Frances Barber

Born: 1958-05-13

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).


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Mr. Holmes

as Matinee "Madame Schirmer"
Released: 2015-06-19

In 1947, long-retired and near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes grapples with an unreliable...

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as Carol Harmison
Released: 2005-09-29

Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional...

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The Bookshop

as Jessie
Released: 2017-11-10

Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local...

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as Carol Harmison
Released: 2007-02-09

Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this...

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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

as Joy
Released: 2017-11-17

Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric...

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Prick Up Your Ears

as Leonie Orton
Released: 1987-04-17

When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at...

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Still Crazy

as Lady in Black
Released: 1998-10-30

In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies,...

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Blue Iguana

as Princess
Released: 2018-08-23

He's a low level criminal with no future and just out of prison. She's a low level lawyer never...

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Castaway

as Sister Saint Winifred
Released: 1986-03-05

Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year...

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Dead Fish

as S & M Prostitute
Released: 2005-10-11

Gary Oldman is Lynch, a strangely charming hit man in this explosively funny dark comedy in the...

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A Zed & Two Noughts

as Venus de Milo
Released: 1985-10-04

Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.

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Evilenko

as Fenja Evilenka
Released: 2004-04-16

For years, Andrei Evilenko eluded the obsessive Detective Lesiev and the psychiatric profiler...

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We Think the World of You

as Megan
Released: 1988-12-22

An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of...

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The Escape

as Alison
Released: 2018-04-25

An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.

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Esther Kahn

as Rivka Kahn
Released: 2000-10-04

A Jewish girl in 19th century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.

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Photographing Fairies

as Beatrice Templeton
Released: 1997-09-19

Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He...

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The Missionary

as Mission Girl
Released: 1982-11-02

In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to...

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The Chosen

as Natalia Sedova
Released: 2016-09-02

Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet...

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The Escort

as Jessica
Released: 1999-11-17

Fleeing from his wife in France to London, 45-year-old Pierre is barely able to support himself....

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A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint

as Mrs Ambrigail
Released: 2021-12-24

1923. In the heart of an old English college, Edward Williams receives an engraving of of an...

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Sammy and Rosie Get Laid

as Rosie
Released: 1987-10-30

Sammy and Rosie are an unconventional middle-class London married couple. They live in the midst...

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The Fattest Man in Britain

as Janice
Released: 2009-12-20

Georgie Godwin is the fattest man in Britain. A tourist attraction, thanks to greedy 'agent,...

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The Red Siren

as Eva
Released: 2002-08-21

Nearly 13, Alice rebels, telling the Paris police that her mother is a murderer. Alice has no...

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Giorgino

as Marie
Released: 1994-10-05

October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a...

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Hamlet

as First Player / Player Queen / Second Clown
Released: 2024-02-27

A tale of revenge that has stood the test of time, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is reimagined...

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Muse of Fire

as Self
Released: 2013-09-26

Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about...

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May I Kill U?

as Bernice
Released: 2013-01-11

A PC becomes a vigilante after a head trauma.

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The IT Crowd Manual

as Self
Released: 2014-01-04

This behind-the-scenes documentary features interviews with the creators and cast of the cult...

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Soft Top Hard Shoulder

as Miss Trumble
Released: 1993-01-15

Eight years ago, Gavin, the artistic son of a Scots-Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back...

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Trick or Treat

as Miss Ferguson
Released: 2019-10-25

Greg Kielty's life is turned upside down when his estranged brother Dan turns up, claiming to...

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We'll Take Manhattan

as Diana Vreeland
Released: 2012-01-26

We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between sixties supermodel Jean...

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A Flame to the Phoenix

as Wanda Grabinska
Released: 1983-12-15

A countess and her military sons prepare for the German invasion of Poland in 1939 as World War...

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King Lear

as Goneril
Released: 2008-08-06

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to...

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Shiner

as Georgie
Released: 2000-09-22

The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.

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McKellen: Playing the Part

as uncredited
Released: 2018-05-25

Built upon a 14 hour interview, McKellen: Playing the Part is a unique journey through the key...

