Frances Barber
Acting
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Acting Credits
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 inclu...
Known For
Filmography
MUSIK
2026
A Hand to Hold
2026
as Moira
The State of Us
2026
as Joan
The People Before
2025
The Secret Santa Project
2025
as Carol
Hamlet
2024
as First Player / Player Queen / Second Clown
Dreamland
2023
as Cheryl
A Bird Flew In
2022
as Marie
The Chelsea Detective
2022
as Olivia Arnold
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
2021
as Mrs Ambrigail
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
2021
as Self
Whitstable Pearl
2021
as Dolly Nolan
Semi-Detached
2020
as Patricia
Trick or Treat
2019
as Miss Ferguson
Let's Talk About Sex
2019
as Narrator
Queens of Mystery
2019
as Viv Collins
Blue Iguana
2018
as Princess
The Escape
2018
as Alison
McKellen: Playing the Part
2018
An Ideal Husband
2018
as Mrs. Cheveley
The Queen and I
2018
as Princess Margaret
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
as Joy
The Bookshop
2017
as Jessie Welford
Summer Comedy Shorts
2017
as Mum
The Chosen
2016
as Natalia Sedova
The Rebel
2016
as Angela
Mr. Holmes
2015
as Matinee "Madame Schirmer"
Britain's Busiest Airport: Heathrow
2015
as Narrator
The IT Crowd Manual
2014
as Self
Bucky
2014
as Miss Eversham
Inside No. 9
2014
as Lesley
Mapp and Lucia
2014
as Amelia, Contessa di Faraglione
May I Kill U?
2013
as Bernice
Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Bad Education: Christmas Special
2013
as Alfie's Mum
Father Brown
2013
as Davina Malmort
Psychobitches
2013
as Bette Davis
Psychobitches
2013
as Doris Stokes
Psychobitches
2013
as Catherine the Great
Psychobitches
2013
as Elizabeth I
Psychobitches
2013
as St Catherine
Psychobitches
2013
as Whistler's Mother
Psychobitches
2013
as Thora Hind
Psychobitches
2013
as Josephine-Joseph
Psychobitches
2013
as Barbara Cartland
The Spa
2013
as Ginny
We'll Take Manhattan
2012
as Diana Vreeland
Playhouse Presents
2012
as Bette Davis
Playhouse Presents
2012
as Doris Stokes
Playhouse Presents
2012
as Catherine the Great
Death in Paradise
2011
as Diana Watson
Friday Night Dinner
2011
as Sheila Bloom
Great Expectations
2011
as Mrs. Brandley
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
as Self - Participant
Silk
2011
as Caroline Warwick QC
Vexed
2010
as Pat Poynter
Pete versus Life
2010
The Nativity
2010
as Elizabeth
The Fattest Man in Britain
2009
as Janice
Law & Order: UK
2009
King Lear
2008
as Goneril
Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money
2008
as Dinner Guest
Beautiful People
2008
as Miss Prentice
Goal II: Living the Dream
2007
as Carol Harmison
Benidorm
2007
as Daisy
The Street
2006
Hotel Babylon
2006
The IT Crowd
2006
as Doctor Mendall
Goal!
2005
as Carol Harmison
Dead Fish
2005
as S & M Prostitute
His Passionate Bride
2005
as Narrator (voice)
Doctor Who
2005
as Madame Kovarian
Doctor Who
2005
as Eye Patch Lady
Funland
2005
as Connie Woolf
Evilenko
2004
as Fenja Evilenka
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
2004
as Miss Piggy (voice)
New Tricks
2004
Hustle
2004
as Clarissa
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Lizzie Hinchcliffe
Flyfishing
2003
as Frances
Listening
2003
as Woman
Boudica
2003
as Agrippina
Monkey Dust
2003
as (voice)
The Red Siren
2002
as Eva
Having It Off
2002
Celeb
2002
Superstition
2001
as Isabella Flores
The Gentleman Thief
2001
as Julia Sinclair
Love in a Cold Climate
2001
as The Bolter
Shiner
2000
as Georgie
Esther Kahn
2000
as Rivka Kahn
The Escort
1999
as Jessica
Plastic Man
1999
as Louise Ferman
Toy Boys
1999
as Mrs. Chambers
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
1999
Gimme Gimme Gimme
1999
as Janine
Plastic Man
1999
as Louise Ferman
Still Crazy
1998
as Lady in Black
Just in Time
1998
Tea
1998
as Woman
Real Women
1998
as Anna Nicholls
Photographing Fairies
1997
as Beatrice Templeton
A Royal Scandal
1997
as Lady Jersey
Ruby
1997
as Self
The Ice House
1997
as Diana Goode
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Ingrid Lockston
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Constance Fielding
Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs
1996
as Annie Shepherd
Rhodes
1996
as Princess Catherine Radziwill
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
as Amanda 'Cap' Marvell
3 Steps to Heaven
1995
as Andrea Wallis
Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
1995
as Adonia
Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
1995
as Sally Denton
It Might Be You
1995
as Wendy
Fish Tale
1994
as Helen Wormsley
Giorgino
1994
as Marie
Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin
1994
as Anna Lindsay
In The Cold Light Of Day
1994
as Mother
Scarborough Ahoy!
1994
as Maria
Return to Blood River
1994
as Karen
Space Precinct
1994
as Erika Brandt
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
1993
as Miss Trumble
A Statement of Affairs
1993
as Pip
Thatcherworld
1993
as Penny Jenkins
Chef
1993
as Anita Lawrence
Rik Mayall Presents
1993
as Sally Denton
The Leaving of Liverpool
1992
as Ellen, Lil's Mother
The Leaving of Liverpool
1992
Young Soul Rebels
1991
as Ann
Secret Friends
1991
as Angela
Do Not Disturb
1991
as Jenny
Hancock
1991
as Freddie Hancock
The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Perseus & the Gorgon
1991
as Medusa
The Orchid House
1991
as Joan
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991
as Medusa
Murder Most Horrid
1991
as Gloria Twigge
The Grasscutter
1990
as Claire Deeds
Separate Bedrooms
1989
as Gert
Behaving Badly
1989
The Nightmare Years
1989
as Helga Bauer
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Lady Millicent
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
as Merlina Rival
Screen One
1989
as Freddie Hancock
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988
as Viola / Cesario
We Think the World of You
1988
as Megan
Duck
1988
Red Dwarf
1988
as Genny
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
as Winnie Verloc
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
as Leonie Orton
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
1987
as Rosie
Inspector Morse
1987
as Nicole Burgess
Castaway
1986
as Sister Saint Winifred
Casualty
1986
as Nancy
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985
as Venus de Milo
White City
1985
as Alice
Screen Two
1985
as Jenny Coldfield
Screen Two
1985
as Karen
Screen Two
1985
as Mother
Hard Feelings
1984
as Viv
A Flame to the Phoenix
1983
as Wanda Grabinska
Acceptable Levels
1983
as Jill
Those Glory Glory Days
1983
as Woman
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
as Dagmara
Home Sweet Home
1982
as Melody
The Missionary
1982
as Mission Girl
Timewatch
1982
as Annie Besant
An Audience with...
1978
as Self
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
as Mrs Ambrigail
Play for Today
1970
as Melody
Omnibus
1967