Barrett Conrad Foa (born September 18, 1977)[1] is an American singer, dancer, and actor, with over a decade in Broadway theatre shows.

[1][5][6] He is the son of Conrad Foa, an international insurance broker, former musician and Army veteran, and mother Linda Rimanich, an executive, editor and author.

[2][15] He attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (UMich), earning his bachelor in fine arts (BFA) in Musical Theatre in 1999.

[16] Barrett's older brother by four years, Justin, is the fifth generation owner and CEO of Foa & Son, an international insurance brokerage firm established in 1861; and is married to professor and historian of Christianity Candida Moss.

[7] Barrett bought an “unconventional architectural” three-story, two bedrooms home in Silver Lake, Los Angeles in 2016, that was just built, for $1.4 million.

[5] In addition to various workshops and readings, Foa donates his time and talents to community causes and non-profit theatre companies and organizations, including Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and The Actors' Fund.

[20] His off-Broadway credits, as of February 2020[update], include Buyer & Cellar, The Drunken City, Godspell, and Tio Pepe (aka Somewhere).

[13][11] His Broadway theatre debut was in 2001 as a cast member in the original production of Mamma Mia!, a musical based on 22 pop songs of ABBA.

[2] Foa has performed on Broadway hundreds of times over a ten-year span; in the mid-2000s as Princeton and Rod in Avenue Q, and then was offered the role of Leaf Coneybear in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

[21] From 2009 to 2021, Foa portrayed Eric Beale, a computer, and technology “wizard” on the military police procedural show about the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, NCIS: Los Angeles.

[12] In April 2011 his character, in a series first, switched from his station in the operations center—and his casual surf wear—to do field work including using a gun.

[26] Foa is co-writer, producer and star of "For The Record: John Hughes," a live musical event featuring scenes and songs from the movies of the 1980s film director; it played multiple sold-out runs in LA and NYC.

[21] From May to August 2014, Foa played the lead in Jonathan Tolins’ one-man off-Broadway comedy Buyer & Cellar about an actor who manages a basement mall in Barbra Streisand's home.

[27][28] Her Malibu home's basement has a mall of quaint shops, “purely for her own amusement” built to house her extensive collections.

[12][29] For NCIS: Los Angeles’ seventh season (2015-6), Foa's character, usually seen at headquarters, is trained for field work, including weapons handling.