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Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 13, 1958
Place of Birth
Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
Also Known As
- فرانسس باربر
Frances Barber
1.8 Popularity
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).
Known For
0.0
Carol
The Secret Santa Project
2025
5.6
The People Before
2025
7.6
First Player / Player Queen / Second Clown
Hamlet
2024
6.5
Cheryl
Dreamland
2023
0.0
Marie
A Bird Flew In
2022
6.2
Olivia Arnold
The Chelsea Detective
2022
6.9
Mrs Ambrigail
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
2021
7.8
Herself
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
2021
6.6
Dolly Nolan
Whitstable Pearl
2021
2.3
Miss Ferguson
Trick or Treat
2019
Credits
The Secret Santa Project
as Carol
2025
0.0
The People Before
2025
5.6
Hamlet
as First Player / Player Queen / Second Clown
2024
7.6
Dreamland
as Cheryl
2023
6.5
A Bird Flew In
as Marie
2022
0.0
The Chelsea Detective
as Olivia Arnold
2022
6.2
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
as Mrs Ambrigail
2021
6.9
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
as Herself
2021
7.8
Whitstable Pearl
as Dolly Nolan
2021
6.6
Trick or Treat
as Miss Ferguson
2019
2.3
Queens of Mystery
as Viv Collins
2019
7.0
Let's Talk About Sex
as Narrator
2019
10.0
The Queen and I
as Princess Margaret
2018
6.3
Blue Iguana
as Princess
2018
5.7
An Ideal Husband
as Mrs. Cheveley
2018
7.5
McKellen: Playing the Part
2018
7.2
The Escape
as Alison
2018
5.5
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
as Joy
2017
6.4
The Bookshop
as Jessie Welford
2017
6.5
🎬
Summer Comedy Shorts
as Mum
2017
0.0
The Chosen
as Natalia Sedova
2016
5.8
The Rebel
as Angela
2016
7.2
Mr. Holmes
as Matinee "Madame Schirmer"
2015
6.5
Mapp and Lucia
as Amelia, Contessa di Faraglione
2014
6.3
🎬
Bucky
as Miss Eversham
2014
0.0
Inside No. 9
as Lesley
2014
8.0
The IT Crowd Manual
as Self
2014
8.4
Bad Education: Christmas Special
as Alfie's Mum
2013
10.0
Muse of Fire
as Self
2013
6.5
Psychobitches
as Various Roles
2013
6.8
The Spa
as Virginia (Ginny) Trench
2013
6.0
Father Brown
as Davina Malmort
2013
7.6
May I Kill U?
as Bernice
2013
4.6
We'll Take Manhattan
as Diana Vreeland
2012
5.5
Great Expectations
as Mrs. Brandley
2011
7.3
Death in Paradise
as Diana Watson
2011
7.5
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
2011
5.0
Friday Night Dinner
as Sheila Bloom
2011
7.9
Silk
as Caroline Warwick
2011
7.5
The Nativity
as Elizabeth
2010
8.8
Vexed
as Pat Poynter
2010
6.9
Pete versus Life
2010
6.3
The Fattest Man in Britain
as Janice
2009
5.9
Law & Order: UK
2009
7.1
🎬
Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money
as Dinner Guest
2008
0.0
Beautiful People
as Miss Prentice
2008
6.8
King Lear
as Goneril
2008
6.7
Goal II: Living the Dream
as Carol Harmison
2007
6.0
Benidorm
as Daisy
2007
7.5
The Street
2006
7.7
The IT Crowd
as Doctor Mendall
2006
8.2
Hotel Babylon
2006
7.3
Funland
2005
5.7
Dead Fish
as S & M Prostitute
2005
5.4
Goal!
