Frances Barber
Acting
Biography
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).
As actor 155
Midsomer Murders
1997
Doctor Who
2005
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Play for Today
1970
Death in Paradise
2011
Father Brown
2013
Casualty
1986
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Omnibus
1967
Screen Two
1985
New Tricks
2004
Hustle
2004
Red Dwarf
1988
Inspector Morse
1987
The IT Crowd
2006
Law & Order: UK
2009
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
Timewatch
1982
Silk
2011
The Chelsea Detective
2022
Inside No. 9
2014
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
Benidorm
2007
An Audience with...
1978
Playhouse Presents
2012
Screen One
1989
Funland
2005
Space Precinct
1994
Friday Night Dinner
2011
Great Expectations
2011
Hotel Babylon
2006
Ruby
1997
Whitstable Pearl
2021
Mr. Holmes
2015
Murder Most Horrid
1991
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
1999
Chef
1993
Monkey Dust
2003
Psychobitches
2013
The Bookshop
2017
The Street
2006
A Ghost Story for Christmas
1971
Goal!
2005
Britain's Busiest Airport: Heathrow
2015
Vexed
2010
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991
Gimme Gimme Gimme
1999
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
The Spa
2013
Semi-Detached
2020
Queens of Mystery
2019
Blue Iguana
2018
Goal II: Living the Dream
2007
Beautiful People
2008
Rik Mayall Presents
1993
Dreamland
2023
Dead Fish
2005
Still Crazy
1998
King Lear
2008
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985
Giorgino
1994
Photographing Fairies
1997
Real Women
1998
Behaving Badly
1989
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
Love in a Cold Climate
2001
Summer Comedy Shorts
2017
Pete versus Life
2010
Mapp and Lucia
2014
The Chosen
2016
Superstition
2001
The Ice House
1997
Celeb
2002
The Leaving of Liverpool
1992
Evilenko
2004
Muse of Fire
2013
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
The Escape
2018
The Red Siren
2002
The Missionary
1982
The Nativity
2010
Esther Kahn
2000
The Escort
1999
The Rebel
2016
Listening
2003
Rhodes
1996
Hard Feelings
1984
Castaway
1986
Those Glory Glory Days
1983
The Secret Santa Project
2025
A Hand to Hold
2026
Plastic Man
1999
The Queen and I
2018
Let's Talk About Sex
2019
Scarborough Ahoy!
1994
A Bird Flew In
2022
McKellen: Playing the Part
2018
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
1987
MUSIK
2026
Trick or Treat
2019
Boudica
2003
The Grasscutter
1990
Hamlet
2024
We'll Take Manhattan
2012
Bad Education: Christmas Special
2013
Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin
1994
The State of Us
2026
Young Soul Rebels
1991
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
2021
Do Not Disturb
1991
The Nightmare Years
1989
Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs
1996
Tea
1998
Home Sweet Home
1982
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
2004
The Orchid House
1991
An Ideal Husband
2018
Secret Friends
1991
Having It Off
2002
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
1993
Thatcherworld
1993
Shiner
2000
From London with Love
It Might Be You
1995
A Royal Scandal
1997
Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Silly Money
2008
We Think the World of You
1988
Acceptable Levels
1983
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988
Duck
1988
Separate Bedrooms
1989
In The Cold Light Of Day
1994
White City
1985
Toy Boys
1999
Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
1995
The Fattest Man in Britain
2009
The Gentleman Thief
2001
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
2021
Plastic Man
1999
The IT Crowd Manual
2014
Return to Blood River
1994
3 Steps to Heaven
1995
His Passionate Bride
2005
Hancock
1991
Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
1995
The Leaving of Liverpool
1992
Just in Time
1998
A Flame to the Phoenix
1983
A Statement of Affairs
1993
Bucky
2014
May I Kill U?
2013
Flyfishing
2003
The People Before
2025
Fish Tale
1994
