Victoria Wood

Victoria Wood was an English comedian who wrote, directed and acted for stage and screen and performed her music. She built a career on observational comedy and satire of social class. She began in 1974 by winning the ATV talent show New Faces and became a comedy star in the 1980s. Her sketch series Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV (1985 to 1987) won her a BAFTA TV Award in 1986, and An Audience with Victoria Wood (1988) brought a second. She wrote and acted in Pat and Margaret (1994), a television film, and created the sitcom dinnerladies, which ran from 1998 to 2000 and which she produced. For the 2006 ITV1 drama Housewife, 49, she won a further two BAFTA TV Awards, one for Best Actress. She wrote and directed the musical That Day We Sang, and she appeared in Ballet Shoes (2007) and the Christmas special Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings (2000). Wood died in 2016.