Barbara Flynn
Acting
1948-08-05 · Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK
Barbara Joy Flynn (born 5 August 1948) is an English actress. She first came to prominence playing Freda Ashton in the ITV drama series A Family at War (1970–1972). She went on to play the milk woman in the BBC comedy Open All Hours (1976–1985), Jill Swinburne in The Beiderbecke Trilogy (1985–1988), Dr. Rose Marie in the BBC series A Very Peculiar Practice (1986–1988), Judith Fitzgerald in the ITV drama Cracker (1993–1995), and Mrs. Jamieson in Cranford (2007–2009). In 2021, she appeared in Doctor Who: Flux as Tecteun, a founder of Time Lord society and The Doctor's adopted mother. Starting in 2023, she acted in Beyond Paradise, playing the mother of the detective's girlfriend. This included some episodes in 2024 where she was reunited with Peter Davison, her A Very Peculiar Practice co-star. In her own words, she tends to play "feisty, strong women"
Filmography
Open All Hours: Inside Out
2026 · Movie
Secrets of the Royals: Births, Marriages and Deaths
2025 · Series
Beyond Paradise
2023 · Series
Diana: The Curse of the Spencers
2022 · Movie
1978: The Winter of Discontent
2022 · Movie
Kate & Koji
2020 · Series
Killing Eve
2018 · Series
The Durrells
2016 · Series
1864
2014 · Series
The Christmas Candle
2013 · Movie
Pat & Cabbage
2013 · Series
The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance
2013 · Movie
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
2012 · Movie
Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies
2012 · Series
Just Henry
2011 · Movie
Death in Paradise
2011 · Series
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011 · Series
The Borgias
2011 · Series
My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding
2010 · Series
Burlesque Fairytales
2010 · Movie
The Queen
2009 · Series
Moving On
2009 · Series
A Lion Called Christian
2009 · Movie
The Marchioness Disaster
2008 · Movie
Christmas at the Riviera
2007 · Movie
Cranford
2007 · Series
Guarding The Queen
2007 · Series
Miss Potter
2006 · Movie
Cracker: Nine Eleven
2006 · Movie
The Line of Beauty
2006 · Series
The 7/7 Bombers: A Psychological Investigation
2005 · Movie
Elizabeth I
2005 · Series
Malice Aforethought
2005 · Series
The Queen's Castle
2005 · Series
Doctor Who
2005 · Series
He Knew He Was Right
2004 · Series
Sea of Souls
2004 · Series
George Orwell: A Life In Pictures
2003 · Movie
Rosalind Franklin: DNA's Dark Lady
2003 · Movie
Hornblower: Duty
2003 · Movie
Hornblower: Loyalty
2003 · Movie
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
2002 · Series
The Forsyte Saga
2002 · Series
Night Flight
2002 · Movie
Perfect
2001 · Series
Murder in Mind
2001 · Series
Lorna Doone
2001 · Movie
Lorna Doone
2000 · Series
Wives and Daughters
1999 · Series
The Escort
1999 · Movie
You're Dead...
1999 · Movie
The Man Who Would Be Kubrick
1999 · Movie
Hornblower
1998 · Series
King Lear
1998 · Movie
Dear Nobody
1998 · Movie
The Vanishing Man
1997 · Series
The Vanishing Man
1997 · Movie
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · Series
Silent Witness
1996 · Series
Chandler & Co
1994 · Series
Cracker
1993 · Series
Maigret
1992 · Series
Performance
1991 · Series
Joshua Jones
1991 · Series
The Justice Game
1989 · Series
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Series
Benefactors
1989 · Movie
Bosses From Hell
1989 · Movie
The Beiderbecke Connection
1988 · Series
The Beiderbecke Tapes
1987 · Series
Inspector Morse
1987 · Series
Season's Greetings
1986 · Movie
Day To Remember
1986 · Movie
A Very Peculiar Practice
1986 · Series
The Beiderbecke Affair
1985 · Series
A Mother Like Him
1982 · Movie
The Barchester Chronicles
1982 · Series
The New Adventures of Lucky Jim
1982 · Series
Britannia Hospital
1982 · Movie
No Visible Scar
1981 · Movie
The Bagthorpe Saga
1981 · Series
Standing in for Henry
1980 · Movie
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
1977 · Series
Love on a Gunboat
1977 · Movie
Open All Hours
1976 · Series
The Flight Fund
1975 · Movie
Playhouse
1974 · Series
Centre Play
1973 · Series
Play for Today
1970 · Series
A Family at War
1970 · Series