Jane Horrocks
Jane Horrocks was born in Rawtenstall, England, United Kingdom on January 18th, 1964 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 60, Jane Horrocks biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Barbara Jane Horrocks (born 18 January 1964) is an English actor, voice artist, guitarist, and actress who appeared in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2016). She was nominated for the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Actress in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, and she also received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations for her role in Little Voice, 1998.
Her other film roles include appearances in The Witches (1990), Life Is Sweet (1990), Chicken Run (2000), Leith's (2006), and Sunshine on Leith (2013).
Early life
Horrocks was born on January 18th, 1964, in Rawtenstall, Lancashire, England, the granddaughter of Barbara (née Ashworth), a hospital employee, and John Horrocks, a sales representative. She was the youngest of three children at the time.
She attended Balladen County Primary School (Fearns county secondary school) and later attended Oldham College and later at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, working with Imogen Stubbs and Ralph Fiennes, and began her apprenticeship with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Personal life
Dylan Horrocks and Molly Sisk, her partner, playwright Nick Vivian, have a son and a daughter, Molly. Sam Mendes and singer Ian Dury have both worked together in the past.
Career
Horrocks appeared on stage in Ask for the Moon (Hampstead, 1986), A Collier's Friday Night (Greenwich, 1989), Valued Friends (Hampstead, 1989), and The Debutante Ball (Hampstead, 1989). She appeared in Catherine Cookson's The Fifteen Streets (1989); Our Own Kind (Bush, 1991); Macbeth (Greenwich Theatre, 1995); and Absurd Person Singular (Garrick Theatre, 2007).
Horrocks warmed up while directing a play directed by Jim Cartwright by doing singing impressions of Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey, and Ethel Merman while on Road. Cartwright was so impressed with her impersonation that he wrote The Rise and Fall of Little Voice for her. She was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in the 1992 West End production, directed by her then-boyfriend Sam Mendes.
She appeared in Sweet Panic, the 2003 Stephen Poliakoff drama in which she played a neurotic mother trapped in a war of wills with her troubled son's psychologist. In 2008, she appeared in Richard Jones' critically acclaimed production The Good Soul of Szechuan at the Young Vic. Annie Get Your Gun, a new musical project that opened at the Young Vic in October 2009, was reunited with Jones. When You Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Horrocks revisited the songs of her youth in 2016, including songs from Joy Division, The Smiths, Buzzcocks, and The Human League.
Horrocks appeared Ella Khan in the London revival of East Is East at Trafalgar Studios in October 2014 as part of Jamie Lloyd's Trafalgar Transformed season.
She received critical notice for her role in Life Is Sweet (1991), as well as her award-winning appearance in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, in which she performed all of the songs. Horrocks made her on screen debut as Bubble & Katy Grin in the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2016).
She reprised her stage appearance in Little Voice, which received nominations for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role, and the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Horrocks has been in commercials for Tesco's UK supermarket chain Prunella Scales for ten years. In April 2009, she narrated BBC Two's television show The Speaker.
Horrocks led BBC TV show Gracie!, a drama depicting the lives of Gracie Fields during WWII and her friendship with Monty Banks, which was played by Tom Hollander.
Victoria Wood - We'd Quite Like to Apologise, Bad Girl, Boon, Hunting Venus, Hunting Venus, Some Kind of Families, Suffer the Little Children, Also featured in the New Times is the princess's voice.
She was the subject of an episode of the genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are? In 2006, the First Lady and the Prince of Wales married in a rented house. She appeared in The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, a drama about a woman elected prime minister last year.
Horrocks appeared as a contestant on BBC Two's The Great British Bake Off, the celebrity version of The Great British Bake Off hosted by Jo Brand and broadcast on Tuesday 14th January 2014 to raise funds for charity Sport Relief. Kirsty Young, choreographer Jason Gardiner, and Olympic athlete Greg Rutherford were among the other participants.
On VE Day 70: A Party to Remember in Horse Guards Parade, London, which was broadcast live on BBC1, she gave a reading on May 9, 2015.
In 2015, she appeared on the Tubby Phone in the revival of the popular British children's television show Teletubbies. She debuted in the Sky comedy series Bloods in 2021.
The voiceovers of Horrocks have appeared in the films Chicken Run, Christmas Carol (The Movie), Corpse Bride, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, and Tinker Bell were used on the films. She also performed on radio and in the audio version of Douglas Adams' science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. BBC Radio 4. In all three Robbie the Reindeer films in aid of Comic Relief, she has played Donner.
Horrocks released the CD 'Average of Little Voice' in 2000, a tribute to the singers of old divas. Duets with Ewan McGregor, Robbie Williams, and Dean Martin are included in the collection. The Horrocks collaborated with Robbie Williams again in the following year for a recap of Bobby Darin's album "Things" on Williams' album Swing When You Win.
Awards and honours
- BAFTA Awards (1999): Nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Little Voice (1998)
- British Independent Film Awards (1999): Nomination for Best Actress for Little Voice (1998)
- Chicago Film Critics Association Awards (1999): Nomination for Best Actress for Little Voice (1998)
- Golden Globes (1999): Nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture -Comedy/Musical, for Little Voice (1998)
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (1991): Won Award for Best Supporting Actress for Life Is Sweet (1991)
- National Society of Film Critics Awards (1992): Won Award for Best Supporting Actress for Life Is Sweet
- Satellite Awards (1999): Nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical for Little Voice (1998)
- Screen Actors Guild Awards (1999): Nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast, for Little Voice (1998), shared with Annette Badland, Brenda Blethyn, Jim Broadbent, Michael Caine, Philip Jackson and Ewan McGregor
- Screen Actors Guild Awards (1999): Nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for Little Voice (1998)
- Sitges - Catalan International Film Festival (1994): Won Best Actress Award for Deadly Advice (1994)