| Movie | 2006 | Imagine Me & You | Ella | |
| Movie | 2021 | Help | Gloria | |
| Movie | 1997 | Preaching to the Perverted | Esmeralda | |
| Movie | 2020 | David Jason: Britain's Favourite TV Star | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1996 | Brassed Off | Vera | |
| Movie | 1997 | Face | Alice | |
| Movie | 2021 | Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story | Self | |
| Movie | 2009 | The Turn of the Screw | Sarah Grose | |
| Movie | 2022 | Downton Abbey: A New Era | Gladys Denker | |
| Movie | N/A | Bilby | Nancy | |
| Movie | 2023 | Caroline Aherne: Queen of Comedy | Self | |
| Movie | 2024 | The Big Snow of '47 | Self - Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2009 | Tourettes: I Swear I Can't Help It | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1999 | Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll | | |
| Movie | 2011 | Lapland | Eileen Lewis | |
| Movie | 1997 | Brookside: The Lost Weekend | Sheila Grant | |
| Movie | 1998 | Brookside: Friday the 13th | Sheila Grant | |
| Movie | 2016 | Golden Years | Nancy | |
| Movie | 2017 | Shannon Matthews: What Happened Next | Self - Narrator | |
| Movie | 2014 | Caring for the Recently Deceased | Marjoram Bryon | |
| Movie | 1994 | Measure for Measure | Mistress Overdone | |
| Movie | 2000 | New Year's Day | Mrs. Fisher | |
| Movie | 2016 | British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves | Barbara Royle (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 2018 | Walk Like a Panther | Gladys | |
| Movie | 2001 | Score | Maggie | |
| Movie | 2018 | Death on the Tyne | Colleen | |
| Movie | 1992 | Bitter Harvest | Miriam Johnson | |
| Movie | 2017 | Diana and the Paparazzi | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2012 | Barbara's Old Ring | Barbara Royle | |
| Movie | 2008 | The New Sofa | Barbara Royle | |
| Movie | 2019 | The Cure | Bella Bailey | |
| Movie | 2016 | World Cup 1966: Alfie's Boys | Self | |
| Movie | 2015 | The Nation's Favourite Beatles Number One | Self | |
| Movie | 1998 | The Things You Do for Love: Against the Odds | Pat Phoenix | |
| Movie | 2010 | Joe's Crackers | Barbara | |
| Movie | 2009 | The Golden Egg Cup | Barbara Royle | |
| Movie | 2010 | The Royle Family: Behind the Sofa | Self | |
| Movie | 2002 | The Virgin Mary | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2005 | Liverpool FC: One Night in May | | |
| Movie | 2017 | Shannon Matthews: The Mother's Story | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2025 | Big Winners | Edith Thistle | |
| Movie | 2023 | Ricky Tomlinson Remembers... The Royle Family | Barbara Royle (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2023 | The Royle Family - Down the Back of the Sofa | Self / Barbara Royle (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2025 | Stuffed | Lily | |
| Movie | 2025 | Fackham Hall | Great Aunt Bonaparte | |
| TV Show | 1982 | Brookside | Sheila Grant | 882 |
| TV Show | 2004 | Strictly Come Dancing | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Today | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1999 | Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll | Irma | 6 |
| TV Show | 1992 | A Touch of Frost | Phyllis Bowman | 1 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Crime Traveller | | 8 |
| TV Show | 2004 | The Paul O'Grady Show | | 1 |
| TV Show | 1987 | Inspector Morse | Mrs. Bailey | 1 |
| TV Show | 2004 | Who Do You Think You Are? | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1998 | The Royle Family | Barbara Royle | 20 |
| TV Show | 2001 | Waking the Dead | Dr. Grace Foley | 90 |
| TV Show | 1993 | Luv | | 18 |
| TV Show | 2008 | Little Dorrit | Affery / Affery Flintwinch | 14 |
| TV Show | 2007 | The Alan Titchmarsh Show | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2006 | The Street | | 1 |
| TV Show | 1990 | Medics | | 35 |
| TV Show | 2002 | Cutting It | Caroline Ferraday | 1 |
| TV Show | 1998 | Duck Patrol | Val Rutland | 7 |
| TV Show | 2010 | A Passionate Woman | Betty (1980s) | 2 |
| TV Show | 2011 | Baby Hospital | | 3 |
| TV Show | 2002 | Timeshift | Self - Narrator | 1 |
| TV Show | 2011 | Sugartown | | 3 |
| TV Show | 1998 | The Jump | Maeve Brunos | 4 |
| TV Show | 1991 | Performance | Mistress Overdone | 1 |
| TV Show | 2007 | Would I Lie to You? | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2017 | Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2016 | Rovers | Doreen | 6 |
| TV Show | 1996 | Hetty Wainthropp Investigates | Helga Allowby | 1 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Downton Abbey | Miss Denker | 6 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Gates | Miss Hunter | 5 |
| TV Show | 2024 | Generation Z | Cecily | 6 |
| TV Show | 2013 | Being Eileen | Eileen Lewis | 6 |
| TV Show | 2018 | Age Before Beauty | Ivy-Rae Regan | 6 |
| TV Show | 2021 | Kensington Palace: Behind Closed Doors | Narrator | 2 |
| TV Show | 2011 | Celebrity Antiques Road Trip | Self - Participant | 1 |
| TV Show | 2001 | My Uncle Silas | Mrs. Betts | 12 |
| TV Show | 2024 | Ricky, Sue & a Trip or Two | Herself | 3 |
| TV Show | 1993 | Full Stretch | Grace Robbins | 6 |
| TV Show | 2019 | The Cockfields | Sue | 9 |
| TV Show | 2024 | Truelove | Marion | 6 |
| TV Show | 1999 | Loose Women | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 2022 | The Responder | Madge | 1 |
| TV Show | 2021 | Time | June Cobden | 3 |
| TV Show | 1998 | Parkinson | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2019 | DNA Journey | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1999 | Finest Hour | Commentary | 4 |
| TV Show | 2006 | Jam and Jerusalem | Sal Vine | 19 |
| TV Show | 1995 | Hollyoaks | Sheila Grant | 1 |
| TV Show | 2021 | Taskmaster’s New Year Treat | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2025 | Dexter Procter | Granny Bet | 1 |
