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Jane Horrocks

Jane Horrocks (born January 18, 1964) is an English comedian and actress.

She was born in Rossendale Valley, Lancashire. She went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. She lives with writer, Nick Vivian. They have a son, Dylan, and a daughter, Molly.

While working on a play directed by Jim Cartwright she used to warm up by doing singing impressions of Judy Garland and Ethel Merman. Cartwright was so impressed with her that he wrote the play and the movie Little Voice just to show off her talent.

Television credits

Absolutely Fabulous, Bad Girl, Boon, Heartland, Henry IV, Hunt for Venus, La Nonna, Leaving Home, Never Mind the Horrocks, Nightlife, Red Dwarf, Road, Roots, Some Kind of Life, Suffer the Little Children, The Garden, Welcome to the Times

Selected filmography

  • Born Romantic (2000)
  • Chicken Run (2000)
  • Little Voice (1998)
  • Some Kind of Life (1995)
  • Second Best (1994)
  • Life Is Sweet (1990)
  • Memphis Belle (1990)
  • Getting It Right (1989)
  • Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The (1988)
  • Road (1987)

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Absolutely Fabulous, Bad Girl, Boon, Heartland, Henry IV, Hunt for Venus, La Nonna, Leaving Home, Never Mind the Horrocks, Nightlife, Red Dwarf, Road, Roots, Some Kind of Life, Suffer the Little Children, The Garden, Welcome to the Times. Where she plays a gardener Rosemary Boxer, who together with fellow friend and ex-policewoman Laura Thyme (Pam Ferris) solve a mystery near their work. Cartwright was so impressed with her that he wrote the play and the movie Little Voice just to show off her talent. Her most recent work is the murder mystery, Rosemary and Thyme. While working on a play directed by Jim Cartwright she used to warm up by doing singing impressions of Judy Garland and Ethel Merman. She starred in the first productions of many of his plays; in 1991 Stoppard left his wife to start a relationship with her. They have a son, Dylan, and a daughter, Molly. Her relationship with playwright Tom Stoppard was both personal and professional.

She lives with writer, Nick Vivian. Kendal's stage career blossomed during the eighties and nineties. She went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. Despite this, she maintained her popularity. She was born in Rossendale Valley, Lancashire. After series ended, she starred in several other BBC sitcoms, none of which came anywhere near the success of The Good Life. Jane Horrocks (born January 18, 1964) is an English comedian and actress. She was particularly popular with male viewers, and was voted "Rear of the Year" for her appearances wearing wellington boots.

Road (1987). On her return to Britain, she found that her film appearance was not a passport to success, and her struggle to build an acting career was long and difficult, partly because of her unusual upbringing. In 1975, she got her big break with the sitcom, The Good Life, which made her a household name. Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The (1988). Felicity made her stage debut in these productions, and at the age of nineteen, starred in the film, Shakespeare Wallah (1965), loosely based on her family's real-life experience. Getting It Right (1989). They performed Shakespeare to audiences consisting mostly of schoolchildren. Memphis Belle (1990). She is the younger sister of the late Jennifer Kendal and the daughter of Geoffrey Kendal, an English actor who made his living leading a repertory company on tours of India after the Second World War.

Life Is Sweet (1990). Felicity Kendal is a British actress, born in Warwickshire on September 25, 1946. Second Best (1994). Some Kind of Life (1995). Little Voice (1998).

Chicken Run (2000). Born Romantic (2000).