Barry Farber
The orthodontist Rachel left at the altar, who married her maid of honour instead.
Barry Farber is the orthodontist Rachel Green left at the altar in the pilot of Friends, played by Mitchell Whitfield in five episodes. While engaged to Rachel he was having affairs with her best friend and maid of honour Mindy Hunter and with her younger sister Amy. After the abandoned wedding he took Mindy on the Aruba honeymoon meant for Rachel.
Quick Facts
- Played by
- Mitchell Whitfield
- Occupation
- Orthodontist
- Ex-fiancee
- Rachel Green
- Wife
- Mindy Hunter (later divorced)
- Episodes
- 5
- First appearance
- The One With The Sonogram At The End
Facts from the source article.
Background
Two years later Barry got engaged to Mindy, cheated on her with Rachel, and when Mindy learned of it from Rachel the two women confronted him; Mindy married him anyway, at the wedding where Monica and Richard broke up. They divorced in season 6 after he was caught cheating again. In the alternate-reality episode "The One That Could Have Been" Rachel is married to Barry, and after Joey talks her out of cheating she comes home to find him in bed with the dog walker. In the pilot his surname is given as Finkle; in every later episode it is Farber.
Barry's five episodes run from "The One With The Sonogram At The End" to "The One That Could Have Been, Part 2".
Source
Text adapted from Barry Farber on Friends Central (Fandom, CC BY-SA 3.0). Page history: contributors. Codexery summarised the page, and this entry is shared under the same licence.
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