Barbara Flynn

Actor Aug 5 (age 77) Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK 1970–2025 (55 year career)

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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 Doct…

Known For

Film

Miss Potter

Helen Potter

Film

Cranford

Mrs Jamieson

Film

Elizabeth I

Mary Queen of Scots

Film

Open All Hours

7.9 1976

Film

Cracker

Judith Fitzgerald

Film

The Forsyte Saga

Emily

Film

Wives and Daughters

Miss Browning

Film

Beyond Paradise

Anne Lloyd

Filmography

Acting (90)

Movies (36)

1978: The Winter of Discontent

2022

as Narrator

Diana: The Curse of the Spencers

2022

as Narrator

The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance

2013

as Narrator (Voice)

The Christmas Candle

2013

as Lady Camdon

5.8

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

as Aunt Bella

Just Henry

as Mrs Beaumont

Burlesque Fairytales

as Mrs. Argyle

A Lion Called Christian

2009

as Self - Narrator(voice)

7.8

The Marchioness Disaster

2008

as Eileen Dallaglio

5.5

Christmas at the Riviera

as Rita

Miss Potter

as Helen Potter

Cracker: Nine Eleven

as Judith Fitzgerald

The 7/7 Bombers: A Psychological Investigation

2005

as Voice

Death on the Nile

2004

as Mrs. Allerton

Hornblower: Duty

as Mrs. Mason

Hornblower: Loyalty

as Mrs. Mason

George Orwell: A Life In Pictures

2003

as Narrator

Rosalind Franklin: DNA's Dark Lady

2003

as Narrator

Night Flight

as Moira

Lorna Doone

as Sarah Ridd

The Escort

as Kim's Mother

You're Dead...

as Prof. Corner

The Man Who Would Be Kubrick

1999

as Self - Narrator

Dear Nobody

as Chris' Mother

King Lear

as Goneril

The Vanishing Man

as Me Jeffries

Bosses From Hell

Benefactors

Day To Remember

as Judy

Season's Greetings

1986

as Belinda

A Mother Like Him

1982

as Jill

Britannia Hospital

1982

as Private Nurse

6.2

No Visible Scar

1981

as Margaret Hanson

Standing in for Henry

1980

as Heather

Love on a Gunboat

1977

as Monica Potter

The Flight Fund

1975

as Angie

Television (54)

Secrets of the Royals: Births, Marriages and Deaths

2025

as Narrator

Beyond Paradise

as Anne Lloyd

Beyond Paradise

as Anne

Killing Eve

as Julia

The Durrells

as Aunt Hermione

1864

as Queen Victoria

Pat & Cabbage

as Pat

Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies

2012

as Herself - Narrator

Death in Paradise

as Patti Grenson

The Borgias

as Isabella

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

2011

as Self - Participant

5.0

My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding

as Narrator (voice)

Moving On

as Carol

The Queen

as The Queen

Cranford

as Mrs Jamieson

Cranford

as Self/Miss Jamieson

8.2

Guarding The Queen

2007

as Narrator

The Line of Beauty

as Sally Tipper

Doctor Who

as Awsok

Elizabeth I

as Mary Queen of Scots

Malice Aforethought

as Julia Bickleigh

The Queen's Castle

as Narrator (Voice)

Sea of Souls

2004

as Lt Col Petra Summers

7.6

He Knew He Was Right

2004

as Mrs. French

7.6

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

as Maureen Finnegan

The Forsyte Saga

as Emily

Murder in Mind

as Grace Fisher

Perfect

as Imogen

Lorna Doone

as Sarah Ridd

Wives and Daughters

as Miss Browning

Hornblower

as Mrs Mason

The Vanishing Man

as Dr Jeffries

Silent Witness

1996

as Carol Fisher

7.5

Chandler & Co

1994

as Dee Tate

Cracker

as Judith Fitzgerald

Cracker

as Judith Fitzgerald

Maigret

Performance

as Goneril

Joshua Jones

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

as Mrs Allerton

8.2

The Beiderbecke Connection

as Jill Swinburne

Inspector Morse

as Monica Height

The Beiderbecke Tapes

1987

as Jill Swinburne

6.6

A Very Peculiar Practice

1986

as Dr Rose Marie

8.0

The Beiderbecke Affair

1985

as Jill Swinburne

7.8

The Barchester Chronicles

1982

as Mary Bold

7.0

The Barchester Chronicles

1982

as Mary Bold

7.0

The New Adventures of Lucky Jim

1982

as Joanna Lassiter

Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle

as Pauline Sutton

Open All Hours

Playhouse

as Heather

Centre Play

as Angie

Play for Today

as Monica Potter

A Family at War

as Freda Ashton