as Carol Harmison
2005
6.8
Doctor Who
as Madame Kovarian
2005
7.6
Doctor Who
as Eye Patch Lady
2005
7.6
His Passionate Bride
as Narrator (voice)
2005
7.0
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Lizzie Hinchcliffe
2004
7.8
Evilenko
as Fenja Evilenka
2004
5.7
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
as Miss Piggy (voice)
2004
3.0
Hustle
as Clarissa
2004
7.7
New Tricks
2004
7.4
Boudica
as Agrippina
2003
4.7
🎬
Listening
as Woman
2003
7.3
Monkey Dust
as (voice)
2003
8.0
Flyfishing
as Frances
2003
3.8
🎬
Celeb
2002
0.0
The Red Siren
as Eva
2002
5.1
🎬
Having It Off
2002
0.0
Superstition
as Isabella Flores
2001
5.1
The Gentleman Thief
as Julia Sinclair
2001
0.0
Love in a Cold Climate
as The Bolter
2001
7.8
Esther Kahn
as Rivka Kahn
2000
5.9
Shiner
as Georgie
2000
5.2
The Escort
as Jessica
1999
5.2
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
1999
6.0
Plastic Man
as Louise Ferman
1999
0.0
🎬
Plastic Man
as Louise Ferman
1999
1.0
Toy Boys
as Mrs. Chambers
1999
0.0
Gimme Gimme Gimme
as Janine
1999
6.9
Still Crazy
as Lady in Black
1998
6.8
Tea
as Woman
1998
0.0
🎬
Just in Time
1998
0.0
Trial & Retribution
1997
6.8
A Royal Scandal
as Lady Jersey
1997
7.0
Photographing Fairies
as Beatrice Templeton
1997
5.5
🎬
Ruby
as Self
1997
0.0
The Ice House
as Diana Goode
1997
6.1
Midsomer Murders
as Ingrid Lockston
1997
7.5
Midsomer Murders
as Constance Fielding
1997
7.5
Rhodes
as Princess Catherine Radziwill
1996
0.0
Dalziel & Pascoe
1996
6.3
Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
as Adonia
1995
7.0
Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
as Sally Denton
1995
8.0
3 Steps to Heaven
as Andrea Wallis
1995
2.5
Scarborough Ahoy!
as Maria
1994
7.0
Giorgino
as Marie
1994
6.4
Space Precinct
as Erika Brandt
1994
6.2
Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin
as Anna Lindsay
1994
0.0
In The Cold Light Of Day
as Mother
1994
0.0
Return to Blood River
as Karen
1994
0.0
🎬
Fish Tale
as Helen Wormsley
1994
0.0
Rik Mayall Presents
as Sally Denton
1993
7.3
🎬
A Statement of Affairs
as Pip
1993
0.0
Chef
as Anita Lawrence
1993
7.8
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
as Miss Trumble
1993
6.2
The Leaving of Liverpool
1992
6.8
The Leaving of Liverpool
as Ellen, Lil's Mother
1992
6.0
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
as Medusa
1991
8.2
Murder Most Horrid
as Gloria Twigge
1991
6.8
Hancock
as Freddie Hancock
1991
0.0
Young Soul Rebels
as Ann
1991
4.9
Secret Friends
as Angela
1991
3.5
🎬
Do Not Disturb
1991
2.0
The Orchid House
as Joan
1991
4.0
The Grasscutter
as Claire Deeds
1990
5.0
Separate Bedrooms
as Gert
1989
5.0
The Nightmare Years
as Helga Bauer
1989
5.0
Behaving Badly
1989
3.0
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Lady Millicent
1989
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Merlina Rival
1989
8.2
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
as Viola / Cesario
1988
6.9
We Think the World of You
as Megan
1988
6.3
Red Dwarf
as Genny
1988
8.1
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
as Winnie Verloc
1988
0.0
🎬
Duck
1988
0.0
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
as Rosie
1987
5.5
Prick Up Your Ears
as Leonie Orton
1987
6.6
Inspector Morse
as Nicole Burgess
1987
7.8
Casualty
as Nancy
1986
6.1
Castaway
as Sister Saint Winifred
1986
6.2
A Zed & Two Noughts
as Venus de Milo
1985
7.0
White City
as Alice
1985
0.0
Hard Feelings
as Viv
1984
8.0
A Flame to the Phoenix
as Wanda Grabinska
1983
0.0
Those Glory Glory Days
as Woman
1983
4.6
Reilly: Ace of Spies
as Dagmara
1983
7.0
Acceptable Levels
as Jill
1983
0.0
The Missionary
as Mission Girl
1982
5.5
Timewatch
as Annie Besant
1982
6.9
Home Sweet Home
as Melody
1982
6.3
An Audience with...
as Self
1978
5.3
A Ghost Story for Christmas
as Mrs Ambrigail
1971
7.4
Play for Today
as Melody
1970
6.3