Paris Barclay

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Music video career

Barclay worked as a copywriter and creative manager at Grey, BBDO, Cunningham & Walsh, and Marsteller following his graduation from Harvard. Barclay eventually moved into music video editing and production through his own business, Black & White Television. Bob Dylan ("It's Unbelievable"), the New Kids On The Block ("Games"), Janet Jackson and Luther Vandross ("The Best Things in Life Are Free"), Bob Dylan ("The Best Things in Life Are Free"), "The New Kids On The Block ("Games"), Kevin McDonald ("It's Unbelievable"), and Bob Dylan ("The Best Things in Life Are Free") He made eight videos for LL Cool J, including "Mama Said Knock Out," which received accolades from both MTV and Billboard, as well as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, including "Mama Said Knock You Out"—before going on to be listed as one of the 500 songs that influenced rock and roll. Complex Magazine named "Mama Said Knock You Out" as one of the top 50 rap videos of the 1990s, citing it with the development of "one of the most important links in establishing the cultural bridge between boxing and rap" in 2013. Barclay was often employed to produce films, including House Party (1990), White Men Can't Jump (1992), Posse (1993), and Cool Runnings (1993), among others.

Barclay produced his first music video in 16 years in 2012, collaborating with LL Cool J and R&B singer Joe on "Take It"'s video.

Barclay's episode ("The Coup") of the Steven Spielberg-produced NBC series Smash, drawing on his music video experience, and TV Fanatic reported that the Barclay-directed number for the original song "Touch Me" (written by OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder) "pushed the boundaries from traditional Broadway show to music video level."

Film and television career

Barclay began his career in television with an unaired episode of Angel Street in 1992. He was hired by John Wells, who was making his executive producer debut.

Don't Be a Menace to South Central is Barclay's first feature film, directed by Shawn and Marlon Wayans. Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996) – also starring Keenen Ivory Wayans, Vivica Fox, and Bernie Mac. Despite mixed feedback, it was a box office triumph and has generated a cult following since its inception. Barclay also produced The Cherokee Kid (1996), a Western dramedy starring Sinbad, James Coburn, Burt Reynolds, Gregory Hines, and A Martinez.

Barclay produced and eventually became a producer of NYPD Blue after directing episodes of ER. Barclay will receive two Emmy Awards for best directing, the second of which was for the episode "Hearts and Souls"—which featured Jimmy Smits' character Bobby Simone's death. The episode has been named one of Television Guide's Top 100 Episodes of All Time. Barclay reteamed with Smits in his role as "Nero Padilla" on Sons of Anarchy.

Barclay joined forces with fellow NYPD Blue producers Steven Bochco and Nicholas Wootton to produce City of Angels, a medical drama starring a majority African-American cast including Blair Underwood, Viola Davis, Maya Spencer, Maya Rudolph, and Vivica Fox. The show aired on CBS for two seasons while winning two NAACP awards.

He returned to John Wells fold in 2002 to produce and direct The Big Time, starring Christina Hendricks, Dylan Baker, Molly Ringwald, and Christopher Lloyd, which later aired as a two-hour documentary. Barclay worked on a number of television dramas and comedies in the years that followed. He served as both co-executive producer and producer of the series Cold Case, for which he has also produced nine episodes. The West Wing, Huff, Law & Order, Numb3rs, Lost, House, The Good Wife, NCIS: Los Angeles, Sons of Anarchy, The Mentalist, and nine episodes of Glee are among the other shows he directed in the decade.

Barclay's return to HBO in 2008 marked his return to television, where he produced three seasons of In Treatment and directing 36 episodes.

Barclay co-authored Pedro, the MTV film about Pedro Zamora from The Real World: San Francisco, which was also published in 2008. The film, directed by Nick Oceano, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and received the WGA, the Humanitas Prize, and GLAAD Media Awards nominations.

Barclay became the executive producer and primary director of FX's Sons of Anarchy's fourth season, a position he continued in throughout the seventh and final season.

