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===Screen=== She appeared in [[Catherine Cookson]]'s ''The Fifteen Streets'', alongside [[Sean Bean]] and [[Owen Teale]] in 1989. She drew critical notice for her performance in the film ''[[Life Is Sweet (film)|Life Is Sweet]]'' (1990). Horrocks became well known on screen for her role as Bubble and Katy Grin in the sitcom ''[[Absolutely Fabulous]]'' (1992β2016). She reprised her stage role in the 1998 screen adaptation, ''[[Little Voice (film)|Little Voice]]'', which earned nominations for the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy]] at the [[56th Golden Globe Awards]], the [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role]] at the [[52nd British Academy Film Awards]], the [[Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy]] at the [[3rd Golden Satellite Awards]], the [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role - Motion Picture]] at the [[5th Screen Actors Guild Awards]], and the [[British Independent Film Awards|British Independent Film Award]] for Best Actress.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}} For 10 years, Horrocks appeared with [[Prunella Scales]] in commercials for the UK supermarket chain [[Tesco]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Jones |first=Paul |title=Jane Horrocks: "I'm eternally grateful to Tesco" |url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2011-07-26/jane-horrocks-im-eternally-grateful-to-tesco |magazine=[[Radio Times]] |access-date=17 September 2013 |publisher=[[Immediate Media Company Ltd]]}}</ref> She narrated BBC Two's television series ''[[The Speaker (TV series)|The Speaker]]'' in April 2009. In 2009, Horrocks took the lead in the BBC TV production ''[[Gracie!]]'', a drama portraying the life of [[Gracie Fields]] during World War II and her relationship with the Italian-born director [[Monty Banks]] (played by [[Tom Hollander]]).<ref>{{cite news |title=Amazing Gracie: Jane Horrocks |url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/showbiz-news/amazing-gracie-jane-horrocks-935333 |newspaper=[[Manchester Evening News]] |access-date=17 September 2013 |date=27 April 2010}}</ref> Other television credits include ''Absolutely Fabulous'', ''[[Victoria Wood]]'' - ''We'd Quite Like to Apologise'', ''Bad Girl'', ''Boon'', ''Heartland'', ''Hunting Venus'', ''La Nonna'', ''Leaving Home'', ''[[Never Mind the Horrocks]]'', ''Nightlife'', ''[[Wyrd Sisters (TV series)|Wyrd Sisters]]'', ''[[Foxbusters]]'', ''[[Jericho (UK TV series)|Jericho]]'', ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', ''Some Kind of Life'', ''Suffer the Little Children'', ''[[The Storyteller (TV series)|The Storyteller]]'', ''The Garden'', ''[[Fifi & the Flowertots]]'', ''[[Little Princess (animated series)|Little Princess]]'' (the voice of the princess) and ''Welcome to the Times''.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}} She was the subject of an episode of the [[genealogy]] series ''[[Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series)|Who Do You Think You Are?]]'' in 2006. That year, she played the title role of Ros Pritchard in ''[[The Amazing Mrs Pritchard]]'', a drama about a woman elected prime minister. On Tuesday 14 January 2014, Horrocks appeared as a contestant on ''The Great Sport Relief Bake Off'' on [[BBC Two]]β the celebrity version of ''[[The Great British Bake Off]]''βhosted by [[Jo Brand]] and broadcast to help raise money for the charity [[Sport Relief]]. The other contestants were TV and radio presenter [[Kirsty Young]], choreographer [[Jason Gardiner]], and Olympic athlete [[Greg Rutherford]]. On 9 May 2015, she gave a reading at [[VE Day 70: A Party to Remember]] in [[Horse Guards Parade]], London that was broadcast live on [[BBC One|BBC1]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32679995 |title=Actress Jane Horrocks cries reading WW2 letter |work=[[BBC News Online]] |date=10 May 2015 |access-date=1 July 2019 |publisher=[[BBC Online]] |agency=[[BBC]]}}</ref> In 2015, she supplied the voice of the Tubby Phone in the reboot of the popular British children's television series ''[[Teletubbies]]''. In 2021, she began starring in the [[Sky One|Sky]] comedy series ''[[Bloods (TV series)|Bloods]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jane Horrocks stars in new paramedic show Bloods |url=https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/19259239.jane-horrocks-stars-new-paramedic-show-bloods/ |website=News&Star |date=2 May 2021 |access-date=4 May 2021}}</ref>
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