# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-flynn
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:55:50.596Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-flynn"
name: "Barbara Flynn"
slug: "barbara-flynn"
description: "Barbara Joy Flynn 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 adoptive 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."
tagline: "British actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Miss_Potter_Premiere_(313231416).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-08-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.04295066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0283409/"
    handle:    "nm0283409"
sources:
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    title: "باربرا فلن"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "باربارا فلاین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Flynn"
    title: "Barbara Flynn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "باربارا فلاین"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Barbara Flynn"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump