Tracey Ullman
- 64 years old
- English
- Actor and comedian
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Tracey Ullman: 'My face is good for impersonations'
One of America's most successful comic actors is back in Britain. Tracey Ullman explains all...
Nigel Farndale, The Observer, 10th January 2016Tracey Ullman profile
To date, Tracey Ullman has won seven Emmys, a Golden Globe, a SAG award, 12 American Comedy Awards and countless others. In 2009 she became the first recipient of Bafta's Charlie Chaplin Lifetime Achievement award for comedy.
Esther Addley, The Guardian, 8th January 2016Tracey Ullman on political correctness
Political correctness must not sanitise comedy and inhibit controversial material, Tracey Ullman has warned.
Adam Sherwin, The Independent, 6th January 2016TV Review: Tracey Ullman's Show
It's easy to say this is hit and miss but it is more complex than that. In fact if you've got a broad, tolerant sense of humour this is much more hit than miss.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 6th January 2016Tracey Ullman: I had to wear fatsuit to play Judi Dench
It's been 30 years since Tracey Ullman last graced our TV screens, but now the British comedy queen who conquered America is about to make her historic UK return.
Nicola Methven, The Mirror, 4th January 2016Tracey Ullman interview
Veteran comedian Tracey Ullman talks about her stock of new - and older - female characters who feature in her return to British TV after 30 years away.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 4th January 2016Tracey Ullman: It's so good to be back
She is Britain's most successful comedy export to America since Bob Hope. Unlike him, however, she is coming back. Thirty years after she last appeared on the BBC comedian Tracey Ullman is returning to British TV with her own comedy show.
Anna Pukas, The Daily Express, 8th March 2015US star Tracey Ullman returns to the BBC
Comedian Tracey Ullman, whose 1980s US series gave birth to The Simpsons, is to make a brand new series for the BBC, more than 30 years since last working for the corporation.
British Comedy Guide, 4th March 2015Radio Times review
After the summer reunion rekindled interest in all things Pythonic, Gold has now enticed celebs into choosing their favourite sketches for a nightly five-part series. Tonight, Tracey Ullman plumps for the Montys in drag rolling about in mud on a hillside (Batley Townswomen's Guild Presents the Battle of Pearl Harbor), while Noel Fielding celebrates the genius of one joke repeated, in The Kilimanjaro Expedition.
Jim Carrey, meanwhile, prostrates himself before the Pythons, or as he calls them the "Super Justice League of comedy", and recalls the effect on him of Ernest Scribbler: Michael Palin's man who laughs himself to death. You'll see why immediately: Palin's performance is uncannily Carreyesque.
Tomorrow night, wordsmith Stephen Fry selects Argument Clinic (oh yes he does) and there's more cross-dressing: Hell's Grannies, chosen by Eddie Izzard.
Mark Braxton, Radio Times, 3rd November 2014