Ruth Jones - TV.com Ruth Jones EDIT Ruth Jones is best known for her comedic roles as Myfanwy the barmaid in Little Britain and as Nessa in Gavin And Stacey (a show which she co-writes with James Corden).

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Choose background: Margaret John obituary | Television & radio | The Guardian Margaret John obituary Welsh actor known for her role in the TV sitcom Gavin & Stacey Margaret John as the foul-mouthed pensioner Doris with Larry Lamb as Mick in Gavin & Stacey. Photograph: Baby Cow Sunday 6 February 2011 13.19 EST First published on Sunday 6 February 2011 13.19 EST Share on Messenger Close The role of the foul-mouthed, toyboy-obsessed pensioner Doris in Gavin & Stacey brought Margaret John, who has died aged 84, a whole new legion of fans. Doris was the south Wales widow who lived next door to Gwen (Melanie Walters), whose daughter Stacey (Joanna Page) was conducting a long-distance relationship with the Essex-based Gavin (Mathew Horne), before they eventually married. The actor relished Doris's colourful one liners as she propositioned Gavin ("I'm very open-minded and discreet") and gave Stacey advice on how far to go on a date ("A kiss, a cuddle, a cheeky finger").

Written by James Corden and Ruth Jones, who also played Smithy and Nessa in the sitcom, Gavin & Stacey's rise from BBC Three to BBC One, via BBC Two, over three series (2007-2010), owed much to the part played by John and other supporting actors as well the two stars and "names" such as Rob Brydon and Alison Steadman. It consolidated the "national treasure" tag that had become attached to John in her native Wales after her previous roles as the mother and one-time stripper Elsie Hepplewhite ("Mam") in the BBC Wales sitcom High Hopes (2002-08) and a lesbian pensioner shocking even Matt Lucas's "only gay in the village" in a 2005 episode of Little Britain. Such performances brought her comedy talents to the fore. "I think I'm stereotyped at the moment, but I love it," she said two years ago. "I've spent all my career crying, moaning and suffering.

I was always losing husbands and children!" Born in Swansea, south Wales, John acted with the local Welsh drama society and the repertory company at the city's Grand Theatre, before training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She made her television debut in a 1956 Welsh-language drama, but was more prominent as Bronwen in a BBC adaptation of How Green Was My Valley (1960). There followed many bit-parts, frequently as mothers, in programmes such as Z Cars (1967). The actor also had regular roles as Aunt Madge in the children's serial Badger's Bend (1963) and alongside Thora Hird, who played a crusading local councillor, in The First Lady (1968-69). The following decade, as well as landing character parts in Play for Today productions (1974 and 1975), New Scotland Yard (1974) and Blakes 7 (1978), John became a regular with the impressionist Mike Yarwood in his television show sketches (1976-77).

She also had a semi-regular role in the soap opera Crossroads as the kindly Marian Owen (1978-85), doctors' receptionist. For the first two series of District Nurse (1984), she played Gwen Harris. In old age, John was busier than ever. High Hopes followed a 1999 pilot, then she played a bingo-playing pensioner, Kay, in the sitcom Eyes Down (2003-04), with Paul O'Grady as the hall manager. She switched back to drama to take the title role in Tea and Biscuits with Maggie Pritchard (2004-05), about a lonely, 80-year-old widow in a tower-block flat. Then, it was back to comedy, as Nanatoo in a 2005 episode of the fantasy series The Mighty Boosh. Wider fame as Doris in Gavin & Stacey led John to be cast in further outlandish roles, such as the kinky grandmother in the low-budget, spoof Welsh valleys comedy film A Bit of Tom Jones? (2009).

She also acted Thandie Newton's grandmother in the David Schwimmer-directed film Run Fatboy Run (2007). Over a long television career, John had five roles in Dixon of Dock Green (1967-75) and two, 38 years apart, in Doctor Who (1968 and 2006). Just last month, John appeared in the Welsh channel S4C's drama Alys, and she is still to be seen in the American medi- eval fantasy series Game of Thrones (2011), starring Sean Bean. The actor – who often wore steel-rimmed spectacles in later life – was presented with the Bafta Cymru lifetime achievement award two years ago. In 1975, John married Ben Thomas, a violinist in the London Symphony Orchestra who had also performed with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, but he died of cancer three years later.

