
Frances Barber
Born May 13, 1958 · Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
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).
Notable Appearances
Movies

Mr. Holmes

The Bookshop

Goal!

Goal II: Living the Dream

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

Still Crazy

Blue Iguana

The Missionary

Giorgino

King Lear

Superstition

Castaway

The Escape

A Bird Flew In

Evilenko

Dead Fish

Unreleased
The State of Us

Muse of Fire

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

We'll Take Manhattan

Boudica

Prick Up Your Ears

Esther Kahn

The Legend of the Tamworth Two

The Red Siren

Shiner

Photographing Fairies

A Zed & Two Noughts

Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

The Escort

We Think the World of You

An Ideal Husband

McKellen: Playing the Part

His Passionate Bride

The Chosen

Hamlet

Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town

Trick or Treat

A Hand to Hold

Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel

The Fattest Man in Britain

Scarborough Ahoy!

The Secret Santa Project

The Grasscutter

Hard Feelings

Bad Education: Christmas Special

The Queen and I

Secret Friends

Home Sweet Home

The IT Crowd Manual

Tea

Young Soul Rebels

MUSIK

Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint

Toy Boys

Those Glory Glory Days

3 Steps to Heaven

Thatcherworld

The Leaving of Liverpool

A Royal Scandal
TV Shows

Play for Today

Father Brown

Agatha Christie's Marple

Casualty

Hustle

The Chelsea Detective

Inspector Morse

Screen Two

Inside No. 9

New Tricks

Silk

The IT Crowd

Omnibus

Red Dwarf

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

Benidorm

An Audience with...

Dalziel and Pascoe

Playhouse Presents

Law & Order: UK

Timewatch

Reilly: Ace of Spies

Screen One

Murder Most Horrid

Hotel Babylon

Space Precinct

Whitstable Pearl

Friday Night Dinner

A Ghost Story for Christmas

Great Expectations

The Street

Psychobitches

Ruby

Funland

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

Vexed

Beautiful People

Queens of Mystery

Gimme Gimme Gimme

Semi-Detached

Monkey Dust

Bremner, Bird and Fortune

The Storyteller: Greek Myths

Chef

Rik Mayall Presents

The Spa

Love in a Cold Climate

Britain's Busiest Airport: Heathrow

The Rebel

Mapp and Lucia

Dreamland

The Ice House

Behaving Badly

The Nativity

Pete versus Life

Let's Talk About Sex

Rhodes

The Nightmare Years

The Leaving of Liverpool

Plastic Man

The Orchid House
















