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Ruby Wax

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Birth name Ruby Wachs
Nationality USA
Birth 19 april 1953 (70 years)

Ruby Wax OBE (born Ruby Wachs, 19 April 1953) is an American born, naturalised British comedian.

A classically trained actress, she came to prominence as a comic interviewer, playing up to British perceptions of the strident American style, which she replicated in the TV sitcom Girls on Top. She also appeared in Absolutely Fabulous, where she doubled as script editor.
Her memoirs, How Do You Want Me?, reached the Sunday Times best-seller list.

Biography

Wax is married to television producer and director Ed Bye. Wax and Bye have three children, Max (1988), Madeleine (1990) and Marina (1993).

Wax has also been very open about her own struggle with depression. She made an online series on mental health issues for the BBC and has worked with mental health charities. This was recognised in 2015, when she received an OBE in the Special Honours for Services to Mental Health.

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Filmography of Ruby Wax (11 films)

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Sir Billi
Sir Billi (2013)

Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Actors Sean Connery, Alan Cumming, Patrick Doyle, Greg Hemphill, Ruby Wax, Ford Kiernan
Roles Patti Turner (voice)
Rating29% 1.481161.481161.481161.481161.48116
An old, skateboarding veterinarian Sir Billi goes above and beyond the call of responsibility fighting villainous policemen and strong lairds in a war to save an illegal fugitive—Bessie Boo the beaver.
The British Guide to Showing Off
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Actors Brian Eno, Richard O'Brien, Ruby Wax, Divine, Derek Jarman, Leigh Bowery
Roles Self
Rating64% 3.229143.229143.229143.229143.22914
As well as charting the latest incarnation of the Alternative Miss World, the film studies the history of the show itself, which first took place in 1972 and has had a number of high-profile celebrities both entering and judging it.
Agent Crush, 1h33
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Adventure, Animation
Actors Ioan Gruffudd, Brian Cox, Neve Campbell, Roger Moore, Brian Blessed, Alice Evans
Roles Charleen Chinstubble (voice)
Rating60% 3.001873.001873.001873.001873.00187
Tara Road
Tara Road (2005)
, 1h37
Directed by Gillies MacKinnon
Genres Drama
Actors Andie MacDowell, Olivia Williams, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Iain Glen, Johnny Brennan, Sarah Bolger
Roles Carlotta
Rating59% 2.9982152.9982152.9982152.9982152.998215
Two women trade houses without ever having met. They're both looking for an escape from their problems, but by running away, both come to discover a great deal about themselves.
The Borrowers, 1h29
Directed by Peter Hewitt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about families, Children's films
Actors John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie, Flora Newbigin, Mark Williams, Hugh Laurie
Roles Town Hall Clerk
Rating59% 2.951022.951022.951022.951022.95102
Young Pete Lender (Bradley Pierce) is setting up traps around his house, explaining to his parents that things in their house are being stolen, despite his parents believing otherwise. However, it turns out that a family of tiny people ("Borrowers"), are living in the house, borrowing stuff without being seen. Pod Clock (Jim Broadbent) and his children, Arrietty (Flora Newbigin) and Peagreen (Tom Felton), make their way through the kitchen to "borrow" the radio's battery. Arrietty, while treating herself with some ice cream in the freezer, is accidentally shut inside just as the Lenders return. Pod manages to rescue Arietty, but jams the ice cube tube in the process and is forced to leave one of his gadgets behind, which is found by Mr. Lender. Meanwhile, the will of Mrs. Lender's aunt Mrs. Allabaster is the only proof that the house rightfully belongs to the family, yet their lawyer Ocious P. Potter (John Goodman) cannot find it and has already made plans to demolish their house in order to build condominiums on the land, and the Lenders have until Saturday to move away.
Water
Water (1985)
, 1h55
Directed by Dick Clement
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Monde imaginaire, Transport films
Actors Michael Caine, Valerie Perrine, Brenda Vaccaro, Leonard Rossiter, Oscar James, Billy Connolly
Roles Spenco Executive
Rating59% 2.9994552.9994552.9994552.9994552.999455
The story is set in the fictional Caribbean British colony of Cascara. Widely ignored by the British Government, media and general public, local Governor Baxter Thwaites is having an easy life in his small and peaceful colony. That peace is disturbed when an abandoned oil rig starts delivering water - at the standard of the finest table water brands (and laxative companies as it contains a substance that makes you "shit like clockwork"). Different parties, including Downing Street, the Cascara Liberation Front, the White House and the Cubans take interest in the future of the island and threaten to destroy the cosy way of life enjoyed by the island's inhabitants.
