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Kathy Burke is a Actor British born on 13 june 1964 at Camden Town (United-kingdom)

Kathy Burke

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Birth name Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 13 june 1964 (59 years) at Camden Town (United-kingdom)

Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke (born 13 June 1964) is an English actress, comedian, playwright and theatre director. She became known for her regular appearances in the sketch shows French and Saunders (1988–99), Harry Enfield's Television Programme (1990–92) and Harry Enfield and Chums (1994), and for her recurring role as Magda in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–96). For her role as Valerie in the film Nil by Mouth, she won Best Actress at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Burke, whose film debut was in Scrubbers (1983), played Mary I in the 1998 film Elizabeth. Her other film roles include Dancing at Lughnasa (1998), This Year's Love (1999), Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000), The Martins (2001), and Anita and Me (2002). From 1999 to 2001, she starred as Linda La Hughes in the BBC sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme, for which she received two of her five BAFTA TV Award nominations. Having spent most of the 2000s concentrating on her work as a director, she returned to film roles with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) and Pan (2015).

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Alex Cox
Alex Cox
(3 films)
Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman
(3 films)
Sam Fell
Sam Fell
(1 films)
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Filmography of Kathy Burke (22 films)

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Actress

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Joanna Lumley, Julia Sawalha, June Whitfield, Jennifer Saunders, Jane Horrocks, Celia Imrie
Roles Magda
Rating53% 2.6996652.6996652.6996652.6996652.699665
The ever glamourous and self-indulgent Patsy and Edina find themselves at the center of a media firestorm.
Pan
Pan (2015)
, 1h51
Directed by Joe Wright
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Pirate films, Mermaids in film, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund, Levi Miller, Rooney Mara, Amanda Seyfried, Nonso Anozie
Roles Mother Barnabas
Rating57% 2.854962.854962.854962.854962.85496
Peter (Levi Miller) is a young boy who is left as a baby on the steps of an orphanage in London by his mother Mary (Amanda Seyfried), an establishment under the care of Mother Barnabas (Kathy Burke). Several years later, during World War II,The Cold War, upon learning that she is hoarding food for herself, Peter and his best friend Nibs try to steal it to distribute amongst themselves and the other orphans but they get caught. In the process, Peter finds a letter written by his mother, declaring her love and assuring Peter they will meet again "in this world or another".
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 2h7
Directed by Tomas Alfredson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Politique, Political films
Actors Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong
Roles Connie Sachs
Rating69% 3.4976353.4976353.4976353.4976353.497635
En 1973, George Smiley est un agent du MI6 et l'un de ses principaux dirigeants. À la suite de l'échec catastrophique d'une mission en Hongrie, où l'agent britannique Jim Prideaux a failli être tué, le chef du MI6, Control, est contraint de démissionner, de même que Smiley, mis à la retraite. Control est remplacé par Percy Alleline à la tête du service.
Flushed Away, 1h25
Directed by Sam Fell, David Bowers
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Michael Richards, Andy Serkis
Roles Rita's Mum (voice)
Rating65% 3.2958353.2958353.2958353.2958353.295835
Roddy St. James (Hugh Jackman) is a decidedly upper crust pet rat who makes his home in a posh Kensington flat. While his owners are away on holiday Roddy plays around the house. A common sewer rat named Sid (Shane Richie) comes spewing out of the sink and decides to stay, especially as England are playing against Germany in the World Cup final. Roddy schemes to get rid of Sid by luring him into the "jacuzzi", which is actually the toilet. Sid isn't fooled at all and instead pushes Roddy in and flushes him away into the sewer. There, Roddy discovers a city resembling London made out of various bits of junk, and meets Rita Malone (Kate Winslet), an enterprising scavenger rat who works the drains in her faithful boat, the Jammy Dodger. Rita does not like Roddy initially, but ends up taking him along, while her arch enemy The Toad (Ian McKellen) sends his rat henchmen, Spike (Andy Serkis) and Whitey (Bill Nighy), after her because she had stolen back her father's prized ruby a long time ago. The Toad despises all rodents to the point of hateful obsession. He plans to have them frozen with liquid nitrogen inside an icemaker. The pair escape, and Rita takes a unique electrical cable that, unknown to everyone but the Toad, is required to control the floodgates.
Anita and Me, 1h32
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Feminist films, Films about immigration, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Chandeep Uppal, Kabir Bedi, Anna Brewster, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Ayesha Dharker, Lynn Redgrave
Roles Mrs. Diedre Rutter
Rating63% 3.1963453.1963453.1963453.1963453.196345
Meena Kumar, a 12-year-old Sikh girl, lives with her family in the predominantly white, working-class, fictional mining village of Tollington in the Black Country in 1972. Meena meets Anita, a white, 14-year-old girl whom Meena comes to idolise. However, Meena finds it harder and harder to fit in as her Indian heritage keeps on resurfacing, and Anita's new boyfriend proves to hold strong racist attitudes toward those he regards as "darkies".
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, 1h44
Directed by Shane Meadows
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Romance
Themes Films about families
Actors Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans, Kathy Burke, Ricky Tomlinson, Shirley Henderson, Andrew Shim
Roles Carol
Rating60% 3.0499653.0499653.0499653.0499653.049965
Dek (Rhys Ifans) proposes to his girlfriend Shirley (Shirley Henderson) on TV. When Jimmy (Robert Carlyle), "the great love of her life" and father of her daughter Marlene (Finn Atkins), sees this, he returns in an attempt to win back her heart. However, after deserting his friends in Scotland during an unsuccessful robbery of some clowns, his friends turn against him and come to the Midlands to try to track him down. In the end, Shirley refuses to go with Jimmy and professes her love for Dek after Marlene refuses to have anything to do with Jimmy and is only ready to accept Dek as the father figure.
