Barbara Flynn

Barbara Flynn (76)

1948-08-05 | 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"

On Movies

  • The Christmas Candle
  • Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
  • Just Henry
  • Burlesque Fairytales
  • The Marchioness Disaster
  • Christmas at the Riviera
  • Miss Potter
  • Cracker: Nine Eleven
  • Hornblower: Duty
  • Hornblower: Loyalty
  • Night Flight
  • Lorna Doone
  • The Escort
  • You're Dead...
  • King Lear
  • The Vanishing Man
  • Season's Greetings
  • Day To Remember
  • A Mother Like Him
  • Britannia Hospital
  • No Visible Scar
  • Love on a Gunboat

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