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).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 7.606 |
| Birthday | 1958-05-13 |
| Place of Birth | Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1998
Still Crazy
6.8/109
In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an o...
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Still Crazy
2014
The IT Crowd Manual
8.3/16
This behind-the-scenes documentary features interviews with the creators and cast of the cult comedy "The IT Crowd", plus chats with celebrity fans.
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The IT Crowd Manual
1991
Young Soul Rebels
5.048/21
Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.
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Young Soul Rebels
1985
A Zed & Two Noughts
7/153
Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.
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A Zed & Two Noughts
2005
Goal!
6.762/1117
Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los...
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Goal!
2007
Goal II: Living the Dream
5.975/653
Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet - pe...
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Goal II: Living the Dream
1987
Prick Up Your Ears
6.6/90
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they sta...
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Prick Up Your Ears
2009
The Fattest Man in Britain
5.9/12
Georgie Godwin is the fattest man in Britain. A tourist attraction, thanks to greedy 'agent, cabbie Morris. Devoted neighbour Janice is Georgie's only...
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The Fattest Man in Britain
2000
Shiner
5.6/21
The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.
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Shiner
1987
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
5.6/19
Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of inner-city chaos, surround themselves with intelle...
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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
1994
Fish Tale
0/0
An Englishwoman travels to a Normandy village to investigate her husband's disappearance.
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Fish Tale
2021
A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
6.9/7
1923. In the heart of an old English college, Edward Williams receives an engraving of of an unknown country house with an imposing facade, a sweeping...
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A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
2008
King Lear
6.7/13
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youn...
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King Lear
2005
Dead Fish
5.5/48
Gary Oldman is Lynch, a strangely charming hit man in this explosively funny dark comedy in the tradition of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Ba...
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Dead Fish
1999
The Escort
5.3/23
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The Escort
1990
The Grasscutter
5/1
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The Grasscutter
1994
Giorgino
6.7/36
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Giorgino
1994
Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin
0/0
1794, During the French Revolution : Benjamin Constant meets Germaine de Staël and falls madly in love with her. He has the spirit of a young writer,...
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Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin
1995
3 Steps to Heaven
2.5/2
A bereaved woman adopts multiple disguises to track down the last three people to see her boyfriend before he died.
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3 Steps to Heaven
1991
Secret Friends
3.9/11
During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems merge and blur into his fan...
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Secret Friends
2013
May I Kill U?
4.6/14
A PC becomes a vigilante after a head trauma.
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May I Kill U?
1995
Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
0/0
Specially commissioned by the British Film Institute and Channel 4, this pseudo-biography shows how Aristophanes became the father of political satire...
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Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
2001
Superstition
5.222/9
19 year old babysitter aupair Julie is accused of murder when the bed of the sheltered baby inflames. Is seems as if Julie possesses rare telepathic s...
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Superstition
1989
Separate Bedrooms
5.2/8
Martin and Gert lead a very quiet life, until the day when their path crosses that of Marie and Francis. Martin, the shy one, lets himself be seduced...
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Separate Bedrooms
1994
In The Cold Light Of Day
0/0
It is the late 1930s and some British households still eagerly await the arrival of electricity. When a pylon is erected in the garden, Morris's mothe...
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In The Cold Light Of Day
2003
Flyfishing
4/7
Two flatmates struggling to pay the rent are persuaded to join an escort agency. What seems at first like a perfect solution, soon takes a messy turn...
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Flyfishing
1985
White City
0/0
A film based on Townshend's album "White City: A Novel". The story is based on the area where Townshend was raised. The drama is directed by Richard L...
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White City
1998
Just in Time
0/0
Frank is a confident, charming author with a secret mistress in London; a relationship he wants to keep casual. Frank's secret is a burden he bears li...
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Just in Time
1988
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
6.9/4
The tale begins when a brother and sister are separated in a shipwreck, but survive to be washed up on the shore of Illyria. The sister, Viola, disgui...
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Twelfth Night, or What You Will
2002
The Red Siren
5.2/20
Nearly 13, Alice rebels, telling the Paris police that her mother is a murderer. Alice has no evidence; her mother, Eva, rich and powerful, avoids cha...
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The Red Siren
1997
Photographing Fairies
5.7/26
Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photogra...
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Photographing Fairies
1995
Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
0/0
A tramp called Raymond finds his life changes radically when he gets his hands on a sought-after film script.
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Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
2024
Hamlet
7.8/5
A tale of revenge that has stood the test of time, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is reimagined for the modern day as a gripping psychological thriller...
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Hamlet
1986
Castaway
6.311/114
Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving ta...
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Castaway
1998
Tea
0/0
A middle-aged woman and a young man drink tea and discuss masturbation.
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Tea
1993
Soft Top Hard Shoulder
6.2/11
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Soft Top Hard Shoulder
1982
Home Sweet Home
6.3/3
Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.
