Kathy Burke is an English actress, comedian, playwright and theatre director. She became known for her regular appearances in the sketch shows French and Saunders (1988–99), Harry Enfield's Television Program(1990–92) and Harry Enfield and Chums (1994), and for her recurring role as Magda in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–96). For her role as Valerie in the film Nil by Mouth, she won Best Actress at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Known For
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Cast Credits
RuPaul's Drag Race UK (2019)
Guest starring as Judge
- Episode 3x09: The Pearly Gates Roast (Nov 18, 2021)
Kathy Burke's All Woman (2019)
Starring as Kathy Burke
(3 episodes)
- Episode 1x03: Relationships (Aug 27, 2019)
- Episode 1x02: Motherhood (Aug 20, 2019)
- Episode 1x01: Beauty (Aug 13, 2019)
Joe Lycett's Got Your Back (2019)
Guest starring as Kathy Burke
- Episode 1x01: Kathy Burke, Ads and Banks (Apr 5, 2019)
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule (2017)
Guest starring as Kathy Burke
- Episode 1x02: Kathy Burke, Lorraine Kelly, Ainsley Harriot, Joe Lycett (Mar 9, 2017)
School of Roars (2017)
Starring as Miss Grizzlesniff
(53 episodes)
- Episode 1x52: Snowed In (May 1, 2018)
- Episode 1x51: Toys (Apr 30, 2018)
- Episode 1x50: Whizzy Worms (Apr 27, 2018)
- Episode 1x49: Marching Band (Apr 26, 2018)
- Episode 1x48: Telling Tales (Apr 25, 2018)
- Episode 1x47: Lost Property (Apr 24, 2018)
- Episode 1x46: Dragon Brigade (Apr 23, 2018)
- Episode 1x45: Fibbing (Apr 20, 2018)
- Episode 1x44: Froggy (Apr 19, 2018)
- Episode 1x43: Sports Night (Apr 18, 2018)
- Episode 1x42: Squish Squash Salad (Apr 17, 2018)
- Episode 1x41: The School Inspector (Apr 16, 2018)
- Episode 1x40: The Itchlings (Apr 13, 2018)
- Episode 1x39: Glog (Apr 12, 2018)
- Episode 1x38: Monster Joke (Apr 11, 2018)
- Episode 1x37: Teddy Monster (Apr 10, 2018)
- Episode 1x36: Oh Wingston (Apr 9, 2018)
- Episode 1x35: Painty Play Tree (Oct 6, 2017)
- Episode 1x34: Hats Off to Yummble (Oct 5, 2017)
- Episode 1x33: Stop Copying (Oct 4, 2017)
- Episode 1x32: Miss Sneezle's Birthday (Oct 3, 2017)
- Episode 1x31: My Old Scooter (Oct 2, 2017)
- Episode 1x30: Time Capsule (Sep 29, 2017)
- Episode 1x29: Monster Pet (Sep 28, 2017)
- Episode 1x28: Hoopla (Sep 27, 2017)
- Episode 1x27: Monster Book Day (Sep 26, 2017)
- Episode 1x26: Wingston Wins (Sep 25, 2017)
- Episode 1x25: Googly Glasses (May 19, 2017)
- Episode 1x24: Class Monitor (May 18, 2017)
- Episode 1x23: Monster Choir (May 17, 2017)
- Episode 1x22: A Very Important Monster (May 16, 2017)
- Episode 1x21: Funny Bones (May 15, 2017)
- Episode 1x20: Doodah (May 12, 2017)
- Episode 1x19: Full Moon (May 11, 2017)
- Episode 1x18: Dressing Up (May 10, 2017)
- Episode 1x17: Sleepover (May 9, 2017)
- Episode 1x16: Shriekend News (May 8, 2017)
- Episode 1x15: Buddy Bench (Feb 24, 2017)
- Episode 1x14: Measuring Chart (Feb 23, 2017)
- Episode 1x13: Nurse Meepa (Feb 22, 2017)
- Episode 1x12: Growling Up (Feb 21, 2017)
- Episode 1x11: Wufflebump Owns Up (Feb 20, 2017)
- Episode 1x10: Blushberry Blob Cakes (Feb 17, 2017)
- Episode 1x09: Boo (Feb 16, 2017)
- Episode 1x08: Snap (Feb 15, 2017)
- Episode 1x07: Wobbly Tooth (Feb 14, 2017)
