Victoria Wood

Known for ActingBorn 1953-05-19Died 2016-04-20Prestwich, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK

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, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Parkinson at 50

Victoria Wood Live In Your Own Home

Dinnerladies Diaries

Nearly a Happy Ending

A Life on Screen

Acorn Antiques: The Musical

QI

Case Histories

Victoria Wood

Going Live!

Happy Since I Met You

Victoria Wood: Live

Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV

Pat and Margaret

Fungus the Bogeyman

Jackanory

Don't Panic: The Dad's Army Story

dinnerladies

Acorn Antiques

Wood and Walters

Loving Miss Hatto

The Graham Norton Show

Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy

That's Life!

Screen One

Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

That Day We Sang

Julie Walters and Friends

Little Crackers

Clive James' Postcard from

Omnibus

Eric & Ernie

Great Railway Journeys

Talent

Harry & Paul

Dying Laughing

Ballet Shoes

Becoming Victoria Wood

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

Lux Video Theatre

The Secret Policeman's Other Ball

Victoria Wood: What Larks! Or... What I Did on My Holidays

Screenplay

Housewife, 49

An Audience With Victoria Wood

The Borrowers

Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast

Acorn Antiques