Frances Barber

female

Born on May 13, 1958 (67 years old)

From Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK

Known for Acting

Biography

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).

Cast Credits

2026
- MUSIK
  2026
- A Hand to Hold
  as
  Moira
  2026
2025
- The People Before
  2025
- The Secret Santa Project
  as
  Carol
  2025
2024
- Hamlet
  as
  First Player / Player Queen / Second Clown
  2024
2022
- A Bird Flew In
  as
  Marie
  2022
- The Chelsea Detective
  as
  Olivia Arnold
  2022
2021
- A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
  as
  Mrs Ambrigail
  2021
- Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
  as
  Self
  2021
- Whitstable Pearl
  as
  Dolly Nolan
  2021
2019
- Trick or Treat
  as
  Miss Ferguson
  2019
- Let's Talk About Sex
  as
  Narrator
  2019
- Queens of Mystery
  as
  Viv Collins
  2019
2018
- Blue Iguana
  as
  Princess
  2018
- The Escape
  as
  Alison
  2018
- McKellen: Playing the Part
  2018
- An Ideal Husband
  as
  Mrs. Cheveley
  2018
- The Queen and I
  as
  Princess Margaret
  2018
2017
- Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
  as
  Joy
  2017
- The Bookshop
  as
  Jessie Welford
  2017
- no image
  Summer Comedy Shorts
  as
  Mum
  2017
2016
- The Chosen
  as
  Natalia Sedova
  2016
- The Rebel
  as
  Angela
  2016
2015
- Mr. Holmes
  as
  Matinee "Madame Schirmer"
  2015
2014
- The IT Crowd Manual
  as
  Self
  2014
- no image
  Bucky
  as
  Miss Eversham
  2014
- Inside No. 9
  as
  Lesley
  2014
- Mapp and Lucia
  as
  Amelia, Contessa di Faraglione
  2014
2013
- May I Kill U?
  as
  Bernice
  2013
- Muse of Fire
  as
  Self
  2013
- Bad Education: Christmas Special
  as
  Alfie's Mum
  2013
- Father Brown
  as
  Davina Malmort
  2013
- The Spa
  as
  Virginia (Ginny) Trench
  2013
- Psychobitches
  as
  Bette Davis
  2013
- Psychobitches
  as
  Doris Stokes
  2013
- Psychobitches
  as
  Catherine the Great
  2013
- Psychobitches
  as
  Elizabeth I
  2013
- Psychobitches
  as
  St Catherine
  2013
- Psychobitches
  as
  Whistler's Mother
  2013
- Psychobitches
  as
  Thora Hind
  2013
- Psychobitches
  as
  Josephine-Joseph
  2013
- Psychobitches
  as
  Barbara Cartland
  2013
2012
- We'll Take Manhattan
  as
  Diana Vreeland
  2012
- Playhouse Presents
  as
  Bette Davis
  2012
- Playhouse Presents
  as
  Doris Stokes
  2012
- Playhouse Presents
  as
  Catherine the Great
  2012
2009
- The Fattest Man in Britain
  as
  Janice
  2009
- Law & Order: UK
  2009
2008
- King Lear
  as
  Goneril
  2008
- no image
  Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money
  as
  Dinner Guest
  2008
- Beautiful People
  as
  Miss Prentice
  2008
2007
- Goal II: Living the Dream
  as
  Carol Harmison
  2007
- Benidorm
  as
  Daisy
  2007
2005
- Goal!
  as
  Carol Harmison
  2005
- Dead Fish
  as
  S & M Prostitute
  2005
- His Passionate Bride
  as
  Narrator (voice)
  2005
- Doctor Who
  as
  Madame Kovarian
  2005
- Doctor Who
  as
  Eye Patch Lady
  2005
- Funland
  as
  Connie Woolf
  2005
2004
- Evilenko
  as
  Fenja Evilenka
  2004
- The Legend of the Tamworth Two
  as
  Miss Piggy (voice)
  2004
- New Tricks
  2004
- Hustle
  as
  Clarissa
  2004
- Agatha Christie's Marple
  as
  Lizzie Hinchcliffe
  2004
2003
- Flyfishing
  as
  Frances
  2003
- no image
  Listening
  as
  Woman
  2003
- Boudica
  as
  Agrippina
  2003
- Monkey Dust
  as
  (voice)
  2003
2002
- The Red Siren
  as
  Eva
  2002
- no image
  Having It Off
  2002
- no image
  Celeb
  2002
2001
- Superstition
  as
  Isabella Flores
  2001
- The Gentleman Thief
  as
  Julia Sinclair
  2001
- Love in a Cold Climate
  as
  The Bolter
  2001
2000
- Shiner
  as
  Georgie
  2000
- Esther Kahn
  as
  Rivka Kahn
  2000
1999
- The Escort
  as
  Jessica
  1999
- no image
  Plastic Man
  as
  Louise Ferman
  1999
- Toy Boys
  as
  Mrs. Chambers
  1999
- Bremner, Bird and Fortune
  1999
- Gimme Gimme Gimme
  as
  Janine
  1999
- Plastic Man
  as
  Louise Ferman
  1999
1998
- Still Crazy
  as
  Lady in Black
  1998
- no image
  Just in Time
  1998
- Tea
  as
  Woman
  1998
1997
- Photographing Fairies
  as
  Beatrice Templeton
  1997
- A Royal Scandal
  as
  Lady Jersey
  1997
- Trial & Retribution
  1997
- Ruby
  as
  Self
  1997
- The Ice House
  as
  Diana Goode
  1997
- Midsomer Murders
  as
  Ingrid Lockston
  1997
- Midsomer Murders
  as
  Constance Fielding
  1997
1996
- no image
  Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs
  as
  Annie Shepherd
  1996
- Dalziel & Pascoe
  1996
- Rhodes
  as
  Princess Catherine Radziwill
  1996
1995
- 3 Steps to Heaven
  as
  Andrea Wallis
  1995
- Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
  as
  Adonia
  1995
- Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
  as
  Sally Denton
  1995
1994
- no image
  Fish Tale
  as
  Helen Wormsley
  1994
- Giorgino
  as
  Marie
  1994
- Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin
  as
  Anna Lindsay
  1994
- In The Cold Light Of Day
  as
  Mother
  1994
- Scarborough Ahoy!
  as
  Maria
  1994
- Return to Blood River
  as
  Karen
  1994
- Space Precinct
  as
  Erika Brandt
  1994
1993
- Soft Top Hard Shoulder
  as
  Miss Trumble
  1993
- no image
  A Statement of Affairs
  as
  Pip
  1993
- Chef
  as
  Anita Lawrence
  1993
- Rik Mayall Presents
  as
  Sally Denton
  1993
1992
- The Leaving of Liverpool
  as
  Ellen, Lil's Mother
  1992
- The Leaving of Liverpool
  1992
1991
- Young Soul Rebels
  as
  Ann
  1991
- Secret Friends
  as
  Angela
  1991
- no image
  Do Not Disturb
  1991
- Hancock
  as
  Freddie Hancock
  1991
- The Orchid House
  as
  Joan
  1991
- Murder Most Horrid
  as
  Gloria Twigge
  1991
- The Storyteller: Greek Myths
  as
  Medusa
  1991
1990
- The Grasscutter
  as
  Claire Deeds
  1990
1989
- Separate Bedrooms
  as
  Gert
  1989
- Behaving Badly
  1989
- The Nightmare Years
  as
  Helga Bauer
  1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot
  as
  Lady Millicent
  1989
- Agatha Christie's Poirot
  as
  Merlina Rival
  1989
1988
- Twelfth Night, or What You Will
  as
  Viola / Cesario
  1988
- We Think the World of You
  as
  Megan
  1988
- no image
  Duck
  1988
- Red Dwarf
  as
  Genny
  1988
- The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
  as
  Winnie Verloc
  1988
1987
- Prick Up Your Ears
  as
  Leonie Orton
  1987
- Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
  as
  Rosie
  1987
- Inspector Morse
  as
  Nicole Burgess
  1987
1986
- Castaway
  as
  Sister Saint Winifred
  1986
- Casualty
  as
  Nancy
  1986
1985
- A Zed & Two Noughts
  as
  Venus de Milo
  1985
- White City
  as
  Alice
  1985
1984
- Hard Feelings
  as
  Viv
  1984
1983
- A Flame to the Phoenix
  as
  Wanda Grabinska
  1983
- Acceptable Levels
  as
  Jill
  1983
- Those Glory Glory Days
  as
  Woman
  1983
- Reilly: Ace of Spies
  as
  Dagmara
  1983
1982
- Home Sweet Home
  as
  Melody
  1982
- The Missionary
  as
  Mission Girl
  1982
- Timewatch
  as
  Annie Besant
  1982
2023
- Dreamland
  as
  Cheryl
  2023
2011
- Death in Paradise
  as
  Diana Watson
  2011
- Friday Night Dinner
  as
  Sheila Bloom
  2011
- Great Expectations
  as
  Mrs. Brandley
  2011
- Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
  as
  Self - Participant
  2011
- Silk
  as
  Caroline Warwick QC
  2011
2010
- Vexed
  as
  Pat Poynter
  2010
- Pete versus Life
  2010
- The Nativity
  as
  Elizabeth
  2010
2006
- The Street
  2006
- Hotel Babylon
  2006
- The IT Crowd
  as
  Doctor Mendall
  2006
1978
- An Audience with...
  as
  Self
  1978
1971
- A Ghost Story for Christmas
  as
  Mrs Ambrigail
  1971
1970
- Play for Today
  as
  Melody
  1970

