Frances Barber
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).
149 acting credits
Acting · 149
Midsomer Murders
1997
Doctor Who
2005
Death in Paradise
2011
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Casualty
1986
Father Brown
2013
Play for Today
1970
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Hustle
2004
Inspector Morse
1987
Red Dwarf
1988
New Tricks
2004
Inside No. 9
2014
Omnibus
1967
An Audience with...
1978
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
The IT Crowd
2006
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
Benidorm
2007
Law & Order: UK
2009
Silk
2011
Timewatch
1982
Playhouse Presents
2012
The Chelsea Detective
2022
Murder Most Horrid
1991
Friday Night Dinner
2011
Hotel Babylon
2006
Whitstable Pearl
2021
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
1999
The Street
2006
Space Precinct
1994
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
Great Expectations
2011
Vexed
2010
Psychobitches
2013
Chef
1993
Goal!
2005
Queens of Mystery
2019
Gimme Gimme Gimme
1999
Beautiful People
2008
Rik Mayall Presents
1993
Funland
2005
Ruby
1997
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991
Love in a Cold Climate
2001
Mr. Holmes
2015
Goal II: Living the Dream
2007
Rhodes
1996
Monkey Dust
2003
The Bookshop
2017
Behaving Badly
1989
The Nativity
2010
The Spa
2013
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
Dreamland
2023
Mapp and Lucia
2014
The Ice House
1997
Semi-Detached
2020
Pete versus Life
2010
The Rebel
2016
Summer Comedy Shorts
2017
Dead Fish
2005
Still Crazy
1998
Castaway
1986
Shiner
2000
Evilenko
2004
Hamlet
2024
Boudica
2003
The Nightmare Years
1989
The Missionary
1982
The Leaving of Liverpool
1992
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
Blue Iguana
2018
Muse of Fire
2013
Photographing Fairies
1997
Plastic Man
1999
The Escort
1999
The Secret Santa Project
2025
Celeb
2002
The Orchid House
1991
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
2021
Let's Talk About Sex
2019
The Queen and I
2018
Esther Kahn
2000
The Chosen
2016
Listening
2003
Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money
2008
MUSIK
2026
The IT Crowd Manual
2014
McKellen: Playing the Part
2018
Those Glory Glory Days
1983
Hancock
1991
Secret Friends
1991
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985
The Escape
2018
King Lear
2008
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
1987
Young Soul Rebels
1991
Giorgino
1994
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
2021
Superstition
2001
The Red Siren
2002
We'll Take Manhattan
2012
A Hand to Hold
2026
We Think the World of You
1988
Toy Boys
1999
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
2004
From London with Love
—
An Ideal Husband
2018
Home Sweet Home
1982
3 Steps to Heaven
1995
Plastic Man
1999
Having It Off
2002
The Fattest Man in Britain
2009
White City
1985
The People Before
2025
Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin
1994
The Grasscutter
1990
Separate Bedrooms
1989
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
1993
Flyfishing
2003
The Leaving of Liverpool
1992
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988
May I Kill U?
2013
Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
1995
Just in Time
1998
Trick or Treat
2019
Bad Education: Christmas Special
2013
Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs
1996
Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
1995
Do Not Disturb
1991
A Royal Scandal
1997
A Statement of Affairs
1993
The Gentleman Thief
2001
In The Cold Light Of Day
1994
A Bird Flew In
2022
Scarborough Ahoy!
1994
His Passionate Bride
2005
Bucky
2014
The State of Us
—
Hard Feelings
1984
Acceptable Levels
1983
A Flame to the Phoenix
1983
Return to Blood River
1994
Tea
1998
Duck
1988
Fish Tale
1994