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Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke (born 13 June 1964)[2] is an English actress, comedian, writer, producer, and director. She achieved fame with her appearances on sketch shows such as French and Saunders (1988–1999) and her recurring role as Magda on the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012), as well as her frequent collaborations with fellow comedian Harry Enfield. For her portrayal of Valerie in the 1997 film Nil by Mouth, she won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Kathy Burke
Born	Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke (1964-06-13) 13 June 1964 (age 58) London, England
Occupation	Actress, comedian, writer, producer, director
Years active	1982–present
Kathy Burke's voice on Desert Island Discs Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 15 August 2010.[1]

Burke made her film debut in the 1982 drama Scrubbers, and played Queen Mary Tudor in the award-winning biographical film Elizabeth (1998). Her other film appearances include Sid and Nancy (1986), Dancing at Lughnasa (1998), This Year's Love (1999), Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000), The Martins (2001), Anita and Me (2002), and Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002). From 1999 to 2001, she starred as Linda La Hughes on the BBC sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme, for which she received a British Comedy Award and two BAFTA nominations. Having spent most of the 2000s concentrating on her work as a theatre director, she returned to film roles in the 2010s with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Pan (2015), and Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016).

Early life

Burke was born at the Royal Free Hospital, London on 13 June 1964,[3] and was brought up in Islington, North London by her Irish Catholic parents Paddy and Bridget.[4] She has two elder brothers.[5] Her mother, known as Bridie, died of cancer when Burke was two years old. She lived with her father, a builder who was an alcoholic, and attended the Maria Fidelis Convent School, a secondary school in Euston, until she was 16 years old.[4] She then studied at the Anna Scher Theatre School in Islington.[3][6]

Career

Burke's first role was in the 1982 film Scrubbers, directed by Swedish actress Mai Zetterling and featuring Pam St. Clement, Robbie Coltrane, Miriam Margolyes, Honey Bane, Debby Bishop and Eva Mottley.[7] The film was set in a young offenders' institute for girls and was seen as a female version of the film Scum.

Burke appeared in a non-speaking role in a 1985 public information film about heroin addiction.[8] The following year she appeared in a non-speaking role as 'witness in doorway' in an award-winning advert for The Guardian's ‘Points of View’.[9]

Burke first became familiar to television audiences as a player of minor roles in sketches by better-known performers such as Harry Enfield, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. Early TV work included regular appearances on the chat show The Last Resort hosted by Jonathan Ross on UK Channel 4 in the mid-1980s, playing the characters 'Tina Bishop' and 'Perry the Pre-pubescent Schoolboy". Bishop was a continually pregnant "expert" offering advice on household chores, always with disastrous results. Along with French and Saunders, she has contributed to two Comic Relief charity singles. She first appeared as a member of Bananarama parody band Lananeeneenoonoo in 1989, and then as a member of Spice Girls' look-alike band the Sugar Lumps in 1997. In real life Burke is a big fan of Morrissey and appeared in the video for his 1989 single "Ouija Board, Ouija Board" and later in the 2002 Channel 4 documentary The Importance of Being Morrissey.^{[citation needed]}

She quickly became successful in her own right and although mainly associated with comedy, she has played several serious roles including that of Queen Mary Tudor in the film Elizabeth, which was released in 1998.[10]

In 1994 Burke was awarded the Royal Television Society Award for Best Actress, for her performance as the mute Martha in the 1993 BBC TV series Mr. Wroe's Virgins.[11] The series was directed by Danny Boyle and is based on Jane Rogers' book about John Wroe.[12]

Burke won the Best Actress award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival for her role in the gritty drama Nil by Mouth. Burke was so convinced she would not win that she made no plans to attend the ceremony; when told shortly beforehand she had won, she found her passport was out of date. The film also earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role.[13] From 1999 to 2001 she appeared as Linda La Hughes in the BBC TV series Gimme Gimme Gimme (which she developed with writer Jonathan Harvey) where she was nominated for three British Comedy Awards (winning one), two BAFTA TV Awards and a National Television Award for her performance.[14] In 2000, she appeared in the cult film Love Honour and Obey with Ray Burdis,[15] and as Perry in the comedy film Kevin & Perry Go Large.[16]

