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Frances Barber

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: Acting

Born: Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK, 1958-05-13

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1982	Home Sweet Home	Melody	63
2	1982	The Missionary	Mission Girl	56
3	1983	Acceptable Levels	Jill	0
4	1983	Those Glory Glory Days	Woman	46
5	1983	A Flame to the Phoenix	Wanda Grabinska	0
6	1984	Hard Feelings	Viv	80
7	1985	White City	Alice	0
8	1985	A Zed & Two Noughts	Venus de Milo	71
9	1986	Castaway	Sister Saint Winifred	63
10	1987	Prick Up Your Ears	Leonie Orton	67
11	1987	Sammy and Rosie Get Laid	Rosie	58
12	1988	Duck		0
13	1988	We Think the World of You	Megan	66
14	1988	Twelfth Night, or What You Will	Viola / Cesario	69
15	1989	Separate Bedrooms	Gert	53
16	1990	The Grasscutter		50
17	1991	Do Not Disturb		0
18	1991	Secret Friends	Angela	37
19	1991	Young Soul Rebels	Ann	50
20	1991	Hancock	Freddie Hancock	0
21	1992	The Leaving of Liverpool	Ellen, Lil's Mother	60
22	1993	Soft Top Hard Shoulder	Miss Trumble	62
23	1993	A Statement of Affairs	Pip	0
24	1994	Fish Tale	Helen Wormsley	0
25	1994	Return to Blood River	Karen	0
26	1994	In The Cold Light Of Day	Mother	0
27	1994	Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin	Anna Lindsay	0
28	1994	Giorgino	Marie	65
29	1994	Scarborough Ahoy!	Maria	70
30	1995	3 Steps to Heaven	Andrea Wallis	25
31	1995	Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town	Sally Denton	80
32	1995	Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing	Adonia	70
33	1997	Photographing Fairies	Beatrice Templeton	57
34	1997	A Royal Scandal	Lady Jersey	70
35	1998	Just in Time		0
36	1998	Tea	Woman	0
37	1998	Still Crazy	Lady in Black	67
38	1999	Toy Boys	Mrs. Chambers	0
39	1999	Plastic Man	Louise Ferman	10
40	1999	The Escort	Jessica	53
41	2000	Shiner	Georgie	54
42	2000	Esther Kahn	Rivka Kahn	60
43	2001	The Gentleman Thief	Julia Sinclair	0
44	2001	Superstition	Isabella Flores	52
45	2002	The Red Siren	Eva	51
46	2003	Flyfishing	Frances	40
47	2003	Listening	Woman	73
48	2004	The Legend of the Tamworth Two	Miss Piggy (voice)	30
49	2004	Evilenko	Fenja Evilenka	57
50	2005	His Passionate Bride	Narrator (voice)	70
51	2005	Goal!	Carol Harmison	68
52	2005	Dead Fish	S & M Prostitute	55
53	2007	Goal II: Living the Dream	Carol Harmison	60
54	2008	King Lear	Goneril	67
55	2009	The Fattest Man in Britain	Janice	59
56	2012	We'll Take Manhattan	Diana Vreeland	55
57	2013	May I Kill U?	Bernice	46
58	2013	Muse of Fire	Self	65
59	2014	The IT Crowd Manual	Self	84
60	2014	Bucky	Miss Eversham	0
61	2015	Mr. Holmes	Matinee "Madame Schirmer"	65
62	2016	The Chosen	Natalia Sedova	58
63	2017	The Bookshop	Jessie Welford	65
64	2017	Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool	Joy	64
65	2018	The Escape	Alison	55
66	2018	McKellen: Playing the Part		72
67	2018	An Ideal Husband	Mrs. Cheveley	75
68	2018	Blue Iguana	Princess	58
69	2018	The Queen and I	Princess Margaret	64
70	2019	Trick or Treat	Miss Ferguson	23
71	2021	Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel	Herself	78
72	2021	A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint	Mrs Ambrigail	68
73	2022	A Bird Flew In	Marie	0
74	2024	Hamlet	First Player / Player Queen / Second Clown	76
75	2025	The People Before		56

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1970	Play for Today	Melody	63
2	1978	An Audience with...	Self	53
3	1982	Timewatch	Annie Besant	69
4	1983	Reilly: Ace of Spies	Dagmara	70
5	1986	Casualty	Nancy	61
6	1987	Inspector Morse	Nicole Burgess	78
7	1988	The Modern World: Ten Great Writers	Winnie Verloc	0
8	1988	Red Dwarf	Genny	81
9	1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Lady Millicent	82
10	1989	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Merlina Rival	82
11	1989	Behaving Badly		30
12	1989	The Nightmare Years	Helga Bauer	50
13	1991	The Orchid House	Joan	55
14	1991	Murder Most Horrid	Gloria Twigge	66
15	1991	The Storyteller: Greek Myths	Medusa	81
16	1992	The Leaving of Liverpool		68
17	1993	Chef	Anita Lawrence	77
18	1993	Rik Mayall Presents	Sally Denton	73
19	1994	Space Precinct	Erika Brandt	59
20	1996	Dalziel & Pascoe		64
21	1996	Rhodes	Princess Catherine Radziwill	0
22	1997	Midsomer Murders	Ingrid Lockston	75
23	1997	Midsomer Murders	Constance Fielding	75
24	1997	The Ice House	Diana Goode	64
25	1997	Ruby	Self	0
26	1997	Trial & Retribution		68
27	1999	Gimme Gimme Gimme	Janine	70
28	1999	Plastic Man	Louise Ferman	0
29	1999	Bremner, Bird and Fortune		60
30	2001	Love in a Cold Climate	The Bolter	78
31	2002	Having It Off		0
32	2002	Celeb		0
33	2003	Monkey Dust		81
34	2004	New Tricks		74
35	2004	Hustle	Clarissa	76
36	2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Lizzie Hinchcliffe	77
37	2005	Doctor Who	Madame Kovarian	76
38	2005	Doctor Who	Eye Patch Lady	76
39	2005	Funland		63
40	2006	Hotel Babylon		72
41	2006	The IT Crowd	Doctor Mendall	82
42	2006	The Street		77
43	2007	Benidorm	Daisy	75
44	2008	Beautiful People	Miss Prentice	70
45	2008	Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money	Dinner Guest	0
46	2009	Law & Order: UK		69
47	2010	Pete versus Life		63
48	2010	Vexed	Pat Poynter	68
49	2010	The Nativity	Elizabeth	88
50	2011	Silk	Caroline Warwick	76
51	2011	Friday Night Dinner	Sheila Bloom	78
52	2011	Celebrity Antiques Road Trip	Self - Participant	50
53	2011	Death in Paradise	Diana Watson	74
54	2011	Great Expectations	Mrs. Brandley	72
55	2013	Father Brown	Davina Malmort	75
56	2013	The Spa	Virginia (Ginny) Trench	60
57	2013	Psychobitches	Various Roles	68
58	2014	Inside No. 9	Lesley	80
59	2014	Mapp and Lucia	Amelia, Contessa di Faraglione	67
60	2016	The Rebel	Angela	75
61	2019	Let's Talk About Sex	Narrator	100
62	2019	Queens of Mystery	Viv Collins	71
63	2021	Whitstable Pearl	Dolly Nolan	66
64	2022	The Chelsea Detective	Olivia Arnold	62
65	2023	Dreamland	Cheryl	69