• Margaret John, actor, born 15 December 1926; died 2 February 2011 Gavin & Stacey - streaming tv series online Comedy, Drama, Romance Synopsis Gavin & Stacey is a British comedy television series sitcom that follows the long-distance relationship of Gavin from Billericay in Essex, England, and Stacey from Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The writers of the show, actors James Corden and Ruth Jones, also co-star as Gavin and Stacey's friends Smithy and Nessa. Other prominent cast members include Rob Brydon, Alison Steadman, Larry Lamb and Melanie Walters. The show was produced by Baby Cow Productions for BBC Wales. It ran for a total of 20 episodes, broadcasting between 13 May 2007 to 1 January 2010, comprising three series and a Christmas special. Initially, the series was shown on digital-only channel BBC Three, but a growing following meant that it was subsequently moved to BBC Two, and finally BBC One.

The last episodes of the final series formed a significant part of the prime time BBC seasonal programming, and were broadcast on Christmas Day 2009 and New Year's Day 2010. Gavin & Stacey was acclaimed as a hit breakthrough show for BBC Three, becoming the most nominated show in the 2007 British Comedy Awards. To date it has won several awards, including the British Academy Television Awards Audience Award, and the British Comedy Awards Best TV Comedy Award, both in 2008. The programme has also been well received in several other countries in which it has aired. Gavin & Stacey - watch online: stream, buy or rent Currently you are able to watch "Gavin & Stacey" streaming on Netflix or buy it as download on Google Play Movies, Amazon Instant Video, PlayStation, Wuaki, Microsoft Store, Talk Talk TV. Ruth Jones and James Corden on Gavin & Stacey | Stage | The Guardian Share on Messenger Close With the likes of Steve Coogan , Peter Kay and Julia Davis queuing up to sing its praises, Ruth Jones and James Corden are still getting their heads around the popularity of their cult comedy series.

Here, the pair behind Gavin & Stacey tell Amy Raphael why they feel 'on the outside, looking in at their great big bloody stash of awards'. At a certain point last year, life became a little surreal for Ruth Jones and James Corden . One afternoon Jones was in a cafe in Cardiff with a friend when her mobile rang. It was a withheld number but she answered anyway. And there was Peter Kay, a stranger till that moment, enthusing about Gavin & Stacey, and explaining how he'd been busy buying DVDs of the first series to distribute among friends. The same day, Corden also got a call from Kay. 'He said Gavin & Stacey was the show he enjoyed watching most since The Royle Family. I love Peter Kay. I'd just read his book on holiday. I didn't know what to say.' Jones and Corden talk about Kay as though they exist on a quite different plane to the phenomenally successful comedian. And yet in the past six months Gavin & Stacey, the series they co-created, co-wrote and co-starred in, has not only won in three categories at the British Comedy Awards but also impressively beat Hot Fuzz to Best Comedy at the South Bank Show Awards.

It seems that the simplest, most traditional story - boy meets girl and marries her - still has currency. Especially when told with great charm, warmth and enough of a dark side deftly to avoid sentimentality. When the first series of Gavin & Stacey aired on BBC3 last May, it was the cast that immediately impressed - among them Alison Steadman and Rob Brydon - but it quickly became clear that Jones and Corden, writing together for the first time, had also made a smart move with the script. They had written a beautifully observed comedy that wasn't trying to be clever or modern or elite. It avoided excessive expletives. It wasn't nasty. The central story, in which Essex boy Gavin (Mathew Horne) and Stacey (Joanna Page), from Barry Island, Wales, finally meet in London after only talking on the phone, is warm and sweet but carefully balanced by an edgy subplot. Gavin and Stacey bring their best mates along to the date: Smithy (Corden) is loud, vulgar, occasionally charming and scared of love; Nessa (Jones) is tattooed and likes a pint of wine.