- Episode 1x06: Get Well Soon (Feb 13, 2017)
- Episode 1x05: Monster Assembly (Feb 10, 2017)
- Episode 1x04: I Want the Human (Feb 9, 2017)
- Episode 1x03: Daddy's Late (Feb 8, 2017)
- Episode 1x02: Bestest Friends (Feb 7, 2017)
- Episode 1x01: Show and Tell (Feb 6, 2017)
- Episode S01 Special: My School Day (Oct 28, 2017)
Travel Man: 48 Hours in... (2015)
Guest starring as Kathy Burke
- Episode 1x01: Barcelona (Mar 30, 2015)
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled (2014)
Guest starring as Kathy Burke
- Episode 4x10: Cream Cakes and Pernod (Jun 20, 2016)
Duck Quacks Don't Echo (2014)
Guest starring as Kathy Burke
- Episode 1x05: Sanjeev Bhaskar, John Hannah, Kathy Burke (Mar 7, 2014)
Psychobitches (2013)
Guest starring as Mona Lisa
- Episode 1x05: Episode 5 (Jun 27, 2013)
Guest starring as Queen Mother
- Episode 2x01: Episode 1 (Nov 25, 2014)
The Last Leg (2013)
Guest starring as Kathy Burke
(5 episodes)
- Episode 18x01: Kathy Burke, Harry Hill (Oct 25, 2019)
- Episode 15x09: Kathy Burke, Sue Perkins (Dec 14, 2018)
- Episode 13x07: will.i.am, Kathy Burke (Mar 9, 2018)
- Episode 11x06: Kathy Burke (Jun 23, 2017)
- Episode 5x04: Kathy Burke, Alastair Campbell (Jan 23, 2015)
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (2012)
Guest starring as Kathy Burke
(5 episodes)
- Episode S16 Special: Christmas Special: Kathy Burke, David Mitchell, James Acaster, Joe Wilkinson (Dec 23, 2018)
- Episode S11 Special: Christmas Special: Kathy Burke, Russell Howard, Joe Lycett (Dec 24, 2016)
- Episode 7x02: Kevin Bridges, Kathy Burke, Joe Lycett (May 15, 2015)
- Episode S05 Special: Christmas Special: David Baddiel, Kathy Burke, Alex Horne and The Horne Section (Dec 29, 2014)
- Episode 3x03: Kathy Burke, Josh Widdicombe, Dara O'Briain (Jan 17, 2014)
Guest starring as Team Captain
- Episode 14x02: Kathy Burke, Roisin Conaty, Johnny Vegas, Bob Mortimer, John Cooper Clarke (Aug 25, 2017)
A Bucket o' French and Saunders (2007)
Guest starring as Kathy Burke
- Episode 1x03: Episode 3 (Sep 21, 2007)
Have I Got a Bit More News for You (2007)
Guest starring as Host
(3 episodes)
- Episode 18x06: Kathy Burke, Cathy Newman, Ross Noble (Nov 9, 2015)
- Episode 14x09: Kathy Burke, Miles Jupp, Tim Loughton (Dec 9, 2013)
- Episode 11x06: Kathy Burke, Ken Livingstone, Joe Wilkinson (May 20, 2012)
More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy (2006)
Guest starring as Kathy Burke
- Episode 1x04: Cathy Burke (Jan 31, 2007)
Parkinson (2004)
Guest starring as Kathy Burke
- Episode 4x02: Kathy Burke, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Dara O'Briain, Tim Rice, Elena Roger (Mar 11, 2006)
The Catherine Tate Show (2004)
Guest starring as Various
- Episode S03 Special: Christmas Special 2007 (Dec 25, 2007) [Special Guest Star]
Five Go Mad in the Kitchen (1999)
Guest starring as Kathy Burke
- Episode 1x03: Antony Worrall Thompson, Kathy Burke (Feb 21, 1999)
Gimme Gimme Gimme (1999)
Starring as Linda La Hughes
(19 episodes)
- Episode 3x06: Decoy (Dec 14, 2001)
- Episode 3x05: Singing in the Drain (Dec 7, 2001)
- Episode 3x04: Trauma (Nov 30, 2001)
- Episode 3x03: Secrets and Flies (Nov 23, 2001)
- Episode 3x02: Lollipop Man (Nov 9, 2001)
- Episode 3x01: Down and Out (Nov 2, 2001)
- Episode 2x06: Sofa Man (Feb 18, 2000)
