Biography
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Born
19 May 1953
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Born In
Prestwich, Bury, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Died
20 April 2016 (aged 62)
1) 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.
2) Country/Bluegrass singer Victoria Wood(2011) on the Commandment label.
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