Frances Barber

Biography

Cast Credits

MUSIK

A Hand to Hold

The People Before

The Secret Santa Project

Hamlet

A Bird Flew In

The Chelsea Detective

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint

Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel

Whitstable Pearl

Trick or Treat

Let's Talk About Sex

Queens of Mystery

Blue Iguana

The Escape

McKellen: Playing the Part

An Ideal Husband

The Queen and I

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

The Bookshop

Summer Comedy Shorts

The Chosen

The Rebel

Mr. Holmes

The IT Crowd Manual

Bucky

Inside No. 9

Mapp and Lucia

May I Kill U?

Muse of Fire

Bad Education: Christmas Special

Father Brown

The Spa

Psychobitches

Psychobitches

Psychobitches

Psychobitches

Psychobitches

Psychobitches

Psychobitches

Psychobitches

Psychobitches

We'll Take Manhattan

Playhouse Presents

Playhouse Presents

Playhouse Presents

The Fattest Man in Britain

Law & Order: UK

King Lear

Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money

Beautiful People

Goal II: Living the Dream

Benidorm

Goal!

Dead Fish

His Passionate Bride

Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Funland

Evilenko

The Legend of the Tamworth Two

New Tricks

Hustle

Agatha Christie's Marple

Flyfishing

Listening

Boudica

Monkey Dust

The Red Siren

Having It Off

Celeb

Superstition

The Gentleman Thief

Love in a Cold Climate

Shiner

Esther Kahn

The Escort