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Frances Barber 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 Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017). Barber's numerous television credits include The Street (2009), Doctor Who (2011), and Silk (2012–14).
Born
Tuesday, 13 May 1958
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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A Very Venice Romance | Olivia Hansford | 2023 |
Dreamland | Cheryl | 2023 |
Hamlet | 2023 | |
The Chelsea Detective | Olivia Arnold | 2022 |
Dodger | Dame Eliza Vestris | 2022 |
The Mezzotint | Mrs. Ambrigail | 2021 |
A Bird Flew In | Marie | 2021 |
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel | Self / Herself | 2021 |
Whitstable Pearl | Dolly Nolan / Dolly / Self | 2021 |
Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh | Self | 2020 |
Actress Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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A Very Venice Romance | Olivia Hansford | 2023 |
Dreamland | Cheryl | 2023 |
Hamlet | 2023 | |
The Chelsea Detective | Olivia Arnold | 2022 |
Dodger | Dame Eliza Vestris | 2022 |
The Mezzotint | Mrs. Ambrigail | 2021 |
A Bird Flew In | Marie | 2021 |
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel | Self / Herself | 2021 |
Whitstable Pearl | Dolly Nolan / Dolly / Self | 2021 |
Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh | Self | 2020 |
Five Guys a Week | Self - Narrator | 2020 |
Inside the Crown | Self - Narrator | 2020 |
Smuggled | Self - Narrator | 2019 |
Trick or Treat | Miss Ferguson | 2019 |
Queens of Mystery | Viv Collins | 2019 |
Semi-Detached | Patricia | 2019 |
The Queen and I | Margaret / Princess Margaret | 2018 |
Blue Iguana | Princess | 2018 |
McKellen: Playing the Part | 2018 | |
Escape | Alison | 2018 |
The Escape | Alison | 2018 |
The Split | Misty Brodeur | 2018 |
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Joy | 2017 |
The Bookshop | Jessie | 2017 |
Medici | Piccarda | 2016 |
The Chosen | Natalia Sedova | 2016 |
The Rebel | Angela | 2016 |
Mr. Holmes | Matinee 'Madame Schirmer' / Matinee "Madame Schirmer" | 2015 |
Murder in Successville | Mary Berry | 2015 |
Mapp & Lucia | Amelia, Contessa Di Faraglione | 2014 |
The Life of Rock with Brian Pern | Wendy | 2014 |
Inside No. 9 | Lesley | 2014 |
Muse of Fire | Self | 2013 |
Advance to Contact | Dr. Catherine Sheldon | 2013 |
Vicious | Carlotta | 2013 |
Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited | Self | 2013 |
Father Brown | Davina Malmort | 2013 |
May I Kill U? | Bernice | 2013 |
Bad Education | Alfie's Mum | 2012 |
Psychobitches | Various Roles / Barbara Cartland / Bette Davis / Catherine the Great / Doris Stokes / Elizabeth I / Josephine and Joseph / St. Catherine / Thora Hird / Whistler's Mother | 2012 |
Sunday Brunch | Self - Guest | 2012 |
We'll Take Manhattan | Diana Vreeland | 2012 |
Great Expectations | Mrs. Brandley | 2011 |
Death in Paradise | Diana Watson | 2011 |
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip | Self | 2011 |
Friday Night Dinner | Sheila Bloom | 2011 |
Silk | Caroline Warwick QC / Caroline Warwick | 2011 |
The Nativity | Elizabeth | 2010 |
Vexed | Pat Poynter | 2010 |
Pete Versus Life | Rebecca | 2010 |
A Passionate Woman | Margaret | 2010 |
The Fattest Man in Britain | Janice | 2009 |
Law & Order: UK | Michaela Herman | 2009 |
Celebrity Eggheads | Self - Contestant | 2008 |
Beautiful People | Miss Prentice | 2008 |
