Jess Robinson

Jess Robinson (born 1 February 1983 in London), is an English comedy actor, singer and impressionist.

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Robinson started out in theatre and trained at The Arts Educational School, Tring Park as a singer. She played Little Voice in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, by Jim Cartwright, at the Courtyard Theatre. Her role included imitating the voices of Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf and Julie Andrews. Geraldine McNulty appeared as her mother, Marie Hoff.

She then went on to perform in the last two series of Dead Ringers on BBC2. She occasionally appeared as an impressionist but mostly played characters in various sketches to support the stars; Jan Ravens, Jon Culshaw, Mark Perry, Kevin Connelly, and Phil Cornwell.

In the Dead Ringers CBBC spin off 'Spoof!' (part of the Gina's Laughing Gear comedy pilot season), Robinson appeared as Supernanny, Charlotte Church, Konnie Huq and Billie Piper among others. Other appearances include the CBBC talent show The Slammer as part of an impressions double act and as a special guest on Blue Peter.

Robinson provided female impressions on Headcases, an animated satirical show similar to Spitting Image, which appeared on ITV from April to June 2008 on Sunday evenings.

In 2009, she appeared as a number of characters in several Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio plays.

Robinson's TV appearances include Scoop and Comedy Cuts for ITV2 and Gigglebiz.

Robinson appeared in various sketches in the first two series of The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson. In 2010, director Angie De Chastelai Smith collaborated with producer Charlie Hanson at ITV to make It's Paul Burling! in which Robinson co-starred as the main female impressionist. Her impressions included Cheryl Cole, Stacey Solomon and Kerry Katona. The show, which aired in December 2010 to a television audience of 3.7 million viewers, was a one-hour Christmas special on ITV following Burling's success on talent show BGT.

On Radio, Robinson was part of Newsjack for BBC Radio 7. Robinson has also recorded numerous episodes of 15 Minute Musical, The Castle, The Secret World, and radio sitcom, The Music Teacher

In late 2012, she reprised the role of Little Voice in the UK touring production of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, alongside a cast including Beverly Callard, Joe McGann and Ray Quinn.

She participated in the eleventh series of Britain's Got Talent and made her way through to the live semi finals. However, she did not reach the top 3 of the semi finals, but was topped to 4th place.

In 2017, Robinson became a voice artist on the CBBC mockumentary The Zoo.