Absolutely Fabulous Edina's comparatively mild self-destructive behaviour. Despite being a middle-aged, twice-divorced career woman, Edina is reliant upon the support of her daughter Saffron (Julia Sawalha), a secondary school pupil (and later university student) whose constant care of her mother has left her a bitter cynic. The series also stars June Whitfield as Edina's sarcastic and thieving mother, and Jane Horrocks as Edina's brainless personal assistant. In 2000, the show was ranked number 17 on the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes by the British Film Institute. "Absolutely Fabulous" returned for three special episodes which were originally aired on 25 December 2011, 1
Jane Horrocks In October 2014, Horrocks played Ella Khan in the London revival of East is East at Trafalgar Studios as part of Jamie Lloyd's Trafalgar Transformed season. On 9 May 2015 she gave a reading at in Horse Guards Parade, London that was broadcast live on BBC1. In 2015 she supplied the voice of the Tubby Phone in the reboot of the popular British children's television series "Teletubbies". Horrocks lives with playwright Nick Vivian in Twickenham with their children, son Dylan and daughter Molly. Jane Horrocks Barbara Jane Horrocks (born 18 January 1964) is an English actress, voice artist, musician and