Frances Barber

Acting

Né·e en 1958 · Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK

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▸ Biographie

Frances Barber (née Brookes, born 13 May 1958) is an English actress. She received Olivier Award nominations for her work in the plays Camille (1985), and Uncle Vanya (1997). Her film appearances include three collaborations with Gary Oldman in Prick Up Your Ears (1987), We Think the World of You (1988) and Dead Fish (2005); as well as Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987); Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1992); and latterly Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017). Barber's numerous television credits include The Street (2009), Doctor Who (2011), Silk (2012–2014), and Whitstable Pearl (2021–2022).

The State of Us
Film · 2026
Joan
MUSIK
Film · 2026
Role
A Hand to Hold
Film · 2026
Moira
The Secret Santa Project
Film · 2025
Carol
★ 5.6
The People Before
Film · 2025
Role
★ 7.8
Hamlet
Film · 2024
First Player / Player Queen / Second Clown
★ 6.4
Dreamland
TV series · 2023
Cheryl
A Bird Flew In
Film · 2022
Marie
★ 6.3
The Chelsea Detective
TV series · 2022
Olivia Arnold
★ 6.9
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
Film · 2021
Mrs Ambrigail
★ 7.8
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
Film · 2021
Self
★ 6.7
Whitstable Pearl
TV series · 2021
Dolly Nolan
★ 6.1
Semi-Detached
TV series · 2020
Patricia
★ 2.3
Trick or Treat
Film · 2019
Miss Ferguson
★ 7.0
Queens of Mystery
TV series · 2019
Viv Collins
★ 10.0
Let's Talk About Sex
TV series · 2019
Narrator
★ 6.3
The Queen and I
Film · 2018
Princess Margaret
★ 5.7
Blue Iguana
Film · 2018
Princess
★ 7.5
An Ideal Husband
Film · 2018
Mrs. Cheveley
★ 7.2
McKellen: Playing the Part
Film · 2018
Role
★ 5.5
The Escape
Film · 2018
Alison
★ 6.3
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Film · 2017
Joy
★ 6.5
The Bookshop
Film · 2017
Jessie Welford
★ 5.7
The Chosen
Film · 2016
Natalia Sedova
★ 7.2
The Rebel
TV series · 2016
Angela
★ 6.5
Mr. Holmes
Film · 2015
Matinee "Madame Schirmer"
★ 6.4
Britain's Busiest Airport: Heathrow
TV series · 2015
Narrator
★ 6.3
Mapp and Lucia
TV series · 2014
Amelia, Contessa di Faraglione
★ 8.1
Inside No. 9
TV series · 2014
Lesley
★ 8.2
The IT Crowd Manual
Film · 2014
Self
★ 10.0
Bad Education: Christmas Special
Film · 2013
Alfie's Mum
★ 6.5
Muse of Fire
Film · 2013
Self
★ 6.8
Psychobitches
TV series · 2013
Bette Davis
★ 6.0
The Spa
TV series · 2013
Ginny
★ 7.6
Father Brown
TV series · 2013
Davina Malmort
★ 4.6
May I Kill U?
Film · 2013
Bernice
★ 6.0
Playhouse Presents
TV series · 2012
Bette Davis
★ 5.7
We'll Take Manhattan
Film · 2012
Diana Vreeland
★ 7.3
Great Expectations
TV series · 2011
Mrs. Brandley
★ 7.4
Death in Paradise
TV series · 2011
Diana Watson
★ 7.8
Friday Night Dinner
TV series · 2011
Sheila Bloom
★ 7.5
Silk
TV series · 2011
Caroline Warwick QC
★ 8.8
The Nativity
TV series · 2010
Elizabeth
★ 7.0
Vexed
TV series · 2010
Pat Poynter
★ 6.5
Pete versus Life
TV series · 2010
Role
★ 5.9
The Fattest Man in Britain
Film · 2009
Janice
★ 7.0
Law & Order: UK
TV series · 2009
Role
★ 6.8
Beautiful People
TV series · 2008
Miss Prentice
★ 6.7
King Lear
Film · 2008
Goneril
★ 6.0
Goal II: Living the Dream
Film · 2007
Carol Harmison
★ 7.6
Benidorm
TV series · 2007
Daisy
★ 7.6
The Street
TV series · 2006
Role
★ 8.2
The IT Crowd
TV series · 2006
Doctor Mendall
★ 7.3
Hotel Babylon
TV series · 2006
Role
★ 6.3
Funland
TV series · 2005
Connie Woolf
★ 5.6
Dead Fish
Film · 2005
S & M Prostitute
★ 6.8
Goal!
Film · 2005
Carol Harmison
★ 7.6
Doctor Who
TV series · 2005
Madame Kovarian
★ 7.5
His Passionate Bride
Film · 2005
Narrator
★ 7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV series · 2004
Lizzie Hinchcliffe
★ 5.8
Evilenko
Film · 2004
Fenja Evilenka
★ 5.0
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
Film · 2004
Miss Piggy
★ 7.7
Hustle
TV series · 2004
