Tracey Ullman

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Birthday:

30 December 1959, Slough, Berkshire, England, UK

Birth Name:

Trace Ullman

Height:

166 cm

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 both the United Kingdom and the United States and in 2016 stars in her own BBC sketch comedy show Tracey Ullman's Show, her first project for the broadcaster in over thirty years. Show less «

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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 ma...Show more »

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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...Show more »

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A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing ...Show more »

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I am not fearful. There's no point.

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I did a crap impersonation of J.K. Rowling a few years ago. Sorry, J.K.. Can this apology put me on a casting list for your next mega-franchise? Show less «

I have no neck.

[on her best kiss] Kevin Kline in I Love You to Death (1990). He trained at Juilliard, so is technically brilliant.

I judge people too quickly. I think I'm so bloody smart, and I'm not. Well, sometimes I am.