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The Queen and I

as Princess Margaret
Released: 2018-12-24

A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and...

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In The Cold Light Of Day

as Mother
Released: 1994-06-15

It is the late 1930s and some British households still eagerly await the arrival of electricity....

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Superstition

as Isabella Flores
Released: 2001-10-13

19 year old babysitter aupair Julie is accused of murder when the bed of the sheltered baby...

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Scarborough Ahoy!

as Maria
Released: 1994-11-01

A boozy barmaid (Frances Barber) and her newly found gay friend (Con O’Neill) quit London and...

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The Leaving of Liverpool

as Ellen, Lil's Mother
Released: 1992-07-08

A poignant and forceful saga which traces the fortunes of two English children uprooted from...

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A Bird Flew In

as Marie
Released: 2022-09-30

Charts six interlinked narratives after the cast and crew of a film are sent home from set.

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Young Soul Rebels

as Ann
Released: 1991-08-09

Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.

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Those Glory Glory Days

as Woman
Released: 1983-11-17

Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the...

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Return to Blood River

as Karen
Released: 1994-04-13

Douglas Livingstone has direct experience of the tensions in South Africa. On a research visit...

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Deep in My Heart - Germaine and Benjamin

as Anna Lindsay
Released: 1994-09-28

1794, During the French Revolution : Benjamin Constant meets Germaine de Staël and falls madly...

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White City

as Alice
Released: 1985-01-02

A film based on Townshend's album "White City: A Novel". The story is based on the area where...

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

as Herself
Released: 2021-05-28

With exclusive interviews and outtakes, this anniversary special celebrates a decade of Robert...

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The Grasscutter

as uncredited
Released: 1990-01-01

An Ulster Volunteer Force vigilante, turned police informer, is sent by the British government...

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3 Steps to Heaven

as Andrea Wallis
Released: 1995-01-01

A bereaved woman adopts multiple disguises to track down the last three people to see her...

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Secret Friends

as Angela
Released: 1991-06-21

During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity...

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A Royal Scandal

as Lady Jersey
Released: 1997-10-10

The doomed marriage of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick.

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The Legend of the Tamworth Two

as Miss Piggy (voice)
Released: 2004-04-12

Based on a true story, the movie tells the story of two pigs, named Butch and Sundance, who...

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Aristophanes: The Gods Are Laughing

as Adonia
Released: 1995-09-05

Specially commissioned by the British Film Institute and Channel 4, this pseudo-biography shows...

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Twelfth Night, or What You Will

as Viola / Cesario
Released: 1988-12-30

The tale begins when a brother and sister are separated in a shipwreck, but survive to be washed...

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Rik Mayall Presents: Dirty Old Town

as Sally Denton
Released: 1995-02-05

A tramp called Raymond finds his life changes radically when he gets his hands on a sought-after...

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An Ideal Husband

as Mrs. Cheveley
Released: 2018-06-05

In An Ideal Husband, an ambitious government minister, Sir Robert Chiltern, is on an assured...

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Hancock

as Freddie Hancock
Released: 1991-09-01

Screen One biopic detailing the final eight years in the life of comedian Tony Hancock, from the...

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Separate Bedrooms

as Gert
Released: 1989-11-22

Martin and Gert lead a very quiet life, until the day when their path crosses that of Marie and...

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Acceptable Levels

as Jill
Released: 1983-01-01

A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast,...

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His Passionate Bride

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2005-03-15

Adrian Savage will have to marry if he wants to inherit his father's estate and he plans to...

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Hard Feelings

as Viv
Released: 1984-03-20

Brixton in the early 80s. Viv presides over a cheerfully immoral and variously under-employed...

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Home Sweet Home

as Melody
Released: 1982-03-16

Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.

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Flyfishing

as Frances
Released: 2003-02-02

Two flatmates struggling to pay the rent are persuaded to join an escort agency. What seems at...

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Tea

as Woman
Released: 1998-01-01

A middle-aged woman and a young man drink tea and discuss masturbation.