Barclay also produced two episodes of "Diva" and "Lights Out" in 2013. Barclay's second Emmy Award for Outstanding Direction in a Comedy Series was given to him for his work on "Diva."

Barclay produced Sons of Anarchy's season premiere and penultimate episodes in 2014 for the fourth year in a row. Barclay also produced the epic episode "100" for Glee, which earned him another Emmy Award, in addition to episodes of The Good Wife, Extant, executive produced by Steven Spielberg and starring Halle Berry, and Manhattan, a Tommy Schlamme/Sam Shaw period drama for WGN America; and "2009," the first half of the series finale.

Barclay continued his work as Executive Producer/Director on FX's The Bastard Executioner, which was created by Kurt Sutter in 2015. Katey Sagal, Stephen Moyer, and Matthew Rhys appeared on the program. He was recruited by FOX to produce an episode of Empire, the year's Television Critics Association's program, at the end of the year.

Barclay joined the Shondaland family in 2016 by directing an episode of ABC's critically acclaimed show Scandal, starring Kerry Washington.

He appeared in the first season of FOX's Pitch, from writer/creators Dan Fogelman and Rick Singer, starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Ali Larter, Mark Consuelos, Dan Lauria, and Kylie Bunbury in the title role.

Barclay was hired to direct and produce the CBS pilot, Perfect Citizen, a legal drama written and produced by former The Good Wife executive producer Craig Turk in spring 2017. Noah Wyle, Kristin Chenoweth, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Stéphanie Szostak, Adrienne Warren, and Shanley Caswell are among the outstanding Citizen actors.

Barclay directed the pilot and executive on a second Shondaland project, Station 19, which follows a group of Seattle firefighters in a spinoff of Grey's Anatomy's highly acclaimed Grey's Anatomy. The show is ABC's second most rated drama and is now in its sixth season on ABC.

Barclay joined the Human Rights Campaign and fellow award winner Dustin Lance Black in early 2019 to produce and direct a celebrity-studded American for the Equality Act public knowledge and advertisement campaign. Sally Field and her son Sam Greisman, the academy Award-winning actress, star of comedy, film, and elsewhere, all featured on the Equality Act, which would extend clear, comprehensive non-discrimination rights to millions of LGBTQ people around the world. Adam Rippon, Alexandra Billings, Blossom Brown, Justina Killett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jessica Lewis, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Justin Mikita are among the powerhouse cast members, comedians, influencers, comedians, and professional athletes included in this series. The Americans for the Equality Act collection is modeled after HRC's highly successful Americans for Marriage Equality campaign, which was on display at the 4th Annual Shorty Social Good Awards, which also contributed to the passage of the bill in the House of Representatives.

Barclay arranged a virtual reading of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, starring Sterling K. Brown, Laverne Cox, Jeremy Pope, and Guillermo Diaz.

In 2021, Barclay produced and directed 14 episodes of Station 19, including Evan Peters, Richard Jenkins, and Niecy Nash) and The Watcher (with Naomi Watts, Bobby Cannavale, Margo Martindale, and Mia Farrow). All the episodes appeared in Fall 2022.

Despite controversies surrounding Dahmer Barclay's work on Episode 6, "Silenced," received a lot of praise. "Directed with more compassion than voyeurism by Paris Barclay," says Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter, "Silenced" tells the tale of Tony Hughes (best newcomer Rodney Burnford [sic]), who was perhaps the only one with whom Jeffrey had traces of a real friendship. It's certainly the best episode of the series, an uncomfortably sweet and sad hour of television that may have possibly been the model for the entire series. Tony was deaf and, by placing a Black, deaf, gay character at the center of the story, the series is introducing someone whose voice has been too often dismissed from gawking serial killer portraits."

"It's not just the best episode of the year's series," Kayla Cobb said in her analysis of "Silence" for The Decider.

He produced two episodes of FX's American Horror Story (with Russell Tovey, Joe Mantello, and Patti LuPone) and is currently working on a film about legendary keyboard and recording artist Billy Preston's life, which is expected to be released in 2023.

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