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Tracey Ullman (born Trace Ullman, 30 December 1959) is a British-American actress, comedian, singer, writer, producer, and director. Her earliest mainstream appearances were on British television sketch comedy shows '' A Kick Up the Eighties'' (with Rik Mayall and
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) and '' Three of a Kind'' (with Lenny Henry and David Copperfield). After a brief singing career, she appeared as Candice Valentine in '' Girls on Top'' with Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. She emigrated from the United Kingdom to the United States and she starred in her own network television comedy series, '' The Tracey Ullman Show'' from 1987 until 1990, which also featured the first appearances of the long-running animated media franchise ''
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''. She later produced programmes for HBO, including '' Tracey Takes On...'' (1996–99) garnering numerous awards. Her sketch comedy series ''
Tracey Ullman's State of the Union ''Tracey Ullman's State of the Union'' is an American sketch comedy series starring Tracey Ullman. The series was written by Ullman along with Hollywood satirist Bruce Wagner. Gail Parent and Craig DiGregorio acted as contributing writers to the ...
'' ran from 2008 to 2010 on Showtime. She has appeared in several feature films. Ullman was the first British woman to be offered her own television sketch show in both the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2016, she returned to British television with the BBC sketch comedy show '' Tracey Ullman's Show'', her first project for the broadcaster in over thirty years. This led to the creation of the topical comedy series ''
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'' in 2017. In 2017, Ullman was reportedly Britain's richest comedian and second-richest British actress, with an estimated wealth of £80 million. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including twelve
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, seven Primetime Emmy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, four Satellite Awards, a
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, and a
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.


Early life

Tracey Ullman was born Trace Ullman in Slough,
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(now Berkshire), the younger of two daughters, to Doreen (
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Cleaver; 1929–2015), who was of British and
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extraction, and Anthony John Ullman (1917–1966), a
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Pole. Anthony served in the Polish Army and took part in the Battle of Dunkirk during
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. After emigrating and marrying in England, he worked as a solicitor, a furniture salesman, and a travel agent. He also brokered marriages and translated among the émigré Polish community. When she was six, Ullman's father, who had been recovering from a heart operation, died of a heart attack in front of her. She was subsequently uprooted to Hackbridge, southwest
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. Her mother could barely make ends meet without their father's income. In an effort to cheer her family up, Ullman, along with her sister Patti, created and performed nightly shows on their mother's bedroom windowsill. After their mother remarried, the family began moving around the country, with Ullman attending numerous state schools, where she wrote and performed in school plays. She eventually caught the attention of a headmaster, who recommended that she attend a performing arts school. She won a full scholarship to the Italia Conti Academy at the age of twelve. At sixteen, she attended a dance audition under the impression that she was applying for summer season in Scarborough. The audition resulted in a contract with a German ballet company for a revival of '' Gigi'' in Berlin. Upon returning to England, she joined the Second Generation dance troupe, performing in London,
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, and
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. She branched out into musical theatre and was cast in numerous West End musicals including '' Grease'', '' Elvis The Musical'', and '' The Rocky Horror Show''.


Music career

A chance encounter with the wife of the head of the punk music label Stiff Records led to Ullman getting a record contract in 1983. Label owner Dave Robinson was taken with some of the musical parodies she had been doing in her television work and signed her. Ullman recounted, "One day, I was at my hairdresser, and Dave Robinson's wife Rosemary leant over and said, 'Do you want to make a record?'... I went, 'Yeah I want to make a record.' I would have tried anything." Her 1983 debut album ''
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'' featured her first hit single " Breakaway", as well as the international hit version of label-mate
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's " They Don't Know", which reached #2 in the UK, #35 in Germany and #8 in the United States. In less than two years, Ullman had six songs in the UK Top 100. A recording of Doris Day's " Move Over Darling" reached #8 in the UK, and a version of
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' " My Girl", which she changed to " My Guy". Its accompanying video featured a cameo from the British Labour Party politician Neil Kinnock, at the time the Leader of the Opposition. Ullman's songs were over-the-top evocations of 1960s and 1970s pop music with a 1980s edge, "somewhere between
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and the Supremes" as ''
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'' put it, or "retro before retro was cool", as a reviewer wrote in 2002. Her career received another boost when the video for "They Don't Know" featured a
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from
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; at the time Ullman was filming a minor role in McCartney's film '' Give My Regards to Broad Street.''Tracey
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She released her second (and final) album ''
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'' in 1984. Her final hit, " Sunglasses" (1984), featured comedian Adrian Edmondson in its music video. During this time she also appeared as a guest VJ on
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in the United States.