The Martins, 1h27
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Lee Evans, Kathy Burke, Linda Bassett, Mark Strong, Paddy Considine, Frank Finlay
Roles Angie Martin
Rating54% 2.70452.70452.70452.70452.7045
Out of work scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family who are long suffering wife Angie, accident prone son Little Bob who is bullied at school even by his teacher who Robert brandishes a gun at also... and pregnant teenage of 14 daughter Katie in a shabby house in Hatfield next door to the Galleria shopping centre above the A1 about 25 miles north of London. Competition addict Robert dreams of winning a holiday for his family to a dream island that turns out to be Isle Of Man and when he gets to the final few for a dream holiday but fails to win a competition in which he feels cheated out of, he flips and first goes to the editors office with a gun and steals his suit, then to an ice cream shop with his family and steals a parrot from a pet shop for Little Bob's birthday, he then tracks down the elderly winners, threatens them with a gun, ties them up in the cellar and steals their tickets. The police find them tied up. Upon arriving, Angie finds out Robert has cheated on her with their next door neighbour however the family enjoy the holiday. However, the Police catch up with Martin, he's convicted and goes to jail. He is later released to find his family life has improved since he was released from jail.
Kevin & Perry Go Large, 1h22
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Buddy films, Films about virginity
Actors Steve McFadden, Harry Enfield, Kathy Burke, Rhys Ifans, James Fleet, Laura Fraser
Roles Perry
Rating56% 2.846542.846542.846542.846542.84654
The film begins at the beheading of Anne Boleyn, which turns out to be an erotic daydream, introducing protagonist Kevin, who is having sexual fantasies when he's supposed to be doing his homework about Boleyn.
Love, Honour and Obey, 1h43
Directed by Dominic Anciano
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Mob film, Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Sadie Frost, Jonny Lee Miller, Jude Law, Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, Sean Pertwee
Roles Kathy
Rating63% 3.196963.196963.196963.196963.19696
Jonny (Jonny Lee Miller) is working as a courier and becoming increasingly dissatisfied with his life. He asks long-running school friend Jude (Jude Law) to help him into the North London criminal gang run by his uncle Ray (Ray Winstone). As Jonny gets more involved in the image of the criminal world, he starts making mistakes and through a mutual dislike for rival gangster Matthew (Rhys Ifans) inadvertently starts a war with the South London mob, headed up by Sean (Sean Pertwee).
This Year's Love, 1h48
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Dougray Scott, Jennifer Ehle, Ian Hart, Sophie Okonedo, Douglas Henshall, Emily Woof
Roles Marey
Rating62% 3.147423.147423.147423.147423.14742
Dans le nord de Londres, la vie de six personnes issues de classes sociales différents, qui vont se croiser pendant trois ans et ayant pour souhait de trouver la personne qui les comblera.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth (1998)
, 2h4
Directed by Shekhar Kapur
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Feminist films, Politique, Films about religion, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Abbie Cornish, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, Clive Owen
Roles Queen Mary Tudor
Rating73% 3.6986453.6986453.6986453.6986453.698645
In 1558, the Roman Catholic Queen Mary (Kathy Burke) dies of a cancerous tumour in her uterus, leaving her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett) as queen. Elizabeth had previously been jailed for a supposed conspiracy to murder Mary but has now been freed for her coronation. The film shows Elizabeth being courted by suitors, including Henry, Duc d'Anjou (Vincent Cassel), the future King Henry III of France and Poland, whom she rejects, and urged by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (Richard Attenborough) to marry, which, as he states, would secure her throne. Instead, she has a secret affair with her childhood sweetheart, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (Joseph Fiennes). The affair is, however, no secret from Cecil, who makes it clear that a monarch has no private life. Elizabeth deals with various threats to her reign, including Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (Christopher Eccleston); her Catholic cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, who conspires to have her murdered; Mary's mother, Mary of Guise (Fanny Ardant), who brings French troops into Scotland to attack Elizabeth's forces when they invade.
Dancing at Lughnasa, 1h35
Directed by Pat O'Connor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Catherine McCormack, Kathy Burke, Sophie Thompson, Bríd Brennan
Roles Margaret 'Maggie' Mundy
Rating62% 3.1477453.1477453.1477453.1477453.147745
1936. Cinq sœurs vivant ensemble dans le comté de Donegal élèvent le fils illégitime de l'une d'elles, Michael. Leur vie va être bouleversée par le retour de leur grand frère, Jack, qui vient de passer 25 ans comme missionnaire en Afrique, puis par celui de Gerry, le père volage de Michael, aventurier en route pour l'Espagne.
Nil by Mouth, 2h8
Directed by Gary Oldman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Feminist films, Films about domestic violence
Actors Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, Charlie Creed-Miles, Laila Morse, Jamie Foreman, Edna Doré
Roles Valerie
Rating72% 3.646693.646693.646693.646693.64669
In a working class London district lives Raymond, his wife Valerie, her brother Billy, Billy's mother Janet and their grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict whom Raymond kicks out. The family is dysfunctional, mostly due to Raymond's short temper and violent outbursts.
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
Directed by Peter Richardson
Actors Nigel Planer, Ade Edmondson, Peter Richardson, Dawn French, Robbie Coltrane, Jennifer Saunders
Roles Mary
Rating70% 3.5489153.5489153.5489153.5489153.548915
The story revolves around Stan (Planer), a lonely and not-very-intelligent Midlands security van driver and ham radio enthusiast who strikes up a long distance romance with Frances (French), an ornithologist on expedition to the Falklands with Kathy (Saunders), a lazier woman she detests immensely. One night while trying to contact her, Stan hears the sounds of a violent altercation and becomes convinced that the island is under attack and that Frances' life is in danger.