She was fitted with hearing aids at age four and attended mainstream education at Harrogate Ladies' College, studying English and History at Edinburgh University, before graduating in 2008.
[5] In 2016 after a long stint of theatre work, Genevieve returned to television with ITV's hit show Liar[6] which has now been commissioned for a second season.
Barr played Artemis[8] in the film which starred Michaela Coel and Arinze Kene and was directed by BAFTA winning director, Tinge Khrishnan.
Genevieve played the role of Sarah on an international tour of Brian Friel's Translations, led by actor Adrian Dunbar.
She won the prolific Red Planet Prize for ITV with her script Curio, and has co-written a single drama for BBC and Netflix with Jack Thorne, Then Barbara Met Alan released in 2022.
In 2022, it was announced Channel 4 would produce her thriller series, I.D..[13] Barr, along with Katie Player and Thorne, formed a pressure group called Underlying Health Condition which aims to elevate disabled voices in the TV industry.