Barry Atsma states that he has remained very common despite his Dutch celebrity. Perhaps even more common than Frans Bauer, because where that folk singer lives in a villa, Barry lives in a … terraced house!
One Dutch person loves to be a bit eccentric, the other wants to show how just he or she has stayed. Barry Atsma belongs to the last category. He may be one of the country’s most successful actors, but he does not live with his family in a villa. What then? In an ordinary terraced house in a real Vinex district.
Terraced house
Barry has been living in the same house in the Utrechtste Vinexwijk Leidsche Rijn for decades. He wants in the JFK Then also help a misunderstanding. “Namely that I am a player. That image originated after rose scent & vodka lime, a woman comes to the doctor and loft. I was in those hunk-like roles. But that’s not who I am.”
He continues: “I am quite normal. Down to Earth. Open, curious. But also just a man in a terraced house, without watches or fast cars. ”
Normal guest
Has Barry really remained that normal? Perhaps even more common than Frans Bauer? Who can confirm that? “My neighbors René and Juliette have known me for twenty years as a very normal guest. I think I am much more common than people think. And that I am so ‘normal’, I am actually very happy with that.”
Barry’s family lives near the Antonius Hospital. He went to live there when the neighborhood still mainly consisted of sand heaps. According to Kwaardeburen, a significant surplus value has arisen on his house. In 2020 the house of his neighbor was for sale for 675 thousand euros. “And a mortgage of two tons rests on his home.”