Frances Barber
Known for: Acting
Born: May 13, 1958
Place of birth: Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
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).
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Filmography
86 movies · 70 TV shows, newest first
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The State of Us
2026
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MUSIK
2026
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A Hand to Hold
2026
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The Secret Santa Project
2025
5.6
The People Before
2025
7.8
Hamlet
2024
6.4
Dreamland
2023
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A Bird Flew In
2022
6.3
The Chelsea Detective
2022
6.9
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
2021
7.8
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
2021
6.7
Whitstable Pearl
2021
6.1
Semi-Detached
2020
2.3
Trick or Treat
2019
7.0
Queens of Mystery
2019
10.0
Let's Talk About Sex
2019
6.3
The Queen and I
2018
5.7
Blue Iguana
2018
7.5
An Ideal Husband
2018
7.2
McKellen: Playing the Part
2018
5.5
The Escape
2018
6.3
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
6.5
The Bookshop
2017NR
Summer Comedy Shorts
2017
5.7
The Chosen
2016
7.2
The Rebel
2016
6.5
Mr. Holmes
2015
6.7
Britain's Busiest Airport: Heathrow
2015
6.3
Mapp and Lucia
2014NR
Bucky
2014
8.1
Inside No. 9
2014
8.2
The IT Crowd Manual
2014
10.0
Bad Education: Christmas Special
2013
6.5
Muse of Fire
2013
6.8
Psychobitches
2013
6.0
The Spa
2013
7.6
Father Brown
2013
4.6
May I Kill U?
2013
6.0
Playhouse Presents
2012
5.7
We'll Take Manhattan
2012
7.3
Great Expectations
2011
7.4
Death in Paradise
2011
6.0
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
7.8
Friday Night Dinner
2011
7.5
Silk
2011
8.8
The Nativity
2010
7.0
Vexed
2010
6.5
Pete versus Life
2010
5.9
The Fattest Man in Britain
2009
7.0
Law & Order: UK
2009NR
Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money
2008
6.8
Beautiful People
2008
6.7
King Lear
2008
6.0
Goal II: Living the Dream
2007
7.6
Benidorm
2007
7.6
The Street
2006
8.2
The IT Crowd
2006
7.3
Hotel Babylon
2006
6.3
Funland
2005
5.6
Dead Fish
2005
6.8
Goal!
2005
7.6
Doctor Who
2005
7.5
His Passionate Bride
2005
7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
5.8
Evilenko
2004
5.0
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
2004
7.7
Hustle
2004
7.3
New Tricks
20047.5
Listening
2003
4.8
Boudica
2003
8.0
Monkey Dust
2003
4.2
Flyfishing
2003NR
Celeb
2002
5.3
The Red Siren
20027.0
Having It Off
2002
5.0
Superstition
2001
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The Gentleman Thief
2001
6.0
The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream
2001
8.1
Love in a Cold Climate
2001
6.0
Esther Kahn
2000
5.4
Shiner
2000
5.4
The Escort
1999
7.5
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
1999
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Plastic Man
19993.7
Plastic Man
1999
10.0
Toy Boys
1999
7.1
Gimme Gimme Gimme
1999
6.9
Still Crazy
1998
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Real Women
1998NR
Just in Time
1998
7.0
Tea
1998
7.6
A Royal Scandal
1997
5.7
Photographing Fairies
1997
9.0
Ruby
1997
6.1
The Ice House
1997
7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997NR
Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs
1996
9.0
Rhodes
1996
6.4
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996NR
It Might Be You
1995
7.0
Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
1995
8.0
Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
1995
3.8
3 Steps to Heaven
1995
8.0
Scarborough Ahoy!
1994
6.4
Giorgino
1994
6.2
Space Precinct
1994
7.0
Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin
1994
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In The Cold Light Of Day
1994
8.0
Return to Blood River
1994NR
Fish Tale
1994
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Thatcherworld
1993
7.3
Rik Mayall Presents
199310.0
A Statement of Affairs
1993
7.6
Chef
1993
6.3
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
1993
6.0
The Leaving of Liverpool
1992
7.2
The Leaving of Liverpool
1992
8.2
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991
6.9
Murder Most Horrid
1991
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Hancock
1991
5.4
Young Soul Rebels
1991
3.9
Secret Friends
19915.5
Do Not Disturb
1991
4.8
The Orchid House
1991
6.0
The Grasscutter
1990
5.3
Separate Bedrooms
1989
6.5
The Nightmare Years
1989
7.2
Screen One
1989
4.3
Behaving Badly
1989
8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
7.4
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988
6.4
We Think the World of You
1988
8.1
Red Dwarf
1988
8.0
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988NR
Duck
1988
5.7
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
1987
6.7
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
7.9
Inspector Morse
1987
6.2
Casualty
1986
6.3
Castaway
1986
7.0
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985
7.1
Screen Two
1985
7.0
White City
1985
8.0
Hard Feelings
1984
8.0
A Flame to the Phoenix
1983
5.3
Those Glory Glory Days
1983
7.0
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
7.0
Acceptable Levels
1983
5.6
The Missionary
1982
6.9
Timewatch
1982
6.3
Home Sweet Home
1982
5.3
An Audience with...
1978
7.4
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
6.6
Play for Today
1970
7.2
Omnibus
1967NR
From London with Love
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