Barbara Flynn

Barbara Flynn is an English actress who first drew notice as Freda Ashton in the ITV drama A Family at War from 1970 to 1972. Born in St Leonards in 1948, she went on to appear as the milk woman in Open All Hours, a BBC comedy, and as Jill Swinburne in The Beiderbecke Trilogy. She also played Dr. Rose Marie in A Very Peculiar Practice and Judith Fitzgerald in the ITV drama Cracker. Later roles included Mrs. Jamieson in Cranford from 2007 to 2009. In 2021 she played Tecteun in Doctor Who: Flux, a character who helped found Time Lord society and was the Doctor's adoptive mother. From 2023 she acted in Beyond Paradise as the mother of the detective's girlfriend, and in 2024 she shared scenes with Peter Davison, her former A Very Peculiar Practice co-star. Flynn has described her characters as often feisty and strong women.