Barbara Flynn
Acting
- Born:
- 1948-08-05
- Place of birth:
- Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK
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"
Known For
Filmography
Open All Hours: Inside Out
Secrets of the Royals: Births, Marriages and Deaths
Beyond Paradise
Diana: The Curse of the Spencers
1978: The Winter of Discontent
Kate & Koji
Killing Eve
The Durrells
1864
The Christmas Candle
Pat & Cabbage
The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies
Just Henry
Death in Paradise
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
The Borgias
My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding
Burlesque Fairytales
Return to Cranford
The Queen
Moving On
A Lion Called Christian
The Marchioness Disaster
10 Days to War
Christmas at the Riviera
Cranford
Guarding The Queen
Miss Potter
Cracker: Nine Eleven
The Line of Beauty
The 7/7 Bombers: A Psychological Investigation
Elizabeth I
Malice Aforethought
The Queen's Castle
Doctor Who
He Knew He Was Right
Sea of Souls
New Tricks
Sweet Medicine
George Orwell: A Life In Pictures
Rosalind Franklin: DNA's Dark Lady
Hornblower: Duty
Hornblower: Loyalty
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
The Forsyte Saga
Night Flight
Perfect
Murder in Mind
Lorna Doone
Lorna Doone
Wives and Daughters
The Escort
You're Dead...
The Man Who Would Be Kubrick
Hornblower
King Lear
Dear Nobody
The Vanishing Man
The Vanishing Man
Midsomer Murders
Dalziel and Pascoe
Silent Witness
Chandler & Co
Cracker
Maigret
Performance
Joshua Jones
Quick Change
The Justice Game
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Benefactors
Bosses From Hell
The Beiderbecke Connection
The Beiderbecke Tapes
Inspector Morse
Season's Greetings
Day To Remember
A Very Peculiar Practice
Boon
Theatre Night
The Beiderbecke Affair
A Mother Like Him
The Barchester Chronicles
The New Adventures of Lucky Jim
Britannia Hospital
No Visible Scar
The Last Song
Maybury
The Bagthorpe Saga
Second Chance
Standing in for Henry
The Gentle Touch
Keep It in the Family
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
Love on a Gunboat
Open All Hours
Couples
The Flight Fund
Playhouse
Centre Play
Play for Today
A Family at War
Z-Cars