Ronni Ancona
Birthday: Born in 1966-07-04 in Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
Deathday: Alive
Veronica Jane Ancona (born 4 July 1966) is a British actress, comedian, impressionist and writer best known for The Big Impression, which she co-wrote and starred in and was, for four years, one of BBC One's top-rated comedy programmes, winning numerous awards, including a BAFTA in 2003.
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Skins
Character: Jenna
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol....
Monkey Trousers
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Monkey Trousers was a short-lived comedy series on ITV in 2005, featuring Alistair McGowan, John Thomson, Ronni Ancona, Mackenzie Crook, Griff Rhys Jones, Neil Morrissey, Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Marc Wootton and Steve Coogan. It was directed by David Kerr and produced by Bob Mortimer and Vic Reeves' production company, Pett Productions. It succeeded The All Star Comedy Show, which was written by Reeves and Mortimer, and produced by Coogan. Sketches of the show included the moronic, yet fearl...
Fist of Fun
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Fist of Fun was a British comedy television and radio programme, written by and starring Lee and Herring. A lot of the show's comic material was adapted from Lee and Herring's radio programme Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World. Each episode of Fist of Fun featured several disparate sketches and situations. Fist of Fun began as a BBC Radio 1 series in 1993, before becoming commissioned as a television series on BBC Two in early 1995. It was broadcast at 9pm on Tuesday nights, and was successful...
Hotel Babylon
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Hotel Babylon is a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones. The show followed the lives of workers at a glamorous five-star hotel....
The One Show
Character: Self
A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One....
QI
Character: Self
Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'....
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Character: Self
Jonathan Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and the house band....
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
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Comedy series in which Rob Brydon plays himself as the host of a low-rent panel show...
Would I Lie to You?
Character: Self
A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton). Each person must reveal embarrassing facts and outrageous lies during a series of different rounds including "Home Truths", "This Is My..." and "Quickfire Lies". It is up to the opposing team to tell tall tales from fantastic facts....
Stella Street
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Stella Street is a British television comedy programme, originally screened in four series on BBC Two between 1997 and 2001. It takes the form of a mockumentary filmed on a camcorder, based on the fantastical premise that a group of British and American celebrities who have all decided to move into Stella Street in Surbiton. The show was conceived and written by John Sessions, Phil Cornwell and Peter Richardson. The main characters are played by Sessions, Cornwell and Ronni Ancona. The characte...
The Sketch Show
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The Sketch Show is a British television sketch comedy programme, featuring many leading British comedians. It aired on ITV between 2001 and 2004. Despite the first series winning a BAFTA award, the second series was cancelled due to poor viewing figures. Lee Mack states in his autobrography "Mack The Life" that the final two episodes have never been broadcast. A short-lived spinoff of the same title was produced in the United States. Similarly to the UK version, the final two episodes were neve...
Hope Springs
Character: Ann Marie Cairncross
Ellie finds herself in hiding in a remote Scottish village called Hope Springs along with fellow ex-cons Hannah, Josie and Shoo after plans to start a new life in Barbados – courtesy of £3m stolen from her gangster husband – go awry. All the girls have to do is keep their heads down, assume new identities and plan an escape to their Barbados idyll... little do they know that Hope Springs is going to change their lives forever....
The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos
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Surreal and satirical narratives are assembled entirely out of archive film clips, with new soundtracks provided by voiceover artists....
Father Brown
Character: Madame Chania
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries....
Nigella
Character: Self
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Pet Squad
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Three unlikely heroes, a cat, a dog and a hamster, battle evil in their city....
Room 101
Character: Self
Fast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities each week as they compete to banish their top peeve or worst nightmare to the depths of Room 101....
Great British Menu
Character: Self - Guest Judge
Britain's top chefs compete for the chance to cook a four-course banquet for a high-profile figure....
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Character: Self - Participant
Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction...
Richard Osman's House of Games
Character: Self - Contestant
Each week a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games....
Death in Paradise
Character: Lexi Reed
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie....
Agatha Christie's Marple
Character: Amanda Dalrymple
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over....
Midsomer Murders
Character: Kitty Pottinger
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty. ...
Parkinson
Character: Self
Michael Parkinson returns for a second run of his iconic talk show....
Strictly Come Dancing
Character: Self
A dance competition where celebrities compete to be crowned the winner. Who is kicked out of the competition each week is decided by the judges scores and viewer votes. Are today's celebrities fleet of foot or do they have two left feet?...
The Horne Section TV Show
Character: Tabatha Back
Alex Horne steps out of Greg Davies' shadow as he gets the chance to host his own late-night chat show with his loyal band. But will all go to plan in this mash-up of comedy, celebs, music and mayhem?...
Skins
Character: Jenna Fitch
Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol....
Have I Got News for You
Character: Self - Hostess
Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs....
QI
Character: Self - Panellist (archive footage)
Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'....
