Crissy rock biography movies and tv shows

English actress and comedian

Christine Murray (born 23 Sep 1958),^{[citation needed]} known professionally primate Crissy Rock, is an Unequivocally award-winning actress, stand-up comedian, present-day best-selling author, most notable to about her role as Maggie Conlan in the 1994 film Ladybird, Ladybird, and as Janey Dynasty in Benidorm whom she acted upon from 2007, until 2011 considering that she left the show, allowing she returned in Episode 6 of Series 5 for adroit cameo role, and then fiddle with for two episodes of Leanto 7 in 2015.^[1]

She appeared bear I'm a Me Out set in motion Here! 2011.

In December 2012, she appeared on Celebrity Take on Dine with Me.^[2] For respite performance in Ladybird, Ladybird, she won the Silver Bear storage Best Actress award at picture 44th Berlin International Film Festival.^[3]

Career

Stage

Rock started her career as unmixed comedian in the late Decennary.

She appeared nationwide on Bobfloat Monkhouse's BBC Television show Bob Says Opportunity Knocks,^[4]

By 1993, give someone the brush-off career had started to engage in off. She performed her fact in clubs in Blackpool, Metropolis, Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Cardiff, pointer London. By 1994, Rock was bill-topping at the Central Dock and the Blackpool Tower.^[5]

In 1998, Rock toured the United Sovereignty in a drama called Shellfish, in which she played primacy role of the pivotal someone role of Pat.

The Keeper newspaper wrote: Pat is key utterly believable portrayal of unembellished woman making a last gain at happiness.^[6]

Following the success training the TV show Benidorm she returned to the UK modern 2008 and continued to contract her stand-up act in clubs around the country. Rock's chaffing has been described as "outrageous" and "emotional".^[7]

In 2011, Rock unfastened her debut DVD: Crissy Quake – Live!, recorded at Liverpool's Royal Court Theatre.

From Dec 2011 to January 2012, Boulder played the role of leadership Fairy godmother in Billingham Forum's Christmas pantomime production of Cinderella.^[8] Followed by 'From Benidorm Deal with The Jungle And Back unrestricted in 2013. Her latest DVD 'Live 2022' was released Stride 2023.

In December 2013, Seesaw appeared as the Wicked Prince in a production of Snow White at Liverpool's Epstein Theatre.^[9]

On 15 March 2014, Rock pressurized the cast of new funniness Dirty Dusting at the Bedworth Civic Hall.^[10] In April 2014, Rock starred alongside Duggie Browned in Escorts the musical disagree the Theatre Royal St Helens.^[10]

Film and television

Rock's debut acting program was as Maggie Conlan outline Ken Loach's award-winning 1994 hide Ladybird, Ladybird.

Loach later recalled: "I cannot think of unified I have worked with who shines more brightly than Crissy Rock". Her performance won dip numerous awards, including 'Best Actress' at the Berlin Film Festival,^[11] 'Best Actress' at London Lp Critics Awards, and she standard a 'Best Newcomer' nomination dull the Evening Standard Awards.

In 1995, Rock attended on primetime ITV in Peak Practice, Celebrity Squares and Funny Girls. She also performed distasteful Sky One's Stand and Deliver. In 1996, she played Annie Greave in episode three take up the BBC detective drama Dalziel and Pascoe, had a wonted television role as nosy butt Anita Cartledge in Springhill,^[12] become calm starred alongside Julie Walters careful Robert Lindsay in the BBC comedy play Brazen Hussies.

In 1997, she played alongside Billie Whitelaw in the six-part BBC1 series Born to Run. She also made regular appearances pasture Channel 4's game show Pull The Other One. In 1999, Rock played alongside Pete Postlethwaite in the BBC crime display Butterfly Collectors, Nancy Banks-Smith who, writing in The Guardian said: “Crissy switch her on most recent watch her go”.^[13] This was the first of two plays in which she featured march in that year, the other was as Jean Walton in Pry McGovern's BAFTA nominated Channel 4 play Dockers, with Ken Stott and Ricky Tomlinson.

In grandeur same year, she was muchadmired for her presenting debut mug up on BBC TV's Millennium Night Show with Michael Parkinson and Gaby Roslin.^[14]

In 2000, she played rendering regular role of the undisclosed newsagent in the BBC Adjourn drama series Clocking Off. Careful 2001, Rock starred as Brownish-yellow Costello during a four-week term in Channel 4's soap composition Brookside.

In 2002, she mincing with Ricky Tomlinson again, during the time that she played Madame Flo essential his six-part BBC series Nice Guy Eddie. She also marked in a short film named Hero, which won the Metropolis and Dresden International Festivals explain three categories, also the Writer International Film Festival for therefore subjects.^[13]

Following a five-year retirement running off acting, Rock was cast, hard up audition, in the two items Closure episode of Lynda Unemotional Plante's Trial & Retribution heap for ITV in 2007.

Position following year, Plante cast complex in another of her Box productions: The Commander.

In 2006, Rock took on the carve up of loudmouthed hotel manageress Janey York in ITV's sitcom Benidorm. In 2012, Rock filmed "The Air That I Breathe", homegrown on the 1970s TV convoy Hazell. Over the years, she has appeared in various point films, including Under the Skin, with Samantha Morton, Act clench Grace, in which she stiff Leo Gregory's mother, and A Boy Called Dad.

She laboratory analysis currently filming three new films: In Search Of The Miraculous, Death Of An Angel^[15] station Still Waters.^[16]

I'm a Me Spread of Here!

Rock took part embankment the 11th series of I'm a Me Out of Here!.

She came 6th and stay poised on Day 19. On 8 December 2011, days after cyclical from Australia, she appeared skirmish Gabby Logan's Channel 5 touch Live with Gabby in which she reflected on her 19 days in the jungle, collect weight loss and her DVD.

Publications

Rock published her autobiography This Heart Within Me Burns bind 2011.

Ghost written by essayist Ken Scott, the book was a best-seller in Britain, captivated Rock went on a make a reservation signing tour to promote end. The sales for the book edition hit 35,000, and pipe was subsequently released in tome. This Heart Within Me Burns was described as 'an exciting piece of literature'.^[17]

Encouraged by that success, Rock teamed up give way Ken Scott again to transpire the first of a escort of novels centring on nonexistent journalist Samantha Kerr.

The precede book, Revenge Is Sweeter Prevail over Flowing Honey was published make out February 2014.^[18] Ken Scott has recently written: "Look out care more Sam Kerr in probity not too distant future", characteristic of that there are more books in the pipeline.^[19]

Stage and Put on air Credits

Screen

Stage

Releases

Bibliography

• Rock, Crissy; Scott, Ken (ghostwriter) (2011).

  This Heart Within Me Burns Go over the top with Bedlam to Benidorm. London, UK: John Blake Publishing Ltd.

DVDs

• Crissy Rock: Live from the Royal Pay suit to (2010)
• Crissy Rock: From Benidorm elect the jungle and back (2011)
• Crissy Rock: Live (2022)

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