Frances Barber
Born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK — May 13 1958
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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), a…
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Midsomer Murders
Ingrid Lockston
Doctor Who
Madame Kovarian
Death in Paradise
Diana Watson
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Lady Millicent
Casualty
Nancy
Play for Today
Melody
Father Brown
Davina Malmort
Hustle
Clarissa
New Tricks
Agatha Christie's Marple
Lizzie Hinchcliffe
Red Dwarf
Genny
Dalziel & Pascoe
Inspector Morse
Nicole Burgess
Inside No. 9
Lesley
The IT Crowd
Doctor Mendall
Silk
Caroline Warwick QC
Law & Order: UK
Benidorm
Daisy
Timewatch
Annie Besant
Space Precinct
Erika Brandt
Friday Night Dinner
Sheila Bloom
Hotel Babylon
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Mrs Ambrigail
Whitstable Pearl
Dolly Nolan
Murder Most Horrid
Gloria Twigge
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Dagmara
The Chelsea Detective
Olivia Arnold
Playhouse Presents
Bette Davis
The Street
Trial & Retribution
Vexed
Pat Poynter
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Winnie Verloc
Beautiful People
Miss Prentice
Funland
Connie Woolf
Chef
Anita Lawrence
Great Expectations
Mrs. Brandley
Psychobitches
Bette Davis
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Janine
Queens of Mystery
Viv Collins
Rik Mayall Presents
Sally Denton
Mr. Holmes
Matinee "Madame Schirmer"
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Medusa
Goal!
Carol Harmison
Giorgino
Marie
The Nativity
Elizabeth
The Spa
Virginia (Ginny) Trench
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
Evilenko
Fenja Evilenka
Pete versus Life
Love in a Cold Climate
The Bolter
The Rebel
Angela
Summer Comedy Shorts
Mum
Mapp and Lucia
Amelia, Contessa di Faraglione
Semi-Detached
Patricia
Behaving Badly
The Ice House
Diana Goode
Castaway
Sister Saint Winifred
Goal II: Living the Dream
Carol Harmison
Dreamland
Cheryl
Rhodes
Princess Catherine Radziwill
Shiner
Georgie
Dead Fish
S & M Prostitute
Prick Up Your Ears
Leonie Orton
Monkey Dust
(voice)
Muse of Fire
Self
The Orchid House
Joan
Boudica
Agrippina
Still Crazy
Lady in Black
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Joy
The Chosen
Natalia Sedova
The Escort
Jessica
Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money
Dinner Guest
We'll Take Manhattan
Diana Vreeland
The Bookshop
Jessie Welford
Hamlet
First Player / Player Queen / Second Clown
The Red Siren
Eva
Superstition
Isabella Flores
Blue Iguana
Princess
The Missionary
Mission Girl
McKellen: Playing the Part
The Nightmare Years
Helga Bauer
King Lear
Goneril
Hancock
Freddie Hancock
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Rosie
Secret Friends
Angela
The Escape
Alison
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
Self
Photographing Fairies
Beatrice Templeton
Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
Adonia
Esther Kahn
Rivka Kahn
A Zed & Two Noughts
Venus de Milo
Separate Bedrooms
Gert
Listening
Woman
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Viola / Cesario
A Bird Flew In
Marie
Trick or Treat
Miss Ferguson
Toy Boys
Mrs. Chambers
3 Steps to Heaven
Andrea Wallis
The Queen and I
Princess Margaret
Plastic Man
Louise Ferman
Young Soul Rebels
Ann
The Grasscutter
Claire Deeds
Those Glory Glory Days
Woman
The Leaving of Liverpool
We Think the World of You
Megan
Scarborough Ahoy!
Maria
Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs
Annie Shepherd
The Fattest Man in Britain
Janice
An Ideal Husband
Mrs. Cheveley
Celeb
Having It Off
A Royal Scandal
Lady Jersey
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
Mrs Ambrigail
Duck
A Statement of Affairs
Pip
Bucky
Miss Eversham
The IT Crowd Manual
Self
Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin
Anna Lindsay
Plastic Man
Louise Ferman
Return to Blood River
Karen
Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
Sally Denton
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
Miss Trumble
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
Miss Piggy (voice)
The Leaving of Liverpool
Ellen, Lil's Mother
Home Sweet Home
Melody
A Flame to the Phoenix
Wanda Grabinska
Hard Feelings
Viv
The Secret Santa Project
Carol
Just in Time
The State of Us
Joan
Do Not Disturb
Acceptable Levels
Jill
White City
Alice
Flyfishing
Frances
Bad Education: Christmas Special
Alfie's Mum
Let's Talk About Sex
Narrator
The Gentleman Thief
Julia Sinclair
May I Kill U?
Bernice
In The Cold Light Of Day
Mother
His Passionate Bride
Narrator (voice)
From London with Love
MUSIK
The People Before
Tea
Woman
A Hand to Hold
Moira
Fish Tale
Helen Wormsley