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Based on award-winning novelist Christos Tsiolkas’ book and adapted for television in four parts, Barracuda is a moving story about identity, obsession, desire, the dizzy heights of success and the terrifying risk of failure.

Danny Kelly is a talented swimmer attends a prestigious Melbourne private school on a sporting scholarship. Working class, half Greek and half Scottish, he cops his fair share of harassment from the privileged students. Danny yearns to win swimming gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. He is taken under the wing of highly regarded coach, Frank Torma and develops a friendship/rivalry with teammate Martin Taylor which inspire Danny to become Australia's youngest swimming champion - the unstoppable ‘Barracuda’.



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Elias Anton as Danny Kelly
Ben Kindon as Martin Taylor
Matt Nable as Frank Torma
Rachel Griffiths as Samantha Taylor
Jeremy Lindsay Taylor as Neal Kelly
Victoria Haralabidou as Stephanie Kelly
Tilda Cobham-Hervey as Emma Taylor
Andrew Creer as Wilco