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.

Filmography

• 2026Frank and Percy
• Small Town Scandal — Sue
• 2025The Good Life: Inside Out
• Ludwig — Lady Camilla Bryce
• Rivals — Carole Miroy
• 2023Slammer — Helen Fyre (voice)
• 2022The Good Life: Secret & Scandals — (archive footage)
• 2021Anything Goes — Mrs. Evangeline Harcourt
• 2016British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves — Acting Role (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Inside No. 9 — Patricia
• 2012Felicity Kendal's Indian Shakespeare Quest
• 2010All About The Good Life
• 2008Diary of a Mother on the Edge — Narradora/Narrator
• Doctor Who — Lady Eddison
• Rosemary & Thyme — Rosemary Boxer
• 2000How Proust Can Change Your Life — The Narrator
• 1999Parting Shots — Jill Saunders
• 1996The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Two Bad Mice and Johnny Town-Mouse — Hunca Munca (voice)
• Honey for Tea — Nancy Belasco
• 1993We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story — Elsa (voice)
• 1992Romeo and Juliet — Narrator (voice)
• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales — Narrator (voice)
• The Camomile Lawn — Helena
• The Mistress — Maxine Mansel
• 1983On the Razzle — Christopher
• Solo
• 1980Twelfth Night — Viola
• Clouds of Glory — Dorothy Wordsworth
• Do You Remember? — Victoria
• The BBC Television Shakespeare — Viola
• The Sunday Drama — Thekla Hiketier
• 1977Valentino — June Mathis
• Edward the Seventh — Princess Vicky
• The Good Life — Barbara Good
• Jason King
• Boy Meets Girl — Mina
• Half Hour Story — Candy
• Man in a Suitcase — Marcelle Robart
• Trapped — Ellen Seers
• 1966The Mayfly and the Frog — The Girl
• 1965Shakespeare-Wallah — Lizzie Buckingham
• Thirty-Minute Theatre — La Principessa
• The Wednesday Play — The Girl

Appearances as themselves (11)

• 2024Merchant Ivory — Self
• That's What I Call Television — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• The One Show — Self - Guest
• 2005The Funny Blokes of British Comedy — Self
• Strictly Come Dancing — Self
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross — Self
• Loose Women — Self
• French & Saunders — Herself
• 1984The Wandering Company — Self
• Wogan — Self - Host