Barbara Flynn

Barbara 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 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.

5 August 1948

Born on the same birth date (5 August 1948): David Hungate • Ray Clemence • Shin Takamatsu

Born on the same birth day (5 August): Anthony Edwards (basketball) • Carl Crawford • Claude Autant-Lara • Helene Fischer • Ilya Repin • Janet McTeer • Jeff Coffin • John Jarratt • Kanon Suzuki • Karl Johan Åström • Marine Le Pen • Robert Taylor (American actor) • Vladimir Fedoseyev

Born in the same month (August 1948): Avi Arad • Bill Campbell (baseball) • Christy O'Connor Jnr • David Gemmell • Earl Blumenauer • Holger Osieck • James Jones (bishop) • James Street (American football) • John Scarlett • Kathleen Battle • Kim Sung-il (general) • Marty Appel • Murray Parker (cricketer) • Robert Plant • Svetlana Savitskaya • Tipper Gore • Victor Skumin • Vonda N. McIntyre