Barbara Jane Horrocks was born on 18 January 1964 and is a British actress.
23 Facts About Jane Horrocks
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Jane Horrocks portrayed the roles of Bubble and Katy Grin in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.
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Jane Horrocks 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.
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Jane Horrocks attended Balladen County Primary School.
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Jane Horrocks trained at Oldham College, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art with Imogen Stubbs and Ralph Fiennes, and began her career with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Jane Horrocks has appeared on stage in Ask for the Moon, A Collier's Friday Night, Valued Friends, and The Debutante Ball.
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Jane Horrocks appeared in Catherine Cookson's The Fifteen Streets, alongside Sean Bean and Owen Teale in 1989; Our Own Kind ; Deadly Advice ; Cabaret ; Macbeth ; and Absurd Person Singular.
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Jane Horrocks 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.
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Jane Horrocks starred in Richard Jones's critically acclaimed production of The Good Soul of Szechuan at the Young Vic in 2008.
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Jane Horrocks was reunited with Jones in a new musical production of Annie Get Your Gun, which opened at the Young Vic in October 2009.
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At London's Young Vic, in 2016's If You Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Jane 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.
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In October 2014, Jane Horrocks played Ella Khan in the London revival of East Is East at Trafalgar Studios as part of Jamie Lloyd's Trafalgar Transformed season.
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Jane Horrocks drew critical notice for her performance in the 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 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.
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For 10 years, Jane Horrocks appeared with Prunella Scales in commercials for the UK supermarket chain Tesco.
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Jane Horrocks narrated BBC Two's television series The Speaker in April 2009.
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Jane 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.
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Jane Horrocks 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.
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Jane Horrocks has voiced Donner in all three Robbie the Reindeer films in aid of Comic Relief.
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In 2000, Jane Horrocks made the CD Further Adventures of Little Voice, again singing in the style of favourite divas.
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Jane 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.
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Jane Horrocks has two children with her former partner, playwright Nick Vivian from whom she parted after 21 years, in 2017.
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Jane Horrocks currently lives alone after parting from actor Danny Webb in 2021, her home is a regency style apartment in Brighton, overlooking the English Channel.