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Tracey Ullman at the 1990 Emmy Awards
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Trace Ullman 30 December 1959 Slough, Buckinghamshire, England |
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Years active | 1980–present | |
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Net worth | £77 million (2015) | |
Spouse(s) | Allan McKeown (m. 1983; wid. 2013) | |
Children | 2 | |
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Years active | 1983–1985 | |
Labels | Stiff | |
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Tracey Ullman (born Trace Ullman; 30 December 1959) is a multiple award-winning television, stage, and film actress who performs as a comedian, singer and dancer, as well as works as a screenwriter, producer, director, author, and businesswoman. She holds dual British and American citizenship.
Her earliest appearances were on British television sketch comedy shows A Kick Up the Eighties (with Rik Mayall and Miriam Margolyes) and Three of a Kind (with Lenny Henry and David Copperfield). After a brief singing career, she appeared as Candice Valentine in Girls on Top with Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.
She emigrated from the United Kingdom to the United States where she starred in her own network television comedy series, The Tracey Ullman Show, from 1987 until 1990. She later produced programmes for HBO, including Tracey Takes On... (1996–99), for which she garnered numerous awards. Her sketch comedy series, Tracey Ullman's State of the Union, ran from 2008 to 2010 on Showtime. She has also appeared in several feature films. Ullman was the first British woman to be offered her own television sketch show in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Since 2016, she stars in her own BBC sketch comedy show Tracey Ullman's Show, her first project for the broadcaster in over thirty years.