Frances Barber – beyond Greenaway

This was a comment in the Frances Barber thread from A Zed and Two Noughts:

“Cute bum – was this her only nude scene?”

The good news: She did at least five other nude scenes that I know of

The disappointing news:

(1) A Zed and Two Noughts was the only time she showed that cute bum

(2) It was really the only time she did a good nude scene in her physical prime. In 1983, at about age 25, she offered a very brief flash of breast in an obscure made-for-TV film called A Flame to the Phoenix, which aired on Channel 4 in the UK. That scene was barely worth a look. She was in her late 20s when she did A Zed and Two Noughts, and looked ripe and lovely, but then waited five years before a brief topless appearance in an obscure TV series from Channel 4 called The Orchid House. Then it was another eight years before she stripped off again for a film, meaning that she was in her forties for her last three nude scenes.

Caveat: She has been in many films and TV shows, and there are not always good recordings, or any recordings, currently available from all those old TV programs from the UK, so there may be other appearances unknown to me.


A Flame to the Phoenix (1983)

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A Zed and Two Noughts (1986 – covered here)

The Orchid House (1991 – TV)

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Plastic Man (1999)

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Esther Kahn (2000)

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Fly Fishing (2002)

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One thought on “Frances Barber – beyond Greenaway

  1. Thanks Scoop – good-looking gal with nice breasts, looks little like Judy Davis – who also hasn’t shown much skin?

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