Frances Barber
Acting
1958-05-13 · 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).
Filmography
TheatersThe State of Us
2026 · Movie
MUSIK
2026 · Movie
A Hand to Hold
2026 · Movie
The Secret Santa Project
2025 · Movie
The People Before
2025 · Movie
Hamlet
2024 · Movie
Dreamland
2023 · Series
A Bird Flew In
2022 · Movie
The Chelsea Detective
2022 · Series
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
2021 · Movie
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
2021 · Movie
Whitstable Pearl
2021 · Series
Semi-Detached
2020 · Series
Trick or Treat
2019 · Movie
Queens of Mystery
2019 · Series
Let's Talk About Sex
2019 · Series
The Queen and I
2018 · Movie
Blue Iguana
2018 · Movie
An Ideal Husband
2018 · Movie
McKellen: Playing the Part
2018 · Movie
The Escape
2018 · Movie
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017 · Movie
The Bookshop
2017 · Movie
Summer Comedy Shorts
2017 · Series
The Chosen
2016 · Movie
The Rebel
2016 · Series
Mr. Holmes
2015 · Movie
Britain's Busiest Airport: Heathrow
2015 · Series
Mapp and Lucia
2014 · Series
Bucky
2014 · Movie
Inside No. 9
2014 · Series
The IT Crowd Manual
2014 · Movie
Bad Education: Christmas Special
2013 · Movie
Muse of Fire
2013 · Movie
Psychobitches
2013 · Series
The Spa
2013 · Series
Father Brown
2013 · Series
May I Kill U?
2013 · Movie
Playhouse Presents
2012 · Series
We'll Take Manhattan
2012 · Movie
Great Expectations
2011 · Series
Death in Paradise
2011 · Series
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011 · Series
Friday Night Dinner
2011 · Series
Silk
2011 · Series
The Nativity
2010 · Series
Vexed
2010 · Series
Pete versus Life
2010 · Series
The Fattest Man in Britain
2009 · Movie
Law & Order: UK
2009 · Series
Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money
2008 · Series
Beautiful People
2008 · Series
King Lear
2008 · Movie
Goal II: Living the Dream
2007 · Movie
Benidorm
2007 · Series
The Street
2006 · Series
The IT Crowd
2006 · Series
Hotel Babylon
2006 · Series
Funland
2005 · Series
Dead Fish
2005 · Movie
Goal!
2005 · Movie
Doctor Who
2005 · Series
His Passionate Bride
2005 · Movie
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Series
Evilenko
2004 · Movie
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
2004 · Movie
Hustle
2004 · Series
New Tricks
2004 · Series
Listening
2003 · Movie
Boudica
2003 · Movie
Monkey Dust
2003 · Series
Flyfishing
2003 · Movie
Celeb
2002 · Series
The Red Siren
2002 · Movie
Having It Off
2002 · Series
Superstition
2001 · Movie
The Gentleman Thief
2001 · Movie
The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream
2001 · Movie
Love in a Cold Climate
2001 · Series
Esther Kahn
2000 · Movie
Shiner
2000 · Movie
The Escort
1999 · Movie
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
1999 · Series
Plastic Man
1999 · Series
Plastic Man
1999 · Movie
Toy Boys
1999 · Movie
Gimme Gimme Gimme
1999 · Series
Still Crazy
1998 · Movie
Real Women
1998 · Series
Just in Time
1998 · Movie
Tea
1998 · Movie
A Royal Scandal
1997 · Movie
Photographing Fairies
1997 · Movie
Ruby
1997 · Series
The Ice House
1997 · Series
Midsomer Murders
1997 · Series
Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs
1996 · Movie
Rhodes
1996 · Series
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996 · Series
It Might Be You
1995 · Movie
Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
1995 · Movie
Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
1995 · Movie
3 Steps to Heaven
1995 · Movie
Scarborough Ahoy!
1994 · Movie
Giorgino
1994 · Movie
Space Precinct
1994 · Series
Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin
1994 · Movie
In The Cold Light Of Day
1994 · Movie
Return to Blood River
1994 · Movie
Fish Tale
1994 · Movie
Thatcherworld
1993 · Movie
Rik Mayall Presents
1993 · Series
A Statement of Affairs
1993 · Movie
Chef
1993 · Series
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
1993 · Movie
The Leaving of Liverpool
1992 · Series
The Leaving of Liverpool
1992 · Movie
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991 · Series
Murder Most Horrid
1991 · Series
Hancock
1991 · Movie
Young Soul Rebels
1991 · Movie
Secret Friends
1991 · Movie
Do Not Disturb
1991 · Movie
The Orchid House
1991 · Series
The Grasscutter
1990 · Movie
Separate Bedrooms
1989 · Movie
The Nightmare Years
1989 · Series
Screen One
1989 · Series
Behaving Badly
1989 · Series
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989 · Series
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988 · Movie
We Think the World of You
1988 · Movie
Red Dwarf
1988 · Series
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988 · Series
Duck
1988 · Movie
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
1987 · Movie
Prick Up Your Ears
1987 · Movie
Inspector Morse
1987 · Series
Casualty
1986 · Series
Castaway
1986 · Movie
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985 · Movie
Screen Two
1985 · Series
White City
1985 · Movie
Hard Feelings
1984 · Movie
A Flame to the Phoenix
1983 · Movie
Those Glory Glory Days
1983 · Movie
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983 · Series
Acceptable Levels
1983 · Movie
The Missionary
1982 · Movie
Timewatch
1982 · Series
Home Sweet Home
1982 · Movie
An Audience with...
1978 · Series
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971 · Series
Play for Today
1970 · Series
Omnibus
1967 · Series
From London with Love
Movie