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 mother of the detective's girlfriend. This included some episodes in 2024 where she was reunited with Peter Davison, her A Very Peculiar Practice co-star.
In her own words, she tends to play "feisty, strong women"
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Full filmography
- Doctor Who (2005) as Awsok
- Death in Paradise (2011) as Patti Grenson
- Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) as Mrs Allerton
- Silent Witness (1996) as Carol Fisher
- Play for Today (1970) as Monica Potter
- Play for Today (1970) as Jill
- Play for Today (1970) as Margaret Hanson
- Killing Eve (2018) as Julia
- Inspector Morse (1987) as Monica Height
- Playhouse (1974) as Heather
- Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (2011) as Self - Participant
- The Borgias (2011) as Isabella
- Beyond Paradise (2023) as Anne Lloyd
- The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2002) as Maureen Finnegan
- Performance (1991) as Goneril
- Cracker (1993)
- Cracker (1993) as Judith Fitzgerald
- Cracker (1993) as Judith
- The Durrells (2016) as Aunt Hermione
- Moving On (2009) as Carol
- Hornblower (1998) as Mrs Mason
- Murder in Mind (2001) as Grace Fisher
- The Forsyte Saga (2002) as Emily Forsyte
- The Forsyte Saga (2002) as Emily