Romance on the Orient Express, 1h36
Directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Cheryl Ladd, Stuart Wilson, Renée Asherson, Ralph Michael, Ruby Wax, Julian Sands
Roles Susan Lawson
Rating61% 3.097773.097773.097773.097773.09777
Lily Parker (Cheryl Ladd) is a sophisticated American magazine editor who is on a business trip in Europe with her friend Susan Lawson (Ruby Wax). Susan convinces her to travel from Venice to Paris by train, instead of by plane. They board the Orient Express, where they hope to find romance. Instead, the atmosphere reminds Lily of a trip on the same train 10 years earlier, when she was a 19-year-old student traveling through Europe with her friend Stacey (Betsy Brantley). On that trip, she met Alex Woodward (Stuart Wilson), an aristocratic Englishman whom she courted, and then never heard from again.
Things Are Tough All Over, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Evelyn Guerrero, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Rip Taylor, George Wallace, Billy Beck
Roles Restaurant Patron
Rating58% 2.9005052.9005052.9005052.9005052.900505
The movie opens with Cheech and Chong driving a limo through the desert. Chong, who has decided to stop doing drugs for a while, is talking about rock and roll, and Cheech is falling asleep, but Cheech is narrating over what's happening. He says that "things are tough all over" and that he's going to tell their story.
Chariots of Fire, 1h59
Directed by Hugh Hudson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Sports films, Athletics films, Films about the Olympic Games, Films about Jews and Judaism, Children's films
Actors Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers, Cheryl Campbell, Alice Krige, Ian Holm
Roles Bunty
Rating70% 3.547943.547943.547943.547943.54794
In 1919, Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) enters the University of Cambridge, where he experiences anti-Semitism from the staff, but enjoys participating in the Gilbert and Sullivan club. He becomes the first person to ever complete the Trinity Great Court Run – running around the college courtyard in the time it takes for the clock to strike 12. Abrahams achieves an undefeated string of victories in various national running competitions. Although focused on his running, he falls in love with a leading Gilbert and Sullivan soprano, Sybil (Alice Krige).
The Final Conflict, 1h48
Directed by Charles Graham Baker, Graham Baker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about children, Films about religion, Demons in film, Political films
Actors Sam Neill, Don Gordon, Rossano Brazzi, Lisa Harrow, Mason Adams, Tommy Duggan
Roles US Ambassador's secretary (uncredited)
Rating55% 2.7547052.7547052.7547052.7547052.754705
Following the grisly suicide of the U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain (Robert Arden), 32-year-old international conglomerate CEO Damien Thorn (Sam Neill) is appointed in his place, an office his adoptive father Robert Thorn once held. Having fully embraced his unholy lineage and run his company for seven years, Damien now attempts to reshape his destiny by halting the Second Coming of Christ. However, Father DeCarlo (Rossano Brazzi), a priest from the Subiaco monastery where Father Spiletto spent his final days and observed Damien from afar since his adopted father's death, acquires the Seven Daggers of Megiddo that were dug out of the ruins of the Thorn Museum in Chicago. Joined by six other priests, DeCarlo plans to kill Damien while finding the Christ Child. Meanwhile, Damien becomes romantically involved with journalist Kate Reynolds (Lisa Harrow).
Shock Treatment, 1h34
Directed by Jim Sharman
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Musical, Black comedy
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Musical films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Jessica Harper, Cliff De Young, Patricia Quinn, Richard O'Brien, Barry Humphries, Ruby Wax
Roles Betty Hapschatt
Rating57% 2.850682.850682.850682.850682.85068
Continuing from The Rocky Horror Picture Show are the characters of Brad and Janet Majors (now portrayed by Cliff De Young and Jessica Harper, respectively), now married. The film takes place in the town of Denton, USA, which has been taken over by fast food magnate Farley Flavors (also De Young). The town of Denton is entirely encased within a television studio for network DTV (Denton Television). Residents are either stars and regulars on a show, cast and crew, or audience members. Brad and Janet, while seated in the audience are chosen to participate in the game show Marriage Maze by the supposedly blind and kooky host Bert Schnick (Barry Humphries). As a "prize", Brad is imprisoned on Dentonvale, a soap opera that centers upon the local mental hospital run by brother and sister Cosmo and Nation McKinley (Richard O'Brien and Patricia Quinn).