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Kathy Burke is one of the most loved British actresses of her generation. She is certainly one of the most versatile. Having played small parts in several cult movies and plays during her early 20s, she suddenly popped into the nation’s conscious aged 26 when she appeared on TV in Harry Enfield’s Television Show.

Playing a variety of comic characters – including perhaps the most memorable: Waynetta Slob, an uncouth, chain-smoking, pizza-munching council-estate mother – she captivated audiences with her confident brashness and ready ability to appear in an unflattering light. She was also extremely funny.

Kathy was immediately taken to the bosom of the blossoming British alternative comedy scene, appearing in several Comic Strip films and playing numerous roles in the French & Saunders hit TV series. But while the stars of that scene largely failed to translate their acting ability to more serious roles, Kathy always had a deeper side to her character, born of her difficult and traumatic childhood.

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Kathy Burke

British actress (born 1964)

Kathy Burke

Born

Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke


(1964-06-13) 13 June 1964 (age 60)

Islington, London, England

Occupation(s)Actress, comedian, writer, producer, director
Years active1982–present

Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke (born 13 June 1964)[2] is an English actress and comedian. She appeared in sketch shows such as French and Saunders (1988–1999), played a recurring role as Magda on the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012), and performed frequent collaborations with fellow comedian Harry Enfield. 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.

Burke made her film debut in the 1982 drama Scrubbers. 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. Her other film appearances include Sid and Nancy (1986), Dancing at Lughnasa (1998), E

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A dominant '90s character player, Kathy Burke came to notice when awarded best actress at Cannes in 1997 as the battered wife in Nil by Mouth (d. Gary Oldman, 1997).

Unconventional-looking and awesomely versatile, she was a bitter Mary Tudor in Elizabeth (d. Shekhar Kapur, 1998) and a lonely airport cleaner in the romantic comedy, This Year's Love (d. David Kane, 1999), and on TV the range has been evinced in the near-moronic Magda in Absolutely Fabulous (BBC, 1992) and the harridan trollop of Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (BBC, 1999).

Born in London on 13 June 1964 to working-class Irish émigré parents, she was encouraged in acting at school and at 17 she was cast in Scrubbers (d. Mai Zetterling, made 1981, released 1983), then played in Sid and Nancy (d. Alex Cox, 1986) with Gary Oldman who remembered her when casting Nil by Mouth.

Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film

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