Kathy Burke Burke won the Best Actress award at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival for her role in the gritty drama "Nil by Mouth". Burke was so convinced she would not win that she made no plans to attend the ceremony; when told shortly beforehand she had won, she found her passport was out of date. The film also earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Since then she has appeared as Perry in "Kevin & Perry Go Large", and as Linda La Hughes in "Gimme Gimme Gimme" (which she developed with writer Jonathan Harvey) where she
Kevin McAleer Whitworth is a self-employed artist and a vocal instructor for community choirs in Omagh and Enniskillen. Kevin McAleer Kevin McAleer (born 1956) is an Irish professional stand-up comedian. He came to prominence on the RTÉ television show "Nighthawks" which began broadcasting in the late 1980s. McAleer became known for his three-minute sketches of surreal rustic tales told in his slow County Tyrone drawl. One critic said that McAleer ""put the dead back into deadpan"". His is currently touring his latest one man comedy show entitled 'Kevin McAleer-Guru' and played the part of boring Uncle Colm in 'Derry Girls' on Channel