Frances Barber
Highest Rated: 92% Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
Lowest Rated: 13% May I Kill U? (2012)
Birthday: May 13, 1958
Birthplace: Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
A former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and veteran of regional fringe theater, Barber has performed on TV and in films by Peter Greenaway ("A Zed and Two Noughts" 1985) and Nicolas Roeg ("Castaway" 1986). She is probably best known to US audiences as Rosie in Stephen Frears's "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid" and as Joe Orton's sympathetic sister Leonie in Prick Up Your Ears" (both 1987).
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Frances Barber
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hamlet | First Player (Character) | - | 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Very Venice Romance | Olivia Hansford (Character) | - | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Bird Flew In | Marie (Character) | - | 2021 |
80% | No Score Yet | Trick or Treat | Miss Ferguson (Character) | - | 2019 |
36% |
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Blue Iguana | Princess (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Queen and I | Margaret (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | An Ideal Husband | Mrs. Cheveley (Character) | - | 2018 |
58% |
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The Bookshop | Jessie (Character) | $1.5M | 2017 |
76% |
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The Escape | Alison (Character) | $8.9K | 2017 |
81% |
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Joy (Character) | $1.0M | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Chosen | Unknown (Character) | - | 2016 |
88% |
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Mr. Holmes | Matinee "Madame Schirmer" (Character) | $17.7M | 2015 |
No Score Yet |
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We'll Take Manhattan | Diana Vreeland (Character) | - | 2012 |
13% |
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May I Kill U? | Bernice (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fattest Man in Britain | Unknown (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet |
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King Lear | Goneril (Character) | - | 2008 |
39% |
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Goal! 2: Living the Dream | Carol Harmison (Character) | - | 2007 |
43% |
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Goal! The Dream Begins | Carol Harmison (Character) | $4.3M | 2005 |
71% |
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Suzie Gold | Joyce Spencer (Character) | - | 2004 |
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Evilenko | Unknown (Character) | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet |
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Flyfishing | Frances (Character) | - | 2003 |
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The Red Siren | Eva (Character) | - | 2002 |
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La Sirene Rouge | Unknown (Character) | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman | Betty (Character) | - | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gentleman Thief | Julia Sinclair (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet |
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Superstition | Isabella Flores (Character) | - | 2001 |
46% |
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Shiner | Georgie (Character) | - | 2000 |
54% |
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Esther Kahn | Rivka Kahn (Character) | $9.3K | 2000 |
No Score Yet |
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The Escort | Jessica (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Plastic Man | Unknown (Character) | - | 1999 |
73% |
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Still Crazy | Lady in Black (Character) | $477.9K | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dalziel and Pascoe: The Wood Beyond | Amanda "Cap" Marvell (Character) | - | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rhodes | Unknown (Character) | - | 1998 |
82% |
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Photographing Fairies | Beatrice Templeton (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
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The Ice House | Diana Goode (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Circles of Deceit: Sleeping Dogs | Annie Shepherd (Character) | - | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sleeping Dogs | Annie Shepherd (Character) | - | 1996 |
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3 Steps to Heaven | Andrea Wallis (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | It Might Be You | Wendy (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Soft Top Hard Shoulder | Miss Trumble (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inspector Morse: The Death of the Self | Nicole Burgess (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Leaving of Liverpool | Ellen (Character) | - | 1992 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Real Women | Anna (Character) | - | 1992 |
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Young Soul Rebels | Ann (Character) | $6.8K | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Secret Friends | Angela (Character) | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Grasscutter | Claire Deeds (Character) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Separate Bedrooms | Gert (Character) | - | 1989 |
80% |
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We Think the World of You | Megan (Character) | - | 1988 |
92% |
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Prick Up Your Ears | Leonie Orton (Character) | $1.6M | 1987 |
75% |
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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid | Rosie Hobbs (Character) | - | 1987 |
91% |
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Castaway | Sister Saint Winifred (Character) | $229.9K | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Home Sweet Home | Melody (Character) | - | 1982 |
TV
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100% | 91% | Inside No. 9 | Lesley (Character) | 2023 |
86% | 62% | Dreamland | Mum (Character) | 2023 |
76% | 91% | The Split | Misty Brodeur (Character) | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder in Successville | Mary Berry (Character) | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 83% | Bad Education | Alfie's Mum (Character) | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 74% | Silk on Masterpiece | Unknown (Character) | 2012 |
90% | 64% | Doctor Who | Madame Kovarian (Guest Star) | 2011 |
85% | 88% | The IT Crowd | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ice House | Unknown (Character) | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chef! | Unknown (Character) | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Screen One | Freddie Hancock (Character) | 1991 |
No Score Yet | 82% | Red Dwarf | Genny (Guest Star) | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Behaving Badly | Rebecca (Character) | 1989 |