Barry Watson Biography

As the son of Stephen Collins and Catherine Hicks on The WB series "7th Heaven", a role he played from 1996 to 2002, handsome Barry Watson had the role of luring in the teens and young women. His character, Matt, was only minutely rebellious of his minister father, but he did start smoking--cigarettes. A good kid, Matt even tried to learn sign language after meeting a deaf babe. Watson managed to convey some of the angst of teenaged years without treacle.
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A native of Traverse City, Michigan, Watson had a recurring role on the short-lived Aaron Spelling-produced "Mailbu Shores" (NBC, 1996). He nevertheless impressed producer Spelling enough to land the role of the eldest son in "7th Heaven". Watson began his acting career with a small role in the NBC soap "Day of Our Lives" and segued to primetime playing a "young guy at TV station" in the 1993 NBC TV-movie "Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald". That same year, he also had a small role in "Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman" on HBO. He was a potential beau for Nicholle Tom's Maggie in several 1994 episodes of "The Nanny" (CBS) and co-starred with Tori Spelling in the TV-movie "Co-ed Call Girl" (CBS, 1996). Watson segued to the big screen as one of the high school students plotting the murder of a hated teacher in Kevin Williamson's "Teaching Mrs. Tingle" (1999). Three years later, he starred alongside Michael Rosenbaum and Harland Williams in the cross-dressing comedy "Sorority Boys".

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