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Victoria Wood is a talented comedy actress/writer/singer who has built up a national reputation following a string of self-written TV plays, films and sketch shows. Born in 1953 in Lancashire in Northern England she first had small screen exposure in the TV talent search show New Faces when she sang comedy songs of her own composition. Accompanying herself on the piano, she scored heavily with viewing audiences with her jaunty tunes, which often belied her sharp, poignant lyrics. Her regular themes of unrequited love, tedium, mismatched couples, and suburban living as well as her ability to find humour in the minutiae of modern life, stood her in good stead when she moved into writing plays for the stage and later for television.
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Victoria Wood and Stephen Fry are among the British nominees for this year's International Emmy Awards. Wood is up for best actress for her role in Housewife, 49, while Fry's The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive is nominated in the documentary category. UK TV productions have been nominated for a total of eight awards, including two for BBC One drama The
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Born in 1953, Victoria Wood wanted to be famous since she was just four years old. At 12, she began to like the idea of singing songs or being a comedy actress, but it wasn't until at the age of 15 that her talent began to shine. She joined a local youth theatre group, and from being a shy schoolgirl only interested in the music lessons at school, she became known as a witty and humourous person with bags of talent. She went on to study drama at Birmingham University and first found her way onto the stage through her music. In 1973 Victoria won the TV talent show 'New Faces' at just 20 years old. Despite her obvious musical and comedy skills ... her originality meant that it was very difficult to categorise her; she sang funny songs - so couldn't be called a stand up comic, or a musician.
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Having previously headlined a series of short TV skits and monologues, British comedienne-composer Victoria Wood graduated to the anthology format in this six-episode offering. Individual episode titles included "Mens Sana in Thingummy Doodah," "The Library," "Over to Pam," "We'd Quite Like to Apologize," "Val De Ree (Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha)," and "Staying In." All playlets were written by the star, as was the piano music heard between scenes. Appearing in support of Wood was an impressive coterie of British guest stars and comedy "regulars," including her old professional cronies Julie Walters, Duncan Preston, Celia Imrie, and Susie Blake. Victoria Wood originally aired from November 16 to December 21, 1989. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Wood is notable for frequently including the same actors in her shows. These actors have appeared in most of her work in the '80s and '90s and include Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Susie Blake, Anne Reid, Lill Roughley and most notably Julie Walters.[26][1][27]
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One of the best-loved and famous comediennes in Britain is Victoria Wood, a stand-up comic, musician, and writer and star of the recent dinnerladies on the BBC. Though incredibly talented and blessed with many early breaks, success was not immediate for her.
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