Barbara Flynn

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1948-08-05 (77 years old)

Place of Birth

Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK

Barbara Flynn

Biography

Barbara Joy Flynn (born 5 August 1948) is an English actress. She first came to prominence playing Freda Ashton in the ITV drama series A Family at War (1970–1972). She went on to play the milk woman in the BBC comedy Open All Hours (1976–1985), Jill Swinburne in The Beiderbecke Trilogy (1985–1988), Dr. Rose Marie in the BBC series A Very Peculiar Practice (1986–1988), Judith Fitzgerald in the ITV drama Cracker (1993–1995), and Mrs. Jamieson in Cranford (2007–2009). In 2021, she appeared in Doctor Who: Flux as Tecteun, a founder of Time Lord society and The Doctor's adopted mother. Starting in 2023, she acted in Beyond Paradise, playing the m...

Acting

2006

Miss Potter

as Helen Potter

1999

The Escort

as Kim's Mother

1998

Dear Nobody

as Chris' Mother

2011

Just Henry

as Mrs Beaumont

1998

King Lear

as Goneril

2013

The Christmas Candle

as Lady Camdon

1999

You're Dead...

as Prof. Corner

1986

2003

Hornblower: Loyalty

as Mrs. Mason

2001

Lorna Doone

as Sarah Ridd

1999

1986

1975

2003

Hornblower: Duty

as Mrs. Mason

2010

Burlesque Fairytales

as Mrs. Argyle

2008

The Marchioness Disaster

as Eileen Dallaglio

2002

Night Flight

as Moira

2006

Cracker: Nine Eleven

as Judith Fitzgerald

1977

Love on a Gunboat

as Monica Potter

1997

The Vanishing Man

as Me Jeffries

1981

No Visible Scar

as Margaret Hanson

1982

Britannia Hospital

as Private Nurse

1980

2009

A Lion Called Christian

as Self - Narrator(voice)

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