Frances Barber
Acting
- Born:
- 1958-05-13
- Place of birth:
- Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
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
Filmography
The State of Us
MUSIK
A Hand to Hold
The Secret Santa Project
The People Before
Hamlet
Dreamland
A Bird Flew In
The Chelsea Detective
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
Whitstable Pearl
Semi-Detached
Trick or Treat
Queens of Mystery
Let's Talk About Sex
The Queen and I
Blue Iguana
An Ideal Husband
McKellen: Playing the Part
The Escape
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
The Bookshop
Summer Comedy Shorts
The Chosen
The Rebel
Mr. Holmes
Britain's Busiest Airport: Heathrow
Mapp and Lucia
Bucky
Inside No. 9
The IT Crowd Manual
Bad Education: Christmas Special
Muse of Fire
Psychobitches
The Spa
Father Brown
May I Kill U?
Playhouse Presents
We'll Take Manhattan
Great Expectations
Death in Paradise
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Friday Night Dinner
Silk
The Nativity
Vexed
Pete versus Life
The Fattest Man in Britain
Law & Order: UK
Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money
Beautiful People
King Lear
Goal II: Living the Dream
Benidorm
Brief Encounters
The Street
The IT Crowd
Hotel Babylon
Funland
Dead Fish
Goal!
Doctor Who
His Passionate Bride
Agatha Christie's Marple
Evilenko
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
Hustle
New Tricks
Listening
Boudica
Monkey Dust
Flyfishing
Celeb
The Red Siren
Having It Off
Superstition
The Gentleman Thief
Love in a Cold Climate
Esther Kahn
Shiner
The Escort
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
Plastic Man
Plastic Man
Toy Boys
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Still Crazy
Real Women
Just in Time
Tea
A Royal Scandal
Photographing Fairies
Ruby
The Ice House
Midsomer Murders
Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs
Rhodes
Dalziel and Pascoe
It Might Be You
Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
3 Steps to Heaven
Scarborough Ahoy!
Giorgino
Space Precinct
Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin
In The Cold Light Of Day
Return to Blood River
Fish Tale
Thatcherworld
Rik Mayall Presents
A Statement of Affairs
Chef
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
The Leaving of Liverpool
The Leaving of Liverpool
The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Perseus & the Gorgon
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Murder Most Horrid
Hancock
Young Soul Rebels
Secret Friends
Do Not Disturb
The Orchid House
The Grasscutter
Separate Bedrooms
The Nightmare Years
Screen One
Behaving Badly
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
We Think the World of You
Red Dwarf
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Duck
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Prick Up Your Ears
Inspector Morse
Casualty
Castaway
A Zed & Two Noughts
Screen Two
White City
Hard Feelings
A Flame to the Phoenix
Those Glory Glory Days
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Acceptable Levels
The Missionary
Timewatch
Home Sweet Home
An Audience with...
A Ghost Story for Christmas
Play for Today
Omnibus
From London with Love
A Mother For An Hour