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Patricia Routledge

1929 - 2025

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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. Routledge made her professional stage debut at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1952, and her West End debut in 1959. She made her Broadway debut in 1966, and won the 1968 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role in Darling of the Day. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Patricia Routledge is the 4,702nd most popular actor (down from 4,556th in 2024), the 3,886th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,529th in 2019) and the 552nd most popular British Actor.

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Among actors, Patricia Routledge ranks 4,702 out of 13,578. Before her are Charles Shaughnessy, Minami Takayama, Gustaf Skarsgård, Margaretha Krook, Michael Gwisdek, and LeVar Burton. After her are Aria Giovanni, Júlia Sigmond, Victor Sen Yung, Dia Mirza, Roger Lloyd-Pack, and Pamela Sue Martin.

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Among people born in 1929, Patricia Routledge ranks 374. Before her are Lady Pamela Hicks, Marcel Amont, Kenneth MacMillan, Ernesto Grillo, Michael Harner, and Aulis Kallakorpi. After her are Júlia Sigmond, Dilara Aliyeva, Barry Harris, Sergio Mantovani, Rafael Chimishkyan, and Raymond Bellot. Among people deceased in 2025, Patricia Routledge ranks 315. Before her are Gino Pivatelli, Bernd Cullmann, Antonio Bailetti, Ileana Silai, Fauja Singh, and Assata Shakur. After her are Jan Lála, Miguel Ángel Russo, Eduardo Serra, Roman Starovoyt, David Johansen, and Alvaro Vitali.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, Patricia Routledge ranks 3,887 out of 8,785. Before her are Beth Gibbons (1965), Charles Shaughnessy (1955), Eva Crane (1912), Muriel Robb (1878), Mike Figgis (1948), and Anna Löwenstein (1951). After her are Brian Redman (1937), Roger Lloyd-Pack (1944), Tony Nash (1936), Henry Jackman (1974), Lawrence Oates (1880), and Tommy Robinson (1982).

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Among actors born in United Kingdom, Patricia Routledge ranks 552. Before her are Christina Pickles (1935), Susan George (1950), Herbert Marshall (1890), Rose Leslie (1987), Ben Chaplin (1969), and Charles Shaughnessy (1955). After her are Roger Lloyd-Pack (1944), Clive Russell (1945), Richard Dormer (1969), Jeremy Kemp (1935), Jenny Agutter (1952), and Sydney Greenstreet (1879).

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