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| birth_place = Rawtenstall, Lancashire, England| occupation = Actress

• Life is Sweet (1990)
• The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (1992 play)
• Little Voice (1998)

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• Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012)
• Fifi and the Flowertots (2005–2010)
• Little Princess (2006–2020)
• Trollied (2011–2015)

{edih}| years_active = 1986–present| partner = Nick Vivian (until 2017)| children = 2| module = {{Listen| embed = yes| title = Jane Horrocks' voice| filename =| type = speechFront Row (radio programme)>Front Row, 27 March 2014 }}}}Barbara Jane Horrocks (born 18 January 1964)WEB, Rose, Mike, January 18, 2023, Today's famous birthdays list for January 18, 2023 includes celebrities Kevin Costner, Dave Bautista,weblink January 18, 2023, Cleveland.com, is a British actress. She portrayed the roles of Bubble and Katy Grin in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. She was nominated for the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Actress for the title role in the stage play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, and received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations for the role in the film version of Little Voice.She is also known for her appearances in films, including The Dressmaker (1988), The Witches (1990), Second Best (1993), Life is Sweet (1990), Corpse Bride (2005), Sunshine on Leith (2013), (Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie) (2016), as well as the television series Fifi and the Flowertots (2005–2010), Little Princess (2006–2020), and the Sky One sitcom Trollied, as Julie Cook (2011–2015).

Early life

Horrocks was born in Rawtenstall, Lancashire, the daughter of Barbara (née Ashworth), a hospital worker, and John Horrocks, a sales representative.{{Citation needed |date=August 2021}}MAGAZINE, Ascher-Walsh, Rebecca, 1994-12-18, Impressive, 16, Entertainment Weekly, She was the youngest of three children.She attended Balladen County Primary School and Fearns county secondary school. She trained at Oldham College, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with Imogen Stubbs and Ralph Fiennes,WEB,weblink Jane Horrocks, The Guardian Unlimited Film, 2011, 1 July 2019, Guardian News and Media Limited, and began her career with the Royal Shakespeare Company.WEB,weblink BBC Drama, People Index Jane Horrocks, 1 July 2019,

Career

Stage

Horrocks has appeared on stage in Ask for the Moon (Hampstead, 1986), A Collier's Friday Night (Greenwich, 1987), Valued Friends (Hampstead, 1989), and The Debutante Ball (Hampstead, 1989). She appeared in Catherine Cookson's The Fifteen Streets, alongside Sean Bean and Owen Teale in 1989; Our Own Kind (Bush, 1991); Deadly Advice (Fletcher, 1993); Cabaret (Donmar Warehouse 1994); Macbeth (Greenwich Theatre, 1995); and Absurd Person Singular (Garrick Theatre, 2007).While working on Road, a play directed by Jim Cartwright, Horrocks warmed up by doing singing impressions of Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey and Ethel Merman. Cartwright was so impressed with her mimicry he wrote The Rise and Fall of Little Voice for her.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}} She was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1992 West End production, directed by her then-boyfriend Sam Mendes.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}}Her last West End appearance was in Sweet Panic, the 2003 Stephen Poliakoff drama in which she portrayed a neurotic mother locked in a battle of wills with her disturbed son's psychologist.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}} She starred in Richard Jones's critically acclaimed production of The Good Soul of Szechuan at the Young Vic in 2008.NEWS,weblink The Good Soul of Szechuan at the Young Vic, Times Online, Benedict, Nightingale, Benedict Nightingale, 16 May 2008, 1 July 2019, Times Newspapers Ltd.,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080706062125weblink">weblink 6 July 2008, She was reunited with Jones in a new musical production of Annie Get Your Gun, which opened at the Young Vic in October 2009.WEB,weblink Official Young Vic announcement, Young Vic, 2 July 2019, {{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} At London's Young Vic, in 2016's If You Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Horrocks revisited the songs of her youth to sing versions of tracks by the likes of Joy Division, The Smiths, Buzzcocks, and The Human League.WEB, bellaafrica,weblink why jane horrocks is singing the smiths, Yahoo!, Oath Inc., 1 July 2019, {{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}In October 2014, Horrocks played Ella Khan in the London revival of East Is East at Trafalgar Studios as part of Jamie Lloyd's Trafalgar Transformed season.NEWS, East is East starring Jane Horrocks to run at Trafalgar Studios,weblink Nicola, Merrifield, 9 May 2014, 1 July 2019, The Stage, In 2024, Horrocks joined the cast of the British premiere production of play Nachtland at the Young Vic theatre, directed by Patrick Marber.WEB, Millward, Tom, Young Vic announces initial cast for Nachtland,weblink WhatsOnStage, 7 December 2023, 2 February 2024,

