Barbara Flynn
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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"
Known for
Credits
Miss Potter (2006)
as Helen Potter
The Escort (1999)
as Kim's Mother
Christmas at the Riviera (2007)
as Rita
Just Henry (2011)
as Mrs Beaumont
Britannia Hospital (1982)
as Private Nurse
Hornblower: Loyalty (2003)
as Mrs. Mason
Open All Hours: Inside Out (2026)
Actor
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012)
as Aunt Bella
The Christmas Candle (2013)
as Lady Camdon
Lorna Doone (2001)
as Sarah Ridd
Bosses From Hell (1989)
Actor
Cracker: Nine Eleven (2006)
as Judith Fitzgerald
You're Dead... (1999)
as Prof. Corner
King Lear (1998)
as Goneril
Hornblower: Duty (2003)
as Mrs. Mason
Night Flight (2002)
as Moira
Burlesque Fairytales (2010)
as Mrs. Argyle
Benefactors (1989)
Actor
The Vanishing Man (1997)
as Me Jeffries
Love on a Gunboat (1977)
as Monica Potter
A Lion Called Christian (2009)
as Self - Narrator(voice)
Season's Greetings (1986)
as Belinda
Dear Nobody (1998)
as Chris' Mother
Standing in for Henry (1980)
as Heather
The Marchioness Disaster (2008)
as Eileen Dallaglio
A Mother Like Him (1982)
as Jill
The Man Who Would Be Kubrick (1999)
as Self - Narrator
The Flight Fund (1975)
as Angie
Day To Remember (1986)
as Judy
George Orwell: A Life In Pictures (2003)
as Narrator
No Visible Scar (1981)
as Margaret Hanson
Rosalind Franklin: DNA's Dark Lady (2003)
as Narrator
The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance (2013)
as Narrator (Voice)
The 7/7 Bombers: A Psychological Investigation (2005)
as Voice
1978: The Winter of Discontent (2022)
as Narrator
Diana: The Curse of the Spencers (2022)
as Narrator