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Home Sweet Home
1991
Do Not Disturb
0/0
When Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of literary enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk village to visit the hidden world of ghost story writ...
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Do Not Disturb
1991
Hancock
0/0
Screen One biopic detailing the final eight years in the life of comedian Tony Hancock, from the peak of his powers as Britain's number one comedian t...
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Hancock
2021
Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
7.8/3
With exclusive interviews and outtakes, this anniversary special celebrates a decade of Robert Popper's iconic comedy, from celebrity fans to Paul Rit...
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Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
2004
Evilenko
5.762/107
For years, Andrei Evilenko eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev and the psychiatric profiler Aron Richter. Spurred on by his rabid fury at the gradua...
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Evilenko
2014
Bucky
0/0
A story seen from the eyes of a five-year-old boy who, through no fault of his own, comes face to face with disaster.
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Bucky
1992
The Leaving of Liverpool
6/1
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The Leaving of Liverpool
2015
Mr. Holmes
6.467/1835
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Mr. Holmes
1982
The Missionary
5.614/44
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment...
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The Missionary
2012
We'll Take Manhattan
5.7/26
We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey. Focusing on a wild a...
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We'll Take Manhattan
1999
Plastic Man
1/1
A seemingly happily married, successful plastic surgeon embarks on a torrid affair with tragic consequences for his marriage and those close to him.
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Plastic Man
1997
A Royal Scandal
7/4
The doomed marriage of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick.
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A Royal Scandal
2013
Muse of Fire
6.5/2
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Muse of Fire
1988
We Think the World of You
6.7/15
An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. When he gets...
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We Think the World of You
2018
Blue Iguana
5.8/98
He's a low level criminal with no future and just out of prison. She's a low level lawyer never noticed by others, a lost soul without a life. Their a...
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Blue Iguana
2016
The Chosen
5.8/33
Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret m...
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The Chosen
2017
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
6.4/168
Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her...
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2018
The Escape
5.6/68
An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.
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The Escape
2017
The Bookshop
6.495/429
Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a pol...
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The Bookshop
1983
A Flame to the Phoenix
0/0
A countess and her military sons prepare for the German invasion of Poland in 1939 as World War II begins.
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A Flame to the Phoenix
2018
McKellen: Playing the Part
7.211/19
Built upon a 14 hour interview, McKellen: Playing the Part is a unique journey through the key landmarks of McKellen's life, from early childhood into...
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McKellen: Playing the Part
2018
An Ideal Husband
7.5/2
In An Ideal Husband, an ambitious government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern, is on an assured smooth ascent to the top. Until Mrs Cheveley appears in L...
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An Ideal Husband
2000
Esther Kahn
6/23
A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.
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Esther Kahn
2018
The Queen and I
6.4/5
A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets, and forces them to live on a rundown council esta...
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The Queen and I
1983
Acceptable Levels
0/0
A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to the family,...
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Acceptable Levels
2005
His Passionate Bride
0/0
Adrian Savage will have to marry if he wants to inherit his father's estate and he plans to marry Lola. However Lola loves Russell; a man she met in a...
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His Passionate Bride
1983
Those Glory Glory Days
4.6/6
Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the Englis...
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Those Glory Glory Days
1994
Scarborough Ahoy!
7/1
A boozy barmaid (Frances Barber) and her newly found gay friend (Con O’Neill) quit London and hightail it to northeast England on the lookout for sex...
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Scarborough Ahoy!
2019
Trick or Treat
2.3/3
Greg Kielty's life is turned upside down when his estranged brother Dan turns up, claiming to have drunkenly run someone over. But has Dan just murder...
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Trick or Treat
2004
The Legend of the Tamworth Two
3/1
Based on a true story, the movie tells the story of two pigs, named Butch and Sundance, who staged a dramatic escape from an abattoir in January 1998...
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The Legend of the Tamworth Two
1993
A Statement of Affairs
0/0
A group of six friends, who have known each other since childhood, find their friendship tested when one of their number is found dead, leading to the...
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A Statement of Affairs
1994
Return to Blood River
0/0
Douglas Livingstone has direct experience of the tensions in South Africa. On a research visit there in the summer of 1993, he was mugged within 24 ho...
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Return to Blood River
1999
Toy Boys
0/0
Middle-class parents face difficult decisions if they want their sons to go to the “right” school.
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Toy Boys
2022
A Bird Flew In
0/0
Charts six interlinked narratives after the cast and crew of a film are sent home from set.
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A Bird Flew In
1984
Hard Feelings
0/0
Brixton in the early 80s. Viv presides over a cheerfully immoral and variously under-employed bunch of ex-Oxford playmates in her parents' gentrified...
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Hard Feelings
2003
Listening
7.3/3
At a spa where talking is forbidden, an emotionally distraught woman finds solace in the company of a kind man and the two of them gradually fall in l...
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Listening
1988
Duck
0/0
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