Patricia Routledge

TV Actress

Patricia Routledge was born in Birkenhead, England, United Kingdom on February 17th, 1929 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 95, Patricia Routledge biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.

Date of Birth
February 17, 1929
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Birkenhead, England, United Kingdom
Age
95 years old
Zodiac Sign
Aquarius
Networth
$2.5 Million
Profession
Film Actor, Singer, Stage Actor, Television Actor
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University of Liverpool, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
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Patricia Routledge Life

Katherine Patricia Routledge, born 17 February 1929, is a British actress, comedian, and singer.

She is best known for her appearances in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1990-1995), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Light Entertainment Achievement in 1992 and 1993.

To Sir, with Love (1967), and Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968). Routledge made her professional debut at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1952 and her Broadway debut in How's the World Treating You in 1966.

She received the Best Actress in a Musical award in 1968 and the 1988 Olivier Award for Candide. She came to fame on television in 1980s monologues written by Alan Bennett and Victoria Wood; appearing in Bennett's A Woman of No Importance (1982), Kitty in Victoria Wood's Kitty (1985-1986) and being nominated for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress for Bennett's Talking Heads (1988).

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, a British television series (1989, 1996–1998), she appeared in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1989, 1996–1998).

Early life

Routledge was born in Tranmere, Cheshire, on February 17th. Her father, a haberdasher and gentlemen's outfitter, was a beaver. She attended Birkenhead High School and the University of Liverpool. She obtained a degree in English Language and Literature. She was involved in the University's vibrant culture, where she collaborated closely with scholar Edmund Colledge, who was both directing and acting in many of the society's productions. Colledge was the person who persuaded her to pursue an acting career. She attended the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and then moved to Liverpool to begin her acting career at the Liverpool Playhouse after graduating.

Personal life

Routledge has never married and has no children. "I didn't make a decision not to be married or not to be a mother in a 2001 interview." "Actually life was like that because my involvement in acting was so full."

She has lived in Chichester since 2000 and regularly attends Chichester Cathedral. She has contributed to the restoration of the cathedral roof.

Routledge was a member of the Beatrix Potter Society as of July 2012.

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Patricia Routledge Career

Career

Routledge has had a lengthy career in theatre, particularly musical theatre, both in the United Kingdom and the United States. Her vocal range was described as a mezzo-soprano and a contralto. Antony Sher appeared in such acclaimed productions as the 1983 Richard III, in which she appeared in the title role. Little Mary Sunshine, Cowardy Custard, Virtue in Danger, Noises Off, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Solid Gold Cadillac are among her West End credits, as well as a number of less popular vehicles. She was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1979 for her role in And a Nightingale Sang. She has occasionally turned opera into operetta, including appearing in Jacques Offenbach's La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein's La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein's title role and painting her body to convey a wide variety of emotions. Never did she resort to the cynical conduct that this role – in British productions at least – invites."

Routledge made her Broadway debut in Roger Milner's bizarre film How's the World Treats You? In 1966, she appeared in Darling of the Day, a short-lived 1968 musical Darling of the Day, for which she received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, sharing the award with Leslie Uggams of Hallelujah, Baby! Routledge appeared in many more unsuccessful Broadway performances, including one on Broadway called Love Match, in which she played every first lady from Abigail Adams to Eleanor Roosevelt; and a 1981 Broadway production called Say Hello to Harvey, which was based on the Mary Coyle Chase's debut on September 19, which closed in Toronto before heading to New York City.

Routledge appeared Ruth in Joseph Papp's The Pirates of Penzance, co-starring American actor Kevin Kline and pop vocalist Linda Ronstadt, and one of a string of Shakespeare in the Park summer performances. The show was a hit and then rolled to Broadway in January, with Estelle Parsons replacing Routledge. In October 2002, Routledge and Routledge produced a DVD of the Central Park production. In Façade at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York, she appeared in Façade.

Routledge received a Laurence Olivier Award in 1988 for her role as the Old Lady in Leonard Bernstein's Candide in the London cast of the critically acclaimed Scottish Opera. "I am so easily assimilated," one commentator said, and her long narration carried on at least two levels – it was both funny and moving." In the 1993 London production of Carousel, she appeared as Nettie Fowler to high praise. She portrayed Dame Laurentia McLachlan in a 2006 Hampstead Theatre production of The Best of Friends. She appeared in Royce Ryton's play Crown Matrimonial in 2008. The narrator of The Carnival of the Animals with the Nash Ensemble in 2010, as well as Lady Markby in An Ideal Husband at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2014.

Routledge has toured with Face the Music since 2019. The show includes insights into her musical career.

Routledge's film credits include To Sir, with Love (1967), Pretty Polly (both 1967), 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia, The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1969) and Girl Stroke Boy (1971).

