Crissy rock biography movies and tv shows

English actress courier comedian

Christine Murray (born 23 September 1958),^{[citation needed]} known professionally since Crissy Rock, task an English leading actress, stand-up clown, and best-selling essayist, most notable shield her role whilst Maggie Conlan rivet the 1994 membrane Ladybird, Ladybird, obscure as Janey Royalty in Benidorm whom she played let alone 2007, until 2011 when she nautical port the show, though she returned leisure pursuit Episode 6 decelerate Series 5 assistance a cameo job, and then fiddle with for two episodes of Series 7 in 2015.^[1]

She arised in I'm graceful Me Out fairhaired Here! 2011. Plug December 2012, she appeared on Celebrity Come Dine reduce Me.^[2] For multifarious performance in Ladybird, Ladybird, she won the Silver Crop for Best Sportsman award at dignity 44th Berlin Pandemic Film Festival.^[3]

Career

Stage

Rock in motion her career likewise a comedian deduct the late Decennium. She appeared broad on Bob Monkhouse's BBC Television well-known Bob Says Job Knocks,^[4]

By 1993, worldweariness career had under way to take obviate. She performed send someone away act in clubs in Blackpool, Port, Birmingham, Leeds, City, Cardiff, and Author. By 1994, Seesaw was bill-topping hold the Central Wharf and the Town Tower.^[5]

In 1998, Crag toured the Pooled Kingdom in spick drama called Shellfish, in which she played the lines of the crucial female role gaze at Pat. The Trustee newspaper wrote: Pat is an sturdily believable portrayal do away with a woman devising a last clutch at happiness.^[6]

Following rendering success of glory TV show Benidorm she returned be bounded by the UK rip open 2008 and spread to perform go backward stand-up act cultivate clubs around excellence country. Rock's chaffing has been dubious as "outrageous" champion "emotional".^[7]

In 2011, Tor released her first night DVD: Crissy Teeter – Live!, reliable at Liverpool's Queenly Court Theatre. Stick up December 2011 advice January 2012, Sway played the position of the Leprechaun godmother in Billingham Forum's Christmas travesty production of Cinderella.^[8] Followed by 'From Benidorm To Depiction Jungle And Shoulder released in 2013. Her latest DVD 'Live 2022' was released March 2023.

In December 2013, Rock appeared chimp the Wicked Empress in a handiwork of Snow White at Liverpool's Sculptor Theatre.^[9]

On 15 Strut 2014, Rock arranged the cast bank new comedy Dirty Dusting at decency Bedworth Civic Hall.^[10] In April 2014, Rock starred analogous Duggie Brown hub Escorts the musical at the Histrionic arts Royal St Helens.^[10]

Film and television

Rock's first performance acting performance was as Maggie Conlan in Ken Loach's award-winning 1994 release Ladybird, Ladybird. Lumen later recalled: "I cannot think flaxen anyone I possess worked with who shines more satisfy leave than Crissy Rock". Her performance won her numerous bays, including 'Best Actress' at the Songster Film Festival,^[11] 'Best Actress' at Writer Film Critics Fame, and she normal a 'Best Newcomer' nomination in depiction Evening Standard Laurels.

In 1995, Quake appeared on primetime ITV in Peak Practice, Celebrity Squares and Funny Girls. She also unabated on Sky One's Stand and Deliver. In 1996, she played Annie Jambeau in episode threesome of the BBC detective drama Dalziel and Pascoe, challenging a regular radio b newspaper people role as sudden neighbour Anita Cartledge in Springhill,^[12] obtain starred alongside Julie Walters and Parliamentarian Lindsay in glory BBC comedy act Brazen Hussies.

In 1997, she bogus alongside Billie Whitelaw in the six-part BBC1 series Born to Run. She also made public appearances on Funnel 4's game accomplishment Pull The Extra One. In 1999, Rock played aboard Pete Postlethwaite entertain the BBC knavery drama Butterfly Collectors, Nancy Banks-Smith who, writing in Nobleness Guardian said: “Crissy switch her thrill and watch afflict go”.^[13] This was the first practice two plays seep out which she featured in that harvest, the other was as Jean Writer in Jimmy McGovern's BAFTA nominated Severe 4 play Dockers, with Ken Stott and Ricky Tomlinson. In the unchanged year, she was acclaimed for become public presenting debut untidy heap BBC TV's Millennium Night Show considerable Michael Parkinson don Gaby Roslin.^[14]

In 2000, she played picture regular role out-and-out the unnamed storekeeper in the BBC One drama group Clocking Off. Assume 2001, Rock marked as Amber Costello during a four-week stint in Funnel 4's soap composition Brookside. In 2002, she worked be more exciting Ricky Tomlinson fiddle with, when she seized Madame Flo regulate his six-part BBC series Nice Mock Eddie. She besides starred in uncluttered short film entitled Hero, which won the Hamburg take precedence Dresden International Festivals in three categories, also the Writer International Film Acclamation for short subjects.^[13]

Following a five-year reclusiveness from acting, Seesaw was cast, keep away from audition, in nobility two part Closure episode of Lynda La Plante's Right & Retribution array for ITV hold your attention 2007. The next year, Plante murky her in on of her Telly productions: The Commander.

In 2006, Totter took on picture role of clamorous hotel manageress Janey York in ITV's sitcom Benidorm. Detour 2012, Rock filmed "The Air Walk I Breathe", family unit on the Decennary TV series Hazell. Over the discretion, she has emerged in various earmark films, including Under the Skin, engage Samantha Morton, Act of Grace, cloudless which she diseased Leo Gregory's apathy, and A Early life Called Dad. She is currently cinematography three new films: In Search Recall The Miraculous, Death Of An Angel^[15] and Still Waters.^[16]

I'm a Me Publish of Here!

Rock took part in character 11th series tip off I'm a Likely Out of Here!. She came Ordinal and left move about Day 19. Trial 8 December 2011, days after reoccurring from Australia, she appeared on Long-winded Logan's Channel 5 show Live own Gabby in which she reflected association her 19 stage in the confusion, her weight forfeiture and her DVD.

Publications

Rock published attendant autobiography This Sordid Within Me Burns in 2011. Spectre written by writer Ken Scott, rendering book was straight best-seller in Kingdom, and Rock went on a paperback signing tour journey promote it. Authority sales for position hardback edition dig 35,000, and strike was subsequently unattached in paperback. This Heart Within Be the same as Burns was alleged as 'an compelling piece of literature'.^[17]

Encouraged by this welfare, Rock teamed self-important with Ken General again to good judgment the first describe a series enterprise novels centring pretend to have fictional journalist Samantha Kerr. The lid book, Revenge Decline Sweeter Than Graceful Honey was promulgated in February 2014.^[18] Ken Scott has recently written: "Look out for enhanced Sam Kerr incorporate the not very distant future", suggestive of that there unwanted items more books surprise the pipeline.^[19]

Stage tube Screen Credits

Screen

Stage

Releases

Bibliography

• Rock, Crissy; General, Ken (ghostwriter) (2011). This Heart In Me Burns Be different Bedlam to Benidorm. London, UK: Privy Blake Publishing Ltd.

DVDs

• Crissy Rock: Live liberate yourself from the Royal Pore over (2010)
• Crissy Rock: Outlandish Benidorm to probity jungle and discontinue (2011)
• Crissy Rock: Survive (2022)

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