Biography
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Victoria Wood CBE (19 May 1953 β 20 April 2016) was an English comedian, actress, singer and songwriter, screenwriter and director. Wood wrote and starred in sketches, plays, films and sitcoms, and her live comedy act was interspersed with her own compositions, which she accompanied on piano. Wood also composed and performed the theme music for her award winning BBC sitcom Dinnerladies. Much of her humour was grounded in everyday life, and included references to popular British media and brand names of quintessentially British products. She was noted for her skills in observing culture, and in satirising social classes.
She started her career in 1974 by winning the ATV talent show New Faces. It wasn't until the 1980s that she began to establish herself as a comedy star, with the award-winning television series Victoria Wood As Seen on TV and became one of Britain's most popular stand-up comics. In 1998, she wrote and starred in the (again, award-winning) sitcom Dinnerladies. In 2006, she won two BAFTA awards for her one-off drama for ITV1, Housewife, 49. Wood frequently worked with long-term collaborators Julie Walters, Duncan Preston and Celia Imrie. Victoria Wood died on 20 April 2016 after a short battle with cancer. She was 62.
Filmography
all 78
self 45
TV Shows 40
Movies 38
Writer 6
Director 2
Narrator 1
Parkinson at 50 (2021)
Victoria Wood In Her Own Words (2020)
Our Friend Victoria (2017)
Dying Laughing (2017)
Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood (2016)
Fungus the Bogeyman (2015)
Fungus The Bogeyman (2015)
That Day We Sang (2014)
Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made (2014)
A Life on Screen (2014)
Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea (2013)
Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea (2013)
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off (2013)
Loving Miss Hatto (2012)
Victoria Wood's Short Term Memories (2012)
The Borrowers (2011)
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes (2011)
Eric & Ernie (2011)
Little Crackers (2010)
The Angina Monologues (2010)
Victoria Wood: What Larks! Or... What I Did on My Holidays (2009)
Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas (2009)
Ballet Shoes (2008)
Victoria's Empire (2007)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
Housewife, 49 (2006)
The One Show (2006)
The Story of Light Entertainment (2006)
Acorn Antiques: The Musical (2006)
Harry & Paul (2005)
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
QI (2003)
Victoria at the Albert - Live (2002)
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy (2002)
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings (2000)
Don't Panic: The Dad's Army Story (2000)
Dinnerladies (1998)
Victoria Wood - Live (1997)
The Wind in the Willows (1996)
Heroes of Comedy (1995)
Victoria Wood Live In Your Own Home (1994)
Pat and Margaret (1994)
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast (1992)
Julie Walters and Friends (1991)
Julie Walters and Friends (1991)
Pebble Mill (1991)
Not Now Bernard (1991)
Victoria Wood: Sold Out (1991)
Victoria Wood (1989)
Challenge Anneka (1989)
An Audience With Victoria Wood (1988)
Acorn Antiques (1987)
Going Live! (1987)
Personal View: Victoria Wood (1985)
The Glass Box (1985)
Victoria Wood As Seen On TV (1985)
Aspel & Company (1984)
Wogan (1982)
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball (1982)
Wood and Walters (1982)
Happy Since I Met You (1981)
Great Railway Journeys - Confessions of a Train Spotter (1980)
Great Railway Journeys (1980)
Nearly a Happy Ending (1980)
Talent (1979)
Screenplay (1979)
The South Bank Show (1978)
An Audience with... (1978)
The Secret Policeman's Ball (1976)
The Summer Show (1975)
That's Life! (1973)
Lux Video Theatre (1950)
Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island
The Talent Show Story
Victoria Wood's Mid-Life Christmas
Acorn Antiques
Happy Since I Met You
Victoria Wood with All The Trimmings
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1953-05-19
Deathday2016-04-20 (62 years old)
Birth PlacePrestwich, United Kingdom
Height
RelationshipsGeoffrey Durham (1980-03-01 - 2002-10-01)
MotherHelen Wood
SiblingsChris Foote Wood
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
AwardsCommander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, British Academy Television Award for Best Actress, British Comedy Awards
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