Barbara Rafferty

Barbara Rafferty, is a Scottish actress. She was credited as Barbara Ann Brown in her early acting career. She portrayed Ella Cotter in the BBC Two sitcom Rab C Nesbitt, and both Shirley Henderson and Bernie O'Hara in the BBC Scotland soap opera River City. She played Agnes Meldon in mystery series Hamish MacBeth and Grandma Mainland in the CBeebies comedy Katie Morag.

Career

Rafferty played Ella Cotter in Rab C Nesbitt between 1990 and 1999, and then again from 2008 and 2011 when the show made a comeback. Other notable television roles include playing pub landlady Agnes Meldrum in Hamish Macbeth and Alice MacAllister in The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock Star. She took over the role of Alice Taylor from Muriel Romanes in Take The High Road in 1988. Also, in the 2006 film The Last King of Scotland, Barbara Rafferty starred as Mrs. Garrigan.
Until 2009 she was appearing in the BBC Scotland soap River City as Shirley Henderson and 2018 as Bernie O'Hara from 2018 to 2024 when she was killed in a car crash.
Barbara's daughter, Amy Rafferty, is a singer, songwriter, and musician with the Glasgow music collective The Recovery Club.
Her son, Bob Rafferty, fronts the Glasgow alternative rock band El Dog.
In 2013 it was announced that Rafferty would join the cast of His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen Pantomime Cinderella with her friend Elaine C. Smith.
She portrayed Grandma Mainland in the CBeebies TV series, Katie Morag. It started airing on 3 November 2013.

Theatre

Filmography

Other appearances

California Sunshine as Jessica
Missing as Rachel
Autumn Leaves as Mrs. McBride