Frances Barber
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
Home Sweet Home (1982)
- Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Timothy Spall, Frances Barber
- Postmen, social workers, and desperate housewives converge in this biting Mike Leigh feature, one of the director’s early achievements. Originally…
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)
- Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Shashi Kapoor, Frances Barber, Claire Bloom
- Against a backdrop of London's riot–torn streets, Sammy and Rosie conduct an open relationship while his disturbed father, an exiled Indian…
Behaving Badly (TV mini-series) (1989)
- Dir. David Tucker
Feat. Judi Dench, Frances Barber, Maurice Denham…
- A bleak though blackly–comic mini–series with Judi Dench as a dowdy housewife who belatedly comes out of her shell after her husband of…
Young Soul Rebels (1991)
- Dir. Isaac Julian
Feat. Frances Barber, Shyro Chung
- A melange of black, white, gay, straight, soul and punk cultures as it might have been in London in the late 1970s. Popularly dubbed as the black MY…
Rhodes (TV Mini-series) (1996)
- Dir. David Drury
Feat. Martin Shaw, Frances Barber, Joe Shaw
- Lengthy but worth–it biopic telling the story of Cecil Rhodes, the 19th–Century businessman who was sent to Africa to die, but came back…
Minette Walters - The Collection (The Ice House, The Echo, The Dark Room, The Sculptress, The Scold's Bridle) (1996-1999)
- Dir. Diarmuid Lawrence, David Thacker
Feat. Daniel Craig, Corin Redgrave, Clive Owen…
- A box–set of five film adaptations of murder mysteries by English crime writer Minette Walters, from the BBC. All are psychological thrillers…
Escort, The (Mauvaise Passe) (1999)
- Dir. Michel Blanc
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Stuart Townsend, Noah Taylor…
- A ruffled Frenchman (Auteuil) – family man and professor – in the throes of a mid–life crisis travels to London, where he enjoys…
Shiner (2001)
- Dir. John Irvin
Feat. Michael Caine, Martin Landau, Frances Barber…
- A contemporary British gangster film with a showcase role for Michael Caine as a blindly ambitious, fast–talking East End boxing promoter…
Flyfishing (2002)
- Dir. David L. Williams
Feat. Helen Baxendale, Kate Ashfield, Frances Barber
- A nicely bumbling comic farce, in which various Londoners – housewives, gigolos and yuppies – trip over each other's private lives in the…
King Lear (2007)
- Dir. Trevor Nunn
Feat. Ian McKellen, Frances Barber, Sylvester McCoy…
- The Royal Shakespeare Company's 2007 adaptation sees McKellen as his commanding best in the titular role, with an equally terrific performance from…
Whitstable Pearl (TV Mini-series) (2021)
- Feat. Kerry Godliman, Howard Charles, Frances Barber
- Cosy crime miniseries based on the novels by Julie Wassmer about a single mum and ex–police officer who pursues her dream to start a detective…