She was pictured with Dinnerladies co-star Julie Walters. There have been two collection of the present broadcast from 1998-2000
Comic Victoria Wooden has died aged sixty two from most cancers, her publicist has stated.
She handed away at her residence in London surrounded by household.
Her publicist, Neil Studying, stated: “Victoria Wooden has sadly handed away, after a brief however courageous battle with most cancers.
“The multi Bafta award-profitable author, director, actor and comic died peacefully at her north London house with household this morning. She was sixty two.
“The household ask for privateness at this very unhappy time.”
In a profession spanning over forty years Wooden wrote and starred in quite a few sketches, performs, movies and sitcoms, together with the award-profitable comedy Dinnerladies.
She additionally toured the nation for years together with her stay comedy present, by which she typically showcased her musical skills.
Paying tribute to Wooden, comic Katy Model advised Sky Information she “was the entire package deal… Implausible mimic, foolish sense of humour and fascinated by the minutia of bizarre life.
Cant consider Vic has gone.She was really an inspiration and had a lot left to to offer and we cannot see it. She was so humorous.#VictoriaWood
— jennifer saunders (@ferrifrump) 20 April 2016
“I feel that’s what she needed to symbolize, the poetry of atypical life.”
Wooden started her profession in 1974 after profitable the expertise present New Faces.
She went on to star in her personal comedy collection, Victoria Wooden: As Seen On TV.
RIP the sensible Victoria Wooden. So revolutionary, humorous and right down to earth.
This has not been a very good yr.— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) 20 April 2016
In 2006 she gained two Bafta awards for appearing and writing for her drama Housewife, forty nine, an adaptation of the diaries of Nella Final.
She was made an OBE within the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 1997 and later a CBE in 2008.
Stars are lining as much as pay tribute to Wooden on Twitter, together with actor Ricky Gervais, who wrote: “RIP the sensible Victoria Wooden. So revolutionary, humorous and right down to earth.”
Seeing Victoria Wooden on TV – working class, bookish, foolish, intelligent, doing stand-up, singing, appearing – made me assume “Women can do that.”
— Caitlin Moran (@caitlinmoran) 20 April 2016
Journalist and author Caitlin Moran wrote: “Seeing Victoria Wooden on TV – working class, bookish, foolish, intelligent, doing stand-up, singing, appearing – made me assume “Women can do that.”
Extra follows…
No. NO.That is an excessive amount of.Now pretty, heat, humorous, brilliantly gifted Victoria Wooden has gone.Phrases, songs, performs, she wrote the lot.So unhappy.
— Rory Bremner (@rorybremner) 20 April 2016