Jane's Prime ; Jane's Although She Played the Extrovert Bubble in Ab Fab, Jane Horrocks has Admitted to Being a Shy, Obsessive Perfectionist. She Tells Lester Middlehurst Why She Fears Her Major New Tv Role As a Prime Minister Will Put Her Back in the Limelight Again

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Somewhere on a shelf deep in the basement of Madame Tussauds waxworks, there lies the head of Jane Horrocks. It has been collecting dust for a few years now, its body long since melted down and recycled, after the museum decided that the actress's celebrity status had waned.

But Tussauds may have to get Jane's head out of storage soon if her latest project lives up to expectations. She is the eponymous star of a new television drama series called The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, in which she plays the manageress of a Northern supermarket who follows in Margaret Thatcher's footsteps by becoming prime minister.

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Jane's Prime ; Jane's Although She Played the Extrovert Bubble in Ab Fab, Jane Horrocks has Admitted to Being a Shy, Obsessive Perfectionist. She Tells Lester Middlehurst Why She Fears Her Major New Tv Role As a Prime Minister Will Put Her Back in the Limelight Again

It is her first series since Absolutely Fabulous, in which she memorably portrayed Edina's ditsy secretary Bubble. Since then she has gone through a fallow period.

This quiet time has been entirely by choice while Jane has concentrated all her energies on bringing up the two children she has by writer Nick Vivian.

Having earned enough money from the lucrative Tesco television commercials that she made with Prunella Scales to be able to pick a...

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