Frances Barber

Actor May 13 (age 67) Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK 1970–2026 (56 year career)

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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

Film

Mr. Holmes

Matinee "Madame Schirmer"

Film

Goal!

Carol Harmison

Film

The Bookshop

Jessie Welford

Film

Goal II: Living the Dream

Carol Harmison

Film

A Zed & Two Noughts

Venus de Milo

Film

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

Joy

Film

Still Crazy

Lady in Black

Film

Prick Up Your Ears

Leonie Orton

Filmography

Acting (152)

Movies (82)

A Hand to Hold

2026

as Moira

The Secret Santa Project

2025

as Carol

The People Before

2025

5.6

Hamlet

2024

as First Player / Player Queen / Second Clown

7.6

A Bird Flew In

2022

as Marie

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint

2021

as Mrs Ambrigail

6.9

Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel

as Self

Trick or Treat

as Miss Ferguson

The Queen and I

as Princess Margaret

Blue Iguana

as Princess

The Escape

as Alison

McKellen: Playing the Part

An Ideal Husband

as Mrs. Cheveley

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

as Joy

The Bookshop

as Jessie Welford

The Chosen

as Natalia Sedova

Mr. Holmes

as Matinee "Madame Schirmer"

6.5

Bucky

2014

as Miss Eversham

The IT Crowd Manual

as Self

Muse of Fire

as Self

May I Kill U?

as Bernice

Bad Education: Christmas Special

as Alfie's Mum

We'll Take Manhattan

as Diana Vreeland

The Fattest Man in Britain

as Janice

King Lear

as Goneril

Goal II: Living the Dream

as Carol Harmison

Goal!

as Carol Harmison

Dead Fish

as S & M Prostitute

His Passionate Bride

as Narrator (voice)

Evilenko

as Fenja Evilenka

The Legend of the Tamworth Two

2004

as Miss Piggy (voice)

Boudica

as Agrippina

Listening

as Woman

Flyfishing

as Frances

The Red Siren

as Eva

The Gentleman Thief

as Julia Sinclair

Superstition

as Isabella Flores

Shiner

as Georgie

Esther Kahn

as Rivka Kahn

The Escort

as Jessica

Toy Boys

as Mrs. Chambers

Plastic Man

as Louise Ferman

Still Crazy

as Lady in Black

Tea

as Woman

Just in Time

1998

Photographing Fairies

1997

as Beatrice Templeton

5.5

A Royal Scandal

1997

as Lady Jersey

7.0

Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs

1996

as Annie Shepherd

3 Steps to Heaven

1995

as Andrea Wallis

2.5

Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing

1995

as Adonia

7.0

Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town

as Sally Denton

Giorgino

as Marie

In The Cold Light Of Day

1994

as Mother

Scarborough Ahoy!

1994

as Maria

7.0

Return to Blood River

1994

as Karen

Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin

1994

as Anna Lindsay

Fish Tale

1994

as Helen Wormsley

A Statement of Affairs

1993

as Pip

Soft Top Hard Shoulder

1993

as Miss Trumble

6.2

The Leaving of Liverpool

1992

as Ellen, Lil's Mother

6.0

Hancock

1991

as Freddie Hancock

Secret Friends

as Angela

Young Soul Rebels

as Ann

Do Not Disturb

The Grasscutter

as Claire Deeds

Separate Bedrooms

as Gert

We Think the World of You

1988

as Megan

6.3

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

as Viola / Cesario

Duck

Prick Up Your Ears

as Leonie Orton

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

1987

as Rosie

5.5

Castaway

1986

as Sister Saint Winifred

A Zed & Two Noughts

as Venus de Milo

White City

as Alice

Hard Feelings

1984

as Viv

8.0

Acceptable Levels

1983

as Jill

Those Glory Glory Days

1983

as Woman

4.8

A Flame to the Phoenix

1983

as Wanda Grabinska

The Missionary

as Mission Girl

Home Sweet Home

as Melody

From London with Love

The State of Us

as Joan

Television (70)

Dreamland

2023

as Cheryl

6.5

The Chelsea Detective

as Olivia Arnold

Whitstable Pearl

as Dolly Nolan

Queens of Mystery

as Viv Collins

Let's Talk About Sex

as Narrator

Summer Comedy Shorts

as Mum

The Rebel

as Angela

Inside No. 9

as Lesley

Mapp and Lucia

as Amelia, Contessa di Faraglione

Father Brown

as Davina Malmort

Psychobitches

as Various Roles

Psychobitches

as Bette Davis

Vicious

as Carlotta

The Spa

as Virginia (Ginny) Trench

Playhouse Presents

as Bette Davis

Bad Education

as Alfie's Mum

Death in Paradise

as Diana Watson

Great Expectations

as Mrs. Brandley

Friday Night Dinner

as Sheila Bloom

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

2011

as Self - Participant

5.0

Silk

2011

as Caroline Warwick QC

Vexed

as Pat Poynter

Pete versus Life

The Nativity

as Elizabeth

Law & Order: UK

Beautiful People

as Miss Prentice

Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money

2008

as Dinner Guest

Benidorm

as Daisy

The IT Crowd

as Herself

The Street

Hotel Babylon

Doctor Who

as Eye Patch Lady

Funland

Funland

as Connie Woolf

A Ghost Story for Christmas

2005

as Mrs. Ambrigall

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

as Lizzie Hinchcliffe

New Tricks

Hustle

as Clarissa

Monkey Dust

as (voice)

Having It Off

Celeb

Love in a Cold Climate

as The Bolter

Gimme Gimme Gimme

as Janine

Bremner, Bird and Fortune

1999

6.0

Plastic Man

1999

as Louise Ferman

Midsomer Murders

1997

as Constance Fielding

Trial & Retribution

Ruby

as Self

The Ice House

as Diana Goode

Dalziel & Pascoe

Rhodes

as Princess Catherine Radziwill

Space Precinct

as Erika Brandt

Rik Mayall Presents

as Sally Denton

Chef

as Anita Lawrence

The Leaving of Liverpool

Murder Most Horrid

as Gloria Twigge

The Storyteller: Greek Myths

as Medusa

The Orchid House

as Joan

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Lady Millicent

The Nightmare Years

as Helga Bauer

Behaving Badly

Red Dwarf

as Genny

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

1988

as Winnie Verloc

Inspector Morse

as Nicole Burgess

Casualty

as Nancy

Reilly: Ace of Spies

as Dagmara

Timewatch

as Annie Besant

An Audience with...

as Self

A Ghost Story for Christmas

as Mrs Ambrigail

Play for Today

as Melody