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Victoria Wood CBE (19 May 1953 – 20 April 2016) was an English comedian, actress, lyricist, singer, composer, pianist, screenwriter, producer and director. Wood wrote and starred in dozens of sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms over several decades and her live comedy act was interspersed with her own compositions which she performed at the piano.
Oct 21, 2020 · She was about to go out on tour and her promoter had booked her into far larger venues than she had hitherto played. So she urgently sought a finale that could be guaranteed to bring 2,000...
When she died in 2016, for some fans it was as though a family member had been taken from them. Now an authorised biography looks at what lay behind her extraordinary and multifaceted talent...
Apr 20, 2016 · Victoria Wood was an original who did many things and all of them brilliantly. She was an incredible writer and composer, as well as a unique stand-up talent who, on her own with a piano, could keep an audience laughing for two hours.
The tour which followed in 2006 was directed by Victoria. In the same year Victoria wrote a TV drama, 'Housewife 49', based on the Mass Observation diary of Nella Last, which won two BAFTAs and an International Emmy nomination for Wood as Best Actress. Her three-part documentary, 'Victoria's Empire' was shown the following year.
Dec 17, 2021 · Victoria would always say that she found touring lonely. In 2001, for her final tour, she stopped playing the grand piano herself and took an accompanist with her.
Dec 23, 2012 · In 2007 Wood appeared in a three-part BBC travel documentary Victoria's Empire (2007), in which she travelled around the world in search of the history, cultural impact and customs the British Empire placed on the parts of the world it ruled. She departed Victoria Station, London, for Calcutta, Hong Kong and Borneo in the first programme.
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