By the end of the series, Gavin and Stacey are married and Nessa is pregnant with Smithy's child. Jones, 41, and Corden, 29, both won Best Comedy Newcomer (female and male) at the British Comedy Awards last December. Yet both have had a strong presence in comedy since the turn of the century. They met on the long-running ITV series Fat Friends in 2000 and have since built up their own individual pedigree. Jones appeared in Human Remains, the brilliant, disturbing series starring Rob Brydon and Julia Davis. She then played the grotesque beautician Linda in Davis's strange but compelling Nighty Night before crossing over to the mainstream as Myfanwy in Little Britain, the barmaid burdened with endlessly telling Matt Lucas's Daffyd that he's not the only gay in the village. She's since been in both series of Saxondale as Magz, devoted girlfriend of Steve Coogan's Tommy. Corden has a more theatrical background: his first role was in the Shane Meadows film Twenty Four Seven and he subsequently appeared in Mike Leigh's All or Nothing as the fat young guy who has a heart attack.

He was in Cruise of the Gods with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and David Walliams and, most famously, in the stage and screen version of The History Boys. By the time Jones and Corden began to talk about writing together in series three of Fat Friends, they were able to create parts with certain actors in mind - though both insist they were terrified when Alison Steadman (who was in Fat Friends), Rob Brydon (who was two years above Jones at school in South Wales), Matt Lucas and Julia Davis were reading the script. I first meet Jones and Corden in November, a few weeks before the British Comedy Awards. Both are still surprised that everyone, from Steadman to Davis, eagerly agreed to be in Gavin & Stacey. 'Julia told me she wished she'd written the script herself and I was... amazed,' says Jones. Corden joins in: 'I still don't feel like a writer. I barely feel like an actor. Ultimately, we feel fraudulent, even now.' We are in a bland, airless meeting room at the London offices of Baby Cow, Steve Coogan's production company (which is behind Gavin & Stacey).

When Corden walked into the room, shortly after Jones, she showered him with a bowl of tiny boiled sweets. Both then quickly got down on their hands and knees to clear up. They explain how this became a ritual when they were stuck in this very room writing the second series of Gavin & Stacey. Corden laughs. 'We always used to say that if we were The Mighty Boosh, we'd leave the sweets on the floor,' he says. I ask if they remember the first conversation they had about what was to become Gavin & Stacey. 'When we were on Fat Friends we used to talk about Wales and how the Welsh speak, because James used to go to Barry quite a lot,' says Jones. Corden explains how he went to a wedding there with an old girlfriend and watched the day playing out in front of him like a film. 'I realised that fictional accounts of weddings are never like the real thing. Nothing happened at the wedding, and yet everything happened. That's the sort of stuff that really excites me from an acting and writing point of view. It's why I'm such a huge fan of Mike Leigh's work: it's all about finding the extraordinary in the ordinary.' He pauses, unwraps a boiled sweet.

'I don't ever understand why people need to make stuff up, because it's all there in front of us. Two people falling in love is more amazing to me than Keanu Reeves being Neo in The Matrix.' Corden constantly has ideas but rarely does anything with them. 'I get so annoyed with him,' says Jones. 'But this time, when he told me about the wedding and we started to make all these peripheral characters up, we had to write it down.' Until the BBC insisted on expanding it into a series, Gavin & Stacey had been a one-hour, semi-improvised drama called It's My Day. Jones shows me the original treatment; based around the friends and families of Gavin West and Stacey Shipman (neither related to mass murderers as far as we know), it shows how the comedy evolved from being slightly crude to the sleek, sophisticated version that finally appeared on television. Jones and Corden had fun writing the treatment but neither took it seriously. 'We couldn't have been more casual,' says Corden. 'It was like playing dress-up,' explains Jones. 'We did all the voices ourselves, we acted out every scene.

James always particularly liked being Pam [Gavin's mother, played by Steadman].' In some ways, Ruth Jones and James Corden are the odd couple of modern British comedy. They are not such obvious kindred spirits as Little Britain's Matt Lucas and David Walliams, or even compatible in their strangeness like The Mighty Boosh's Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt. The age gap is only relevant in that they are at different stages of life; Jones lives in Cardiff with her producer husband and three stepchildren, while Corden lives in Buckinghamshire and is single. It's more a case of clashing personalities. Corden is fiercely bright but distracted by the allure of celebrity, while Jones is considered, thoughtful and far less likely to show off. Not without ambition herself, she is, however, apparently happy to take a back seat to her creative partner's larger-than-life personality. Shortly before meeting Jones and Corden, I watched them on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. Corden came across as supremely self-confident. I suggest now that he is a cocky little bugger. Jones laughs; Corden can't get his words out fast enough. 'Oh yeah. Listen.

