Steve Barnes (actor)


Steve Barnes is an American television and film actor, television host, television and film producer, radio personality, and digital and social media executive. He is president of Barnes Creative Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, which specializes in digital marketing and social media strategy.
His acting career, which began in 1991, has comprised lead and supporting roles in several films, including The Joneses, Sex & Consequences, and No Witness. He has performed guest-starring and recurring roles in several television shows, including Drop Dead Diva, One Tree Hill, Prison Break, Matchpoint, Men On Pause, MTV’s Road Rules, Guiding Light, Ned & Stacey, As the World Turns, and The Young and the Restless. In 2009, Barnes created, starred in, and produced the television series High Rise. In 2012 he was cast as the recurring character “Flip” on the Discovery Science TV Series Stuff You Should Know, which will debut in January 2013.
From 1994 to 2003, Barnes co-hosted the Atlanta morning radio show “The Morning X with Barnes, Leslie & Jimmy” on 99X WNNX with Leslie Fram and Jimmy Baron, earning Billboard Magazine’s National Major Market Morning Show Award in 1996 and Radio and Records’s National Major Market Morning Show of 1999. On September 30, 2013, Barnes returned to the radio on Clear Channel's Radio 105.7 in Atlanta in a part-time capacity.

Early and personal life

Barnes grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas, and graduated from Mary Carroll High School in 1985. From 1998 to 2008 he was married to Stacey Sward and has 2 children from that marriage. In 2012, Barnes married Heather Searing Cook.

Credits

Radio