Felicity Kendal
Biography
Felicity Ann Kendal CBE is an English actress, working in television and theatre. She has appeared in numerous stage and screen roles over a more than 50-year career, but the role that brought attention to her career was that of Barbara Good in the 1975 television series The Good Life.
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Acting History
2025
The Good Life: Inside Out
2024Ludwig as Lady Camilla Bryce
2024Merchant Ivory as Self
2023Slammer as Helen Fyre (voice)
2022The Good Life: Secret & Scandals as (archive footage)
2021Anything Goes as Mrs. Evangeline Harcourt
2016British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
2014Inside No. 9 as Patricia
2012Felicity Kendal's Indian Shakespeare Quest
2010All About The Good Life
2007That's What I Call Television as Self
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2006The One Show as Self - Guest
2005Doctor Who as Lady Eddison
2004Strictly Come Dancing as Self
2003Rosemary & Thyme as Rosemary Boxer
2001Friday Night with Jonathan Ross as Self
2000How Proust Can Change Your Life as The Narrator
1999Loose Women as Self
1999Parting Shots as Jill Saunders
1994Honey for Tea as Nancy Belasco
1993We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story as Elsa (voice)
1992Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Narrator (voice)
1992The Camomile Lawn as Helena
1987French & Saunders as Herself
1985The Mistress as Maxine Mansel
1984The Wandering Company as Self
1983On the Razzle as Christopher
1982Wogan as Self - Host
1981Solo
1980Twelfth Night as Viola
1978Clouds of Glory as Dorothy Wordsworth
1977Valentino as June Mathis
1975The Good Life as Barbara Good
1975Edward the Seventh as Princess Vicky
1971Jason King
1967Man in a Suitcase as Marcelle Robart
1966The Mayfly and the Frog as The Girl
1965Shakespeare-Wallah as Lizzie Buckingham
1964The Wednesday Play as The Girl
—Frank and Percy