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).
KNOWN FOR
CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
Monkey Dust
8.1
Death in Paradise
7.449
Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money
0
Dalziel & Pascoe
6.5
Inspector Morse
7.845
Space Precinct
5.941
Let's Talk About Sex
10
Psychobitches
6.8
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
6
Law & Order: UK
6.974
Having It Off
0
Red Dwarf
8.052
Trial & Retribution
6.769
Whitstable Pearl
6.539
New Tricks
7.357
Funland
6.333
Celeb
0
Behaving Badly
3
The Street
7.7
Rhodes
0
The Leaving of Liverpool
6.8
Doctor Who
7.555
Play for Today
6.333
Timewatch
6.9
Inside No. 9
8.004
Doctor Who
7.555
Vexed
6.872
Father Brown
7.545
The Orchid House
5.5
Beautiful People
7
Chef
7.696
Friday Night Dinner
7.8
Gimme Gimme Gimme
7
Hotel Babylon
7.3
Hustle
7.657
Benidorm
7.5
Murder Most Horrid
6.8
Rik Mayall Presents
7.3
The IT Crowd
8.159
Ruby
0
Great Expectations
7.243
An Audience with...
5.3
Pete versus Life
6.333
The Nightmare Years
5
Casualty
6.139
The Chelsea Detective
6.255
The Nativity
8.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
7.737
Agatha Christie's Poirot
8.163
The Ice House
6.4
Love in a Cold Climate
7.8
Mapp and Lucia
6.6
Midsomer Murders
7.515
Silk
7.594
Queens of Mystery
7.04
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
5
The Spa
6
Plastic Man
0
Midsomer Murders
7.515
Dreamland
6.727
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
0
The Rebel
7.5
Reilly: Ace of Spies
7.048
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
8.082
Agatha Christie's Poirot
8.163
Movies
Still Crazy
6.7
The IT Crowd Manual
8.4
Young Soul Rebels
5
A Zed & Two Noughts
7
Goal!
6.762
Goal II: Living the Dream
5.962
Prick Up Your Ears
6.7
The Fattest Man in Britain
5.9
Shiner
5.386
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
5.8
Fish Tale
0
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
6.944
King Lear
6.7
Dead Fish
5.5
The Escort
5.3
The Grasscutter
5
Giorgino
6.5
Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin
0
3 Steps to Heaven
2.5
Secret Friends
3.7
May I Kill U?
4.6
Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
7
Superstition
5.2
Separate Bedrooms
5.278
In The Cold Light Of Day
0
Flyfishing
4
White City
0
Just in Time
0
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
6.9
The Red Siren
5.136
Photographing Fairies
5.7
Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
8
Hamlet
7.583
Castaway
6.3
Tea
0
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
6.2
Home Sweet Home
6.3
Do Not Disturb
0
Hancock
0
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
7.8
Evilenko
5.68
Bucky
0
The Leaving of Liverpool
6
Mr. Holmes
6.477
The Missionary
5.612
We'll Take Manhattan
5.537
Plastic Man
1
A Royal Scandal
7
Muse of Fire
6.5
We Think the World of You
6.625
Blue Iguana
5.762
The Chosen
5.8
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
6.392
The Escape
5.5
The Bookshop
6.502
A Flame to the Phoenix
0
McKellen: Playing the Part
7.2
An Ideal Husband
7.5
Esther Kahn
6.04
The Queen and I
6.333
Acceptable Levels
0
His Passionate Bride
7
Those Glory Glory Days
4.6
Scarborough Ahoy!
7
Trick or Treat
2.3
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
3
A Statement of Affairs
0
Return to Blood River
0
Toy Boys
0
A Bird Flew In
0
Hard Feelings
8
Listening
7.3
Duck
0
The Gentleman Thief
0
The People Before
5.6