Last Tango in Halifax
Character: Judith
Celia and Alan are both widowed and in their seventies. When their respective grandsons put their details on Facebook, they rediscover a passionate relationship that started over sixty years ago....
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Penelope
Character: Wanda
Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soulmate when she's sequestered inside her family's estate with only her parents to keep her company? This untraditional fairy tale is about a girl who bucks convention to create her own happy ending....
The Monk, the Mermaid & Molise
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The film follows Guy, down on his luck, as he accepts an invitation to spend five days playing a series of bass clinics in a remote Italian region, Molise, run by a super fan, and must face up to decisions from his past....
Appointment with Dr. Terrible
Character: Interviewee – Actor
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible" featuring Steve Coogan....
The Devil Went Down To Islington
Character: Mrs. Spencer
An underachieving music teacher and his dodgy colleague end a big night out by unwittingly selling their souls to the devil for three days' good fortune. Soon realising their grave mistake they find themselves in a race against the clock to break the deal and save their futures. But do the useless pair, aided by an unhinged priest, stand any real chance? As obstacles, and bodies, start piling up, the hour of reckoning grows near......
A Cock and Bull Story
Character: Anita
Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's....
Mike Yarwood: Thank You For The Laughs
Character: Self
Documentary in which the late impressionist's daughters get to the truth about their father's rise to fame and record-breaking success, and his sudden exit from public life. Features Mike Yarwood, Claire Yarwood, Charlotte Yarwood, Michael Crawford, Rory Bremner and more....
Steve Coogan: The Inside Story
Character: Self
Spoof documentary about the career of comedian Steve Coogan....
The Trip to Italy
Character: Donna
Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern England, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy....
Not Again: Not the Nine O'Clock News
Character: Self
A look behind the scenes of satirical sketch show Not the Nine O'Clock News....
The Hunt for Tony Blair
Character: Barbara Windsor
The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, penned by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens, follows Prime Minister Tony Blair (Stephen Mangan), wanted for murder and on the run. Escaping from Number 10 and leaving behind his adoring wife Cherie (Catherine Shepherd), Tony vows to clear his name no matter what the consequences....
Huge
Character: Self
A feuding double act try to make it in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy....
The Key
Character: Maggie
The story of three generations told against the backdrop of the 20th century. The drama focuses on the life of Mary Corrigan, from her days as a rebellious mill worker in 1915 and her doomed love affair for a man who must fight for his country, through to her final days in the run up to the British General Election of 1997....
The Debt Collector
Character: Valerie's sister
Mean, gritty, dirty and low, and that's just the policeman Gary Keltie, out for retribution for the horrendous crimes against the helpless people of Edinburgh during the 1970s, by notorious, torturous, and killer, debt collector Nickie Dryden....
Combat Sheep
Character: Peaches (voice)
Combat Sheep is a heart warming Christmas story of four army mascots who have been made redundant due to military cutbacks and are jettisoned into the cold to face civvie life and it’s bleak options on offer....
Show Dogs
Character: Poopsie Chow's Owner
Max, a macho, solitary Rottweiler police dog is ordered to go undercover as a primped show dog in a prestigious Dog Show, along with his human partner, to avert a disaster from happening....
Stella Street
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Michael Caine, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Roger Moore all live on a quiet street in Surbiton and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards run their corner shop - who knew?...
Return of the Goodies
Character: Herself
The Goodies finally return to television after nearly 25 years with a compilation of classic clips, interviews and new material....
Gideon's Daughter
Character: Barbara
Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and Diana's death. Nighy is a PR guru who has to stop and re-evaluate his world when his daughter threatens to leave his life, perhaps as revenge for his serial infidelities. Richardson plays a mother trying to bury her grief in an unconventional way after the loss of her young son....
Surviving Christmas with the Relatives
Character: Vicky
Two sisters come together to spend Christmas with their families in their recently deceased parents’ falling down country house, with hilariously chaotic consequences, as ancient sibling rivalries flare up again to sabotage the hoped for season of good will....
CBeebies Presents: The Tale of Mr Tumble
Character: Miss Eerie
Grandad Tumble opens his book of memories to tell the tale of Mr Tumble from the day he was born, with his red nose already in place, through his school days, to attending a very serious stage school run by Miss Eerie, played by Ronni Ancona. Featuring lots of songs to join in with, comedy routines and Makaton signs. Find out how Mr Tumble got his starry waistcoat, spotty bag and bow tie in this funny, exciting show recorded in front of a live theatre audience. Less...
The Calcium Kid
Character: Pat Connelly
When milkman Jimmy Connelly accidentally puts Britain's contender for the World title out of action, he is propelled from amateur boxer to the world stage and announced as the replacement contender for the championship fight....
Think of England
Character: Agnes Duprée
Six disparate souls are sent on a secret government mission to make propaganda porn films for the boys on the front, each one struggling under the weight of their own conscience in this war-torn world, and it's not about to get any easier....