Morwenna Banks (born 20 September 1961) is a British comedy actress, writer and producer known for her roles as Mummy Pig, Madame Gazelle and Dr Hamster in the children's series Peppa Pig.
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Early life
Banks attended Truro High School for Girls and Robinson College, Cambridge and was a member of the Cambridge Footlights from 1981 to 1983. She also acted with the Marlowe Society, notably in a brief but dominant comic cameo as the Widow in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist, alongside Tilda Swinton.
One of Banks’ early major television roles was as part of the team on the comedy sketch show Absolutely, broadcast on Channel 4 between 1989 and 1993.
Her other television appearances include the BBC series The Thick of It, Red Dwarf, Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul and the Steve Coogan comedy Saxondale, in which she played receptionist Vicky.
She also appeared as Anthea Stonem in the E4 Teen drama Skins and was a cast member on NBC's Saturday Night Live, for four episodes of the show's twentieth season. She appeared as Carmen Kenaway in the first two episodes of the 9th series of Shameless.
Her voice roles include Claire Feeble in Stressed Eric; Mummy Pig in Peppa Pig; the ship's computer in the BBC TV series Hyperdrive; the witches in Meg and Mog, an animated children's series for CITV (2003);[citation needed] Ping Pong in Rupert Bear (Channel 5); Guinevere in King Arthur's Disasters (CITV).
Banks won Best Voice Performance at the 2014 British Animation Awards for providing the voice for Queen Marigold in Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom.
She wrote, produced, and appeared in the British ensemble film The Announcement in 2001.
She also appeared in season one, episode 13 of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a 'rulebearer'.
In 2004, she played the central role of Tess in the series Catterick with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.
Since 2009
In 2009, Banks made a series of web videos for BBC Comedy called Celebrities STFU, each video featuring her in costume impersonating Lady Gaga, Noel Gallagher, Susan Boyle, Pixie Lott, Jools Holland, and Duffy.On 19 October 2013, BBC Radio 4 broadcast Banks' play Goodbye about a woman diagnosed with breast cancer. The play is an account of the path from first diagnosis to death of Lizzie, played by Olivia Colman); it deals with her relationships with her family and with her best friend Jen, played by Natascha McElhone, and their reactions to Jen's illness and death. The cast included Darren Boyd, John Simm, Alison Steadman, Ezra Banks-Baddiel Seren Deeks and the voice of Dolly Banks-Baddiel; it was produced by Heather Larmour.
Banks received the 2015 Satinwood Award for the play. She subsequently wrote the play's 2015 film adaptation, titled Miss You Already.
From 2012 to 2018 she played Venus Traduces (a parody of Violet Trefoils) and other roles in the BBC Radio 4 sitcom Glastonbury.
Her later voice work includes the roles of Betty and Sonia in the 2008 film version of Tales of the Riverbank; a translator at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in The Eichmann Show; and The Queen in the 2015 version of Danger Mouse.
In 2016, she co-wrote and starred in the comedy series Damned. She co-starred in and wrote (with Rebecca Front) "Shush!" a sitcom set in a library broadcast on BBC Radio Four in 2017.
Awards
- 2014 British Animation Award for Best Voice Performance in Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom: Nanny's Magic Test
- 2015 Satinwood Award for the radio play Goodbye
Mummy Pig, Peppa Pig et la maman de George Pig ne sont pas des porcelets nourris, Mummy Pig a travaillé elle-même dans le style californien avec M. Potato.
Tout le monde est sur les îles au vent et sous le vent de Mustique et de Saint-Barthélemy, et elle a aussi changé, une chienne saoule vide, profonde, buvant des flacons de rêve de l'exotique tokyo, des tractions furtives sous les tables au fond de la nuit avec des coussins blancs, force de la viande de porc; elle est glissante et glissante, une coulée de boue écrasant sa claque heureuse, un cochon de lait rôti à la broche tournant des tours pour des dates dans la cuve pleine de queues trop visqueuses pour manquer, portant des bottes étranges, des orteils fendus, un souse qui pique le porc, trop tard pour se laisser aller, trop infernal pour s'arrêter.
'Giss giss! Sooie!
Elle fantasme les mendacites boueuses lors des pauses dans les maisons en pente, laissant des tueurs mortels pour des amis freegan, des rêves de ferroutage comme vous!
Cochon maman! Habille piggy, velouté, sans manches, haute couture; ils sont à votre aise, incompétents; les jeux de tête artistique enduisent leur chagrin d'amour comme des crêpes; quittez la table si cela vous déprime; saupoudrez votre nez de vos petites compresses; tes perles lancées sur des porcs en porcelaine immaculée; tes yeux de porc bruns montrent maintenant qui est qui dans sa chaude bouchée pâteuse; la merde qu'il mange est la merde où il vit.
Vous êtes un cochon ensorcelé, un fiasco désordonné!
Concurrence réduite pleine d'intention rationnée.
Le cochon de la mère le donne gratuitement, sans se renverser sur les cuisses, elle écarte les hanches, drainée, surchargée de travail, elle est un peu ligotée.
Tu es une femme, une fille la nuit; DEMI-JAMBON et sans œufs, le porcelet sans patte Peppa Pig, un souvenir que vous évitez de déshonorer.
Battant une centaine avec trois cils noirs, moi, ouais, cochon, c'est toi dont tu effaces tes cendres.