Screen

She drew critical notice for her performance in the film Life Is Sweet (1990), followed by her award-winning performance in the West End play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice in which she sang all the songs. Horrocks became well known on screen for her role as Bubble & Katy Grin in the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2016).She reprised her stage role in the 1998 screen adaptation, Little Voice, which earned nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, the Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role - Motion Picture, and the British Independent Film Award for Best Actress.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}}For 10 years, Horrocks appeared with Prunella Scales in commercials for the UK supermarket chain Tesco.NEWS, Jones, Paul, Jane Horrocks: "I'm eternally grateful to Tesco",weblink Radio Times, 17 September 2013, Immediate Media Company Ltd, She narrated BBC Two's television series The Speaker in April 2009.In 2009, Horrocks took the lead in the BBC TV production Gracie!, a drama portraying the life of Gracie Fields during World War II and her relationship with the Italian-born director Monty Banks (played by Tom Hollander).NEWS, Amazing Gracie: Jane Horrocks,weblink Manchester Evening News, 17 September 2013, 27 April 2010, Other television credits include Absolutely Fabulous, Victoria Wood - We'd Quite Like to Apologise, Bad Girl, Boon, Heartland, Hunting Venus, La Nonna, Leaving Home, Never Mind the Horrocks, Nightlife, Wyrd Sisters, Foxbusters, Jericho, Red Dwarf, Some Kind of Life, Suffer the Little Children, The Storyteller, The Garden, Fifi & the Flowertots, Little Princess (the voice of the princess) and Welcome to the Times.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}} She was the subject of an episode of the genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? in 2006. That year, she played the title role in The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, a drama about a woman elected prime minister.On Tuesday 14 January 2014, Horrocks appeared as a contestant on The Great Sport Relief Bake Off on BBC Two— the celebrity version of The Great British Bake Off—hosted by Jo Brand and broadcast to help raise money for the charity Sport Relief. The other contestants were TV and radio presenter Kirsty Young, choreographer Jason Gardiner, and Olympic athlete Greg Rutherford.On 9 May 2015, she gave a reading at (VE Day 70: A Party to Remember) in Horse Guards Parade, London that was broadcast live on BBC1.NEWS,weblink Actress Jane Horrocks cries reading WW2 letter, BBC News Online, 10 May 2015, 1 July 2019, BBC Online, BBC, In 2015, she supplied the voice of the Tubby Phone in the reboot of the popular British children's television series Teletubbies. In 2021, she began starring in the Sky comedy series Bloods.WEB, Jane Horrocks stars in new paramedic show Bloods,weblink News&Star, 2 May 2021, 4 May 2021,

Audio

Horrocks' voiceovers have been used on the films Chicken Run, (Christmas Carol: The Movie), Corpse Bride, (Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties), and Tinker Bell. She also did the voiceover of Fenchurch on radio and in the audio adaptation of Douglas Adams' science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for BBC Radio 4. She has voiced Donner in all three Robbie the Reindeer films in aid of Comic Relief.In 2000, Horrocks made the CD Further Adventures of Little Voice, again singing in the style of favourite divas.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}} The recording includes duets with Ewan McGregor, Robbie Williams and Dean Martin. Horrocks collaborated once more with Robbie Williams the following year, for a cover of the Bobby Darin song "Things" on Williams's album Swing When You're Winning.

Personal life

{{More citations needed section|date=April 2024}}Horrocks has two children with her former partner, playwright Nick Vivian from whom she parted after 21 years, in 2017. She currently lives alone after parting from actor Danny Webb in 2021, her home is now a regency style apartment in Brighton, overlooking the English Channel.NEWS, 2022-12-14, 'I don't like to dwell on the dark side': Jane Horrocks on life on her own, family and first love, Ian Dury,weblink 2022-12-21, The Guardian, She was previously in relationships with director Sam Mendes and the singer and actor Ian Dury, about whom she devised the 2022 drama, Love Pants: Ian Dury & Jane Horrocks, for BBC Radio 4, based on her own diary entries and his love letters to her during their one-year relationship in the 1980s when she was 23. The two remained friends until his death in 2000.WEB, Drama,weblink 2022-12-21, Radio Times, en, WEB, BBC Radio 4 - Drama, Love Pants: Ian Dury & Jane Horrocks,weblink 2022-12-21, BBC, en-GB, Horrocks' mother, Barbara, died in 2021 and her father died in 2013.{{citation needed|date=July 2023}}

Filmography

Film {| class"wikitable" style"width:90%; text-align:center;"

