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Jane Horrocks (born 18 January 1964) is an English actress, musician, and singer.
ocks, youngest of three children, was born Barbara Jane Horrocks in Rawtenstall, Lancashire, the daughter of Barbara (née Ashworth), a hospital worker, and John Horrocks, a sales representative. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with Imogen Stubbs and Ralph Fiennes and began her career with the Royal Shakespeare Company. She first drew critical notice for her performance in the 1990 film Life is Sweet, 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.
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Jane Horrocks (born 18 January 1964) is an English actress, musician, and singer.
Early life
Horrocks, youngest of three children, was born Barbara Jane Horrocks in Rawtenstall, Lancashire, the daughter of Barbara (née Ashworth), a hospital worker, and John Horrocks, a sales representative. She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with Imogen Stubbs and Ralph Fiennes and began her career with the Royal Shakespeare Company. She first drew critical notice for her performance in the 1990 film Life is Sweet, 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 a household name with the role of Bubble in Absolutely Fabulous, in which she also played Katy Grin in the last two seasons of the series.
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
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, among others. Cartwright was so impressed with her gift for mimicry he wrote the play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice to showcase her talent. 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. She reprised her role in the 1998 screen adaptation, titled Little Voice which earned her 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.
In 2000 Horrocks released the CD Further Adventures Of Little Voice, again singing in the style of her favorite diva. The recording includes duets with Ewan McGregor, Robbie Williams, and Dean Martin. Horrocks collaborated once more with Robbie Williams the year afterward, for a cover of the Bobby Darin song "Things" on Williams's album Swing When You're Winning.
Other career
In addition to Road and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Horrocks has appeared on stage in Ask for the Moon (Hampstead, 1986), A Colliers Friday Night (Greenwich, 1987), Valued Friends (Hampstead, 1989), The Debutante Ball (Hampstead, 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). 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. She is scheduled to star in The Good Soul of Szechuan at the Young Vic in 2008.
Horrocks' voiceover talents have been used on the big screen in films like Chicken Run (2000), Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001), Corpse Bride (2005), Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006) and Tinker Bell (2008), and on radio as Fenchurch in the audio adaptation of Douglas Adams' popular science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for BBC Radio 4.
Horrocks' other notable television credits include 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, The Foxbusters, Red Dwarf, Some Kind of Life, Suffer the Little Children, The Storyteller, The Garden, Fifi & the Flowertots, 'Little Princess' and Welcome to the Times. She was the subject of an episode of the genealogy documentary series Who Do You Think You Are? in 2006. That same year she played the title role in The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, a drama about an ordinary woman who is elected Prime Minister. She also appeared in the 2007 Robbie the Reindeer BBC television animations filmed in aid of Comic Relief. For ten years, Horrocks appeared with Prunella Scales in a series of commercials for the UK supermarket chain Tesco.
Personal life
Horrocks is married to playwright Nick Vivian. The couple live in Twickenham with their children, son Dylan and daughter Molly. She frequently is seen in the audience of Strictly Come Dancing, of which she is a fan. Horrocks was in a relationship with singer Ian Dury for more than a year in the 1980s.
Select Filmography
Awards and nominations
- 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 - Catalonian International Film Festival (1994): Won Best Actress Award for Deadly Advice (1994)
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