The Many Moods of Gina McKee

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ANGRY

In the Permanently Raised Eyebrow League she's still several places below Kylie.

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PENSIVE

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DISMAYED

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JUBILANT

She was good in Brass Eye

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UNCOMPROMISING

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HAT

British TV just can't do dysfunctional "true life" dramas can it?

In America they've mastered the art thoroughly, or at least did do in the eighties/nineties heyday of Brian Dennehy, Cheryl Ladd, Karl Malden, Tyne Daly et al - it was a formula and it was more hackneyed than Stoke Newington Church Street but You Knew Where You Were.

Whereas here it's all those eejits who watched Twin Peaks at an impressionable age, think they're David Lynch and want to make A Work Of Art with insane/illogical last minute plot twists, pointless ellipses etc. and they don't realise that it's trash and should treat it as such.

(then again, those Holby City trailers - are these the most misleading TV trailers ever?)

For the sake of fairness we should start a similar thread on Nathaniel Parker.

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CHEER THE FUCK UP, WOMAN

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DIALOGUE

I wd be down with a Nathaniel Parker thread.

Leigh wz basically taking the piss out of her in Naked, right?

Gina is white with brunette hair, medium sized natural breasts, and an average body type. She was born in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK on Friday, April 14, 1961, so she would be 47 years old

GODDAMN THE INTERNET IS RONG

She's very pretty though, when she's sitting there being expressionless*. I have recorded that thing she was in the other night. Can I assume it's not very good?

* except in that hat picture. No-one could look good in that.

I had to turn the sound down on Our Friends In The North whenever she started "acting", i.e. screaming her head off with more ham than Hamfatter.

You remember the first 'condom' advert, the lad buying at the chemist from a short haired assistant, only for the assistant to turn around and oh noe it's a girl...

That was her.

Down in IMDB as Miserable Chemist Shop Employee.

Coming soon: SAMANTHA MORTON, THE ZUCKER ABRAHAMS ZUCKER YEARS

See, what happens is (or, used to..) is when you hear an accent that is from 'home', you tend to take notice. So, I've sort of followed her career progression from TV dramas, through Hugh Grant films, and back to TV dramas.

When I say 'follow', I mean 'avoid the stuff she's in' to be honest.

Of course, the accent is now 'du jour' so all you can do is spot the fake ones from the real ones. like.

Naked

Blurred

Although to be honest I really don't think that's her...

Can't be, she's smiling

I think it's a Ludo piece in a coat.

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AND THIS IS ME

But if you want a more down-to-earth working class mum for whom everything turns to shit, look no further than Lesley Sharpe:

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(ie that thing about a murdered little girl on ITV last night)

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LESLEY DUNLOP COMEDY MASTERCLASS

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Ahh, that's nice one. I wonder if Geraint3000 is a pal of hers or he just stumbled on her sitting on abench?

The Many Moods of Kevin Whately, for that matter...

oah noa.

The Many Acting Styles of Robson Green

But if you want a more down-to-earth working class mum for whom everything turns to shit, look no further than Lesley Sharpe

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or Lesley Manville!

Alan Davies: Not in any way a smug cunt, no sir.

Needs "Many moods of James Lance" thread

Robson Green always seems nice and did so on Extreme Fishing last night. Christ, I watched a lot of telly last night.

The singing squaddie started a new series last night on Five - Extreme Fishing With Robson Green.

He's in a boat about two miles out to sea and it's a bit windy.

And no "Extreme Fistng" links please, thank you.

Still, not as bad as Martin Clunes' History of Dogs...

Also "James Dreyfus Mans Up".

...in which the lovable irascible Doc Martin star embarks on a j**rn*y to find out the truth about our so-called four-legged friends.

I saw that on the schedules, and my cloudy contact lenses meant I misread it as

1) Extreme Fisting
2) Extreme Fighting
3) both, one after the other, two blinks...

xpost: style!

Should've been called "Clunes Does Doggy" really.

The singing squaddie started a new series last night on Five - Extreme Fishing With Robson Green.

Is that a Peartree production by any chance?

Any would have made Robson and Jerome much more interesting (xxp).

I believe Peartree were the guilty parties.

I don't remember McKee in Naked. But she was most alluring in Croupier. Why the hate? Or is this all backhanded compliments?

Clunes Does Doggy *eats dinner twice*

Send In The Clunes

Robsion Green is great in the Wire in the Blood things.
And his middle name is Golightly.

Maybe if the Kemps decide to reform Spandau he could always stand in for Tony Hadley.

do not want

Kemps should do one of those Deal Or No Deal / Goldenballs type shows called "Concentration Kemp"

ouch!

Looking forward to ITV's "Nicholas Lyndhurst does the Complete Works of Samuel Beckett" season.

Couldn't be any worse than Michael Gambon and John Hurt doing Beckett

I saw Rick and Ade doing the beckett, back in the day...

If it ain't Max Wall I don't wanna fuck with it.

The Many Moods of Stephen Rea

I saw that! Godot at whatever West End theatre it was. Also featuring Mike Out Of The Young Ones as Pozzo. It was pretty terrible.

Norman Beaton in Open University film of "Endgame" = CLASSIC

Jimmy McGovern, Farceur

The Many Moods of Ross Kemp, of course.

I dunno, I enjoyed it!

In spite of all the fishing...

That's a ref to Rik and Ade, not Robson Green, funnily enough.

damn it, it was Tennis!

"In spite of all the tennis!"

I saw Endgame at the Donmar back in the nineties (starring Alun Armstrong) and Nagg was played by Brian Matthew!!!

The BBC DJ? Pick of?

Get outta here! Charlie Drake was Nagg in the Norman Beaton one

It was the Saturday Club man himself - confirmed in the programme notes.

But I still think the best version of Endgame was the one McGoohan and McKern did for TV, except they retitled it "Once Upon A Time" and wee Angelo had to play both Nagg and Nell.

The Many Moods of Danny Dyer:

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Cheeky
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Chripy
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Chappie

.. and Gina McKee is going to be in the Prisoner remake!

... possibly.

Playing a Miserable Pink Beach Ball

Someone told me she was Chris Morris' missus, presumably this was a lie.

oh fuck, I thought this was another RIP thread, got an hell of a fright.

Did you pout and look mistily off to your left?

I'm a bit surprised that Stevie T hasn't shown up to defend this actress he admires. Perhaps he is unwell.

from the wik: She lives in East Dean in East Sussex with her husband Kez Cary to whom she has been married since 1989. McKee has been a vegetarian since 1982.

No wonder she's so miserable.

Oh, I don't know, Kez isn't that bad.

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For many years her actual age was a closely guarded secret. Then it leaked out that her official year of birth was 1964. However, as the official year and the actual year of birth are seldom the same in showbiz circles, it came a no surprise that it later emerged the actual year was 1961.

An old schoolfriend was once asked how old Gina McKee was. She replied: "I'm not sure. She used to be the same age as me."

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JOKES BRUV

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ALONE AT SBARROS

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Aw leave off Gina, she's great!