rapport keeps us interested, but it cannot supply everything the script has left out. Don Fairservice's editing also leaves some good exchanges feeling loosely connected, so the actors have to sustain our attention when the story does not move them forward convincingly.

Berry's own description of Jamie was blunt: “Jamie is totally opposite to what I am, in everything.” That is worth remembering when his lack of polish looks so unforced. He makes a sensitive adolescent believable without tidying away the discomfort, and Neal gives him a partner who is equally unsure. Start with *Beautiful Thing* for the tenderness between them, with the caveat that the performances offer more than the writing.

## Biography

Glen Berry is a retired British actor. Born on 21 April 1978 in Romford, Essex, he trained at the Anna Scher Theatre School in London from 1993.

He is best known for playing Jamie Gangel in the 1996 film *Beautiful Thing*. His other credits include roles in *From Hell* (2001), *Midsomer Murders* (2001), *London Bridge* (1996–1999), *Casualty* (1995) and *The Bill* (2003). Berry retired from acting in 2003.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Beautiful Thing* (1996), Fi1m 80, as Jamie Gangel — [page](https://film.one/film/beautiful-thing.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Trust* (2003), series, as Paralegal
- *My Brother Tom* (2001), as Policeman
- *From Hell* (2001), as Young Labourer
- *Midsomer Murders* (1997), series, as Ben — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/midsomer-murders.md)
- *Beautiful Thing* (1996), as Jamie Gangel — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/beautiful-thing.md)
- *London Bridge* (1996), series, as Jarvis Jones
- *Between the Lines* (1992), series, as Max
- *Prime Suspect* (1991), series, as Wayne — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/prime-suspect.md)
- *London's Burning* (1986), series, as Steve
- *Casualty* (1986), series, as Russell — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md)
- *Grange Hill* (1978), series, as Harry

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