Christopher Jonathan Brown, known professionally as Chris Barrie (born 28 March 1960), is a British actor, comedian, and impressionist. He worked as a vocal impressionist on the ITV sketch show Spitting Image, and later starred as Arnold Rimmer in the sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf, as Gordon Brittas in the BBC leisure centre sitcom The Brittas Empire, and as Lara Croft's butler Hillary in the Tomb Raider franchise films.
Barrie was born in Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany to a father who was serving in the British Army, and attended Methodist College Belfast boarding school in Northern Ireland. After dropping out of Brighton Polytechnic, he became a grave filler. He then began his television career as a sports personality impersonator on The David Essex Showcase in 1982.
He adopted the surname "Barrie" as there was already an actor named Chris Brown on the Equity UK lists. He was a regular on Saturday Live, amongst performers like Fry and Laurie, Rik Mayall and Ben Elton. Barrie provided the voice of Ronald Reagan in the pop song "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, as well as various vocalizations for other tracks by FGTH and Art of Noise. He also appeared as an impressionist on the BBC's Carrott's Lib between 1983 and 1984, and starred in his own sketch show Pushing Up Daisies (re-titled Coming Next for the following season) from 1984 to 1985, alongside Hale and Pace and Carla Mendonça. In 1987, he appeared as a French Revolutionary in Blackadder the Third (episode "Nob and Nobility") and did various parts in The Young Ones both as an actor and a voice-over.