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
7.4
Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money
0
Dalziel & Pascoe
6.44
Inspector Morse
7.8
Space Precinct
5.7
Let's Talk About Sex
10
Psychobitches
6.8
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
6
Law & Order: UK
6.9
Having It Off
0
Red Dwarf
8.1
Trial & Retribution
6.769
Whitstable Pearl
6.6
New Tricks
7.4
Funland
6.333
Celeb
0
Behaving Badly
3
The Street
7.667
Rhodes
0
The Leaving of Liverpool
6.8
Doctor Who
7.5
Play for Today
6.333
Timewatch
6.9
Inside No. 9
8.004
Doctor Who
7.5
Vexed
6.8
Father Brown
7.5
The Orchid House
5.5
Beautiful People
7
Chef
7.696
Friday Night Dinner
7.8
Gimme Gimme Gimme
7
Hotel Babylon
7.2
Hustle
7.6
Benidorm
7.5
Murder Most Horrid
6.6
Rik Mayall Presents
7.3
The IT Crowd
8.2
Ruby
0
Great Expectations
7.2
An Audience with...
5.3
Pete versus Life
6.333
The Nightmare Years
5
Casualty
6.1
The Chelsea Detective
6.229
The Nativity
8.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
7.694
Agatha Christie's Poirot
8.156
The Ice House
6.4
Love in a Cold Climate
7.8
Mapp and Lucia
6.7
Midsomer Murders
7.5
Silk
7.598
Queens of Mystery
7.1
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
5
The Spa
6
Plastic Man
0
Midsomer Murders
7.5
Dreamland
6.9
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
0
The Rebel
7.5
Reilly: Ace of Spies
7
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
8.062
Agatha Christie's Poirot
8.156
Movies
Still Crazy
6.7
The IT Crowd Manual
8.4
Young Soul Rebels
5
A Zed & Two Noughts
7.1
Goal!
6.759
Goal II: Living the Dream
6
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
6.8
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
0
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
5.724
Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
8
Hamlet
7.8
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
5.686
Bucky
0
The Leaving of Liverpool
6
Mr. Holmes
6.475
The Missionary
5.6
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
5.8
The Chosen
5.8
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
6.394
The Escape
5.5
The Bookshop
6.491
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
6.4
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