Frances Barber
Born | May 13, 1958 |
Hometown | Wolverhampton, England |
Height | 5'5" (1.64m) |
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Steven Moffat says friend’s true story inspired West End play The Unfriend
- The Unfriend stars Reece Shearsmith and Amanda Abbington as a timid couple too polite to stop a brash American, played by Frances Barber, from inviting herself to stay
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The Unfriend review: Steven Moffat’s debut play is smug and sitcom-ish
2/5 Frances Barber steals the show as the murderer who came to tea in this inconsistent production
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The Unfriend review – manners can be the death of you in Steven Moffat’s comedy
Mark Gatiss directs Reece Shearsmith in Moffat’s cringe-tastic play that more than stands up next to the trio’s celebrated TV work
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A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Mezzotint review – a glittering half-hour nugget
You’ll be in thrall to Mark Gatiss’s smart, snappy and utterly hammy ghost story within seconds. What a creepy Christmas gift to us all
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Christmas Eve TV: Tamsin Greig and Simon Callow revel in festive fantasy
Christmas Eve TV: Tamsin Greig and Simon Callow revel in festive fantasy. The pair star in The Amazing Mr Blunden, based on Antonia Barber’s novel. Plus: Mark Gatiss brings us HR James’s spooky Mezzotint. Here’s what to watch tonight
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Frances Barber: 'When I went to Peter Jackson’s house in New Zealand, we had dinner in Bag End’
Last year, we filmed in Whitstable
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Hamlet, review: Ian McKellen’s ‘age-blind’ prince can’t fool the audience – however good his stamina
In a catastrophic week for theatre, which saw the curtain come back down on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s £6 million musical, Cinderella, one knight of the realm took to the stage in what felt like an act of defiance against the Government’s inflexible isolation rules – which has led to the scuppering of entire productions. Sir Ian McKellen, 82, is playing Hamlet – reckless, you might think, but also an act of chutzpah you can only admire. The actor proved extraordinarily lithe, and as he ran up the met
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'Notting Hill' star Tony Armatrading dies aged 59 following cancer battle
The Birmingham-born actor played a security guard in the 1999 rom com starring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts,
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Rory Kinnear to star in new Mark Gatiss Christmas ghost story The Mezzotint
The Sherlock writer has adapted the short story by MR James.
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Geoffrey Palmer dead: Butterflies and As Time Goes By actor dies aged 93
Actor Geoffrey Palmer has died aged 93, his agent has announced. Palmer and Dame Judi also starred together in James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, which was released in 1997. Palmer played Admiral Roebuck of the Royal Navy in the Bond film.
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Nicola Adams hailed as a ‘trailblazer’ following Strictly Come Dancing launch
She is paired with Katya Jones in the BBC One celebrity dancing competition.
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