Barbara Flynn
Actor
Born August 5, 1948 in Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK
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"
Filmography
Open All Hours: Inside Out
Secrets of the Royals: Births, Marriages and Deaths
Narrator
Beyond Paradise
Anne Lloyd
Diana: The Curse of the Spencers
Narrator
Kate & Koji
Councillor Lavinia Bone
Killing Eve
Julia
The Durrells
Aunt Hermione
1864
Queen Victoria
The Christmas Candle
Lady Camdon
Pat & Cabbage
Pat
The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance
Narrator (Voice)
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
Aunt Bella
Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies
Herself - Narrator
Just Henry
Mrs Beaumont
Death in Paradise
Patti Grenson
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Self - Participant
The Borgias
Isabella
My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding
Narrator (voice)
Burlesque Fairytales
Mrs. Argyle
The Queen
The Queen
Moving On
Carol
A Lion Called Christian
Self - Narrator(voice)
Christmas at the Riviera
Rita
Cranford
Mrs Jamieson
Guarding The Queen
Narrator
Miss Potter
Helen Potter
Cracker: Nine Eleven
Judith Fitzgerald
The Line of Beauty
Sally Tipper
Elizabeth I
Mary Queen of Scots
Malice Aforethought
Julia Bickleigh
Doctor Who
Awsok
He Knew He Was Right
Mrs French
Sea of Souls
Lt Col Petra Summers
George Orwell: A Life In Pictures
Narrator
Rosalind Franklin: DNA's Dark Lady
Narrator
Hornblower: Duty
Mrs. Mason
Hornblower: Loyalty
Mrs. Mason
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Maureen Finnegan
The Forsyte Saga
Emily Forsyte
Perfect
Imogen
Murder in Mind
Grace Fisher
Lorna Doone
Sarah Ridd
Lorna Doone
Sarah Ridd
Wives and Daughters
Miss Browning
The Escort
Kim's Mother
You're Dead...
Prof. Corner
The Man Who Would Be Kubrick
Self - Narrator
Hornblower
Mrs Mason
King Lear
Goneril
Dear Nobody
Chris' Mother
The Vanishing Man
Dr Jeffries
The Vanishing Man
Me Jeffries
Silent Witness
Carol Fisher
Chandler & Co
Dee Tate
Cracker
Maigret
Performance
Goneril
Joshua Jones
The Justice Game
Eleanor Goodchild
Agatha Christie's Poirot
Mrs Allerton
Bosses From Hell
The Beiderbecke Connection
Jill Swinburne
The Beiderbecke Tapes
Jill Swinburne
Inspector Morse
Monica Height
Season's Greetings
Belinda
A Very Peculiar Practice
Dr Rose Marie
The Beiderbecke Affair
Jill Swinburne
A Mother Like Him
Jill
The Barchester Chronicles
Mary Bold
Britannia Hospital
Private Nurse
No Visible Scar
Margaret Hanson
Standing in for Henry
Heather
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
Pauline Sutton
Love on a Gunboat
Monica Potter
Open All Hours
The Milk Woman
The Flight Fund
Angie
Playhouse
Heather
Centre Play
Angie
Play for Today
Monica Potter
A Family at War
Freda MacKenzie