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My Take
Patricia Routledge is, for me, the definition of a serious actor who never considered comedy beneath her. A Tony and Olivier winner eventually made a Dame, she could have stayed locked in prestige theatre, yet she gave television Hyacinth Bucket, a snobbish, self-deluding suburbanite she somehow made impossible to dislike. That generosity, bringing decades of stagecraft down to the living room, is what I admire most. A Liverpool University graduate who poured her whole self into broad domestic farce, she earned her laughs honestly. She died in 2025 at 96, and I quietly revere the rigor behind her lightness.
Overview
Dame 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.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Patricia Routledge
- Name (Japanese)
- パトリシア・ラウトリッジ
- Reading
- ぱとりしあ・らうとりっじ
- Born
- February 17, 1929 (age 97)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Snake
- Origin
- Tranmere, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- television actor / singer / stage actor / film actor / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Birkenhead High School Academy
- University
- University of Liverpool
Awards & achievements
- 1993 Officer of the Order of the British Empire
- 2004 Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- 2017 Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
- 1968 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
- 1988 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%20Routledge
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.