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- Birth nameTrace Ullman
- Height5′ 5½″ (1.66 m)
- Tracey Ullman (born Trace Ullman) is a multiple award-winning television, stage and film actress who performs as a comedian, singer, dancer, as well as works as a screenwriter, producer, director, author, and businesswoman. She holds dual British and American citizenship.
Ullman's early appearances were on British television sketch comedy shows A Kick Up the Eighties (with Rik Mayall and Miriam Margolyes) 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 where she starred in her own network television comedy series, The Tracey Ullman Show, from 1987 until 1990. She later produced programmes for HBO, including Tracey Takes On... (1996-99), for which she garnered numerous awards. Ullman's sketch comedy series, Tracey Ullman's State of the Union, ran from 2008 to 2010 on Showtime. She has also appeared in several feature films. Ullman was the first British woman to be offered her own television sketch show in the United States, and in 2016 starred in her own BBC sketch comedy show Tracey Ullman's Show, her first project for the broadcaster in over thirty years.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- SpouseAllan McKeown(December 27, 1983 - December 24, 2013) (his death, 2 children)
- Children
- Can switch effortlessly between characters of different nationalities
- The phenomenally successful animated series The Simpsons (1989) is actually a spin-off of The Tracey Ullman Show (1987). The animated show began as 30-second segments aired between comedy sketches. In 1992, she filed a lawsuit asking for a share of the merchandise-related profit from "The Simpsons". The lawsuit was unsuccessful.
- Dropped out of high school.
- On the radio program "Fresh Air with Terry Gross," she said that when she was six years old, her father died of a heart attack while reading a book to her.
- Her father, Antoni John Ullman, was Polish and her mother, Doreen (Cleaver), was English. Her father was in the Polish Army during World War II. Evacuated at Dunkirk, he stayed in England after the war.
- Ended her American TV shows by telling the audience to "Go Home."
- I'm not jealous over the success of The Simpsons (1989). Not at all. They used to appear for 30 seconds in the middle of my show. Maybe they'll let me appear for 30 seconds in the middle of their show.
- After spending two months in France where the air is great, I genuinely noticed how ill I felt returning to Los Angeles. The way we're going, if they keep building and building, there will be no space any more.
- As I get older, I just prefer to knit.
- As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.
- Chic is the character my family least likes to see me as. It is the most uncomfortable make-up. The beard is vile. It's made of yak hair and itches horribly.
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