Patricia Routledge Biography
Patricia Routledge is an English actress, singer, and presenter who has a 70-year career in the entertainment world. She is well known for her role as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances.
How old is Patricia Hodge? Age
How old is Patricia? She is 93 years old as of 2022, She was born Katherine Patricia Routledge
on 17 February 1929, Tranmere, United Kingdom. she celebrates her birthday on 17 February every year.
Patricia Routledge Education
She attended Mersey Park Primary School, Birkenhead High School, and the University of Liverpool, where she graduated with honors with a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature. Lancaster University awarded Routledge a Doctor of Letters in 2008 for her contributions to drama and theatre.
Patricia Routledge Height
How tall is Patricia? The English actress/ Singer stands at a height of 5′ 5″ (1.65 m) tall.
Patricia Routledge Family | Parents
Routledge was born in Tranmere, Birkenhead, Cheshire, to her mother Catherine Routledge and father Isaac Routledge a haberdasher.
Who was Patricia Routledge’s partner? Husband
Routledge is unmarried and has never had children. If she had any connections, they aren’t public knowledge.
Patricia Routledge Career
Routledge began her acting career in musical theatre in the United Kingdom and the United States. She has been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) for many years and has been in a number of significant productions, notably Antony Sher’s title role in Richard III in 1983. Her West End credits include Little Cowardy Custard, Mary Sunshine, Noises Off, Virtue in Danger, The Solid Gold Cadillac, and The Importance of Being Earnest, as well as a few less successful shows. She was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in And a Nightingale Sang in 1979.
She made her Broadway debut in Roger Milner’s outrageous comedy ‘How’s the World Treating You?’ in 1966, and then in the short-lived 1968 musical Darling of the Day, for which she shared the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical with Leslie Uggams of ‘Hallelujah, Baby!’ In 1988, she won a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance as the Old Lady in Leonard Bernstein’s Candide in the London cast of the critically acclaimed Scottish Opera production. Routledge’s radio credits include a BBC adaptation of Carole Hayman’s Ladies of Letters, in which she and Prunella Scales play elderly women exchanging hilarious correspondence over a period of years. The tenth season of Ladies of Letters aired on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.
Prior to 1985, his radio credits included Private Lives, Present Laughter, The Cherry Orchard, Romeo and Juliet, Alice in Wonderland, and The Fountain Overflows. Routledge has recorded and released a number of audiobooks, including abridged novelizations of the Hetty Wainthropp series and unabridged readings of Wuthering Heights and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Routledge is a patron of the Royal Voluntary Service, formerly known as the WRVS.
Patricia Routledge Net Worth
How much worth is Patricia? Routledge is estimated to have a net worth of about $2.5 million dollars.
Patricia Routledge TV Shows and Movies
MOVIES
- 1967 – To Sir, with Love
- 1967 – Pretty Polly / A Matter of Innocence
- 1967 – Don’t Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
- 1968 – 30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia
- 1968 – The Bliss of Mrs Blossom
- 1969 – Lock Up Your Daughters
- 1969 – If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
- 1971 – Girl Stroke Boy
TV SHOWS
- 1959 – ITV Play of the Week
- 1960 – The Terrible Choice
- 1961 – Hilda Lessways
- 1961 – Coronation Street
- 1962 – Z-Cars
- 1964 – Victoria Regina
- 1965 – Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life
- 1965 – No Hiding Place
- 1965 – Gaslight Theatre
- 1956–66 – ITV Play of the Week
- 1966 – Eamonn Andrews Show
- 1967 – Thirty-Minute Theatre –
- 1967 – Seven Deadly Sins
- 1967 – Androcles and the Lion
- 1968 – The Ed Sullivan Show
- 1969 – ITV Saturday Night Theatre
- 1970 – Egghead’s Robot
- 1961–70 – Armchair Theatre
- 1970 – ITV Playhouse
- 1971 – Sense and Sensibility
- 1971 – Doctor at Large
- 1971 – Play of the Month: Tartuffe
- 1971 – Vincent Price Is in the Country
- 1972 – His and Hers
- 1973 – Ooh La La!
- 1973 – That’s Life
- 1974 – Affairs of the Heart
- 1974 – Steptoe and Son
- 1974 – …And Mother Makes Five
- 1974 – David Copperfield
- 1975 – More Awkward Customers
- 1971–75 – Play of the Month: When We Are Married
- 1977 – Nicholas Nickleby
- 1977 – Jubilee
- 1977 – The Cost of Loving
- 1978 – BBC2 Play of the Week
- 1978 – Doris and Doreen
- 1979 – Crown Court
- 1980 – The Pirates of Penzance
- 1980 – Play for Today
- 1980 – The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb
- 1982 – Objects of Affection
- 1983 – The Beggar’s Opera
- 1983 – Keep Off the Grass
- 1983 – The Two Ronnies
- 1984 – Home Video
- 1985 – Marjorie and Men
- 1985–86 – Victoria Wood as Seen on TV
- 1987 – When We Are Married
- 1988 – Tales of the Unexpected
- 1988 – Talking Heads