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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.
Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.
Susie Blake (born 19 April 1950) [1] is an English television, radio and stage actress.. She is best known for her portrayal of the snobbish TV announcer in Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV and of Bev Unwin in Coronation Street, a role she played between 2003 and 2006, before a brief return in 2015.
Anne Reid (born 28 May 1935) is an English stage, film and television actress, known for her roles as Valerie Barlow in the soap opera Coronation Street (1961–1971); Jean in the sitcom dinnerladies (1998–2000); and her role as Celia Dawson in Last Tango in Halifax (2012–2020) for which she was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress.
The first series won the 1999 Rose d'Or Press Award [21] and "Best New TV Comedy" at the 1999 British Comedy Awards, [22] and the second won "Best TV Comedy" in 2000. [23] The show has also been nominated for the British Academy Television Award for "Best Comedy (Programme or Series)" and the "Situation Comedy Award" in 1998 and 1999 ...
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[297] (death announced on this date) Tonke Dragt, 93, Dutch writer (The Letter for the King, The Secrets of the Wild Wood). [298] Alex Forsyth, 69, Canadian ice hockey player (Washington Capitals, Springfield Indians, Tulsa Oilers), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [299] Rod Fyffe, 75, Australian politician, four-time mayor of Bendigo. [300]
George Ian Kenneth Ireland (7 August 1945 – 31 July 2014) [2] was a Scottish actor and theatre director. Ireland was best known to television viewers for his role in Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV in the 1980s, and for playing Donald Stewart in Benidorm from 2007 until his death in 2014.