1. Barbara Jane Horrocks was born on 18 January 1964 and is a British actress.
26 Facts About Jane Horrocks
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Jane Horrocks portrayed 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 is known for her appearances in films, including The Dressmaker, The Witches, Second Best, Life is Sweet, Chicken Run, Corpse Bride, Sunshine on Leith, Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, as well as the television series Fifi and the Flowertots, Little Princess, and the Sky One sitcom Trollied, as Julie Cook.
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Jane Horrocks attended Balladen County Primary School and Fearns county secondary 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 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 at the 1993 Laurence Olivier Awards 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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In 2024, Jane Horrocks joined the cast of the British premiere production of play Nachtland at the Young Vic theatre, directed by Patrick Marber.
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Jane Horrocks appeared in Catherine Cookson's The Fifteen Streets, alongside Sean Bean and Owen Teale in 1989.
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Jane Horrocks drew critical notice for her performance in the film Life Is Sweet.
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Jane Horrocks became well known on screen for her role as Bubble and Katy Grin in the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.
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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' album Swing When You're Winning.
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Jane Horrocks has two children with her former partner, playwright Nick Vivian.
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Jane Horrocks was previously in a relationship with director Sam Mendes.