! Year! Title! Role ! Directed by| 1988The Dressmaker (1988 film)>The Dressmaker| RitaJim O'Brien (director)>Jim O'Brien1989Getting It Right (film)>Getting It Right| Jenny | Randal KleiserThe Wolves of Willoughby Chase (film)>The Wolves of Willoughby Chase| Pattern| Stuart Orme1990The Witches (1990 film)>The Witches| Miss Susan Irvine| Nicolas Roeg Memphis Belle (film)>Memphis Belle| Faith| Michael Caton-JonesLife Is Sweet (film)>Life Is Sweet| Nicola| Mike Leigh| 1993Second Best (film)>Second Best| Debbie| Chris Menges| 1994| Deadly Advice| Jodie Greenwood| Mandie Fletcher| 1997| Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis| Mavis Davis / Marla DorlandJohn Henderson (director)>John Henderson| 1998Little Voice (film)>Little Voice| LV| Mark Herman 1999Faeries (1999 film)>Faeries| Huccaby (voice)| Gary Hurst| Hooves of Fire| Donner (voice)|2000| Chicken Run| Babs (voice)| Peter Lord & Nick Park| Born Romantic| Mo| David Kane | Lion of Oz| Wimsik (voice)| Tim Deacon | 2001| (Christmas Carol: The Movie)| Ghost of Christmas Past (voice)| Jimmy T. Murakami| 2002| Legend of the Lost Tribe| Donner (voice)| 2005| Corpse Bride| The Black Widow / Mrs. Plum (voice)| Tim Burton| Brothers of the Head| Roberta Howe| Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe | 2006| (Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties)| Meenie (voice)Tim Hill (director)>Tim Hill| 2007| Close Encounters of the Herd Kind| Donner (voice)|| 2008Tinker Bell (film)>Tinker Bell Fairy Mary (voice)| Bradley Raymond | 2009| Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure| Klay Hall| 2010| No One Gets Off in This Town| || 2011| Arthur Christmas| Lead Elf (voice)Sarah Smith (producer)>Sarah Smith | 2012| Secret of the Wings| Fairy Mary (voice)| Bobs Gannaway & Peggy Holmes | 2013Sunshine on Leith (film)>Sunshine on Leith| Jean| Dexter Fletcher| 2014| The Pirate Fairy| Fairy Mary| Peggy Holmes| 2016| (Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie)| Bubble/Shirley Bassey impersonator| Mandie Fletcher| 2018| Swimming with Men| Heather| Oliver Parker| 2023| (Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget)| Babs (voice)| Sam Fell">

Television series {| class"wikitable" style"width:90%; text-align:center;"

