Barbara Flynn - wikipedia Barbara Flynn This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. ( November 2017 ) Barbara Flynn Barbara Flynn in 2006 Barbara Joy McMurray ( 1948 - 08 - 05 ) 5 August 1948 ( age 70 ) St Leonards - on - Sea, Sussex, England, UK Occupation Actress Spouse ( s ) Jeremy George Taylor ( 27 February 1982 -- 17 July 2017 ; his death ) ; 1 child Barbara Flynn ( born Barbara Joy McMurray ; 5 August 1948 ) is an English actress. She first came to prominence playing Freda Ashton in the ITV drama series A Family at War ( 1970 -- 72 ). She went on to play the milk woman in the BBC comedy Open All Hours ( 1981 -- 85 ), Jill Swinburne in The Beiderbecke Trilogy ( 1985 -- 88 ), Dr. Rose Marie in the BBC series A Very Peculiar Practice ( 1986 -- 88 ), Judith Fitzgerald in the ITV drama Cracker ( 1993 -- 95 ), and Mrs. Jamieson in Cranford ( 2007 -- 09 ). In her own words, she tends to play `` feisty, strong women ''. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Television 2.2 Narration 2.3 Film 2.4 Theatre work 3 References 4 External links Early Life Flynn was born in St Leonards - on - Sea, Sussex. Her Irish father, Dr James McMurray, was a pathologist. Her mother was Joy ( or Joyce ) Crawford Hurst. Flynn attended St Mary 's Catholic Primary School, Hastings. She then trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama ( where she was awarded the Gold Medal in 1968 ) before appearing in repertory theatre. Career Television A Family at War ( 1970 -- 72 ; 40 episodes ) Open All Hours ( 1981 -- 85 ) Murder Most English ( 1977 ) The Barchester Chronicles ( 1982 ) The Beiderbecke Affair ( 1984 ) The Beiderbecke Tapes ( 1986 ) The Beiderbecke Connection ( 1988 ) Season 's Greetings ( 1986 ) ( TV drama ) Day To Remember ( 1986 ) A Very Peculiar Practice ( 1986 and 1988 ) Inspector Morse : The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn ( 1987 ) Joshua Jones ( TV series ) ( 1992 ) Maigret ( 1993 ) Chandler & Co ( 1994 -- 95 series ) Wives and Daughters ( 1999 ) Cracker ( series ) Lorna Doone ( 2001 ) The Forsyte Saga ( 2002 ) Hornblower : Loyalty ( 2003 ) The Inspector Lynley Mysteries ( 2004 ) He Knew He Was Right ( 2004 ) Agatha Christie 's Poirot -- Death on the Nile ( 2004 ) Sea of Souls ( 2004 ) Malice Aforethought ( 2005 ) Elizabeth I ( 2005 ) The Line of Beauty ( 2006 ) Cranford ( 2007 -- 09 ) The Queen : The Enemy Within ( 2009 ) Just Henry ( 2011 ) New Tricks ( 2011 ) Midsomer murders ( 2011 ) Cheerful Weather for the Wedding ( 2012 ) The Borgias ( 2012 ) Pat & Cabbage ( 2013 ) 1864 ( 2014 ) as Queen Victoria The Durrell 's in Corfu ( 2016 ) as Aunt Hermione Narration In addition to her acting work, Flynn has provided voice - overs for numerous TV documentaries, including : Body Styles ( 1989 ) Time of Her Life ( 1993 ) Network First ( 1996 ) The Lost Gardens of Heligan ( 1997 ) Deaf Century ( 1999 ) The 1900 House ( 1999 ) Horizon ( numerous episodes, 2002 to present ) The 50s and 60s in Living Colour ( 2003 ) George Orwell : A Life in Pictures ( 2003 ) From Here to Paternity ( 2004 ) The Monastery ( 2005 ) The Ghost in Your Genes ( 2005 ) Time Shift : Alan Plater ( 2005 ) The Queen 's Castle ( 2005 ) Guarding the Queen ( 2007 ) The Restaurant ( 2008 ) Big Fat Gypsy Weddings ( 2011 to present ) Jet ! When Britain Ruled the Skies ( 2012 ) The Flying Scotsman : A Rail Romance ( 2013 ) The Planners ( 2013 ) Permission Impossible : Britain 's Planners ( 2014 ) Film Britannia Hospital ( 1982 ) King Lear ( 1998 ) You Are Dead ( 1998 ) Miss Potter ( 2006 ) The Christmas Candle ( 2013 ) Theatre work Flynn appeared in the Birmingham Repertory Theatre production of Pythagoras in 1976. This was a new play by Danny Abse. In 2016 she appeared in the world premiere production of Elegy at the Donmar Warehouse. References Jump up ^ `` BBC -- Press Office -- Sea of Souls Barbara Flynn ''. BBC. Retrieved 5 November 2017. Jump up ^ Shenton, Mark. `` Casting Announcd for Donmar Warehouse Premiere of Elegy ; to Include Zoë Wanamaker ''. Playbill. Retrieved 5 November 2017. Jump up ^ Dunn, Josephine M ( 2018 - 03 - 28 ). Jimmy McGovern 's Cracker. Amazon : KDP. pp. 3 -- 159. ISBN 9 - 7819 - 8062 - 5452. Retrieved 2018 - 03 - 30. External links Barbara Flynn on IMDb ISNI : 0000 0001 1950 3861 VIAF : 60523910 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barbara_Flynn&oldid=856178455 '' Categories : 1948 births Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama English film actresses English television actresses English voice actresses English people of Irish descent Living people People from East Sussex Hidden categories : EngvarB from February 2018 Use dmy dates from February 2018 BLP articles lacking sources from November 2017 All BLP articles lacking sources Articles with hCards All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from March 2015 Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia تۆرکجه فارسی Italiano עברית Svenska Edit links This page was last edited on 23 August 2018, at 11 : 55 ( UTC ). About Wikipedia

Question: who played the milk lady in open all hours
Answer: Barbara Flynn