Judith Barker

{{Short description|English actress (born 1943)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Judith Barker

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1943|06|22}}

| birth_place = Oldham, Lancashire, England

| occupation = Actress

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| years_active = 1964–present

| spouse = Kenneth Alan Taylor (m. 1964){{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0054922/bio|title=Judith Barker|website=IMDb|access-date=2019-10-09}}

}}

Judith Barker (born 22 June 1943) is an English actress, best known for her role as the upwardly mobile homewrecker Janet Reid in Coronation Street, which she played from 1969 to 1977.

Since her departure from Coronation Street, Barker has mostly been a character actress in television dramas, such as the 1984 Channel 4 series Scully, where she played the teacher Mrs Heath. An exception is her role as Audrey Manners in Brookside during 1995. She appeared in the first series of Waterloo Road as Estelle Cooper, and had a small role in the film Miss Potter. It was reported that she declined the premiere for the movie starring Renee Zellweger to teach drama at her local school, Saddleworth Drama Centre in Oldham.{{Cite web|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/film-star-who-runs-local-980406|title=Film star who runs local fame academy|date=10 January 2007 |website=Manchester Evening News|access-date=12 September 2021}}

Barker reappeared in Waterloo Road in series 10, playing a different character, Grace.

In 2012, she appeared in the second series of Scott & Bailey as Dorothy Parsons, the mother of Lesley Sharp's character DC Janet Scott. From 2019 to 2020, she appeared as Agatha Finn in Emmerdale. Barker also runs her own drama classes at Springhead Congregational Church, alongside choreographer Adele Parry and musical director Dave Bintley. - Saddleworth Drama Centre. Recent achievements have seen her classes performing at the Oldham Coliseum Theatre.{{Cite web|url=https://www.coliseum.org.uk/plays/it-was-a-hard-life/|title=It Was A Hard Life : Oldham Coliseum Theatre|language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-09}}

Filmography

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! Notes

1965

| Coronation Street

| Babs

| Minor role

1967

| Turn Out the Lights

| Ann Sankey

| 1 episode

1968

| Crossroads

| Constance Dory

| 5 episodes

1969, 1971, 1973–1975, 1977

| Coronation Street

| Janet Reid

| Regular role; 71 episodes

1983–1984

| Brookside

| Eileen Salter

| Minor role

1984

| Scully

| Mrs Heath

| Main role; 5 episodes

1985–1986

| The Practice

| Pauline Kent

| Series regular; 46 episodes

1995

| Brookside

| Audrey Manners

| Main role

2003

| Hollyoaks

| Lillian Hunter

| 4 episodes

rowspan="2"| 2006

| Waterloo Road

| Estelle Cooper

| 8 episodes

Miss Potter

| Hilda

| Film

2010

| Shameless

| Florence

| 1 episode

2012–2016

| Scott & Bailey

| Dorothy Parsons

| Recurring role; 19 episodes

rowspan="2"| 2014

| Birds of a Feather

| Sadie

| 1 episode

Waterloo Road

| Grace

| 4 episodes

2016

| Rovers

| Francis

| All 6 episodes

2017

| Peter Kay's Car Share

| Lady on Bus

| 1 episode

2019–2020

| Emmerdale

| Agatha Finn

| Recurring role; 16 episodes

2020

| Warren

| Sheila

| 3 episodes

2022

| Documentary Now!

|

| Episode: Two Hairdressers in Bagglyport

2023

| The Power of Parker

| Betty

| 3 episodes

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