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Midsomer Murders

as Ingrid Lockston
First aired: 1997-03-23

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...

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Midsomer Murders

as Constance Fielding
First aired: 1997-03-23

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed...

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Doctor Who

as Madame Kovarian
First aired: 2005-03-26

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who...

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Doctor Who

as Eye Patch Lady
First aired: 2005-03-26

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who...

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Casualty

as Nancy
First aired: 1986-09-06

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department,...

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Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Lady Millicent
First aired: 1989-01-08

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet...

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Agatha Christie's Poirot

as Merlina Rival
First aired: 1989-01-08

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet...

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Death in Paradise

as Diana Watson
First aired: 2011-10-25

A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling...

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Play for Today

as Melody
First aired: 1970-10-15

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...

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Father Brown

as Davina Malmort
First aired: 2013-01-14

Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who...

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New Tricks

as uncredited
First aired: 2004-01-01

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and...

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Agatha Christie's Marple

as Lizzie Hinchcliffe
First aired: 2004-12-12

The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St...

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Inside No. 9

as Lesley
First aired: 2014-02-05

An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.

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Timewatch

as Annie Besant
First aired: 1982-09-29

Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical...

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Hustle

as Clarissa
First aired: 2004-02-24

A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.

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The IT Crowd

as Doctor Mendall
First aired: 2006-02-03

Two I.T. nerds and their clueless female manager, who work in the basement of a very successful...

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The IT Crowd

as Herself
First aired: 2006-02-03

Two I.T. nerds and their clueless female manager, who work in the basement of a very successful...

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Red Dwarf

as Genny
First aired: 1988-02-15

The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep...

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Inspector Morse

as Nicole Burgess
First aired: 1987-01-06

Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse...

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The Chelsea Detective

as Olivia Arnold
First aired: 2022-02-07

Detective Inspector Max Arnold lives on a battered houseboat at the end of Cheyne Walk after...

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An Audience with...

as Self
First aired: 1978-01-08

An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend...

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Benidorm

as Daisy
First aired: 2007-02-01

Set in the Solana all-inclusive Resort, Benidorm follows the antics of regulars and first-time...

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Dalziel & Pascoe

as uncredited
First aired: 1996-03-16

British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in...

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Hotel Babylon

as uncredited
First aired: 2006-01-19

Hotel Babylon is a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen...

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Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

as Self - Participant
First aired: 2011-10-24

Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and...

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Law & Order: UK

as uncredited
First aired: 2009-02-23

Adapted from the hit US series, Law & Order: UK follows a team of police detectives and...

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Silk

as Caroline Warwick
First aired: 2011-02-22

Silk is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and first shown in 2011. Written...

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Trial & Retribution

as uncredited
First aired: 1997-10-19

Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began...

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Chef

as Anita Lawrence
First aired: 1993-01-28

Sharp knives and even sharper tongues! Meet Britain's finest, most short-fused chef, Gareth...

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Reilly: Ace of Spies

as Dagmara
First aired: 1983-09-05

Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a...

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Whitstable Pearl

as Dolly Nolan
First aired: 2021-05-24

With her son grown up, single mom Pearl Nolan decides to pursue her lifelong dream and launches...

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Bad Education

as Alfie's Mum
First aired: 2012-08-14

Young teacher Alfie Wickers is "the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system" –...

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Murder Most Horrid

as Gloria Twigge
First aired: 1991-11-14

A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various...

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Vexed

as Pat Poynter
First aired: 2010-08-15

Comedy drama following a mismatched pair of police officers who disagree on everything with...

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The Street

as uncredited
First aired: 2006-04-13

Anthology drama following the lives and passions of neighbors on a northern English street.

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Great Expectations

as Mrs. Brandley
First aired: 2011-12-27

The life of an orphan is changed by the providential intervention of a mysterious benefactor.

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Monkey Dust

as uncredited
First aired: 2003-02-09

Monkey Dust is a British satirical cartoon, notorious for its dark humour and handling of taboo...

