Frances Barber has worked in a string of award-winning productions for the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, taking roles as diverse as Eliza in Pygmalion and Lady Macbeth in Macbeth. Among her film appearances are roles in Stephen Frears' Prick Up Your Ears (1987) and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987), Dennis Potter's Secret ...
Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer of the Year in Theatre
Movies
A Zed & Two Noughts, Prick Up Your Ears, Goal II: Living the Dream, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, Goal!, Evilenko, Photographing Fairies, Still Crazy, We Think the World of You, Young Soul Rebels, Esther Kahn, Shiner, Mr. Holmes, 3 Steps to Heaven, Giorgino, A Murder Is Announced, Castaway, The Red Sire...
TV Shows
Agatha Christie's Poirot, Funland
Star Sign
Taurus
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Fact
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Playing Goneril in Shakespeare's "King Lear", and Arkadina in Chekhov's "The Seagull", with the Royal Shakespeare Company, alongside Sir Ian McKellen. [October 2007]
2
She was nominated for a 1997 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role of 1996 for her performance in "Uncle Vanya".
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
post-production
Joy
Blue Iguana
2017
post-production
Princess
The Bookshop
2017
post-production
Jessie
The Escape
2017/II
filming
Alison
Medici: Masters of Florence
2016
TV Series
Piccarda
El elegido
2016
Natalia Sedova
Vicious
2016
TV Series
Carlotta
Benidorm
2016
TV Series
Daisy
Bucky
2016
Short
Miss Eversham
Flack
2015
TV Movie
Caroline
Murder in Successville
2015
TV Series
Mary Berry
Mr. Holmes
2015
Matinee 'Madame Schirmer'
Mapp & Lucia
2014
TV Mini-Series
Amelia, Contessa Di Faraglione
Psychobitches
2013-2014
TV Series
Barbara Cartland / Josephine and Joseph / Thora Hird / ...
Happy Toys
2014
Short
Connie
Shakespeare in the Raw
2014
Short
Silk
2012-2014
TV Series
Caroline Warwick QC
The Life of Rock with Brian Pern
2014
TV Mini-Series
Wendy
The Spa
2013
TV Series
Ginny
Bad Education
2013
TV Series
Alfie's Mum
Advance to Contact
2013
Short
Dr. Catherine Sheldon
Placebo
2013/I
Short
Jane
The Academy: Special
2012
TV Movie
Actor
Vexed
2012
TV Series
Pat Poynter
May I Kill U?
2012
Bernice
We'll Take Manhattan
2012
TV Movie
Diana Vreeland
Mercutio's Dreaming: The Killing of a Chinese Actor
2011
Short
Regine Carey
Great Expectations
2011
TV Mini-Series
Mrs. Brandley
Pete Versus Life
2011
TV Series
Rebecca
Death in Paradise
2011
TV Series
Diana Watson
Doctor Who
2011
TV Series
Eye Patch Lady
Madame Kovarian
Friday Night Dinner
2011
TV Series
Sheila Bloom
The Nativity
2010
TV Mini-Series
Elizabeth
Midsomer Murders
2010
TV Series
Constance Fielding
A Passionate Woman
2010
TV Series
Margaret
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1990-2009
TV Series
Merlina Rival / Lady Millicent
The Academy Part 2: First Impressions
2009
Video
Frankie
The Fattest Man in Britain
2009
TV Movie
Janice
The Street
2009
TV Series
Lizzie Gargan
Hotel Babylon
2009
TV Series
Arianna Adams
Law & Order: UK
2009
TV Series
Michaela Herman
King Lear
2008
TV Movie
Goneril
Casualty
2008
TV Series
Nancy
Beautiful People
2008
TV Series
Miss Prentice
Great Performances
2008
TV Series
Goneril
Hustle
2007
TV Series
Clarissa
Bremner, Bird and Fortune
2007
TV Series
Goal II: Living the Dream
2007
Carol Harmison
Brief Encounters
2006
TV Series
Jackie Knight
New Tricks
2006
TV Series
Anita Walsh
The IT Crowd
2006
TV Series
Doctor Mendall
Funland
2005
TV Mini-Series
Connie Woolf
Dead Fish
2005
S & M Prostitute
Goal! The Dream Begins
2005
Carol Harmison
Where the Heart Is
2005
TV Series
Michelle
Bremner, Bird and Fortune: A Bunch of Counts
2005
TV Movie
Various
Enfant Terrible
2005
Short
According to Bex
2005
TV Series
Brenda
Agatha Christie's Marple
2005
TV Series
