Ronni Ancona
Ronni Ancona was born in Troon, Scotland, United Kingdom on July 4th, 1968 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 56, Ronni Ancona biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Veronica Jane Ancona (born 4 July 1966) is a Scottish actress, impressionist and author.
She first became well known after appearing in The Big Impression.
Early life
Ancona was born in Louth, Lincolnshire, but moved to Scotland when she was a few days old. and was mostly brought up in Troon, Scotland. She is of Italian Jewish descent. Her father was a commander in the Royal Navy and her mother was an artist who painted the sets at the Gaiety Theatre in Ayr and the Theatre Royal in Glasgow. Ancona is the youngest of three children, with two older brothers. In the BBC television programme Comedy Map of Britain she returned to her old school, Marr College in Troon, and talked about her earliest comedy performing experience as part of an improvisation group called Pots People.
She attended the University of Kent at Canterbury to study film and then did a degree in theatre & TV design at Saint Martin's School of Art. At the age of 19, while studying at St Martin's College, the BBC's Blue Peter reported on a play about Brecht at the Riverside Studios in which she was involved as a designer and performer: her appearance was later covered on the BBC show Before They Were Famous. Ancona then attended the Institute of Education, University College London and qualified as a teacher in art, design & technology and drama. Whilst working as a teacher, Ancona's comedy career started on the comedy circuit when she won the Time Out Hackney Empire New Act of the Year in 1993.
Personal life
Ancona had a seven-year relationship with Alistair McGowan which ended shortly before they started working together professionally. Ancona is married to Gerard Hall, a consultant rheumatologist with whom she has two daughters. They live in West London.
Ancona is an ambassador to the Environmental Investigation Agency, Marie Curie and Sightsavers.
Television career
For many years Ancona worked extensively in radio and on television shows, such as Fist of Fun, as well as performing stand-up comedy. She co-wrote and performed in shows such as Comedy Nation, Pulp Video, and The Sketch Show alongside Lee Mack. In 2000 she teamed up with Alistair McGowan, with whom she had previously worked on The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand De Bargos and Standing Room Only, to create The Big Impression. The show was one of BBC1's top-rating comedy programmes for four years, and won both a Variety Club Comedy Award and a BAFTA. In 2003 she won "Best Actress" at the British Comedy Awards.
In 2003 she starred in the BBC One historical drama The Key.
In 2005 she played Barbara in Stephen Poliakoff's Gideon's Daughter on BBC One.
She has appeared several times on the BBC celebrity panel show QI. In November 2006 she was a guest presenter on Have I Got News For You. She also appeared on the Channel 4 comedy show TV Heaven, Telly Hell discussing her preferences in television shows.
In 2007 her three-episode comedy sketch series Ronni Ancona & Co was broadcast on BBC One.
She appeared as the mother of Katie and Emily Fitch in the third (2009) and fourth (2010) series of Skins.
In 2009 she had a leading role in the BBC comedy drama Hope Springs.
As part of BBC's The Big Read she promoted The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
In April 2010, she appeared on A Comedy Roast, celebrating Sharon Osbourne's life. She appeared on the 2010 Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special where she was paired with Anton Du Beke.
Ancona also took part in Comic Relief’s Desert Trek 2011 alongside Craig David, Olly Murs, Dermot O’Leary, Scott Mills and Lorraine Kelly.
In 2012 she appeared in Last Tango in Halifax.
In January 2015 she was a guest on Room 101.
In 2016 she played the role of Mrs Fletcher, the manager of a local care home, in the seventh series of the Scottish comedy Still Game. Later that year she made a guest appearance in an episode of the BBC television series Celebrity Antiques Road Trip, partnering with antiques expert James Braxton.
In April 2017 Ancona appeared as a guest on ITV's The Nightly Show, presented by Jason Manford, in which they each performed impersonations of famous people which the other had to identify.
On 27 December 2020, Ancona appeared as a contestant on the Christmas special of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Celebrity Special.
She won Pointless Celebrities in January 2021 with Jan Ravens.
Film career
Ancona’s first feature role was in 1996 when she appeared in The Debt Collector alongside Billy Connolly.
In 2004, she played the role of Pat Connelly in The Calcium Kid.
In the same year she appeared in Stella Street: The Movie, playing numerous female celebrities including Madonna and Victoria Beckham.
In 2005, Ancona played the role of Anita in Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story.
She had a cameo role in the 2006 fantasy romantic comedy Penelope.
In 2013, Ancona was cast as Mrs Spencer in The Devil Went Down to Islington, a horror film following two hapless Londoners who sell their souls to Satan.
She played Donna, Rob Brydon's agent, in the 2014 film The Trip to Italy.
In 2018, she had a small role in the US comedy film Show Dogs. and starred in Surviving Christmas with the Relatives.