Acting · Olton, West Midlands, England, UK · Born September 25, 1946
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.
TVSmall Town Scandal
2026
as Sue
MovieThe Good Life: Inside Out
2025
TVRivals
2024
as Carole Miroy
TVLudwig
2024
as Lady Camilla Bryce
MovieMerchant Ivory
2024
as Self
Slammer
2023
as Helen Fyre (voice)
MovieThe Good Life: Secret & Scandals
2022
as (archive footage)
MovieAnything Goes
2021
as Mrs. Evangeline Harcourt
MovieBritish Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
2016
as Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
TVInside No. 9
2014
as Patricia
MovieFelicity Kendal's Indian Shakespeare Quest
2012
MovieAll About The Good Life
2010
That's What I Call Television
2007
as Self
TVThe Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
TVThe One Show
2006
as Self - Guest
TVDoctor Who
2005
as Lady Eddison
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
as Self
TVStrictly Come Dancing
2004
as Self
TVRosemary & Thyme
2003
as Rosemary Boxer
TVFriday Night with Jonathan Ross
2001
as Self
MovieHow Proust Can Change Your Life
2000
as The Narrator
TVLoose Women
1999
as Self
MovieParting Shots
1999
as Jill Saunders
MovieThe World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Two Bad Mice and Johnny Town-Mouse
1996
as Hunca Munca (voice)
Honey for Tea
1994
as Nancy Belasco
MovieWe're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
1993
as Elsa (voice)
TVShakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
as Narrator (voice)
TVThe Camomile Lawn
1992
as Helena
TVFrench & Saunders
1987
as Herself
TVThe Mistress
1985
as Maxine Mansel
MovieThe Wandering Company
1984
as Self
MovieOn the Razzle
1983
as Christopher
TVWogan
1982
as Self - Host
TVSolo
1981
MovieTwelfth Night
1980
as Viola
TVThe BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
as Viola
Clouds of Glory
1978
as Dorothy Wordsworth
Do You Remember?
1978
as Victoria
MovieValentino
1977
as June Mathis
The Sunday Drama
1977
as Thekla Hiketier
TVThe Good Life
1975
as Barbara Good
TVEdward the Seventh
1975
as Princess Vicky
TVJason King
1971
TVMan in a Suitcase
1967
as Marcelle Robart
TVBoy Meets Girl
1967
as Mina
Trapped
1967
as Ellen Seers
TVHalf Hour Story
1967
as Candy
The Mayfly and the Frog
1966
as The Girl
MovieShakespeare-Wallah
1965
as Lizzie Buckingham
TVThirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as La Principessa
TVThe Wednesday Play
1964
as The Girl
Frank and Percy
