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).

Cast

The IT Crowd Manual

Young Soul Rebels

A Zed & Two Noughts

Goal II: Living the Dream

Prick Up Your Ears

The Fattest Man in Britain

Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint

S & M Prostitute

The Grasscutter

Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin

3 Steps to Heaven

Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing

Isabella Flores

Separate Bedrooms

In The Cold Light Of Day

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Viola / Cesario

Photographing Fairies

Beatrice Templeton

Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town

First Player / Player Queen / Second Clown

Sister Saint Winifred

Soft Top Hard Shoulder

Home Sweet Home

Freddie Hancock

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

The Leaving of Liverpool

Ellen, Lil's Mother

Matinee "Madame Schirmer"

We'll Take Manhattan

A Royal Scandal

We Think the World of You

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

A Flame to the Phoenix

Wanda Grabinska

McKellen: Playing the Part

An Ideal Husband

The Queen and I

Princess Margaret

Acceptable Levels

His Passionate Bride

Narrator (voice)

Those Glory Glory Days

Scarborough Ahoy!

The Legend of the Tamworth Two

Miss Piggy (voice)

A Statement of Affairs

Return to Blood River

The Gentleman Thief

The People Before

The Secret Santa Project