I flip, sometimes hourly, between being arrogant and self-doubting. There's definitely a part of me that shouldn't be on a show like that, but then why be on television if you don't believe that people will pay to be entertained by you?' He stops. 'It's horrible sometimes.' Who for? 'For me. For everyone. I'm well aware I'm doing it. It's the same when I co-present Big Brother's Big Mouth with Mat [Horne]. If you don't step up like a boxer, you're fucked. It was the same with The History Boys. I turned up at the National Theatre on the first day thinking, "I've never done a play. Shit." But I gave myself a pep talk: "Be yourself and you'll be fine." And I never felt funnier or more creative...' Jones smiles at Corden.

'I've noticed that he's got two laughs: one which is James as the self-confident person we know and love, the other, slightly high-pitched, which comes out when he's feeling more vulnerable.' Corden is still frowning: 'I don't think I came across as a cocky little bugger on Jonathan Ross.' Jones reassures: 'Surely there's a difference between cocky and lively and entertaining. I didn't think you were cocky.' Corden now has his head in his hands: 'Fucking hell. I can be awful, but I wasn't on that show.' Oh dear. Momentarily I seem to have forgotten that all funny people are tormented by demons of insecurity and self-doubt. I really like Corden and Jones, both as performers and people. I certainly didn't think comments like 'supreme self-confidence' and 'cocky little bugger' would move Corden to tears, but here he is with wet eyes. 'If I was genuinely arrogant, I wouldn't care what you were saying. But I'm not and I do. It's all just bravado. We were petrified that day. Terrified.

It was Jonathan Ross!' I move on to how they write together. 'It just works,' says Corden. 'I don't think I could write anything without Ruth. I'll often come with an idea and Ruth will make it better or twist it in a different way. My ideas would die without her. And I can't type!' Jones laughs: 'Or spell. We're like a Venn diagram and we have this central bit that overlaps. We're both big softies.' Finally, Corden's huge grin returns. 'I'm the biggest softie in the world! We both have a sense of family and a belief in the way we think people should treat each other. We're both romantic. In fact, I'm disgustingly romantic. But to go back to the writing process for a moment: we are obsessed with the tiny details of dialogue. There was a line in series two where Nessa is talking about Smithy: "I barely know the man and what I do know about him, I don't like." I sent Ruth a text suggesting we change "man" to "boy". She replied saying "or to kid".

It's a tiny adjustment but it changes the sentence completely.' Corden says that even with the second series they didn't feel they were writing for an audience. They still 'played dress-up'. When I ask about influences, Corden says, 'We never set out to write a show like any other show because we never set out to write a show.' Yet I don't think he's being blasé; the pair clearly put in the hours on Gavin & Stacey, but because they write well together it's more like fun than a hard, dull slog. I point out that in the treatment there's a very clear statement of intent: 'This is Mike Leigh meets The Royle Family meets Marion & Geoff. It isn't a spoof documentary.' Corden is nodding furiously. 'For me, The Royle Family changed everything. It was the best show I'd ever seen. And then The Office came along. I cared about every single person in The Royle Family. I cared about Tim and Dawn's relationship in The Office. I cared about a lot of the guys in Phoenix Nights. And even Del Boy and Rodney before Only Fools and Horses went a bit shit. As a viewer, you invest in these people.

And that's what Ruth and I wanted to do: make a show that people would care about.' They also wanted to make a show that was warm and gentle but not inoffensive and dull. It's certainly what Gavin & Stacey's fans seem to respond to, including Baby Cow boss Steve Coogan. He told Jones he loved the fact that the characters are shown in a room laughing together, yet no one is the butt of someone else's joke. 'He loved the lack of cynicism most of all.' Corden adds that they are writing about what they know. 'We mostly still live in the world we write about. On the whole, neither of us is falling into swimming pools in Los Angeles. Mostly because we haven't been invited...' 'Mostly,' says Jones, 'because we'd both make far too much of a splash!' On set in Wales the following day, Rob Brydon, who plays Stacey's gadget-obsessed and possibly homosexual Uncle Bryn, says he was constantly telling Jones and Corden to knock out the expletives.

