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Dynasty Barry was a pupil at Waterloo Road along with her brother Barry and sister Kacey. She was best friends with Imogen Stewart throughout the series.

As glamorous as her name suggests, dynamo Dynasty Barry is as smart, independent, headstrong and ambitious as she is beautiful. Popular with the boys, and happy to use this to her advantage, Dynasty has long been groomed to use her looks to marry well and continue the proud Barry family line. With so much going for her, will she toe the family line or forge her own path?

Dynasty causes a stir among her classmates when she announces plans to go under the knife for a boob job. Dynasty believes that plastic surgery will provide her with a bright future as she plans to start working as a pole dancer, supported all the way by her mother Carol, who unsurprisingly offers to pay for the boob job herself so that Dynasty can work as a successful pole dancer and pay her back £200 a night, with Dynasty receiving £100 also. Carol tells Dynasty that she can make money, look good and have opportunities. But Dynasty starts to realise that there's more to herself, and that she is better than this, when she receives the highest mark in her class in English. Dynasty finds it hard to stand up to her mum, but finds the courage to do so thanks to some wise encouraging words from Imogen. Her mum then realises what Dynasty wants and sticks by her while she gives her school work a chance.

When Dynasty's sister Kacey reveals that she has gender identity issues and feels that she is a boy, her brother Barry finds it hard to understand and says that he no longer cares what happens to them. Their mother also doesn't understand what is going on with Kacey, but Dynasty sticks by her and shows support for Kacey against their mother and Barry.

In Series 8, Dynasty begins a relationship with Kevin Chalk, but when her ex-boyfriend Steve-O Malone turns up wanting to get back with her, Dynasty dumps Kevin so that Steve-O will not harm him. Later on, after meeting up with Steve-O to tell him the news, he takes her back to Kevin's flat, and after making Dynasty uncomfortable and her asking him to stop trying to kiss her as she isn't 'in the mood', he becomes aggressive and then apologises after she begins to cry, before taking her hand forcefully and leading her into the bedroom where he rapes her. When Kevin finds out, he hatches a plan to kill Steve-O by having Barry get hold of a gun, but when Kevin arrives where the gun is hidden, Steve-O turns up holding it, and tries to shoot Kevin but discovers the gun is empty as Barry has betrayed him. Police then arrive and arrest Steve-O, and Dynasty gets back with Kevin.

In the first half of Series 9, Kevin kisses Princess Windsor, and then breaks up with Dynasty, thinking that kissing someone else must mean that he doesn't truly love Dynasty, but he quickly realises that he does, and later wins her back.

In the second half of Series 9, Kevin suffers a stroke in front of Dynasty, and she is left distraught. Thinking it is her fault, she accompanies him to the hospital. Once he regains consciousness, she destroys her police interview letter to be able to take care of him. She then later on realises that she can take care of Kevin and be in the police force. Dynasty goes for the interview and does pretty well, until one of the interviewers cruelly calls her "a good liar, just like your father", who is in prison. Distraught, she follows Barry out to the docks, where he's getting ready for his "big job". She finds out that he's hiding young girls in a van and illegally transporting them to Liverpool. Dynasty works up the courage to call the police on Barry, knowing that he will be arrested.

Dynasty later gets a second interview with the police, and is successful. At the start of Series 10, she leaves to commence police training, and is not seen again.

Trivia

  • Dynasty lived with her family on 18 Narewood Drive, and briefly with Kevin at 21 Park Grange (Chalky's old flat).
  • Barry is one year older than Dynasty.
  • Dynasty seems to be currently the only character in Waterloo Road history, to have a photographic memory.

Quotes

  • "You shouldn't be looking, sicko!" (first line)

  • "Am I really that rubbish that this is all I'm good enough for? Dancing in some poxy club? And even then I needed implants."

  • "Where's brainiac Skelton when you need him? This would be right up his boulevard."

