Jane Horrocks
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Lancashire, England
Perhaps best-known to international audiences for her role as Bubble, Edina Monsoon's gloriously vapid assistant on Absolutely Fabulous, Jane Horrocks is a well-established stage and screen actress in her native Britain.Born in Lancashire, England, to working-class parents on January 18, 1964, Horrocks began performing in a non-professional capacity (or "showing off" as she has said) at an early age, wowing her informal audiences with her gift for mimicry. Although an acting career was seen as unrealistic in her Northern English town, Horrocks nevertheless ended up winning a place at London's prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where her classmates included Ralph Fiennes, Imogen Stubbs, and Iain Glen. During her studies at RADA, Horrocks was advised to lose her distinctive Lancashire accent. Fortunately, she rejected this "advice;" her decision to nurture her way of speaking would later result in her casting in a number of plum character roles.Following graduation, Horrocks joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. Despite the RSC's prestige, the actress felt unchallenged and underused in her work with the company. Thankfully, she found some form of relief in her collaboration with playwright Jim Cartwright while performing in a production of one of his plays; Cartwright was so impressed with Horrocks' uncanny impersonations of such singers as Edith Piaf and Judy Garland that he promised to write a play expressly to showcase her talents. A few years later, he made good on his promise with The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, a play about a painfully shy girl (Horrocks) possessing a remarkable ability to mimic some of history's most famous singers. Horrocks earned lavish praise for her performance; in 1998, the play was made into a well-received film, Little Voice, in which Horrocks co-starred with Ewan McGregor, Brenda Blethyn, and Michael Caine. Horrocks also began appearing on both the big and small screens during the late '80s, doing supporting work in a number of films and television series. She had her screen breakthrough in Mike Leigh's acclaimed family comedy Life Is Sweet (1991), earning awards from the Los Angeles film critics and the National Society of Film Critics for her portrayal of an anorexic girl who at one point asks her boyfriend (David Thewlis) to lick chocolate off her breasts.Bouncing back and forth between comedy and drama and film and television during the rest of the decade, Horrocks continued to establish herself as one of her country's most versatile performers. The 1998 release of Little Voice brought with it lavish acclaim for the actress, who earned a number of international award nominations and honors for her singular performance in the film.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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54% | Swimming with Men |
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— | 2018 |
58% | Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie |
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$4.8M | 2016 |
90% | Sunshine on Leith |
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$0.2M | 2013 |
92% | Arthur Christmas |
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$46.5M | 2011 |
100% | Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure |
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— | 2009 |
90% | Tinker Bell |
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— | 2008 |
69% | Brothers of the Head |
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— | 2006 |
12% | Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties |
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$28.3M | 2006 |
84% | Tim Burton's Corpse Bride |
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$53.4M | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire and the Legend of the Lost Tribe |
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— | 2002 |
58% | Born Romantic |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Robbie Williams: Live at the Royal Albert Hall |
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— | 2001 |
13% | Christmas Carol - The Movie |
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— | 2001 |
97% | Chicken Run |
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$106.7M | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Faeries |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Winter In Watership Down |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | The Flint Street Nativity |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Hunting Venus |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Journey to Watership Down |
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— | 1999 |
79% | Little Voice |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Wyrd Sisters |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | How To Be Absolutely Fabulous |
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— | 1996 |
100% | Second Best |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Deadly Advice |
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— | 1993 |
93% | Life Is Sweet |
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— | 1991 |
67% | Memphis Belle |
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— | 1990 |
93% | The Witches |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | The Wolves of Willoughby Chase |
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— | 1989 |
67% | Getting It Right |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | Heartland |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | The Fifteen Streets |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | The Dressmaker |
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— | 1988 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Teletubbies
2015-2018
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96% |
Absolutely Fabulous
1992-2012
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No Score Yet |
Fifi and the Flowertots
2005-2010
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No Score Yet |
Masterpiece
1971-2014
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82% |
Tales from the Crypt
1989-1996
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100% |
Bloods
2020
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100% |
Inside No. 9
2014
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No Score Yet |
Teletubbies
1997-2001
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17% |
The Singapore Grip
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No Score Yet |
True Love
2012
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No Score Yet |
Watership Down
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Quotes from Jane Horrocks' Characters
Babs: | we'll make posters .... |
Babs: | We'll make posters... |
Babs: | They got Ginger! Okay nobody panic! Nobody panic! (after short silence, everyone screams in panic, including Gabs)... |
Babs: | They got Ginger! Okay nobody panic! Nobody panic! [after short silence, everyone screams in panic, including Gabs] |
Mrs. Plum: | New arrival! |
Babs: | My entier life flashed before my eyes...it was really borin' |
Babs: | I saw my whole life flash before my eyes! It was boring! |