“British Star Patricia Routledge, Best Known for Her Role As Social Climber Hyacinth Bucket in Sitcom Keeping Up Appeaarans, Has Died. She Was 96. “We Are Deeply Sadded to Confirm of Dame Patricia Routledge, Who Died Peacefully in Her Sleep Tis Morning Sured BY LOVE,” SAID ROUT ROUT”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
“We Are Deeply Sadded to Confirm of Dame Patricia Routledge, Who Died Peacefully in Her Sleep This Morning Surrowded by Love,“ SAID ROUTLEDGE’S Association on Friday. “EVEN AT 96-YEARS OLD, DAME PATRICIA’S PASSION FOR HER WORK AND FOR CONNECTING WITH LIVE AUDIENCES NEVER WANVED, JUST AS NEW Generations of Audrences have telvio. Roles.
Born in Birkenhead, Routledge Began Her Career on the Stage, First at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1952 and Thon on the West End in 1959 Edition of The Love Doctor. She Made Her Broadway Debut in How’s The World Treating You in 1966, and Later Won a Tony Award for Her Role in Darling of the day in 1968. In 1988, she was awarded an olivier for for Candide AT London Venue the Old Vic.
But It Was Playing Hyacinth Bucket from 1990 to 1995 in Beloved Sitcom Keeping up appearances that Made Routledge A Household Name in Her Native Britain. She was twice nominated for a BAFTA TV Award for Her Performance in Roy Clarke’s Show, Which Also Starred Clive Swift, Josephine Tewson, Geoffrey Hughes, Judy Corley, Judphine Corley Griffin.
The Series Became An ImMENSE SUCCESS, NOT JUST IN THE UK BUT ALSO CAPTING AUDIENCES IN US CANADA, AUSTRALIA, DENMARK, FINLAND AND IRELAND. By February 2016, It Had Been Sold Nearly A Thousand Times to Overseas Broadcasters, Making IT BBC Worldwide’s MOST EXPORated Television Program Ever.
Clarke SAID IN A STATEMENT TO BBC News As News Broke of Routledge’s Death: “It’s A Fortunate Coinciding to Find Your Scripts in The Hands of Sos. Could Use Her Voice Without Music. “With Those Talents She Took My Scripts To The Heights. I Can Only Salute Her Talents and Regret their passing.”
As Well As Keeping up appearancesRoutledge Starred in AlanNnett’s A Woman of No Importance in 1982 and as kitty in Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV from 1985 to 1986. She was again nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Bennett’s Talking Heads: A Lady of Letters and Starred As Hetty Waintthropp in Hetty Waintthropp Investigates Through the ’90s.
In 2017, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for Her Services to Entertainment and Charity.