Patricia Routledge

Patricia Routledge

CountryUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
GenderFemale
BirthdayFeb 17, 1929
Death2025-10-03
BiographyDame Katherine Patricia Routledge ( ROWT-lij; 17 February 1929 – 3 October 2025) was an English actress and singer. She was best known for her role as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC One comedy series Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995), for which she was twice nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance.

Routledge made her professional stage debut at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1952, and her West End debut in 1959. She made her Broadway debut in 1966, and won the 1968 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role in Darling of the Day. She won the 1988 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Candide at The Old Vic. Her film appearances include To Sir, with Love (1967) and Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968).

Routledge came to prominence during the 1980s in television monologues written by Alan Bennett and Victoria Wood, appearing in Bennett's A Woman of No Importance (1982) and as Kitty in Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV (1985–1986), and being nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Bennett's Talking Heads: A Lady of Letters (1988). She also starred as Hetty Wainthropp in the television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1990, 1996–1998). Routledge was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her services to theatre and charity in 2017.

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