
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"

Murder in Mind

名探偵ポワロ

Cranford

King Lear

A Very Peculiar Practice

The Forsyte Saga

キリング・イヴ/Killing Eve

Open All Hours

Inspector Morse

A Lion Called Christian

The Beiderbecke Affair

Hornblower

Lorna Doone

ドクター・フー

Sea of Souls

He Knew He Was Right

ボルジア家 愛と欲望の教皇一族

Death in Paradise

法医学捜査班 silent witness

The Durrells

The Beiderbecke Connection

Wives and Daughters

Hornblower: Duty

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

エリザベス1世 〜愛と陰謀の王宮〜

Hornblower: Loyalty

メグレ警部

Moving On

Cracker: Nine Eleven

The Barchester Chronicles

The Queen

Playhouse

Centre Play

Beyond Paradise

ミス・ポター

Just Henry

Cracker

The Beiderbecke Tapes

A Family at War

The Line of Beauty

You're Dead...

Play for Today

Britannia Hospital

1864

Performance

The Christmas Candle

Lorna Doone

Burlesque Fairytales

Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

Mauvaise passe

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

Big Fat Gypsy Weddings

Christmas at the Riviera

Malice Aforethought

Dear Nobody

Diana: The Curse of the Spencers

The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance

Season's Greetings

Rosalind Franklin: DNA's Dark Lady

The Man Who Would Be Kubrick

The Flight Fund

George Orwell: A Life In Pictures

Love on a Gunboat

The Vanishing Man

No Visible Scar

A Mother Like Him

Standing in for Henry

Bosses From Hell

Pat & Cabbage

Perfect

Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies

Secrets of the Royals: Births, Marriages and Deaths

Chandler & Co

The Vanishing Man

Guarding The Queen