Ruth Jones
Ruth Elizabeth Alexandra Jones, MBE ( born September 22, 1966 in Bridgend, South Wales ) is a Welsh actress and screenwriter. It was known in the UK mainly by leading roles in the co-authored by her series Gavin & Stacey and Stella. On German television, she appeared in the BCC series Little Britain.
Life
Ruth Jones grew up as the daughter of a working in industry lawyers and a child psychiatrist at Porthcawl where they went to the same school as her future colleague Rob Brydon. She studied theater and drama at the University of Warwick and attended for one year the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff. After she initially could not gain a foothold in the theater business, and even thought about pursuing a legal career, she got her first professional role as the Countess in a production of The Marriage of Figaro as " pantomime ", a typical British form of entertainment theater. With this production by Dominic Cooke's troupe Pan Optic she went on tour in the UK. At the invitation of Rob Brydons she joined an improvisation theater group in Bath, which also includes Julia Davis was one, later in the sitcom Nighty Night collaborated again with the Jones.
From 1991, Ruth Jones appeared in television and radio program from BBC Wales. They also played back at major theater stages such as the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. In 1999 she had a supporting role in the hit comedy film East is East.
Then she played the Kelly in four series of the comedy series Fat Friends (ITV ). Also in several BBC comedy series, she worked with: a pub counter force Myfanwy in Little Britain, as Magz in Saxondale and as Linda in Nighty Night.
A major success was the sitcom Gavin & Stacey (2007-2010), which Jones co-wrote with James Corden, whom she had met when turning the series Fat Friends, and also self-produced. The series revolves around a loving couple - the Englishman Gavin and Stacey the Welsh - and its more or less quirky family members and friends. Filmed among others in the Welsh seaside resort of Barry and Billericay in English. The humor of the series draws from the illustrated as insurmountable conflict difference of Middle-class British and working -class Welsh and Welsh from the English, the Welsh speak in the series. Ruth Jones starred in the series Nessa Jenkins, Stacey's eccentric friend with a dark past. The role with their catch phrase "What's Occurin '? " Jones made in the UK to a nationally known star. The ensemble includes beside Mathew Horne and Joanna Page in the title roles and James Corden, Larry Lamb, Alison Steadman, Rob Brydon, Melanie Walters and Sheridan Smith. The series has won two BAFTAs and four British Comedy Awards. The country song Islands in the Stream, the Ruth Jones and Rob Brydon sang in the series, was recorded in 2009 by the two under the role name Vanessa Jenkins and Bryn West with Tom Jones and Robin Gibb and published for the charity Comic Relief as a single. The single reached number 1 on the UK singles chart.
2008 Jones also starred in the BBC literary adaptations Tess of the d' Urbervilles and Little Dorrit and in two episodes of the BCC series The Street. Other appearances on television shows and series followed. In 2011 she played the well-known from the Carry On ... film series actress Hattie Jacques in the TV movie Hattie on BBC Four.
2008 Ruth Jones founded (named after another Catchphrase of Nessa Jenkins ) with her husband, producer David Peet, the production company Tidy Productions. Tidy Productions produced the 2008-2009 radio series Ruth Jones ' Sunday Brunch for BBC Radio Wales and also worked together with the broadcasters BBC Two, BBC Three and BBC Wales. The company produced 2009 for the S4C to based on an idea by Ruth Jones TV movie Ar y Tracs on the crew of the train Swansea - London. She even plays in the film, the Polish railway station café employees Ingrid Crenski.
For Sky TV Jones produced since 2012 with their company the series Stella, which is based on their own idea and for which she wrote screenplays for four episodes. Jones plays the title role of Stella Morris, a single mother in the fictional small town in the South Wales Valleys Pontyberry. A second series was broadcast in 2013, a third season is to run in 2014. [ Deprecated]
Ruth Jones lives with her husband in Cardiff.
Honors
- 2007: British Comedy Award - Best Female Comedy Newcomer,
- 2007: British Comedy Awards - Best Television Comedy Actress ( nomination )
- 2009: Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women Of The Year Awards - Ultimate Funny Woman Award
- 2009: BAFTA Cymru ( Welsh offshoot of the BAFTA ) - Sian Phillips Award
- 2009: Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama - Fellow
- 2013: University of Warwick - Honorary doctorate ( Hon DLitt )
- 2013: BAFTA Cymru - Best Writer
- 2014: Member of the Order of the British Empire ( MBE)
Filmography
(Selection)
Cinema
TV
- 2000-2005 Fat Friends ( TV series), ITV
- 2003-2006 Little Britain ( TV series), BBC
- 2004-2005 Nighty Night ( TV series), BBC
- 2005-2006 I'm With Stupid ( TV series), BBC Three
- 2006 Mayo ( TV series), BBC One
- 2006-2007 Saxondale ( TV series), BBC Two
- 2007-2010 Gavin and Stacey ( TV series), first BBC Three, BBC One later
- 2008 Little Dorrit ( miniseries ), BBC One
- 2008 Tess of the d' Urbervilles ( miniseries ), BBC One
- 2009 The Street, 2 episodes, BBC One
- 2009 A Child's Christmases in Wales ( TV movie ) BBC Four
- 2009 Ar y Tracs ( TV movie ), S4C
- 2009-2011 talk shows Ruth Jones ' Christmas Cracker, Easter Treat, Summer Holiday, BBC Two
- 2010 The Great Outdoors, 3 episodes, BBC Four
- 2011 Hattie ( television film ), BBC Four
- 2012 - Stella ( TV series), Sky TV
Book Release
- James Corden: Gavin & Stacey. From Barry to Billericay. Harper Collins, London, 2008, ISBN 978-0-00-729257-8