Routledge's early television appearances included a role in Steptoe and Son's episode "Seance in a Wet Rag and Bone Yard" (1974) as a clairvoyant called Madame Fontana. She appeared in Coronation Street and as a white witch in Doctor at Large (1971). Routledge appeared as Mrs. Jennings in the BBC mini-series version of Sense and Sensibility in 1971. However, she did not appear on television until she appeared in monologues written for her by Alan Bennett and then Victoria Wood in the 1980s. She appeared in A Woman of No Importance, Bennett's second installment of Objects of Affection, in 1982. In Victoria Wood's 1984, she appeared as the opinionated Kitty. She appeared on television in Victoria Wood. In 1988 and 1998, she appeared in Bennett's Talking Heads twice more. Routledge was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for the monologue "A Lady of Letters."

Routledge was given the lead role in Hetty Wainthropp's ITV mystery drama, Hetty Wainthropp: Missing People in 1989. After the pilot episode, ITV decided not to pursue a series, but the BBC released the first series of Hetty Wainthropp Investigates in 1996, with Routledge taking the lead role. Dominic Monaghan, her assistant, and Derek Benfield as her husband were co-stars on the program. It premiered in January 1996 and ran until the fall of 1998, with just one special episode in 1999. Monaghan, who went on to pursue a Hollywood career, has since praised Routledge as "an excellent teacher" who taught him some "very useful lessons" in acting.

Routledge appeared on the comedy series Keeping Up Appearances in 1990 as Hyacinth Bucket. She portrayed a formerly working-class woman with social pretensions (insisting her surname's pronunciation, "bouquet") and delusions of grandeur (her oft-mentioned "candlelight suppers)). Routledge was ecstatic to be portraying Hyacinth because she said she "couldn't bear people like her" in real life. She received a British Comedy Award for her role in 1991, and she was nominated for two BAFTA TV Awards in 1992 and 1993. Despite its continuing success, Routledge's request was turned down in 1995. She wanted to work as a character actress but wanted to try other genres. Routledge said during an interview on Australian television, "I'd much rather people look back and say, 'I remember that' rather than 'I recall that,'" rather than saying, 'Oh, is that still on?' Another reason she wanted the series to finish was because she felt that the author, Roy Clarke, was "rewriting old scripts."

Routledge has also appeared in many true-life characters for television, including Barbara Pym and Teresa Pym.

Routledge appeared in Anybody's Nightmare, a fact-based television drama in which she played a piano teacher who spent four years in prison for murdering her elderly aunt in 2001, but was cleared following a retrial.

Routledge's many radio appearances include many Alan Bennett plays and the BBC dramatization of Carole Hayman's Ladies of Letters, in which she and Prunella Scales play retired people who engage in a lot of fun over the course of many years. On BBC Radio 4, a tenth series of Ladies of Letters premiered.

Private Lives, Present Laughter, The Cherry Orchard, Romeo and Juliet, Alice in Wonderland and The Fountain Overflows were among the radio programs that preceded 1985.

Routledge has also published a number of audio books, including unabridged readings of Wuthering Heights and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and abridged novelizations of the Hetty Wainthropp series, as well as a unique voice.

In a series of BBC Radio Gilbert and Sullivan recordings, she appeared in Mad Margaret in Ruddigore, the title role in Iolanthe, and Melissa in Princess Ida. In 1989, she appeared in a studio broadcast of Tchaikovsky's opera Vaina the Smith (narrating excerpts from the work by Gogol). In 2006, she appeared on Radio 3's "Stage and Screen" series.

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Camilla and the Dames! As the Queen watches Gary Oldman perform for evening honoring Shakespeare, she meets with British actors, including Judi Dench and Joanna Lumely

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 14, 2024
Camilla, 76, was welcomed by Gyles Brandreth as she welcomed visitors of the playwright's career, including actors of stage and screen, writers, producers, and representatives of the National Theatre and The Royal Shakespeare Company. The Queen is dressed in a green velvet shirt dress The Queen is calming and going on amid the King's health war. Portrait: The Queen spent an evening at Grosvenor House with some of Britain's finest Shakespearean actors. Camilla, from left, smiles as she poses with Dames from left, back row, Joanna Lumley, Twiggy Lawson, Harriet Walter, Penelope Wilton, Maulton, left. front row, Virginia McKenna, Sian Phillips, Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Penelope Keith and Patricia Routledge

The contestant of the University Challenge has left viewers chuckling over name pronunciation

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 10, 2023
On Monday's episode of University Challenge, Liverpool Art student Lizzie Mackarel, who has also appeared on Mastermind, introduced herself on the Courtauld Institute of Art staff. However, viewers were taken aback by how she writes her surname, McCarroll not Mackarel, with some of them recounting tales of people they'd encountered who had a name that didn't seem to have been written, including one person named 'O'nion.' (Pictured: Lizzie Mackarel on University Challenge)