| rdfs:comment | - Katherine Patricia Routledge CBE was born in Birkenhead, Liverpool on 17th February 1929. Famous for her comic turn as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sit-com Keeping Up Appearances (co-starring Geoffrey Hughes) she also starred in the gentle detective drama Hetty Wainthropp Investigates about a crime-solving Northern pensioner. Her extensive career includes roles on stage with many leading roles in West End productions. She won a Tony award for her role in the Broadway musical Darling of the Day. On the radio she has made several series of Ladies of Letters with Prunella Scales
- Katherine Patricia Routledge, CBE (born 17 February 1929), known professionally as Patricia Routledge, is an English actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Hyacinth Bucket in the British television series Keeping Up Appearances, which ran from 1990 to 1995. Her film roles include, To Sir, with Love with Sidney Poitier (1967) and Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River with Jerry Lewis (1968).
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| abstract | - Katherine Patricia Routledge CBE was born in Birkenhead, Liverpool on 17th February 1929. Famous for her comic turn as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sit-com Keeping Up Appearances (co-starring Geoffrey Hughes) she also starred in the gentle detective drama Hetty Wainthropp Investigates about a crime-solving Northern pensioner. Her extensive career includes roles on stage with many leading roles in West End productions. She won a Tony award for her role in the Broadway musical Darling of the Day. Patricia Routledge appeared in films such as 'To Sir, With Love' but it's primarily for her television work that she is known. She is well known for performing monologues by Alan Bennett and Victoria Wood. On the radio she has made several series of Ladies of Letters with Prunella Scales In Coronation Street she played Sylvia Snape in several episodes in 1961.
- Katherine Patricia Routledge, CBE (born 17 February 1929), known professionally as Patricia Routledge, is an English actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Hyacinth Bucket in the British television series Keeping Up Appearances, which ran from 1990 to 1995. She made her professional stage debut at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1952 and her Broadway debut in How's the World Treating You in 1966. In 1968, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role in Darling of the Day. Other theatre credits include Candide, for which she won the 1988 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. On television, she came to prominence during the 1980s in monologues written by Victoria Wood and Alan Bennett, appearing as Kitty in Victoria Wood As Seen On TV (1985–86) and in Bennett's A Woman of No Importance (1982) and Talking Heads (1988). For the latter, she was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. For her role as Hyacinth in Keeping Up Appearances she received two further BAFTA nominations. She also starred as Hetty Wainthropp in the British television series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1995–99). Her film roles include, To Sir, with Love with Sidney Poitier (1967) and Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River with Jerry Lewis (1968).
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