Frances Barber
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).
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1958-05-13
Place of birth
Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
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Cast
Still Crazy
1998
6.70
The IT Crowd Manual
2014
8.40
Young Soul Rebels
1991
5.04
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985
7.10
Goal!
2005
6.80
Goal II: Living the Dream
2007
5.97
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
6.70
The Fattest Man in Britain
2009
5.90
Shiner
2000
5.39
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
1987
5.80
Fish Tale
1994
0.00
King Lear
2008
6.70
Dead Fish
2005
5.50
The Escort
1999
5.30
The Grasscutter
1990
5.00
Giorgino
1994
6.48
3 Steps to Heaven
1995
2.50
Secret Friends
1991
3.70
May I Kill U?
2013
4.60
Superstition
2001
5.20
Separate Bedrooms
1989
5.28
In The Cold Light Of Day
1994
0.00
Flyfishing
2003
4.00
White City
1985
0.00
Just in Time
1998
0.00
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988
6.90
The Red Siren
2002
5.14
Photographing Fairies
1997
5.71
Hamlet
2024
7.80
Castaway
1986
6.30
Tea
1998
0.00
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
1993
6.20
Home Sweet Home
1982
6.30
Do Not Disturb
1991
0.00
Hancock
1991
0.00
Evilenko
2004
5.60
Bucky
2014
0.00
The Leaving of Liverpool
1992
6.00
Mr. Holmes
2015
6.48
The Missionary
1982
5.60
We'll Take Manhattan
2012
5.54
Plastic Man
1999
1.00
A Royal Scandal
1997
7.00
Muse of Fire
2013
6.50
We Think the World of You
1988
6.63
Blue Iguana
2018
5.80
The Chosen
2016
5.80
The Escape
2018
5.51
The Bookshop
2017
6.49
A Flame to the Phoenix
1983
0.00
McKellen: Playing the Part
2018
7.20
An Ideal Husband
2018
7.50
Esther Kahn
2000
6.04
The Queen and I
2018
6.40
Acceptable Levels
1983
0.00
His Passionate Bride
2005
7.00
Those Glory Glory Days
1983
4.60
Scarborough Ahoy!
1994
7.00
Trick or Treat
2019
2.30
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
2004
3.00
A Statement of Affairs
1993
0.00
Return to Blood River
1994
0.00
Toy Boys
1999
0.00
A Bird Flew In
2022
0.00
Hard Feelings
1984
8.00
Listening
2003
7.30
Duck
1988
0.00
The Gentleman Thief
2001
0.00
The People Before
2025
5.60