! Year! Title! Role ! Notes1987| First Sight| Natalie| Episode: "Leaving Home" (1.3)Screenplay (TV series)>Screenplay| Louise Road (play)>The Road" (2.13) 1988The Storyteller (TV series)>The Storyteller| Anja| Episode: "The True Bride" (1.9)| The Ruth Rendell Mysteries| Pippa Bond| Episode: "No Crying He Makes" (2.7)1989| The Jim Henson Hour| Anja| Episode: "Musicians" (1.8)Victoria Wood (1989 TV series)>Victoria Wood| Cathy Warburton| Episode: "We'd Quite Like to Apologise" (1.4)Alas Smith and Jones>Smith & Jones| | Episode: "The Unprepared Version" (5.6)| 1990Boon (TV series)>Boon| Trisha Downey| Episode: "Best Left Buried" (5.11)1991| Screen One| GailAlive and Kicking (TV drama)>Alive and Kicking" (3.7)| Performance| | Episode: "Nona" (1.2) 1992| Red Dwarf| Nirvanah Crane| Episode: "Holoship" (5.1)Screenplay (TV series)>Screenplay| Maggie Hunt| Episode: "Bad Girl" (7.3)| Performance| | Episode: "Roots" (2.3)|1992–2012| Absolutely Fabulous| Bubble (also played Katy Grin, Lola and radio voice)| 33 episodes| 1995|Performance| Doll Tearsheet| Episode: "Henry IV" (5.5)| 1995–1998| Crapston Villas| Flossie| 20 episodes (all episodes)1996Tales from the Crypt (TV series)>Tales from the Crypt| CammyList of Tales from the Crypt episodes#Season 7 (1996)>Cold War" (7.6)| Never Mind the Horrocks| Various roles| 1997Wyrd Sisters (TV series)>Wyrd Sisters| Magrat Garlick (voice)| Television mini-series| The Blobs| Various (voice)| 26 Episodes (all episodes) (S4C, Scottish Television, Siriol, DC Thomson, Taytel and Ragdoll Limited (live-action shoot))| 1997–1999| The Forgotten Toys| Various roles (voice)|| 1999| Foxbusters| Jeffries (voice)| 26 Episodes (all episodes)| 1999–2000Watership Down (1999 TV series)>Watership Down| Hannah| 14 episodes 2000Mirrorball (TV pilot)>Mirrorball| Yitta Hilberstam| Television pilot| Spot the Dog| Narrator| 26 Episodes were re-narrated over the originals that were done by Paul Nicholas.| 2001| Little Big Mouth| Krystan (voice)|| 2002| Linda Green| Teresa Franklin| Episode: "Teresa" (2.2)| 2003–2004| Wide-EyeFlea (voice) Baby Komodo dragon>Komodo (voice)Natterjack Toads (voices)| 26 episodes (All episodes)| 2004| Monkey Trousers| Various roles| | 2005Jericho (British TV series)>Jericho| Sadie Swettenham| Episode: "To Murder and Create" (1.3)| 2005–2010| Fifi and the Flowertots| Fifi Forget-Me-Not and Primrose (UK/US voice)| 40 episodes 2006The Street (British TV series)>The Street| Angela Quinn| Episodes: "The Accident" (1.1) "Stan" (1.2)| The Amazing Mrs Pritchard| Ros Pritchard | 6 episodes (all episodes)| 2006–2020Little Princess (British TV series)>Little Princess | Little Princess (voice)|2011Coming Up (TV series)>Coming Up| Felicity| Episode: "Magic" (6.5)| Phineas and Ferb| Eliza (voice)Phineas and Ferb (season 3)>My Fair Goalie" (3.11)| This is Jinsy| Mrs. Stenton| Episode: "Vel" (1.6)| Little Crackers| Hairdresser| Episode: "Jane Horrocks' Little Cracker: Barbara" (2.3)| Pixie Hollow Games| Fairy Mary (voice)| Television special| 2011–2013, 2015| Trollied| Julie Cook| 37 episodes2012| Get Your House in Order| Narrator (voice)| Episode: "Stuart" (1.3)True Love (TV series)>True Love| Sandra| Episode: "Sandra" (1.4)| 2014| Lily's Driftwood Bay| Wee Rabbit| 2015| Inside No. 9| LizCold Comfort (Inside No. 9)>Cold Comfort" (2.4)| Long Live the Royals| Queen Elenor (voice)| UK version only| 2015–2018 | Teletubbies| Tubby Phone (voice)| Darrall MacQueen, DHX Media and CBeebies| 2019-present| The Rubbish World of Dave Spud| Gran Spud (voice)| Except "Two Toots Spud", "An Honest Face" and "Night School"| 2020The Singapore Grip (TV series)>The Singapore Grip| Sylvia Blackett| TV series| 2021Jungledyret Hugo>Hugo the Jungle Animal| Baby Hugo| Episode: "Baby Hugo"| 2021–2022Bloods (TV series)>Bloods| Wendy| Main role">

Television films {| class"wikitable" style"width:80%; text-align:center;"

! Year! Title! Role ! Notes1989| The Fifteen Streets| Christine Bracken| | Heartland| Pam|| 1991| Came Out, It Rained, Went Back in Again| Learner Lesbian|| 1993| Cabaret| Sally Bowles|1994| Self Catering| Marilyn| | Suffer the Little Children| Deborah Hayes|| 1995| Some Kind of Life| Alison| | 1996| Nightlife| Helen|1999| Hunting Venus| Cassandra| | The Flint Street Nativity| Zoe| | 2009| Gracie!| Gracie Fields|| 2010| The Road to Coronation Street| Margaret Morris|">

Short film, television and video {| class"wikitable" style"width:80%; text-align:center;"

! Year! Title! Role ! Notes| 1994| Butter| Beggar| Television| 1995| Combination Skin| (voice) | Short film | 1999| Hooves of Fire| Donner (voice) Television 2002| Legend of the Lost Tribe| Donner / Arctic Fox (voice)| Last Rumba in Rochdale| Gran (voice) Short film| 2004| Wheeling Dealing| Authentic Newsreader| 2006| Voices from the Underworld| Herself (voice)| Video Short| 2007| Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind| Donner (voice)| Television| 2011| The Itch of the Golden Nit| (voice)| Short film

Music videos

• New Order - 1963 (1995)

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)

References

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External links

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• {{IMDb name|1363}}
• BBC interview
• Jane Horrocks on BBC Drama Faces
• The many faces of Jane Horrocks
• Jane Horrocks on Who Do You Think You Are?

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