Television career


Early years

Ullman began her television career in 1980 playing Lynda Bellingham's daughter in the British series ''Mackenzie''. "I really thought I was great when I did a quite serious soap opera for the BBC. I played a nice girl from
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. 'Mummy, I think I'm pregnant. I don't know who's done it.' Then I would fall down a hill or something. 'EEEEE! Oh, no, lost another baby.' It seemed all I ever did was have miscarriages—or make yogurt." Ullman appeared in
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''Four in a Million'', an improvised play about club acts, at London's Royal Court Theatre. She won the London Critics Circle Theatre Award as Most Promising New Actress for her performance. In 1981, she was cast in the
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sketch comedy programme '' A Kick Up the Eighties''. This led to her being offered her own show. "My first reaction was you must be joking, as women are treated so shoddily in comedy. Big busty barmaids and all those sort of clichés just bore me rigid." Eventually a deal was struck with the proviso being that she would get to choose the show's writers, have script approval, and choose the costumes. '' Three of a Kind'', co-starring comedians Lenny Henry and David Copperfield debuted in 1981. This led to her winning her first BAFTA in 1984. She would soon go on to become a household name with the British media referring to her as "Our Trace". In 1985, she signed on to star in the ITV sitcom '' Girls on Top''. She was cast as the promiscuous golddigger Candice Valentine. The show, co-starring Dawn French, Ruby Wax, and Jennifer Saunders continued after Ullman bowed out after the first series. Saunders also wrote the scripts.


''The Tracey Ullman Show''

In 1985, Ullman was persuaded by her husband to join him in
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where he was already partially based. She set her sights on a film and stage career believing that there was little in the way of television for her. Her British agent put together a videotape compilation of her work and began circulating it around Hollywood. The tape landed in the hands of Craig Kellem, vice president for comedy at
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. A deal was immediately struck with CBS. ''I Love New York'', a show about a "slightly wacky" British woman working in New York, was written by ''
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'' writer
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. Unhappy with the direction the network wanted to take the show, Ullman's agent decided to contact producer
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. Brooks felt that a sketch show would best suit her. "Why would you do something with Tracey playing a single character on TV when her talent requires variety? You can't categorize Tracey, so it's silly to come up with a show that attempted to." '' The Tracey Ullman Show'' debuted on 5 April 1987, along with '' Married... with Children''. The show also produced ''
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'' as a series of animated shorts, or " bumpers", which would air before and after commercial breaks. ''The Simpsons'' shorts would eventually be spun-off into their own half-hour series in 1989. ''The Tracey Ullman Show'' was awarded ten Primetime Emmy Awards, with Ullman winning three, one in the category of Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program in 1990. The show was the first Fox network primetime show to win an Emmy award. The show concluded after a four season run in 1990.


HBO

In 1991, Ullman's husband placed a successful bid on a television franchise in the South of England. The television programming lineup agreed upon included a Tracey Ullman special. Unlike the Fox show, this programme would be shot entirely on location. '' Tracey Ullman: A Class Act'', a send up of the British class system, premiered on 9 January 1993 on ITV. This led to HBO in America becoming interested in having a special made for their network with the caveat that Ullman take on a more American subject. She chose
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. '' Tracey Ullman Takes on New York'' debuted on 9 October 1993. The programme went on to win two Emmy Awards, a CableAce Award, an American Comedy Award, and a Writers Guild of America Award. The success led to the creation of the HBO sketch comedy series '' Tracey Takes On...'' in 1996. Ullman returned to HBO in 2003 with the television special ''
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'', which she also directed. She returned to HBO again in 2005 with her one-woman stage show '' Tracey Ullman: Live and Exposed''.


Purple Skirt and Oxygen

In 2001, Ullman took a break from her multi-character-based work and created a fashion-based talk show for
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, '' Tracey Ullman's Visible Panty Lines''. The series was spun-off from her
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clothing store Purple Skirt. Interviewees included Arianna Huffington and Charlize Theron. The show ran for two seasons concluding in 2002.


Showtime

Upon her naturalisation in the United States, it was announced in April 2007 that she would be making the switch from HBO to Showtime after working fourteen years with the former. ''
Tracey Ullman's State of the Union ''Tracey Ullman's State of the Union'' is an American sketch comedy series starring Tracey Ullman. The series was written by Ullman along with Hollywood satirist Bruce Wagner. Gail Parent and Craig DiGregorio acted as contributing writers to the ...
'', a new sketch comedy series, debuted on 30 March 2008. It ran for three seasons concluding in 2010.


Return to British television

After a thirty year absence, Ullman returned to the BBC with the sketch comedy programme '' Tracey Ullman's Show'' in 2016. It aired in the United States on HBO. In 2017, the show earned its first Primetime Emmy Award nomination in the category of Outstanding Variety Sketch Series. In 2018, it garnered two additional Primetime Emmy Award nominations in the categories of Outstanding Variety Sketch Series and Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming. The show eventually led to the creation of the topical comedy programme ''
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'' in 2017.