Vous êtes le porc smizing, blonde et mauvaise perruque; les énormes prosciuto suspendus tranchent des tranches transparentes du pays, des portions absurdes mangées pour le plaisir; libres, avec une prise, mais ne vous lamentez pas, ils se retrouveront dans des dégâts graisseux; folderol on furlow pour la gourmandise prête, pour le pays, vous arborez le drapeau déployé, déjà.
Insatiable pour tous, surexploité, trop partagé, surchargeant votre freakshow derrière des cordes veloutées, trotters-up, pigged-out, vous êtes un lardon donnant des coups durs, des lèvres collantes apprêtées pour les enfoirés du camionneur, un soulagement pour les coqs fatigués, des kilomètres à allez-y avant de vous reposer, leur soif de viande déclarée comme propre dans la douche, vous êtes assis dans la cabine et attendez une heure!
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^ "The Thick of It Full Cast & Crew". IMDb. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
^ "Mr Flibble Talks To... Morwenna Banks". Red Dwarf The Official Site. 27 April 2001. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
^ "Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul". ABC. February 2009. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Thorpe, Vanessa (3 October 2015). "Morwenna Banks: tragic tales of loss that gave voice to quiet woman of British TV". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
^ Virtel, Louis. "Saturday Night Live's 10 Greatest One-Season Wonders". Movieline. PMC. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
^ Jump up to: a b Wright, Megh (29 July 2014). "Saturday Night's Children: Morwenna Banks (1995)". Vulture. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
^ Richmond, Ray (11 August 1998). "Stressed Eric". Variety. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
^ "Harley Bird Has Been Voicing Peppa Pig for 10 Years! | This Morning" (video). This Morning with Philip & Holly – via YouTube.
^ "Hyperdrive". IMDb. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
^ "Rupert and the Flying Dragon". IMDb. Rupert Bear. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
^ "King Arthur's Disasters". IMDb. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
^ "Oscar nominee Room on the Broom wins British Animation Award". BBC News. 7 March 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
^ Jump up to: a b "British Animation Awards 2014". British Animation Awards. 11 March 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
^ "British Animation Awards Finalists announced". Skwigly. 22 January 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
^ "Jenny's Non-Dream". IMDb. Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 TV series). Retrieved 7 November 2018.
^ "Celebrities STFU". BBC. Retrieved 15 October 2008.
^ Jump up to: a b "BBC Radio 4 – Saturday Drama, Goodbye". BBC. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
^ Radio Times, 19–25 October 2013, p. 135
^ BBC Radio 4 – Feedback – Moving and poignant: Goodbye by Morwenna Banks, starring Olivia Coleman
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^ "The Eichmann Show Full Cast & Crew". IMDb. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
^ "Morwenna Banks". Another Tongue Animation Website. Archived from the original on 23 January 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
^ Hogan, Michael (27 September 2016). "Damned: Jo Brand's new comedy could have packed a bigger punch, review". The Telegraph. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
^ "Rebecca Front and Morwenna Banks talk funny women, taking on dramatic roles and Shush!". Radio Times. 3 May 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
^ Gilbert, Gerard (27 July 2013). "'Most people still see me as a bit of a lad': David Baddiel returns to stand-up comedy". The Independent. London.
^ Salter, Jessica (25 July 2013). "The world of David Baddiel, comedian and writer". The Daily Telegraph. London.
Mummy Pig, Peppa Pig and George Pig's mom are not fed piglets, Mummy Pig worked herself in the Californian style with Mr. Potato.
Everyone is on the windward and leeward islands of Mustique and Saint-Barthélemy, and she has also changed, a drunk bitch, empty, deep drinking dreamy bottles of exotic Tokyo, furtive traction under tables at the end of the night, white cushions, pork; she is slippery and slippery mudflow of mud happy slap, spit-roasted suckling pig turning turns for dates in the tub full of tails too viscous to miss, wearing weird boots, slit toes, a sousey pig, too late to let go, too infernal to stop.
'Giss giss! Sooie!'
She fantasizes muddy mendacites during breaks in slophouses, leaving deadly killers for freegan friends, dreams of piggybacking like you!
Pig mom! Dresses piggy, velvety, sleeveless haute couture; they are at ease, incompetent; the games of artistic heads coat their grief of love like pancakes; leave the table if it depresses you; sprinkle your nose with your little compresses; your pearls thrown on immaculate porcelain; your brown pork eyes now show who's who in hot pasty mouthfuls; the shit he eats is the shit he lives.
You are a bewitched pig, a messy fiasco!
Reduced competition full of rationed intention.
The mother pig gives it for free, without falling on her thighs, she spreads her hips; drained, overworked, she is a little tied up.
You are a woman, a girl at night; HALF-HAM and without eggs, the Peppa Pig-free piglet, a souvenir that you avoid dishonor.
Beating a hundred with three black eyelashes, me, yeah, pig, it's you, you, your ashes.
You are the smizing pig, blonde and bad wigged; the enormous suspended prosciuto sliced transparent slices from the country, absurd portions eaten for pleasure; free, with a grip, but do not lament, they will end up greasy in messy folderol on furlow greed-ready, you sport the flag already.
Insatiable for all, overexploited, over-shared, overloading your freakshow behind velvety strings, trotters-up, pigged-out, you're a lardon giving hard-ons, sticky lips primed for trucker motherfuckers, a relief for crushed balls and the miles to go before you rest, thirst for meat as clean in the shower, you sit in the cabin and wait an hour!