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Victoria Wood

Victoria Wood
CBE
Victoria Wood.jpg
Wood in Laos while filming an appeal for
the Mines Advisory Group, 2010
Born (1953-05-19)19 May 1953
Prestwich, Lancashire, England
Died 20 April 2016(2016-04-20) (aged 62)
Highgate, London, England
Medium
  • Comedian
  • actress
  • singer-songwriter
  • screenwriter
  • director
Nationality British
Years active 1974–2015
Genres
Spouse Geoffrey Durham
(m. 1980; div. 2002)
Children 2

Victoria Wood CBE (19 May 1953 – 20 April 2016) was an English comedian, actress, singer and songwriter, screenwriter and director. Wood wrote and starred in sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms, and her live comedy act was interspersed with her own compositions, which she performed on piano. Much of her humour was grounded in everyday life and included references to quintessentially "British" activities, attitudes and products. She was noted for her skills in observing culture and in satirising social classes.

Wood started her career in 1974 by appearing on the ATV talent show New Faces. She established herself as a comedy star in the 1980s, winning a BAFTA TV Award in 1986 for the sketch series Victoria Wood as Seen on TV (1985–87), and became one of Britain's most popular stand-up comics, winning a second BAFTA for An Audience with Victoria Wood (1988). In the 1990s she wrote and co-starred in the television film Pat and Margaret (1994) and the sitcom Dinnerladies (1998–2000). She won two more BAFTA TV Awards, including Best Actress, for her 2006 ITV1 television film, Housewife, 49. Her frequent long-term collaborators included Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, and Anne Reid. In 2006, Wood came tenth in ITV's poll of the British public's 50 Greatest TV Stars.


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