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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 5, 1948
Place of Birth
Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK
Also Known As
- Barbara Joy McMurray
Barbara Flynn
2.3 Popularity
Biography
Barbara Joy Flynn (born 5 August 1948) is an English actress. She first came to prominence playing Freda Ashton in the ITV drama series A Family at War (1970–1972). She went on to play the milk woman in the BBC comedy Open All Hours (1976–1985), Jill Swinburne in The Beiderbecke Trilogy (1985–1988), Dr. Rose Marie in the BBC series A Very Peculiar Practice (1986–1988), Judith Fitzgerald in the ITV drama Cracker (1993–1995), and Mrs. Jamieson in Cranford (2007–2009). In 2021, she appeared in Doctor Who: Flux as Tecteun, a founder of Time Lord society and The Doctor's adopted mother. Starting in 2023, she acted in Beyond Paradise, playing the mother of the detective's girlfriend. This included some episodes in 2024 where she was reunited with Peter Davison, her A Very Peculiar Practice co-star. In her own words, she tends to play "feisty, strong women"
Known For
0.0
Narrator
Secrets of the Royals: Births, Marriages and Deaths
2025
6.6
Anne Lloyd
Beyond Paradise
2023
0.0
Narrator
Diana: The Curse of the Spencers
2022
🎬
0.0
Narrator
1978: The Winter of Discontent
2022
7.9
Julia
Killing Eve
2018
7.4
Aunt Hermione
The Durrells
2016
6.3
Queen Victoria
1864
2014
5.8
Lady Camdon
The Christmas Candle
2013
0.0
Pat
Pat & Cabbage
2013
0.0
Narrator (Voice)
The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance
2013
Credits
Secrets of the Royals: Births, Marriages and Deaths
as Narrator
2025
0.0
Beyond Paradise
as Anne Lloyd
2023
6.6
Diana: The Curse of the Spencers
as Narrator
2022
0.0
🎬
1978: The Winter of Discontent
as Narrator
2022
0.0
Killing Eve
as Julia
2018
7.9
The Durrells
as Aunt Hermione
2016
7.4
1864
as Queen Victoria
2014
6.3
The Christmas Candle
as Lady Camdon
2013
5.8
Pat & Cabbage
as Pat
2013
0.0
The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance
as Narrator (Voice)
2013
0.0
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
as Aunt Bella
2012
5.4
Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies
as Herself - Narrator
2012
0.0
Just Henry
as Mrs Beaumont
2011
6.6
Death in Paradise
as Patti Grenson
2011
7.5
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
2011
5.0
My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding
as Narrator (voice)
2010
4.8
Burlesque Fairytales
as Mrs. Argyle
2010
5.6
The Queen
as The Queen
2009
7.0
Moving On
as Carol
2009
7.1
A Lion Called Christian
as Self - Narrator(voice)
2009
7.8
🎬
The Marchioness Disaster
as Eileen Dallaglio
2008
5.5
Christmas at the Riviera
as Rita
2007
3.8
Cranford
as Mrs Jamieson
2007
8.2
Miss Potter
as Helen Potter
2006
6.6
Cracker: Nine Eleven
as Judith Fitzgerald
2006
7.0
The Line of Beauty
as Sally Tipper
2006
6.3
🎬
The 7/7 Bombers: A Psychological Investigation
as Voice
2005
0.0
Elizabeth I
as Mary Queen of Scots
2005
7.2
Malice Aforethought
as Julia Bickleigh
2005
4.1
🎬
The Queen's Castle
as Narrator (Voice)
2005
0.0
Doctor Who
as Awsok
2005
7.6
He Knew He Was Right
as Mrs. French
2004
7.6
Sea of Souls
as Lt Col Petra Summers
2004
7.6
George Orwell: A Life In Pictures
as Narrator
2003
0.0
Rosalind Franklin: DNA's Dark Lady
as Narrator
2003
0.0
Hornblower: Duty
as Mrs. Mason
2003
7.3
Hornblower: Loyalty
as Mrs. Mason
2003
7.1
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
as Maureen Finnegan
2002
7.2
The Forsyte Saga
as Emily Forsyte
2002
7.9
Night Flight
as Moira
2002
6.0
Perfect
as Imogen
2001
0.0
Murder in Mind
as Grace Fisher
2001
8.4
Lorna Doone
as Sarah Ridd
2001
5.7
Lorna Doone
as Sarah Ridd
2000
7.7
Wives and Daughters
as Miss Browning
1999
7.3
The Escort
as Kim's Mother
1999
5.2
You're Dead...
as Prof. Corner
1999
6.4
The Man Who Would Be Kubrick
as Self - Narrator
1999
0.0
Hornblower
as Mrs Mason
1998
7.7
King Lear
as Goneril
1998
8.0
Dear Nobody
as Chris' Mother
1998
2.0
The Vanishing Man
1997
0.0
The Vanishing Man
as Me Jeffries
1997
0.0
Silent Witness
as Carol Fisher
1996
7.5
Chandler & Co.
1994
0.0
Cracker
1993
6.6
Cracker
as Judith Fitzgerald
1993
6.6
Cracker
as Judith
1993
6.6
Maigret
1992
7.1
Performance
as Goneril
1991
6.0
🎬
Joshua Jones
1991
6.0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mrs Allerton
1989
8.2
🎬
Benefactors
1989
2.0
Bosses From Hell
1989
0.0
The Beiderbecke Connection
as Jill Swinburne
1988
7.3
The Beiderbecke Tapes
as Jill Swinburne
1987
6.6
Inspector Morse
as Monica Height
1987
7.8
Season's Greetings
as Belinda
1986
0.0
🎬
Day To Remember
as Judy
1986
0.0
A Very Peculiar Practice
as Dr Rose Marie
1986
8.0
The Beiderbecke Affair
as Jill Swinburne
1985
7.8
A Mother Like Him
as Jill
1982
0.0
The Barchester Chronicles
as Mary Bold
1982
7.0
🎬
The New Adventures of Lucky Jim
as Joanna Lassiter
1982
0.0
Britannia Hospital
as Private Nurse
1982
6.2
No Visible Scar
as Margaret Hanson
1981
0.0
Standing in for Henry
as Heather
1980
0.0
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
as Pauline Sutton
1977
5.5
Love on a Gunboat
as Monica Potter
1977
0.0
Open All Hours
1976
7.9
The Flight Fund
as Angie
1975
0.0
Playhouse
as Heather
1974
7.0
Play for Today
as Monica Potter
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Margaret Hanson
1970
6.3
Play for Today
as Jill
1970
6.3
A Family at War
as Freda MacKenzie
1970
6.6
A Family at War
as Freda Ashton
1970
6.6