Other notable work

In 1995, she became the first modern-day cartoon voice of Little Lulu. In 1999, she had a recurring role as an unconventional psychotherapist on '' Ally McBeal''. Her performance garnered her a Primetime Emmy Award, her seventh, and an American Comedy Award which was her eleventh. In 2005, she co-starred with Carol Burnett in the television adaptation of '' Once Upon a Mattress''. She played Princess Winnifred, a role originally made famous by Burnett on Broadway. This time Burnett took on the role of the overbearing Queen Aggravain. In March 2014, Ullman was introduced as Genevieve Scherbatsky, the mother of character Robin Scherbatsky in '' How I Met Your Mother''. On 15 February 2017, it was announced that she would star in the
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-BBC co-produced limited series adaptation of '' Howards End'' playing Aunt Juley Mund. On 14 May 2019, it was announced that Ullman would be portraying
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in the FX limited series '' Mrs. America''. The nine-episode series premiered 15 April 2020 on
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to favourable reviews. Her performance garnered her an Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie
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nomination. In 2021, Ullman plays councilwoman Irma Kostroski in the eleventh season of '' Curb Your Enthusiasm''. On 5 October 2022, it was announced that Ullman had been cast in the upcoming television series, '' Never Let Me Go''.


Film career

Along with her television work, Ullman has featured in many films throughout her career. Her first theatrical film was a small role in
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's film '' Give My Regards to Broad Street'' (1984). This was followed by a supporting role in the drama '' Plenty'' (1985) starring Meryl Streep. She made her big screen leading role debut in ''
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'' (1990) acting alongside Kevin Kline, River Phoenix, and Joan Plowright. She appeared in lead and supporting roles in films such as '' Robin Hood: Men in Tights'', Nancy Savoca's '' Household Saints'', '' Bullets Over Broadway'', '' Small Time Crooks'', and '' A Dirty Shame''. She was nominated for a
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in the category of Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her work in ''Small Time Crooks'' in 2001. She played Jack's mother in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical ''
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'' (2014) and appeared in the musical film '' The Prom'' (2020). Her voice work in film includes '' Tim Burton's Corpse Bride'' and the computer-animated films ''
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'' and '' Onward''.


Theatre

Ullman has an extensive stage career spanning back to the 1970s. In 1980, she appeared in
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's ''Talent'' at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. In 1982, she played Kate Hardcastle in ''
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''. In 1983, she took part in the workshop for Andrew Lloyd Webber's '' Starlight Express'' playing the part of Pearl as well as performed in Snoo Wilson's ''The Grass Widow'' at the Royal Court Theatre with
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. In 1990, she starred opposite actor Morgan Freeman as Kate in Shakespeare in the Park's production of '' Taming of the Shrew'' set in the Wild West for Joe Papp. In 1991, performed on Broadway in Jay Presson Allen's one-woman show ''
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'', based on the book of the same name. Both ''Taming of the Shrew'' and ''The Big Love'' garnered her Theatre World Awards. In 2011, she returned to the British stage in the Stephen Poliakoff drama ''My City''. Her performance earned her an ''Evening Standard'' Theatre Awards nomination for Best Actress. In 2012, she joined the cast of Eric Idle's '' What About Dick?'', described as a 1940s-style stand-up improv musical comedy radio play, taking on three roles. The show played for four nights in April in Los Angeles at the Orpheum Theater. She had performed the piece previously in a test run for Idle back in 2007. Cast members included Idle, Eddie Izzard, Billy Connolly,
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, Tim Curry, Jane Leeves, Jim Piddock, and
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. On 6 October 2014, it was formally announced that she would star in a limited engagement of '' The Band Wagon''.


Personal life

Ullman married producer Allan McKeown in 1983. The couple have two children: Mabel, born in 1986, and Johnny, born in 1991. On 24 December 2013, McKeown died at home from prostate cancer. Ullman's mother died in a fire at her flat on 23 March 2015. An inquest ruled the death to be accidental. She was 85 years old. In September 2018, Ullman said that her daughter was pregnant and that she was about to become a grandmother for the first time. Ullman acquired American citizenship in December 2006. She holds dual citizenship in the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2006, she topped the list for the "Wealthiest British Comedians", with an estimated wealth of £75 million. In 2017, ''
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'' estimated her wealth to be £80 million. An avid knitter, she co-wrote a knitting book, ''Knit 2 Together: Patterns and Stories for Serious Knitting Fun'' in 2006.


Acting credits and awards


Discography

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Bibliography

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References


Further reading

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British music charts history for Tracey Ullman
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Archive
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External links

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