Frances Barber
Birthday: 1958-05-13
Place of Birth: Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK
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).
Movies
Still Crazy
In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, inte...
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The IT Crowd Manual
This behind-the-scenes documentary features interviews with the creators and cast of the cult comedy...
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Young Soul Rebels
Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London....
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A Zed & Two Noughts
Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals....
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Goal!
Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballe...
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Goal II: Living the Dream
Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest...
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Prick Up Your Ears
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama sc...
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The Fattest Man in Britain
Georgie Godwin is the fattest man in Britain. A tourist attraction, thanks to greedy 'agent, cabbie ...
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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst of ...
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Fish Tale
An Englishwoman travels to a Normandy village to investigate her husband's disappearance....
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A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint
1923. In the heart of an old English college, Edward Williams receives an engraving of of an unknown...
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King Lear
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects hi...
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Dead Fish
Gary Oldman is Lynch, a strangely charming hit man in this explosively funny dark comedy in the trad...
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The Escort
Fleeing from his wife in France to London, 45-year-old Pierre is barely able to support himself. He ...
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The Grasscutter
An Ulster Volunteer Force vigilante, turned police informer, is sent by the British government to N...
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Giorgino
October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a grou...
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Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin
1794, During the French Revolution : Benjamin Constant meets Germaine de Staël and falls madly in lo...
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3 Steps to Heaven
A bereaved woman adopts multiple disguises to track down the last three people to see her boyfriend ...
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Secret Friends
During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. A...
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Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing
Specially commissioned by the British Film Institute and Channel 4, this pseudo-biography shows how ...
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Superstition
19 year old babysitter aupair Julie is accused of murder when the bed of the sheltered baby inflames...
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Separate Bedrooms
Martin and Gert lead a very quiet life, until the day when their path crosses that of Marie and Fran...
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In The Cold Light Of Day
It is the late 1930s and some British households still eagerly await the arrival of electricity. Whe...
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Flyfishing
Two flatmates struggling to pay the rent are persuaded to join an escort agency. What seems at first...
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White City
A film based on Townshend's album "White City: A Novel". The story is based on the area where Townsh...
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Just in Time
Frank is a confident, charming author with a secret mistress in London; a relationship he wants to k...
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Twelfth Night, or What You Will
The tale begins when a brother and sister are separated in a shipwreck, but survive to be washed up ...
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The Red Siren
Nearly 13, Alice rebels, telling the Paris police that her mother is a murderer. Alice has no eviden...
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Photographing Fairies
Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes...
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Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town
A tramp called Raymond finds his life changes radically when he gets his hands on a sought-after fil...
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Hamlet
A tale of revenge that has stood the test of time, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is reimagined for t...
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Castaway
Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year wit...
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Soft Top Hard Shoulder
Eight years ago, Gavin, the artistic son of a Scots-Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Gl...
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Home Sweet Home
Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner....
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Do Not Disturb
When Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of literary enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk vil...
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Hancock
Screen One biopic detailing the final eight years in the life of comedian Tony Hancock, from the pea...
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Friday Night Dinner: 10 Years and a Lovely Bit of Squirrel
With exclusive interviews and outtakes, this anniversary special celebrates a decade of Robert Poppe...
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Evilenko
For years, Andrei Evilenko eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev and the psychiatric profiler Aron R...
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Bucky
A story seen from the eyes of a five-year-old boy who, through no fault of his own, comes face to fa...
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The Leaving of Liverpool
A poignant and forceful saga which traces the fortunes of two English children uprooted from their b...
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Mr. Holmes
In 1947, long-retired and near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes grapples with an unreliable memo...
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The Missionary
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to Engl...
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We'll Take Manhattan
We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton an...
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Plastic Man
A seemingly happily married, successful plastic surgeon embarks on a torrid affair with tragic conse...
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Muse of Fire
Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespear...
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We Think the World of You
An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his ...
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Blue Iguana
He's a low level criminal with no future and just out of prison. She's a low level lawyer never noti...
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The Chosen
Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet int...
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Aca...
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The Escape
An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever....
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The Bookshop
Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, ...
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A Flame to the Phoenix
A countess and her military sons prepare for the German invasion of Poland in 1939 as World War II b...
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McKellen: Playing the Part
Built upon a 14 hour interview, McKellen: Playing the Part is a unique journey through the key landm...
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An Ideal Husband
In An Ideal Husband, an ambitious government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern, is on an assured smooth ...
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The Queen and I
A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets,...
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Acceptable Levels
A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when...
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His Passionate Bride
Adrian Savage will have to marry if he wants to inherit his father's estate and he plans to marry Lo...
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Those Glory Glory Days
Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first ...
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Scarborough Ahoy!
A boozy barmaid and her newfound gay friend quit London and hightail it to northeast England on the ...
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Trick or Treat
Greg Kielty's life is turned upside down when his estranged brother Dan turns up, claiming to have d...
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The Legend of the Tamworth Two
Based on a true story, the movie tells the story of two pigs, named Butch and Sundance, who staged a...
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A Statement of Affairs
A group of six friends, who have known each other since childhood, find their friendship tested when...
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Return to Blood River
Douglas Livingstone has direct experience of the tensions in South Africa. On a research visit there...
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A Bird Flew In
Charts six interlinked narratives after the cast and crew of a film are sent home from set....
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Hard Feelings
Brixton in the early 80s. Viv presides over a cheerfully immoral and variously under-employed bunch ...
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Listening
At a spa where talking is forbidden, an emotionally distraught woman finds solace in the company of ...
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The People Before
Jess and her husband need a new start. So when the chance to buy a rambling old house in the Suffolk...
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Boudica
The Celtic queen who shook the Roman Empire. Boudica is one of history’s first and fiercest women wa...
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The Secret Santa Project
Landing her first 'adult' job in the council's accounts department, new graduate Jolene is excited f...
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Bad Education: Christmas Special
Mr Fraser decides Alfie is the right man to direct the Abbey Grove Christmas play....
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