Birthday
1958/05/13 (66 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
Also know as
فرانسس باربر
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).
(1998) Still Crazy
as Lady in Black
(2014) The IT Crowd Manual
as Self
(1991) Young Soul Rebels
as Ann
(1985) A Zed & Two Noughts
as Venus de Milo
(2005) Goal!
as Carol Harmison
(2007) Goal II: Living the Dream
as Carol Harmison
(1987) Prick Up Your Ears
as Leonie Orton
(2009) The Fattest Man in Britain
as Janice
(2000) Shiner
as Georgie
(1987) Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
as Rosie
(1994) Fish Tale
as Helen Wormsley
(2021) A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
as Mrs Ambrigail
(2008) King Lear
as Goneril
(2005) Dead Fish
as S & M Prostitute
(1999) The Escort
as Jessica
(1990) The Grasscutter
as ---
(1994) Giorgino
as Marie
(1994) Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin
as Anna Lindsay
(1995) 3 Steps to Heaven
as Andrea Wallis
(1991) Secret Friends
as Angela
(2013) May I Kill U?
as Bernice
(1995) Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
as Adonia
(2001) Superstition
as Isabella Flores
(1989) Separate Bedrooms
as Gert
(1994) In The Cold Light Of Day
as Mother
(2003) Flyfishing
as Frances
(1985) White City
as Alice
(1998) Just in Time
as ---
(1988) Twelfth Night, or What You Will
as Viola / Cesario
(2002) The Red Siren
as Eva
(1997) Photographing Fairies
as Beatrice Templeton
(1995) Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
as Sally Denton
(2024) Hamlet
as First Player / Player Queen / Second Clown
(1986) Castaway
as Sister Saint Winifred
(1998) Tea
as Woman
(1993) Soft Top Hard Shoulder
as Miss Trumble
(1982) Home Sweet Home
as Melody
(1991) Do Not Disturb
as ---
(1991) Hancock
as Freddie Hancock
(2021) Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
as Herself
(2004) Evilenko
as Fenja Evilenka
(2014) Bucky
as Miss Eversham
(1992) The Leaving of Liverpool
as Ellen, Lil's Mother
(2015) Mr. Holmes
as Matinee "Madame Schirmer"
(1982) The Missionary
as Mission Girl
(2012) We'll Take Manhattan
as Diana Vreeland
(1999) Plastic Man
as Louise Ferman
(1997) A Royal Scandal
as Lady Jersey
(2013) Muse of Fire
as Self
(1988) We Think the World of You
as Megan
(2018) Blue Iguana
as Princess
(2016) The Chosen
as Natalia Sedova
(2017) Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
as Joy
(2018) The Escape
as Alison
(2017) The Bookshop
as Jessie
(1983) A Flame to the Phoenix
as Wanda Grabinska
(2018) McKellen: Playing the Part
as ---
(2018) An Ideal Husband
as Mrs. Cheveley
(2000) Esther Kahn
as Rivka Kahn
(2018) The Queen and I
as Princess Margaret
(1983) Acceptable Levels
as Jill
(2005) His Passionate Bride
as Narrator (voice)
(1983) Those Glory Glory Days
as Woman
(1994) Scarborough Ahoy!
as Maria
(2019) Trick or Treat
as Miss Ferguson
(2004) The Legend of the Tamworth Two
as Miss Piggy (voice)
(1993) A Statement of Affairs
as Pip
(1994) Return to Blood River
as Karen
(1999) Toy Boys
as Mrs. Chambers
(2022) A Bird Flew In
as Marie
(1984) Hard Feelings
as Viv
(2003) Listening
as Woman
(1988) Duck
as ---
(2001) The Gentleman Thief
as Julia Sinclair
(2003) Monkey Dust
as ---
(2011) Death in Paradise
as Diana Watson
(2008) Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money
as Dinner Guest
(1996) Dalziel & Pascoe
as ---
(1987) Inspector Morse
as Nicole Burgess
(1994) Space Precinct
as ---
(2019) Let's Talk About Sex
as Narrator
(2013) Psychobitches
as Various Roles
(1999) Bremner, Bird and Fortune
as ---
(2009) Law & Order: UK
as ---
(2002) Having It Off
as ---
(1988) Red Dwarf
as Genny
(1997) Trial & Retribution
as ---
(2021) Whitstable Pearl
as Dolly Nolan
(2004) New Tricks
as ---
(2005) Funland
as ---
(2002) Celeb
as ---
(1989) Behaving Badly
as ---
(2006) The Street
as ---
(1996) Rhodes
as Princess Catherine Radziwill
(1992) The Leaving of Liverpool
as ---
(2005) Doctor Who
as Madame Kovarian
(1970) Play for Today
as Melody
(1982) Timewatch
as Annie Besant
(2014) Inside No. 9
as Lesley
(2005) Doctor Who
as Eye Patch Lady
(2010) Vexed
as Pat Poynter
(2013) Father Brown
as Davina Malmort
(1991) The Orchid House
as Joan
(2012) Bad Education
as Alfie's Mum
(2008) Beautiful People
as Miss Prentice
(1993) Chef
as Anita Lawrence
(2011) Friday Night Dinner
as Sheila Bloom
(1999) Gimme Gimme Gimme
as Janine
(2006) Hotel Babylon
as ---
(2004) Hustle
as Clarissa
(2007) Benidorm
as Daisy
(1991) Murder Most Horrid
as Gloria Twigge
(1993) Rik Mayall Presents
as Sally Denton
(2006) The IT Crowd
as Doctor Mendall
(1997) Ruby
as Self
(2011) Great Expectations
as Mrs. Brandley
(1978) An Audience with...
as Self
(2010) Pete versus Life
as ---
(1989) The Nightmare Years
as Helga Bauer
(1986) Casualty
as Nancy
(2022) The Chelsea Detective
as Olivia Arnold
(2010) The Nativity
as Elizabeth
(2004) Agatha Christie's Marple
as Lizzie Hinchcliffe
(1989) Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Lady Millicent
(1997) The Ice House
as Diana Goode
(2001) Love in a Cold Climate
as The Bolter
(2014) Mapp and Lucia
as Amelia, Contessa di Faraglione
(1997) Midsomer Murders
as Ingrid Lockston
(2011) Silk
as Caroline Warwick
(2019) Queens of Mystery
as Viv Collins
(2011) Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
(2013) The Spa
as Virginia (Ginny) Trench
(1999) Plastic Man
as Louise Ferman
(1997) Midsomer Murders
as Constance Fielding
(2023) Dreamland
as Cheryl
(1988) The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
as Winnie Verloc
(2016) The Rebel
as Angela
(1983) Reilly: Ace of Spies
as Dagmara
(1991) The Storyteller: Greek Myths
as Medusa
(2006) The IT Crowd
as Herself
(1989) Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Merlina Rival