In 2003, she was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy.[17]

Beginning in 2001, she refrained from acting and threw herself into theatre directing; something she considers to be one of her true passions.[18] She said in an interview with Dawn French in Dawn French's Girls Who do Comedy that she no longer felt the same creative energy associated with acting that she used to (she described it as a "feeling in my belly") and that this was the reason she had stopped acting. However, since then she has done some voiceover work, including UK TV adverts for Ski yoghurt (2005)[19] and the voice of Rita's mum in the computer-animated film Flushed Away (2006).[20] She also appeared in the 2007 Christmas Special of The Catherine Tate Show as Nan's daughter Diane.[21]

In February 1990 she wrote and directed her first play, Mr Thomas, at the Old Red Lion Theatre. It was subsequently filmed and shown on Channel 4 the next year.

In 2007, Burke contracted Clostridium difficile while in hospital for an operation, resulting in her having to pass directing duties on Dying for It at the Almeida Theatre (which starred Charlie Condou and Sophie Stanton who she worked with on Gimme Gimme Gimme).^{[citation needed]}

In 2009, Burke made her television directorial debut with the BBC Three sketch show series Horne & Corden, starring Mathew Horne and James Corden.[22]

Burke wrote and appeared as a nun in a short autobiographical film, "Better Than Christmas", for Sky 1's Little Crackers, a collection of comic shorts that first aired in December 2010. On 19 January 2012, it was announced that Burke had written her first TV series; her short for Little Crackers had led to a four-part series, "Walking and Talking", based on her teenage years. Burke appeared as a nun in each episode of the series, which aired in the summer of 2012 on Sky Atlantic.[23]

In 2011, Burke played Connie Sachs in the film adaptation of the novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. She was long-listed for a BAFTA nomination for her performance as Supporting Actress in 2012.[24]

Burke appeared in the 2015 Peter Pan prequel film, Pan, as Mother Barnabas.[25] In November 2015 Burke presented the BBC topical news panel show Have I Got News for You.[26]

In 2019, Burke starred in her own self-titled three part documentary, Kathy Burke's All Woman. The programme aired on Channel 4 and focused on the stereotypes and expectations of modern women. Burke touched on subjects such as marriage, pregnancy and cosmetic surgery.[27]

In 2021, Burke appeared as a guest judge in series 3 of RuPaul's Drag Race UK.[28]

Burke directed ITV's four-part murder mystery series Holding, which premiered on 14 March 2022 and is based on Graham Norton's novel of the same name.[29]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1982	Scrubbers	Glennis	[7]
1986	Sid and Nancy	Brenda Windzor
1987	Straight to Hell	Sabrina
	Walker	Annie Mae
	Two of Us	Vera
1989	Work Experience	Sally
1997	Nil by Mouth	Valerie
1998	Elizabeth	Queen Mary Tudor	[10]
	Dancing at Lughnasa	Maggie Mundy
1999	This Year's Love	Marey
2000	Love, Honour and Obey	Kathy	[15]
	Kevin & Perry Go Large	Perry	[16]
2001	The Martins	Angie
2002	Anita and Me	Deirdre Rutter
	Once Upon a Time in the Midlands	Carol
2006	Flushed Away	Rita's Mum	Voice[20]
2011	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy	Connie Sachs
	The Antics Roadshow	Narrator
2015	Pan	Mother Barnabas
2016	Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie	Magda
2022	The Sea Beast	Matron/Ms. Beth Merino/Gwen Batterbie	Voice[30]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	A Very Peculiar Practice	Alice
	Ladies in Charge	Daisy
1988	The Comic Strip Presents... Funseekers (as "Cathy Burke")	Vera
1988–1999	French and Saunders	Various
1990	Set of Six	Tarquin's girlfriend	[31]
1990–1992	Harry Enfield's Television Programme	Various
1992	The Fat Slags	Sandra	[32]
1992–1996	Absolutely Fabulous	Magda
1993	Mr. Wroe's Virgins	Martha
1994–1998	Harry Enfield & Chums	Various
1997	The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling	Honour
1998	Rex the Runt	Mrs Mandelbrotska
1999–2001	Gimme Gimme Gimme	Linda La Hughes	[14]
1999	Let Them Eat Cake	Cecile
2006	Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy	Herself
2007	The Catherine Tate Show Christmas Special	Diane	[21]
2009	Horne & Corden		Director[22]
2010	Kathy Burke's Little Cracker: Better Than Christmas	Nun	Writer[33]
2012	Walking and Talking	Nun	Writer[23]
	Never Mind The Buzzcocks	Guest Host
2012, 2013, 2015	Have I Got News for You	Herself
2013	Psychobitches	Mona Lisa; The Queen Mother
2014	8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown	Herself
	Celebrity Gogglebox
2016	Crashing	Aunt Gladys
2017–present	School of Roars	Ms. Grizzlesniff	Voice
2019	Kathy Burke's All Woman	Herself	[34]
	The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
	Joe Lycett's Got Your Back
2021	RuPaul's Drag Race UK	Herself; Guest judge	Series 3, episode 9[28]
2022	Holding		Director[29]

