Which actor plays Barry Seal in Narcos?

Dylan Bruno plays Barry Seal in Narcos.

The series depicts Seal as an American drug smuggler working for Pablo Escobar’s Medellín cartel. His aviation skills make him valuable to the organization, because cocaine trafficking depends on moving large quantities quickly from Colombia toward the United States.

Barry Seal was a real Louisiana pilot and smuggler whose criminal career became entangled with major cocaine and marijuana-trafficking networks. Narcos compresses and dramatizes parts of his story for television, placing him within the show’s fast-moving account of the Medellín cartel’s expansion.

Dylan Bruno’s appearance is a guest role in the first season. Viewers sometimes confuse him with Luis Gnecco, who plays Mateo “Cockroach” Moreno, or A.J. Buckley, who plays DEA agent Kevin Brady. Seal’s alias in the show is “McPickle,” a detail that links this question to the next stage of his storyline.