Barbara Flynn
Acting
🎂 1948-08-05
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"
Cast credits(83)
Mrs Allerton
1989
Awsok
2005
Patti Grenson
2011
Monica Potter
1970
Margaret Hanson
1970
Jill
1970
Julia
2018
Monica Height
1987
Self - Participant
2011
Heather
1974
Goneril
1991
Anne Lloyd
2023
Maureen Finnegan
2002
Aunt Hermione
2016
Mrs Mason
1998
Carol
2009
1993
Judith Fitzgerald
1993
Judith
1993
1992
Mrs Jamieson
2007
Grace Fisher
2001
Lt Col Petra Summers
2004
Emily Forsyte
2002
Mary Queen of Scots
2005
Helen Potter
2006
Queen Victoria
2014
Eileen Dallaglio
2008
Margaret Hanson
1981
Moira
2002
Miss Browning
1999
Goneril
1998
Sally Tipper
2006
1989
Judy
1986
Rose Marie
1986
1976
Kim's Mother
1999
Freda Ashton
1970
The Queen
2009
Aunt Bella
2012
Narrator
2003
Sarah Ridd
2001
Sarah Ridd
2000
Private Nurse
1982
Mrs. Mason
2003
Belinda
1986
Mrs. French
2004
Heather
1980
Chris' Mother
1998
Monica Potter
1977
Mary Bold
1982
Pat
2013
Me Jeffries
1997
Jill Swinburne
1985
Jill
1982
1989
Julia Bickleigh
2005
1994
Prof. Corner
1999
Lady Camdon
2013
Narrator (voice)
2010
Mrs. Mason
2003
1991
Imogen
2001
Narrator (Voice)
2013
Self - Narrator(voice)
2009
Mrs. Argyle
2010
Jill Swinburne
1987
Jill Swinburne
1988
Judith Fitzgerald
2006
1997
Herself - Narrator
2012
Angie
1975
Narrator (Voice)
2005
Joanna Lassiter
1982
Mrs Beaumont
2011
Rita
2007
Self - Narrator
1999
Voice
2005
Narrator
2022
Narrator
2022
Narrator
2003