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Friday Night Dinner

as Sheila Bloom
First aired: 2011-02-25

Two siblings share their Friday night dinners at their parents home and, somehow, something...

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Beautiful People

as Miss Prentice
First aired: 2008-10-02

Beautiful People is a British comedy drama television series based on the memoirs of Barneys...

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Space Precinct

as uncredited
First aired: 1994-10-03

Space Precinct is a British television series that aired from 1994 to 1995 on Sky One and later...

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Love in a Cold Climate

as The Bolter
First aired: 2001-02-04

Dramatization of Nancy Mitford's novel about three aristocratic young girls' adventures in love.

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The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

as Winnie Verloc
First aired: 1988-01-10

This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph...

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Gimme Gimme Gimme

as Janine
First aired: 1999-01-08

Linda La Hughes shares a flat with Tom Farrell. Linda is overweight, loudmouthed and not...

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Funland

as uncredited
First aired: 2005-10-23

Funland is a comedy thriller serial, produced by the BBC, about a detective who arrives in...

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The Nativity

as Elizabeth
First aired: 2010-12-20

Drama revealing the human story beneath the classic biblical tale, from the courtship of Mary...

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Queens of Mystery

as Viv Collins
First aired: 2019-04-08

Matilda Stone is a perennially single female detective whose three aunts are well-known crime...

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The Storyteller: Greek Myths

as Medusa
First aired: 1990-12-08

A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and...

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Rik Mayall Presents

as Sally Denton
First aired: 1993-05-20

Showcasing the talent and versatility of its star, Rik Mayall Presents comprises six episodes of...

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Mapp and Lucia

as Amelia, Contessa di Faraglione
First aired: 2014-12-29

1930s comedy drama based on EF Benson's novels, about the rivalry between two women in a quaint...

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Bremner, Bird and Fortune

as uncredited
First aired: 1999-10-17

Bremner, Bird and Fortune is an award-winning satirical British television programme produced by...

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Pete versus Life

as uncredited
First aired: 2010-08-06

Pete versus Life is a Channel 4 sitcom created by George Jeffrie and Bert Tyler-Moore. It stars...

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The Ice House

as Diana Goode
First aired: 1997-04-05

A corpse is found in an ice house ten years after Phoebe's husband went missing. The police seem...

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The Spa

as Virginia (Ginny) Trench
First aired: 2013-02-07

The Spa is a sitcom created, written and starring Derren Litten. It is set in a health spa in...

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Behaving Badly

as uncredited
First aired: 1989-02-20

Behaving Badly is a 1989 British television serial directed by David Tucker. The teleplay by...

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The Rebel

as Angela
First aired: 2016-07-20

Simon Callow stars as a cantankerous senior in this sitcom inspired by Andrew Birch's...

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The Orchid House

as Joan
First aired: 1991-02-21

A white, plantation owning family in Dominica waits for the return of the patriarch from WWI,...

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Let's Talk About Sex

as Narrator
First aired: 2019-04-05

When it's the big questions, who do you trust? Danny Dyer explains the birds and the bees along...

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Dreamland

as Cheryl
First aired: 2023-04-06

In town of Margate, Eldest sister Trish is pregnant and expecting a girl baby. Her sisters Clare...

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Rhodes

as Princess Catherine Radziwill
First aired: 1996-09-15

Martin Shaw stars as Cecil Rhodes, the man whose controversial career included the creation of...

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The Nightmare Years

as Helga Bauer
First aired: 1989-11-17

Based on the historical work "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", "The Nightmare Years" tells...

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The Leaving of Liverpool

as uncredited
First aired: 1992-07-08

The Leaving of Liverpool is a 1992 television mini-series, an Australian–British co-production...

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Psychobitches

as Various Roles
First aired: 2013-05-30

Sky Arts takes famous females from history and puts them in the psychiatrist's chair.

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Plastic Man

as Louise Ferman
First aired: 1999-05-19

A seemingly happily married, successful plastic surgeon embarks on a torrid affair with tragic...

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