Barry Corbin Biography

Fast Facts

• Wanted to be an actor since childhood
• Studied theatre at Texas Tech University without following a degree program
• While napping in a dumpster at college, was emptied into a garbage truck
• Jobs outside of acting included chopping cotton, working on an oil rig, loading laundry trucks and shoveling lead in a print shop
• Joined the Marines at 21 on a dare
• During his early career, traveled the country to perform in regional theater productions and penned plays for National Public Radio
• 1980's Urban Cowboy marked his big-screen debut, and his impressive body of work includes the films Stir Crazy (1980) and WarGames (1983), the 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove, and TV series Dallas and Northern Exposure
• Discovered that, back in college, he fathered a daughter who was given up for adoption by her mother; Corbin was introduced to his daughter in 1991