Ms Frances Barber's Biography

Ms Frances Barber's Professional Career

Career

actress; memb: Dr Barnardos, Terrence Higgins Tst, Cancer Research, The Labour Party; prodn bd memb BFI 1995-; Theatre incl: Ooh La La for Hull Truck (Plays and Players Award Most Promising Newcomer nomination 1980), Riff Raff Rules, Space Ache (Tricycle Theatre), La Guerra, Desperado Corner, Madam Louise (Glasgow Citizen's and Venice Festival), The Treat (ICA), The Mission (Soho Poly), Hard Feelings (Oxford Playhouse and Bush Theatre), Summer and Smoke (Leicester Haymarket), Viola in Twelfth Night, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (Exchange Manchester), Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, Maxine Faulk in The Night of the Iguana (RNT), My Heart's A Suitcase (Royal Court), Over a Barrel (Palace Theatre Watford), Imagine Drowning (Hampstead), Insignificance (Donmar); for RSC credits incl: Camille (Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer 1985), Ophelia in Hamlet, Jacquetta in Love's Labour's Lost, Dolores in The Dead Donkey, Uncle Vanya (Regional Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress, Olivier Award nomination Best Supporting Actress); Television incl: Home Sweet Home, A Flame to the Phoenix, Those Glory Days, Reilly Ace of Spies, Hard Feelings, Clem, Twelfth Night, Duck, Annie Besant, Behaving Badly, The Grasscutter, The Nightmare Years, The Storey Teller - The Greek Myths, Do Not Disturb, The Orchid House, Hancock, Inspector Morse, The Leaving of Liverpool, A Statement of Affairs, Inspector Alleyn, Spitting Image - Thatcherworld, Return to Blood River, In the Cold Light of Day, Dirty Old Town, Circle of Deceit, Rules of Engagement, Space Precinct, Rhodes, It Might be You, Royal Scandal, Real Women (3 part, BBC), Just In Time (Channel Four), Tea (MTV), Dalziel & Pascoe (BBC), The Ice House (BBC), Plastic Man, Love in a Cold Climate (BBC); Films incl: Rosie in Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, Megan in We Think the World of You, Leonie Orton in Prick up your Ears, A Zed and Two Noughts, Castaway, The Missionary, Acceptable Levels, White City, The Soul of the Machine, Young Soul Rebels, Secret Friends, The Lake, Soft Top, Hard Shoulder, The Fish Tale, Scarborough Ahoy! (Best Foreign Student American Academy Award), Three Steps to Heaven, Photographing Fairie, Still Crazy, Mauvaise passe, Esther Kahn, Shiner; also three french speaking films: Chambre a Part, Giorgino, Germaine et Benjamin

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