Lizzie Hinchcliffe
His Passionate Bride
2004
Short
Narrator (voice)
Trial & Retribution
2004
TV Series
Cassandra
Evilenko
2004
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
2004
TV Movie
Miss Piggy (voice)
Suzie Gold
2004
Joyce Spencer
Monkey Dust
2003
TV Series
Warrior Queen
2003
Agrippina
My Family
2003
TV Series
Vanessa
Listening
2003
Short
Woman
Holby City
2002
TV Series
Eva Thomas
Flyfishing
2002
Frances
Celeb
2002
TV Series
Suzi
24 heures de la vie d'une femme
2002
Betty
Having It Off
2002
TV Series
April Summers
La sirène rouge
2002
Eva
Manchild
2002
TV Series
Elizabeth
Gimme Gimme Gimme
2001
TV Series
Janine
Superstition
2001
Isabella Flores
The Gentleman Thief
2001
TV Movie
Julia Sinclair
Love in a Cold Climate
2001
TV Mini-Series
The Bolter
Shiner
2000
Georgie
Esther Kahn
2000
Rivka Kahn
Toy Boys
1999
Short
Mrs. Chambers
Mauvaise passe
1999
Jessica
Real Women II
1999
TV Series
Anna Nicholls
Plastic Man
1999
TV Movie
Louise Ferman
Murder Most Horrid
1999
TV Series
Gloria Twigge
Still Crazy
1998
Lady in Black
Dalziel and Pascoe
1998
TV Series
Amanda 'Cap' Marvell
Real Women
1998
TV Series
Anna
Rules of Engagement
1997
TV Movie
Harriet Saunders
Tea
1997
Short
Woman
A Royal Scandal
1997
TV Movie
Lady Jersey
Photographing Fairies
1997
Beatrice Templeton
Hand on the Shoulder
1997
TV Movie
Translator's voice
The Ice House
1997
TV Mini-Series
Diana Goode
Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs
1996
TV Movie
Annie Shepherd
Rhodes
1996
TV Mini-Series
Princess Catherine Radziwill
Rules of Engagement
1995
Scarborough Ahoy!
1995
Short
Maria
It Could Be You
1995
TV Movie
Wendy
Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
1995
TV Movie
Adonia
3 Steps to Heaven
1995
TV Movie
Andrea Wallis
Space Precinct
1995
TV Series
Erika Brandt
Dirty Old Town
1995
TV Movie
Sally Denton
Giorgino
1994
Marie
Chef!
1994
TV Series
Anita Lawrence
Du fond du coeur
1994
Anna Lindsay
Alleyn Mysteries
1994
TV Series
Kitty Cartarette
Screen Two
1991-1994
TV Series
Mother / Karen / Jenny Coldfield
Thatcherworld
1993
TV Short
Penny Jenkins
Rory Bremner, Who Else?
1993
TV Series
A Statement of Affairs
1993
TV Mini-Series
Pip
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
1993
Miss Trumble
The Leaving of Liverpool
1992
TV Movie
Ellen, Lily's mother
Inspector Morse
1992
TV Series
Nicole Burgess
Screen One
1991
TV Series
Freddie Hancock
Secret Friends
1991
Angela
Young Soul Rebels
1991
Ann
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
1991
TV Mini-Series
Medusa
The Orchid House
1991
TV Mini-Series
Joan
El C.I.D.
1991
TV Series
Molly
The Grasscutter
1990
TV Movie
Claire Deeds
Duck
1989
Short
Red Dwarf
1989
TV Series
Genny
Chambre à part
1989
Gert
Behaving Badly
1989
TV Mini-Series
Rebecca
The Nightmare Years
1989
TV Mini-Series
Helga Bauer
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
1988
TV Movie
Viola
Cesario
Victim of the Brain
1988
This Is David Lander
1988
TV Series
Yvonne Watts / Irina Tereschkov
We Think the World of You
1988
Megan
Apb
1988
TV Series
Ten Great Writers of the Modern World
1988
TV Mini-Series documentary
Winnie Verloc
Clem
1987
TV Movie
Lisa
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
1987
Rosie Hobbs
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
Leonie Orton
Castaway
1986
Sister Saint Winifred
White City
1985
Alice
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985
Venus de Milo
Acceptable Levels
1985
Jill
Play for Today
1982-1984
TV Series
Viv / Melody
A Flame to the Phoenix
1983
Wanda Grabinska
Those Glory Glory Days
1983
TV Movie
Woman
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
TV Mini-Series
Dagmara
The Missionary
1982
Mission Girl
Wings of Ash: A Dramatization of the Life of Antonin Artaud
1978
Short
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Pet Shop Boys: A Life in Pop
2006
TV Movie documentary performer: "My night", "Friendly fire"