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win that she made no plans to attend the ceremony; when told shortly beforehand she had won, she found her passport was out of date.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 & Perry Go Large rated the film 3 out of 5 stars. "Radio Times" also gave the film 3 stars out of 5, whilst the BBC rated the film 4 stars out of 5. Mark Sinker of the British Film Institute reviewed the film, saying ""Go Large" is an amiable roll through vomit, poo and erections, public-humiliation and hating-your-parents gags, working through the most obvious permutations and a scatter of clever ones. Fans of Harry Enfield and Kathy Burke's characters get pretty much what they are after. Their foray beyond the television-skit format of "Harry Enfield and Chums" cheerfully enters the revolting world of