'They had created a wonderfully funny show that was edgy but accessible, but there were a couple of "fucks" and a line about giving the cheeky finger in the first series, which meant you couldn't watch it with children. Take those out and we can all watch a sharp show that works on a few levels.' Brydon also takes credit for encouraging Jones not to abandon acting. 'We were big friends at school; we were part of the drama crowd. Ruth was very talented, she had something. We both met Julia [Davis] at a comedy improv group in Bath and later Ruth joined a comedy troupe I was part of at BBC Wales in the late Eighties. I remember having a coffee with her after that and she said it just wasn't happening for her. I told her to keep at it because she's so good. Little did I know that, years later, she'd be writing the part of Uncle Bryn for me. Or, for that matter, that she'd be writing it with James, who played my son in Cruise of the Gods...' The morning's scenes take place in a small hospital just outside Cardiff.

Nessa is about to give birth and there are endless rehearsals in which Smithy, Gavin, Stacey, Pam, Mick (Gavin's father, played by Larry Lamb), Gwen (Stacey's mother, played by Melanie Walters) and Bryn rush into the labour ward. A remarkably real-looking dummy baby, which Corden calls 'Gollum', is later replaced by a live one who manages to cry on cue. Whether or not Smithy takes to fatherhood or not, no one will reveal, and I have to leave before finding out. When I talk to Jones and Corden again, earlier this month. Jones is locked away at home in Cardiff, writing scripts for the BBC. She has placed her Female Comedy Newcomer award on the bookshelf that everyone has to pass on their way to the kitchen. Corden, however, ran off with the South Bank award. When I talk to him on the phone, he is in a harness, wearing an all-in-one Lycra suit, making a pilot for a studio sitcom called Hey Hey We're the Monks. He can't decide whether or not to worry about series two of Gavin & Stacey; all those awards mean it has to be even stronger than series one.

'Oh man!' he moans, but that might be in response to the Lycra suit. Jones and Corden have already been signed up to write a big-budget show for the BBC, though they aren't allowed to be more specific. Soon, I say, they'll be up there with Peter Kay. Corden is quick to answer. 'That would be great, but we don't class ourselves as comedians - we're actors. So we don't feel as though we're part of that cynical comedyland where everyone is looking over their shoulder to see who's about to win the Perrier. We're immune to all that. Yet... it feels nice to somehow be part of it.' On the outside, looking in? 'Yeah, on the outside, looking at our great big bloody stash of awards!' And there are his two laughs, making him sound self-confident yet vulnerable, inextricably mixed together. · The entire first series of Gavin & Stacey will be broadcast on BBC2 on 1 March. The second series will start on BBC3 in mid-March Stella (TV Series 2012– ) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title.

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Stars: Hugh Dennis, Claire Skinner, Tyger Drew-Honey Edit Storyline A series set in the fictional village of Pontyberry in the South Wales Valleys centered on the lives of a single mother in her forties, who earns a living doing the locals' ironing, and her family and friends. 6 January 2012 (UK) See more » Also Known As: The title song is "And then she smiles" by The Mock Turtles See more » Connections (leeds) – See all my reviews I have watched every single episode of the comedy Stella and i saved the series to watch again and again i have watched Ruth Jones in Gavin and Stacey but i think this has been a fantastic series. Ruth Jones is a fabulous writer things that all families can relate to that is why this series is so popular and i hope she writes another series as this has been fun from start to finish this is how life really is for some people and its a pity there is not more programs like this on TV So Ruth please please lets have some more i am upset to think that my Friday nights of waiting to watch are over its such a shame please write some more and let us no when a new series will be coming out?????????????

4 of 4 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Ruth Jones (10PHOTO) | Trending Topics Trending Topics Written by Adadha.com Ruth Alexandra Elizabeth Jones , MBE (born 22 September 1966) is a Welsh television actress and writer. She co-starred in and co-wrote the award-winning British comedy Gavin & Stacey and has appeared in many television comedies and dramas, such as Jimmy McGovern’s The Street with Timothy Spall (2009), and starring as Hattie Jacques in Hattie for BBC Four. She takes the lead role in the comedy drama series Stella for Sky 1 in which the series is produced by Tidy, the company she co-founded in 2008 with her husband David Peet, who is managing director. Early life Ruth Jones was born on 22 September 1966 in Bridgend in South Wales. Ruth went to Porthcawl Comprehensive School. Her father was a legal executive for British Steel, Port Talbot, and her mother was a child psychiatrist. She has two older brothers and a younger sister.

