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win that she made no plans to attend the ceremony; when told shortly beforehand she had won, she found her passport was out of date.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
Kathy Burke "Little Crackers" would be turned into a four-part series, "Walking and Talking", written by Burke. Burke appeared as a nun in each of the episodes. The series aired in the summer of 2012 on Sky Atlantic. In 2011, Burke played Connie Sachs in the film adaptation of the novel "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy". She was long-listed for a BAFTA nomination for her performance as Supporting Actress in 2012. Burke appeared in the 2015 Peter Pan prequel film, "Pan", as Mother Barnabas. In November 2015 Burke presented the BBC topical news panel show "Have I Got News for You. Kathy Burke