Theatre

• Lilli in Amongst Barbarians by Michael Wall at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (1989)
• It's a Great Big Shame! by Mike Leigh (Theatre Royal Stratford East, 1993)

As director

• Mr Thomas (1990) by Kathy Burke at the Old Red Lion, also shown on Channel 4
• Boom Bang-a-Bang (1995) by Jonathan Harvey at the Bush Theatre.
• Out in the Open (2001) by Jonathan Harvey at the Hampstead Theatre.
• Betty (2002) by Karen McLachlan at the Vaudeville Theatre.
• Kosher Harry (2002) by Nick Grosso at the Royal Court Theatre.
• Born Bad (2003) by Debbie Tucker Green at the Hampstead Theatre.
• The Quare Fellow (2004) by Brendan Behan for Oxford Stage Company.
• Love Me Tonight (2004) by Nick Stafford at the Hampstead Theatre.[35]
• Blue/Orange (2005) by Joe Penhall at the Cambridge Arts Theatre.
• The God of Hell (2005) by Sam Shepard at the Donmar Warehouse.
• Smaller (2006) by Carmel Morgan at the Lyric Theatre, London.
• Once a Catholic (2014) by Mary O'Malley at the Tricycle Theatre.
• Lady Windermere's Fan (2018) by Oscar Wilde at the Vaudeville Theatre, West End, London.[36]

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
1994	Royal Television Society Award	Best Actress	Mr Wroe's Virgins	Won
1997	Cannes Film Festival	Best Actress	Nil By Mouth	Won
1997	British Independent Film Award	Best Actress	Nil by Mouth	Won
1998	Bafta Film Awards	Best Actress	Nil By Mouth	Nominated
1998	Bafta TV Awards	Best Actress	Tom Jones	Nominated
1998	Bafta TV Awards	Best Light Entertainment Performance	Harry Enfield & Chums	Nominated
1999	BAFTA TV Awards	Best Light Entertainment Performance	Harry Enfield's Yule log Chums	Nominated
2001	BAFTA TV Awards	Best Comedy Performance	Gimme Gimme Gimme	Nominated
2002	BAFTA TV Awards	Best Comedy Performance	Gimme Gimme Gimme	Nominated
2002	British Comedy Awards	Best Comedy Actress	Gimme Gimme Gimme	Won

References

External links

• KathyBurke.co.uk
• Kathy Burke at IMDb

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[ru] Бёрк, Кэти

Кэ́трин Лю́си Бри́джит «Кэ́ти» Бёрк (англ. Katherine Lucy Bridget "Kathy" Burke; род. 13 июня 1964, Лондон) — английская актриса, сценарист, театральный режиссёр, телережиссёр. Наиболее известна ролями в английском ситкоме «Gimme Gimme Gimme» (Линда), фильме «Кевин и Перри уделывают всех» (Перри) и в режиссёрском дебюте Гэри Олдмена «Не глотать» (Валери). Лауреат Каннского кинофестиваля и Премии британского независимого кино в номинации «Лучшая актриса». Также имеет несколько номинаций British Comedy Awards и премии BAFTA.

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