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Victoria Wood

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Victoria Wood with a microphone (at a piano)

Victoria Wood CBE (born 19 May 1953) is an English comedienne, actress, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and director. Wood has written and starred in sketches, plays, films and sitcoms, and her live comedy act is interspersed with her own compositions, which she accompanies on piano. Wood also composed and performed the theme music for her award winning BBC sitcom Dinnerladies. Much of her humour is grounded in everyday life, and includes references to popular British media and brand names of quintessentially British products. She is noted for her skills in observing culture, and in satirising social classes.

She started her career in 1974 by winning the ATV talent show New Faces. It wasn't until the 1980s that she began to establish herself as a comedy star, with the award-winning television series Victoria Wood As Seen on TV and became one of Britain's most popular stand-up comics. In 1998, she wrote and starred in the (again, award-winning) sitcom Dinnerladies. In 2006, she won two BAFTA awards for her one-off drama for ITV1, Housewife, 49. Wood frequently works with long-term collaborators Julie Walters, Duncan Preston and Celia Imrie

Pieces performed by this act
Let's Do It (Christmas 2009) (released )
Subjects of pieces performed: Christmas (1), frigid (1), horny (1), married couples (1), sex (1), sex life (1), stockings (1) and turned on (1)
Comedic styles in pieces performed: blue (1), character (1), surreal (1) and visual (1)
Musical styles in pieces performed: musical (1)
Musical instruments in pieces performanced: piano (1)
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