  • "Who'd've thought, my brother likes that much meat on his bones!" (about Barry and Rhiannon)

  • "Think she'll be so buddy-buddy when she finds out you've been taking money off little kids?"

  • "Put her down, Connor. You've got her for the rest of your life. Right now, she's mine, and we've got a wedding to plan. And you are not getting married dressed like that."

  • Connor: "Your brother is such a loser."
  • Dynasty: "He's still my brother though, isn't he? So watch your mouth."

  • "If you insinuate that I'm a bimbo one more time, I swear I will wipe that nerdo grin off your face with a good slap!"

  • "That's a bit rich coming from you, Imogen. I mean, at least I've got a businessman as a partner. And not some sad pathetic loser of a schoolboy who still lives with his mother."

  • Dynasty: "Oh look. Someone's relieved that I'm not gonna make a show of them at the chess tournament."
  • Kevin: "Oh get real, you're just a bimbo, and everybody knows that bimbos don't play chess."

  • "I've changed, alright? That is my school, and they're the school computers, and they're going back, and so am I! I am worth so much more than you! You can shut the boot now! And don't follow me, cos I'll just call the police!"

  • Dynasty: "It was just the two of us, in Chalky's flat. And he...I mean, we...I led him on. Alright? Made him think that I wanted to. So you can't go blaming Steve-O."
  • Kevin: "He raped you?"
  • Dynasty: "Don't say that. Don't say that word."

  • Barry: "If you leave with him tonight, then you are nothing to me!"
  • Dynasty: "Fine."

  • Carol: "Well, he's hardly Arnold Schwarzenegger."
  • Dynasty: "Yeah. I know. But he's mine and I love him."

  • "What, the whole country gets to see what a car crash of a mother you are, on TV? Win-win, I'd say! Right enough! We're in."

  • Dynasty: "That little creep Darren Hughes made Rhiannon send a picture, and now everyone's seen it!"
  • Kevin: "Stupid kid."
  • Dynasty: "Stupid dead kid when I get him."

  • Barry: "Are you gonna get the girls to delete the pictures of us?"
  • Dynasty: "Oh, who'd wanna see your little diddle? Has anyone got zoom?!"

  • Barry: "Don't talk to her. She doesn't want anything to do with you."
  • Dynasty: "I can speak for myself, Barry. But he's right. I've got nothing to say to you."

  • "Yeah, well, it's alright for you, Miss, no-one cares what old people look like."

  • Kevin: "Yeah but you don't have a manky face. I think you look better without makeup - even better."
  • Dynasty: "I don't really care what you think, Kevin. In fact, I don't think anyone does."

  • "Barry? He'll come back with an empty tin and pockets full of money."

  • "The Yanks are gonna love you, I can feel it in me waters. Not that they're gonna understand a word you're saying, cos you talk too fast, you dozy cow!"

  • "Connor's been acting weird and kissing random girls, and you don't want to know what's been going on?"

  • "Try and snog my mate's boyfriend again, and I will rip your eyeballs out. Understood?"

  • "Mum! You're not seriously working here!"

  • "I've seen people like her before. Stuck-up toffs, think they're better than everyone, think they can get anything, anyone and everything."

  • "This song is well ancient. Don't they know any Rihanna?"

  • "I'm imagining that you think you stand a chance with Mr Reid. Like he'd ever touch you!"

  • "Kevin, just do one!" (right before Kevin has a stroke)

  • "Mum! Lula's in enough trouble without you roping in your gangster mates!"

  • "Fine, yeah. Getting over a clot on the brain, but, you know, at least he supports me!"

  • "No. But I will be. I did it. I shopped Barry to the police. I need to tell my mum."

  • Gabriella: "Well I heard for a while you were a boy."
  • Dynasty: "I heard for a while that you're an idiot. Oh wait there - you still are!"

  • Simon: "You shouldn't sneak up on people like that!"
  • Dynasty: "Just practising for when I'm uh, lifting the robbers!"

  • "Oh, behave, you soppy get!" (final line)
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