Luke Barnett

Barnett was born in 1983 in Clinton, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Having pursued acting since 2000, and with an interest in promoting social change, he moved to Los Angeles by 2005. His father is a pastor.

In his early career, Barnett was best known for his comedic acting and writing on Funny or Die films.

In the early 2000s, in Los Angeles, Barnett landed a role in a play about homeless youth called The Playground. According to Barnett, the production opened doors for him both as an actor and as an advocate for social justice. By 2007, he began to get credited screen roles, including three episodes of MANswers. In 2011 he was in three television series and six films, including Sedona, Coffin, and The Amityville Haunting. In 2012 he appeared in Static. Barnett's films also include a 2013 short called The Newest Testament (a Biblical parody which he produced, co-wrote, and stars in as Jesus), The Scribbler (2014), and The Treehouse (2015).

For his theatre work, in 2011 Barnett was praised by Backstage for his "facile array of increasingly outrageous cameo roles" in Bayside High School Musical, a musical parody of the 1990s teen sitcom Saved by the Bell. In the musical, Barnett played 10 different characters, and was credited as "Everyone Else" in the playbill.