Clarissa
★ 7.3
New Tricks
TV series · 2004
Role
★ 4.8
Boudica
Film · 2003
Agrippina
★ 8.0
Monkey Dust
TV series · 2003
Role
★ 4.2
Flyfishing
Film · 2003
Frances
★ 5.3
The Red Siren
Film · 2002
Eva
★ 5.0
Superstition
Film · 2001
Isabella Flores
The Gentleman Thief
Film · 2001
Julia Sinclair
★ 8.1
Love in a Cold Climate
TV series · 2001
The Bolter
★ 6.0
Esther Kahn
Film · 2000
Rivka Kahn
★ 5.4
Shiner
Film · 2000
Georgie
★ 5.4
The Escort
Film · 1999
Jessica
★ 7.5
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
TV series · 1999
Role
Plastic Man
TV series · 1999
Louise Ferman
★ 10.0
Toy Boys
Film · 1999
Mrs. Chambers
★ 7.1
Gimme Gimme Gimme
TV series · 1999
Janine
★ 6.8
Still Crazy
Film · 1998
Lady in Black
Real Women
TV series · 1998
Anna Nicholls
★ 7.0
Tea
Film · 1998
Woman
★ 7.6
A Royal Scandal
Film · 1997
Lady Jersey
★ 5.7
Photographing Fairies
Film · 1997
Beatrice Templeton
★ 6.1
The Ice House
TV series · 1997
Diana Goode
★ 7.5
Midsomer Murders
TV series · 1997
Ingrid Lockston
★ 9.0
Rhodes
TV series · 1996
Princess Catherine Radziwill
★ 6.4
Dalziel and Pascoe
TV series · 1996
Amanda 'Cap' Marvell
★ 7.0
Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
Film · 1995
Adonia
★ 8.0
Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
Film · 1995
Sally Denton
★ 3.8
3 Steps to Heaven
Film · 1995
Andrea Wallis
★ 8.0
Scarborough Ahoy!
Film · 1994
Maria
★ 6.4
Giorgino
Film · 1994
Marie
★ 6.2
Space Precinct
TV series · 1994
Erika Brandt
★ 7.0
Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin
Film · 1994
Anna Lindsay
In The Cold Light Of Day
Film · 1994
Mother
★ 8.0
Return to Blood River
Film · 1994
Karen
Thatcherworld
Film · 1993
Penny Jenkins
★ 7.3
Rik Mayall Presents
TV series · 1993
Sally Denton
★ 7.6
Chef
TV series · 1993
Anita Lawrence
★ 6.3
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
Film · 1993
Miss Trumble
★ 6.0
The Leaving of Liverpool
Film · 1992
Ellen, Lil's Mother
★ 7.2
The Leaving of Liverpool
TV series · 1992
Role
★ 8.2
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
TV series · 1991
Medusa
★ 6.9
Murder Most Horrid
TV series · 1991
Gloria Twigge
Hancock
Film · 1991
Freddie Hancock
★ 5.4
Young Soul Rebels
Film · 1991
Ann
★ 3.9
Secret Friends
Film · 1991
Angela
★ 4.8
The Orchid House
TV series · 1991
Joan
★ 6.0
The Grasscutter
Film · 1990
Claire Deeds
★ 5.3
Separate Bedrooms
Film · 1989
Gert
★ 6.5
The Nightmare Years
TV series · 1989
Helga Bauer
★ 7.2
Screen One
TV series · 1989
Freddie Hancock
★ 4.3
Behaving Badly
TV series · 1989
Role
★ 8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
TV series · 1989
Lady Millicent
★ 7.4
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Film · 1988
Viola / Cesario
★ 6.4
We Think the World of You
Film · 1988
Megan
★ 8.1
Red Dwarf
TV series · 1988
Genny
★ 8.0
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
TV series · 1988
Winnie Verloc
★ 5.7
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Film · 1987
Rosie
★ 6.7
Prick Up Your Ears
Film · 1987
Leonie Orton
★ 7.9
Inspector Morse
TV series · 1987
Nicole Burgess
★ 6.2
Casualty
TV series · 1986
Nancy
★ 6.3
Castaway
Film · 1986
Sister Saint Winifred
★ 7.0
A Zed & Two Noughts
Film · 1985
Venus de Milo
★ 7.1
Screen Two
TV series · 1985
Jenny Coldfield
★ 7.0
White City
Film · 1985
Alice
★ 8.0
Hard Feelings
Film · 1984
Viv
★ 8.0
A Flame to the Phoenix
Film · 1983
Wanda Grabinska
★ 5.3
Those Glory Glory Days
Film · 1983
Woman
★ 7.0
Reilly: Ace of Spies
TV series · 1983
Dagmara
★ 7.0
Acceptable Levels
Film · 1983
Jill
★ 5.6
The Missionary
Film · 1982
Mission Girl
★ 6.9
Timewatch
TV series · 1982
Annie Besant
★ 6.3
Home Sweet Home
Film · 1982
Melody
★ 7.4
A Ghost Story for Christmas
TV series · 1971
Mrs Ambrigail
★ 6.6
Play for Today
TV series · 1970
Melody
★ 7.2
Omnibus
TV series · 1967
Role

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Frances Barber

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Frances Barber