Barbara Flynn
Acting
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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
2026
Secrets of the Royals: Births, Marriages and Deaths
2025
Beyond Paradise
2023
Diana: The Curse of the Spencers
2022
1978: The Winter of Discontent
2022
Kate & Koji
2020
Killing Eve
2018
The Durrells
2016
1864
2014
The Christmas Candle
2013
Pat & Cabbage
2013
The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance
2013
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
2012
Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies
2012
Just Henry
2011
Death in Paradise
2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
The Borgias
2011
My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding
2010
Burlesque Fairytales
2010
The Queen
2009
Moving On
2009
A Lion Called Christian
2009
The Marchioness Disaster
2008
Christmas at the Riviera
2007
Cranford
2007
Guarding The Queen
2007
Miss Potter
2006
Cracker: Nine Eleven
2006
The Line of Beauty
2006
The 7/7 Bombers: A Psychological Investigation
2005
Elizabeth I
2005
Malice Aforethought
2005
The Queen's Castle
2005
Doctor Who
2005
He Knew He Was Right
2004
Sea of Souls
2004
George Orwell: A Life In Pictures
2003
Rosalind Franklin: DNA's Dark Lady
2003
Hornblower: Duty
2003
Hornblower: Loyalty
2003
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
2002
The Forsyte Saga
2002
Night Flight
2002
Perfect
2001
Murder in Mind
2001
Lorna Doone
2001
Lorna Doone
2000
Wives and Daughters
1999
The Escort
1999
You're Dead...
1999
The Man Who Would Be Kubrick
1999
Hornblower
1998
King Lear
1998
Dear Nobody
1998
The Vanishing Man
1997
The Vanishing Man
1997
Silent Witness
1996
Chandler & Co
1994
Cracker
1993
Maigret
1992
Performance
1991
Joshua Jones
1991
The Justice Game
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1989
Benefactors
1989
Bosses From Hell
1989
The Beiderbecke Connection
1988
The Beiderbecke Tapes
1987
Inspector Morse
1987
Season's Greetings
1986
Day To Remember
1986
A Very Peculiar Practice
1986
The Beiderbecke Affair
1985
A Mother Like Him
1982
The Barchester Chronicles
1982
The New Adventures of Lucky Jim
1982
Britannia Hospital
1982
No Visible Scar
1981
The Bagthorpe Saga
1981
Standing in for Henry
1980
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
1977
Love on a Gunboat
1977
Open All Hours
1976
The Flight Fund
1975
Playhouse
1974
Centre Play
1973
Play for Today
1970
A Family at War
1970