King Lear | Goneril | 2008 |
Goal II: Living the Dream | Carol Harmison | 2007 |
Benidorm | Daisy | 2007 |
Pet Shop Boys: A Life in Pop | Self | 2006 |
Brief Encounters | Jackie Knight | 2006 |
The Street | Lizzie Gargan | 2006 |
The IT Crowd | Doctor Mendall | 2006 |
Hotel Babylon | Arianna Adams | 2006 |
Dead Fish | S & M Prostitute | 2006 |
Funland | Connie Woolf | 2005 |
Goal! The Dream Begins | Carol Harmison | 2005 |
Doctor Who Confidential | Self | 2005 |
Doctor Who | Eye Patch Lady / Madame Kovarian | 2005 |
According to Bex | Brenda | 2005 |
Marple | Lizzie Hinchcliffe | 2004 |
Evilenko | 2004 | |
The Legend of the Tamworth Two | Miss Piggy / Miss Piggy (voice) | 2004 |
Suzie Gold | Joyce Spencer | 2004 |
Hustle | Clarissa | 2004 |
Warrior Queen | Agrippina | 2003 |
New Tricks | Anita Walsh | 2003 |
Flyfishing | Frances | 2002 |
Manchild | Elizabeth | 2002 |
The Red Siren | Eva | 2002 |
Superstition | Isabella Flores | 2001 |
The Gentleman Thief | Julia Sinclair | 2001 |
Love in a Cold Climate | The Bolter | 2001 |
Esther Kahn | Rivka Kahn | 2000 |
Shiner | Georgie | 2000 |
My Family | Vanessa | 2000 |
The Escort | Jessica | 1999 |
Loose Women | Herself | 1999 |
Toy Boys | Mrs. Chambers | 1999 |
Holby City | Eva Thomas | 1999 |
Gimme Gimme Gimme | Janine | 1999 |
Still Crazy | Lady in Black | 1998 |
Real Women | Anna Nicholls / Anna | 1998 |
Trial & Retribution | Cassandra | 1997 |
A Royal Scandal | Lady Jersey | 1997 |
Photographing Fairies | Beatrice Templeton | 1997 |
Where the Heart Is | Michelle | 1997 |
The Ice House | Diana Goode | 1997 |
Cold Feet | Maxine Ibson | 1997 |
Midsomer Murders | Constance Fielding / Ingrid Lockston | 1997 |
Rhodes | Princess Catherine Radziwill | 1996 |
Dalziel and Pascoe | Amanda 'Cap' Marvell | 1996 |
It Might Be You | Wendy | 1995 |
3 Steps to Heaven | Andrea Wallis | 1995 |
Giorgino | Marie | 1994 |
Du fond du coeur | Anna Lindsay | 1994 |
Space Precinct | Erika Brandt | 1994 |
A Statement of Affairs | Pip | 1993 |
Chef! | Anita Lawrence | 1993 |
Soft Top Hard Shoulder | Miss Trumble | 1993 |
The Leaving of Liverpool | Ellen, Lily's mother / Ellen, Lil's Mother | 1992 |
Murder Most Horrid | Gloria Twigge | 1991 |
Young Soul Rebels | Ann | 1991 |
The Storyteller: Greek Myths | Medusa | 1991 |
Alleyn Mysteries | Kitty Cartarette | 1990 |
El C.I.D. | Molly | 1990 |
The Grasscutter | 1990 | |
Chambre à part | Gert | 1989 |
The Nightmare Years | Helga Bauer | 1989 |
Screen One | Freddie Hancock | 1989 |
Behaving Badly | Rebecca | 1989 |
Poirot | Merlina Rival / Lady Millicent | 1989 |
Twelfth Night, or What You Will | Viola / Cesario | 1988 |
We Think the World of You | Megan | 1988 |
This Is David Lander | Yvonne Watts / Irina Tereschkov | 1988 |
Red Dwarf | Genny | 1988 |
Victim of the Brain | 1988 | |
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid | Rosie / Rosie Hobbs | 1987 |
Prick Up Your Ears | Leonie Orton | 1987 |
Inspector Morse | Nicole Burgess | 1987 |
Clem | Lisa | 1987 |
A Flame to the Phoenix | Wanda Grabinska | 1983 |
Casualty | Nancy / Claire Wakelins | 1986 |
Castaway | Sister Saint Winifred | 1986 |
A Zed & Two Noughts | Venus de Milo | 1985 |
Screen Two | Mother / Karen / Jenny Coldfield | 1985 |
White City | Alice | 1985 |
Those Glory Glory Days | Woman | 1983 |
Reilly: Ace of Spies | Dagmara | 1983 |
The Missionary | Mission Girl | 1982 |
Timewatch | Annie Besant | 1982 |
Great Performances | Goneril | 1971 |
Play for Today | Viv / Melody | 1970 |