Biography

Won "Best Actor in a Musical or Entertainment" Laurence Olivier Award in 2010 for his lead role in Spring Awakening.

Was considered one of the 55 faces of the future by Nylon Magazine Young Hollywood Issue (May 2010).

Son of June (Lewis), a factory worker, and Terry Barnard, a coal miner. Has a sister named Ceri.

He is of Welsh, English, Cornish, and more distant Scottish, descent.

Good friend of former "Spring Awakening" co-star Iwan Rheon.

I remember watching 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13, and I watched it, thinking, 'Wow. That is pretty cool. I'd like to do something like that.'

I always used to pretend to be different characters - cowboys, that sort of thing. I used to think that the Indians lived over the mountains that I could see out of my bedroom. As I grew up, I started to understand that acting was actually a craft, and there was no question about it, that was exactly what I was going to do.

I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.

I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.

Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.