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Julia Davis (born 1966) is an English comedy writer and performer. She is perhaps most famous for her BBC Three creation, Nighty Night (2004/05). Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ...
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A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ...
The performing arts include theater, motion pictures, drama, comedy, music, dance, opera, magic and the marching arts, such as brass bands, etc. ...
BBC Three, the successor to the similar BBC Choice, is a British television channel from the BBC broadcasting only on digital cable, terrestrial and satellite. ...
Nighty Night is a BBC Television comedy/drama with a black edge to its humour; the first series was shown on BBC Three and later BBC Two from January 2004. ...
Early life
In her home town of Bath, Somerset, England, Davis formed a double act with Jane Roth at a local theatre group. They then formed an improvisation troupe along with the now famous Rob Brydon. Bath is a city in Somerset, England most famous for its baths fed by three hot springs. ...
This article is about the county of Somerset in England. ...
A double act, also known as a comedy duo, is a comic device in which humor is derived from the uneven relationship between two partners, usually of the same gender, age, ethnic origin, and profession, but drastically different personalities. ...
Rob Brydon (born Robert Brydon Jones, May 3, 1965, Baglan, Port Talbot) is a Welsh actor, comedian and impressionist most famous for his role as Keith Barret in the BBC comedy Marion and Geoff and The Keith Barret Show. ...
Television Davis has stared in many comedy television shows in the UK and has had roles in Big Train, Brass Eye, Jam, Human Remains, Gavin and Stacey, I Am Not An Animal, Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible, Nathan Barley and The Office in which she worked with fellow comedians and writers Steve Coogan, Chris Morris, Rob Brydon and Ruth Jones Big Train is a surreal television comedy sketch show written by the creators of the more successful Father Ted, Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan. ...
Brass Eye is a UK television series of satirical spoof documentaries which aired on Channel 4 in 1997 and was re-run in 2001. ...
Jam is a British comedy television series created by Chris Morris. ...
Human remains refer to portions of a human body that are left after a person dies. ...
Gavin and Stacey is a brand new comedy series, written by and starring Ruth Jones (Nighty Night, Little Britain) and James Corden (Fat Friends, The History Boys). ...
I Am Not an Animal was an animated miniseries telling the tale of highly intelligent non-human animals rescued from a vivisectionist laboratory and forced to live on their own. ...
Dr. Terribles House of Horrible was a British television series, created by and starring Steve Coogan and Graham Duff. ...
Nathan Barley is a Channel 4 sitcom about a fictional twenty-something loathsome London media type, written by Charlie Brooker and Chris Morris. ...
The Office is the title of multiple television situation comedy shows created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. ...
Stephen Steve John Coogan (born 14 October 1965) is an English actor, impressionist, and comedian. ...
Chris Morris may refer to : Chris Morris (satirist) Chris Morris (activist) Chris Morris (basketball player) This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ...
Rob Brydon (born Robert Brydon Jones, May 3, 1965, Baglan, Port Talbot) is a Welsh actor, comedian and impressionist most famous for his role as Keith Barret in the BBC comedy Marion and Geoff and The Keith Barret Show. ...
Ruth Jones (born Bridgend, Wales circa 1967) is a bilingual character actress perhaps best known for her performances in British comedy series and films. ...
2004 saw Davis write and star in the highly acclaimed dark comedy Nighty Night, which returned for a second series in 2005. Nighty Night is a BBC Television comedy/drama with a black edge to its humour; the first series was shown on BBC Three and later BBC Two from January 2004. ...
In more serious roles Davis has stared in the BBC productions For the Love of God, The Alan Clark Diaries (in which she plays secretary to the notorious MP), Fear of Fanny, where she played the original celebrity chef Fanny Cradock, and Persuasion, a new Jane Austin adaptation. The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ...
Fanny Cradock (February 26, 1909 - December 27, 1994) born Phyllis Primrose Pechey, in Apthorp House, Leytonstone, London, was a British writer, restaurant critic and television cook who mostly worked with John Johnnie Cradock, whose surname she adopted long before they married. ...
Persuasion book cover Persuasion is the last completed novel Jane Austen wrote, and was first published posthumously, in 1818. ...
Jane Austen, in a portrait based on one drawn by her sister Cassandra House of Jane Austen (today it is a museum) Jane Austen (December 16, 1775 – July 18, 1817) was a prominent English novelist whose work is considered part of the Western canon. ...
Film Davis appeared in the films Love Actually, Confetti, Sex Lives of the Potato Men and "Shaun of the Dead" (uncredited voice). Love Actually is a romantic comedy first released in cinemas in October and November 2003. ...
Confetti is a British mockumentary film to be released in 2006. ...
Sex Lives of the Potato Men is a controversial British feature film released in 2004. ...
Shaun of the Dead is a zombie-themed romantic comedy (or rom zom com as it dubs itself) or zombie comedy released in 2004. ...
Personal life Davis gave birth to twin boys on the 25th of June 2007. They are fathered by her partner, the comedian Julian Barratt. Julian Barratt Pettifer (born 4 May 1968) is an English comedian, musician, music producer and actor. ...
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