
Birthday
1948/08/05 (77 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK
Also know as
Barbara Joy McMurray
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 Doct...Read more

(2006) Miss Potter
as Helen Potter
(2005) The 7/7 Bombers: A Psychological Investigation
as Voice

(1999) The Escort
as Kim's Mother

(2007) Christmas at the Riviera
as Rita

(1998) Dear Nobody
as Chris' Mother

(2012) Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
as Aunt Bella

(2011) Just Henry
as Mrs Beaumont

(2022) Diana: The Curse of the Spencers
as Narrator

(1998) King Lear
as Goneril

(2013) The Christmas Candle
as Lady Camdon
(1989) Benefactors
as ---

(2013) The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance
as Narrator (Voice)

(1999) You're Dead...
as Prof. Corner

(1986) Season's Greetings
as Belinda

(2003) Hornblower: Loyalty
as Mrs. Mason

(2003) Rosalind Franklin: DNA's Dark Lady
as Narrator

(2001) Lorna Doone
as Sarah Ridd

(1999) The Man Who Would Be Kubrick
as Self - Narrator
(1986) Day To Remember
as Judy

(1975) The Flight Fund
as Angie

(2003) Hornblower: Duty
as Mrs. Mason
(2022) 1978: The Winter of Discontent
as Narrator

(2003) George Orwell: A Life In Pictures
as Narrator

(2010) Burlesque Fairytales
as Mrs. Argyle
(2008) The Marchioness Disaster
as Eileen Dallaglio

(2002) Night Flight
as Moira

(2006) Cracker: Nine Eleven
as Judith Fitzgerald

(1977) Love on a Gunboat
as Monica Potter

(1997) The Vanishing Man
as Me Jeffries

(1981) No Visible Scar
as Margaret Hanson

(1982) A Mother Like Him
as Jill

(1982) Britannia Hospital
as Private Nurse

(1980) Standing in for Henry
as Heather

(1989) Bosses From Hell
as ---

(2009) A Lion Called Christian
as Self - Narrator(voice)

(1993) Cracker
as ---

(2002) The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
as Maureen Finnegan

(1976) Open All Hours
as ---

(2011) Death in Paradise
as Patti Grenson

(1987) Inspector Morse
as Monica Height
(1991) Joshua Jones
as ---

(1988) The Beiderbecke Connection
as Jill Swinburne

(1987) The Beiderbecke Tapes
as Jill Swinburne

(1985) The Beiderbecke Affair
as Jill Swinburne

(2005) Malice Aforethought
as Julia Bickleigh

(1999) Wives and Daughters
as Miss Browning

(2013) Pat & Cabbage
as Pat

(1982) The Barchester Chronicles
as Mary Bold

(2007) Cranford
as Mrs Jamieson

(2002) The Forsyte Saga
as Emily Forsyte

(1992) Maigret
as ---

(1997) The Vanishing Man
as ---

(1994) Chandler & Co.
as ---

(1998) Hornblower
as Mrs Mason

(1993) Cracker
as Judith Fitzgerald

(2010) My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding
as Narrator (voice)

(2009) The Queen
as The Queen
(2005) The Queen's Castle
as Narrator (Voice)

(1991) Performance
as Goneril

(2009) Moving On
as Carol

(2005) Doctor Who
as Awsok

(2014) 1864
as Queen Victoria

(2001) Perfect
as Imogen

(2004) Sea of Souls
as Lt Col Petra Summers
(1982) The New Adventures of Lucky Jim
as Joanna Lassiter

(2006) The Line of Beauty
as Sally Tipper

(2005) Elizabeth I
as Mary Queen of Scots

(1993) Cracker
as Judith

(2000) Lorna Doone
as Sarah Ridd

(2004) He Knew He Was Right
as Mrs. French

(1970) Play for Today
as Monica Potter

(2012) Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies
as Herself - Narrator

(2011) Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant

(1989) Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Mrs Allerton

(2018) Killing Eve
as Julia

(2023) Beyond Paradise
as Anne Lloyd

(1970) Play for Today
as Jill

(1970) Play for Today
as Margaret Hanson

(1970) A Family at War
as Freda Ashton

(2016) The Durrells
as Aunt Hermione

(2001) Murder in Mind
as Grace Fisher

(1974) Playhouse
as Heather

(1986) A Very Peculiar Practice
as Dr Rose Marie

(1977) Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
as Pauline Sutton

(1996) Silent Witness
as Carol Fisher

(2025) Secrets of the Royals: Births, Marriages and Deaths
as Narrator