Victoria Wood
Acting • Born 1953-05-19 – Died 2016-04-20
Biography
Victoria Wood CBE (19 May 1953 – 20 April 2016) was an English comedian, actress, singer and songwriter, screenwriter and director. Wood wrote and starred in sketches, plays, films and sitcoms, and her live comedy act was interspersed with her own compositions, which she accompanied on piano. Wood also composed and performed the theme music for her award winning BBC sitcom Dinnerladies. Much of her humour was grounded in everyday life, and included references to popular British media and brand names of quintessentially British products. She was 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 worked with long-term collaborators Julie Walters, Duncan Preston and Celia Imrie. Victoria Wood died on 20 April 2016 after a short battle with cancer. She was 62.
Filmography
78 credits
Ballet Shoes
Movie • 2008
Nana
The Wind in the Willows
Movie • 1996
The Tea Lady
Housewife, 49
Movie • 2006
Nella Last
Personal View: Victoria Wood
Movie • 1985
Herself
The Borrowers
Movie • 2011
Granny Driver
Eric & Ernie
Movie • 2011
Sadie Bartholomew
Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood
Movie • 2016
Self (archive material)
Victoria Wood: What Larks! Or... What I Did on My Holidays
Movie • 2009
Self
Parkinson at 50
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Pat and Margaret
Movie • 1994
Margaret
Talent
Movie • 1979
Maureen
Don't Panic: The Dad's Army Story
Movie • 2000
Host
An Audience With Victoria Wood
Movie • 1988
Self
Not Now Bernard
Movie • 1991
Acorn Antiques
Movie • 1987
Berta
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Movie • 1982
Self
Eric & Ernie: Behind the Scenes
Movie • 2011
Self - Presenter / Narrator
Victoria Wood: Sold Out
Movie • 1991
Fungus The Bogeyman
Movie • 2015
Victoria Wood - Live
Movie • 1997
Herself
Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
Movie • 2009
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
Movie • 2000
Self/Various Characters
Comedians Do It On Stage
Movie • 1986
self
Victoria at the Albert - Live
Movie • 2002
Herself/Various
Victoria Wood - That Musical We Made
Movie • 2014
Self
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
Movie • 1992
Victoria Wood Live In Your Own Home
Movie • 1994
Herself
Dying Laughing
Movie • 2017
Self
The Angina Monologues
Movie • 2010
Herself/Jean's Friend
Happy Since I Met You
Movie • 1981
Voice Only (uncredited)
Nearly a Happy Ending
Movie • 1980
Maureen
Julie Walters and Friends
Movie • 1991
Acorn Antiques: The Musical
Movie • 2006
Bo Beaumont / Mrs Overall (On Bingo Nights)
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Movie • 2005
Queen Mary II
Victoria Wood In Her Own Words
Movie • 2020
Self
Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea
Movie • 2013
Self
Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood
Movie • 1980
Self (Good Fun Playwright)
Thora Hird Tribute
Movie • 2003
Self, Margaret
Stanley Baxter: Now and Then
Movie • 2008
Self
Becoming Victoria Wood
Movie • 2026
(Archive footage)
20 Moments That Rocked Talent Shows
Movie • 2015
Self
dinnerladies
TV • 1998
Brenda
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self
The Secret Policeman's Ball
TV • 1976
Self
That's Life!
TV • 1973
Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV
TV • 1985
Lux Video Theatre
TV • 1950
Cavendish
Wood and Walters
TV • 1982
The Summer Show
TV • 1975
Pebble Mill
TV • 1991
Self
Victoria's Empire
TV • 2007
The Story of Light Entertainment
TV • 2006
Self
Aspel & Company
TV • 1984
Victoria Wood
TV • 1989
Victoria
The Talent Show Story
TV
Herself
Fungus the Bogeyman
TV • 2015
Eve
Julie Walters and Friends
TV • 1991
Harry & Paul
TV • 2005
Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea
TV • 2013
Self - Presenter
An Audience with...
TV • 1978
Self
QI
TV • 2003
Self
The Glass Box
TV • 1985
Herself
Wogan
TV • 1982
Self
Victoria Wood's Short Term Memories
TV • 2012
Going Live!
TV • 1987
Self
Great Railway Journeys
TV • 1980
Self - Presenter
A Life on Screen
TV • 2014
Self
The Great Comic Relief Bake Off
TV • 2013
Self - Contestant
Our Friend Victoria
TV • 2017
Herself - Archive
Jackanory
TV • 1965
Storyteller
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy
TV • 2002
Parkinson
TV • 1998
Self
Case Histories
TV • 2011
Tracy
Victoria Wood Screenplays
TV • 1979
More Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy
TV • 2006
Self
Dinnerladies Diaries
TV • 2018
Self (Archived Footage)
Clive James' Postcard from
TV • 1989
Self