- Episode 2x05: Glad to Be Gay? (Feb 11, 2000)
- Episode 2x04: Dirty Thirty (Feb 4, 2000)
- Episode 2x03: Prison Visitor (Jan 28, 2000)
- Episode 2x02: Stiff (Jan 21, 2000)
- Episode 2x01: Teacher's Pet (Jan 14, 2000)
- Episode S02 Special: Millennium (Dec 29, 1999)
- Episode 1x06: I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do (Feb 12, 1999)
- Episode 1x05: Saturday Night Diva (Feb 5, 1999)
- Episode 1x04: Do They Take Sugar? (Jan 29, 1999)
- Episode 1x03: Legs and Co (Jan 22, 1999)
- Episode 1x02: The Big Break (Jan 15, 1999)
- Episode 1x01: Who's That Boy? (Jan 8, 1999)
So Graham Norton (1998)
Guest starring as Kathy Burke
- Episode 1x01: Kathy Burke, Ivana Trump (Jul 3, 1998)
Never Mind the Buzzcocks (1996)
Guest starring as Host
- Episode 26x01: Kathy Burke, Fazer, Sarah Millican, Greg Rutherford, Mark Hoppus (Sep 24, 2012)
Guest starring as Kathy Burke
- Episode 5x01: Simon Le Bon, Karen Poole, Ian Dury, Kathy Burke (Feb 12, 1999)
The Frank Skinner Show (1995)
Guest starring as Kathy Burke
- Episode 8x04: Kathy Burke, Rufus Wainwright, George Best (Nov 4, 2004)
Harry Enfield and Chums (1994)
Starring as Various
(14 episodes)
- Episode 2x06: Episode 6 (Feb 11, 1997)
- Episode 2x05: Episode 5 (Feb 4, 1997)
- Episode 2x04: Episode 4 (Jan 28, 1997)
- Episode 2x03: Episode 3 (Jan 21, 1997)
- Episode 2x02: Episode 2 (Jan 14, 1997)
- Episode 2x01: Episode 1 (Jan 7, 1997)
- Episode 1x06: Episode 6 (Dec 16, 1994)
- Episode 1x05: Episode 5 (Dec 9, 1994)
- Episode 1x04: Episode 4 (Dec 2, 1994)
- Episode 1x03: Episode 3 (Nov 25, 1994)
- Episode 1x02: Episode 2 (Nov 11, 1994)
- Episode 1x01: Episode 1 (Nov 4, 1994)
- Episode S02 Special: Harry Enfield's Yule Log Chums (Dec 28, 1998)
- Episode S02 Special: Harry Enfield and Christmas Chums (Dec 24, 1997)
Fantasy Football League (1994)
Guest starring as Kathy Burke
- Episode 5x10: Kathy Burke, Bob Mortimer (Jun 26, 1998)
Absolutely Fabulous (1992)
Guest starring as Magda
(5 episodes)
- Episode S03 Special: The Last Shout: Part 2 (Nov 7, 1996)
- Episode 3x06: The End (May 11, 1995)
- Episode 3x05: Fear (May 4, 1995)
- Episode 2x01: Hospital (Jan 27, 1994)
- Episode 1x05: Magazine (Dec 10, 1992)
The Full Wax (1991)
Guest starring as Kathy Burke
- Episode 1x02: Katherine Helmond, Jennifer Saunders, Kathy Burke (Jan 26, 1991)
Have I Got News for You (1990)
Guest starring as Host
(3 episodes)
- Episode 50x06: Kathy Burke, Cathy Newman, Ross Noble (Nov 6, 2015)
- Episode 46x09: Kathy Burke, Miles Jupp, Tim Loughton (Dec 6, 2013)
- Episode 43x06: Kathy Burke, Ken Livingstone, Joe Wilkinson (May 18, 2012)
Guest starring as Kathy Burke
- Episode 6x06: Kathy Burke, Martin Young (Dec 3, 1993)
Comic Relief (1986)
Guest starring as Kathy Burke
(2 episodes)
- Episode 1997-03-14: Close Encounters of the Furred Kind (Mar 14, 1997)
- Episode 1995-03-17: The Night of Comic Relief (Mar 17, 1995)
Guest starring as Waynetta Slob
- Episode 1995-03-17: Harry Enfield and His Charity Chums (Mar 17, 1995)
Guest starring as Perry
- Episode 1999-03-12: The Record Breaker (Mar 12, 1999)
Guest starring as Linda
- Episode 2001-03-16: Comic Relief Presents: Big Red Nose Night (Mar 16, 2001)
The Comic Strip Presents... (1981)
Guest starring as Kathy
- Episode S02 Special: Eat the Rich (Oct 23, 1987)