A former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and veteran of regional fringe theater, Barber has performed on TV and in films by Peter Greenaway ("A Zed and Two Noughts" 1985) and Nicolas Roeg ("Castaway" 1986). She is probably best known to US audiences as Rosie in Stephen Frears's "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid" and as Joe Orton's sympathetic sister Leonie in Prick Up Your Ears" (both 1987).
Education
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Cardiff University, South Glamorgan, Wales, theater
Milestones
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1981 British TV debut
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1981 Film acting debut in The Missionary
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Joined the Royal Shakespeare Company where she starred as Camille and played Ophelia opposite Roger Rees s Hamlet
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Joined the improvisational theater troupe, Hull Truck Theatre Company; also acted with the Glasgow Citizens and the Tricycle Theatre in Killburn
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Stage debut in The Origins of the Sexual Impulse at Reflex Action Theatre, Cardiff