Jones was brought up in Porthcawl where she attended the same school as Rob Brydon. After graduating from Warwick University with a degree in English and Theatre, she spent a year at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff. After graduation Jones found it difficult to get acting work, and considered training as a solicitor. However she then received her first professional role in pantomime in Cardiff. She was also helped by Rob Brydon, who invited her to join an improv group in Bath; the group also included Julia Davis, with whom Jones would later appear in Nighty Night. Career She first worked in TV and radio comedy for BBC Wales in 1991. Theatre roles with the RSC and The National Theatre were followed by her performance in the hit British movie, East Is East. After this Jones appeared on television as Kelly in four series of ITV’s comedy Fat Friends, where she met future Gavin & Stacey co-writer James Corden. She also appeared in several BBC comedies, playing Myfanwy in Little Britain, Magz in Saxondale, and Linda in Nighty Night.

Jones achieved prominence in 2008 with the BBC sitcom Gavin & Stacey, which she co-wrote with James Corden. and in which she took a lead role as Nessa Jenkins. The programme became a hit for BBC 3 and moved to BBC 1. Jones has said of it, “It wasn’t as deliberate as us saying, ‘Right, we’re going to react against cynical comedy’. We just wrote what we wanted. And it just so happens that the show does generate a lot of warmth. People seem to like that, especially when things aren’t terribly jolly. It’s nice to have your cockles warmed.” The series won a number of awards, including two BAFTAs and four British Comedy Awards. Jones and co-star Rob Brydon recorded “Islands in the Stream” (a song performed by their characters in the programme) as a single for Comic Relief in 2009; the song reached No. 1 in the chart.

In 2008 Jones narrated the 2008 TV movie Chaos at the Zoo about Anna Ryder Richardson’s Manor House Wildlife Park.The same year she featured in the two BBC One television period costume dramas, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Little Dorrit, as well as two episodes of The Street. In December 2009 Jones starred in A Child’s Christmases In Wales. In 2010 she starred in BBC Four comedy The Great Outdoors alongside Mark Heap, and in December presented a one-off chat show on BBC Two, Ruth Jones’ Christmas Cracker. In January 2011 she starred as Carry On actor Hattie Jacques in BBC Four drama Hattie, which tells the story of Jacques’ affair with her young driver John Schofield while she was married to Dad’s Army actor John Le Mesurier. In 2008, Jones co-founded Tidy Productions with producer David Peet. The company produced the series Jones presented on BBC Radio Wales in 2008-9, Ruth Jones’ Sunday Brunch.In 2010, the company had comedy and light entertainment production credits with BBC Two and BBC Three.

It has made two 90-minute comedy dramas for S4C and light entertainment shows for BBC Wales. Jones’s company has also produced the comedy drama Stella for Sky TV. The first series aired in 2012. It was Jones’ first major comedy project since Gavin and Stacey; as well as producing, Jones created the series, stars in the title role, and wrote four episodes. Jones has stated that she was worried about comparisons to Gavin and Stacey when setting a second programme in Wales, leading to the decision to set Stella in the Valleys rather than the South Wales coast: ‘I know people from the Valleys and it is just a joyously colourful place and full of characters. My sister is actually a GP up there and the stories are fantastic.’A second series of Stella was filmed in summer 2012 and aired in early 2013. She lives in Cardiff with her producer husband David Peet, whom she met while working on a comedy pilot in the early 1990s. She has three grown-up step-children, Fiona, Louise and Alex.

Since October 2015, Jones along with Ben Miller and Will Close, appears in adverts for British supermarket Tesco as Jo with Miller as her husband Roger and Close as their son Freddie. Recognition and awards Jones was judged the Best Female Comedy Newcomer at the 2007 British Comedy Awards, and was also nominated for Best Television Comedy Actress. She was also recipient of the Ultimate Funny Woman award at the annual Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women Of The Year Awards in November 2009. In July 2013 Jones received an honorary degree from the University of Warwick. Jones was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to entertainment. Filmography

Question: Ruth Jones played which part in 'Gavin and Stacey' on television?
Answer: Nessa Jenkins