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Encyclopedia > Tracie Bennett
Tracie as Tracy Glazebrook in Joking Apart.
Tracie as Tracy Glazebrook in Joking Apart.

Tracie Bennett (born Tracey Anne Bennett, 17 June 1961, in Leigh, near Wigan, Lancashire) is an English stage and television actress. She trained at the Italia Conti Academy in Clapham, London. Image File history File linksMetadata Tracie_bennett. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Tracie_bennett. ... Joking Apart was a bittersweet comedy written by Steven Moffat and broadcast on BBC Two. ... June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (169th in leap years), with 197 days remaining. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... The Arms of the former Leigh Borough Council Leigh is a town located north of the East Lancashire Road between Manchester and Liverpool in England. ... Map sources for Wigan at grid reference SD583055 Wigan is a large town in the North West of England, in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, lying in the historic county of Lancashire. ... Lancashire is a county and duchy palatine in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi   - Water (%) Population... Italia Conti Academy is an acting school in Clapham, London, training actors for the professional stage and screen. ... Clapham is a neighbourhood in the London Borough of Wandsworth, South London. ... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ...

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Professional credits

Television

Tracie's television debut was in the children's series Going Out, before appearing in Coronation Street between 1982 and 1984 as Sharon Gaskell, the Fairclough's foster daughter. She returned to the role in 1999. Coronation Street is Britains longest-running television soap opera, and the UKs consistently highest-rated show. ... Rita Sullivan (née Littlewood, previously Fairclough) is a fictional character on Coronation Street. ...


In the 1980s, she appeared in numerous roles in television shows, including:

Bennett also played Malandra in the comedy film Shirley Valentine. Boon was a British television drama series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker and Neil Morrissey. ... Alas Smith and Jones was a British comedy sketch series featuring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. ... Brush Strokes was an Esmonde and Larbey sitcom set in south London and depicting the (mostly) amorous adventures of a good-looking, wisecracking house painter, Jacko (Karl Howman). ... Making out is an American slang phrase and usually serves as a colloquial term or euphemism for the act of two people engaging in prolonged kissing(known as getting off in the United Kingdom). ... Shirley Valentine is a play by Willy Russell, first staged in 1986. ...


She played dim-witted blonde Tracy Glazebrook in the pilot of Steven Moffat's sitcom Joking Apart, a role which she reprised for the subsequent two full length series in 1993 and 1995. Steven Moffat appearing on Doctor Who Confidential Steven Moffat (born 1961 in Paisley, Scotland, UK) is a British comedy/drama writer who has contributed to television series since the late 1980s. ... Joking Apart was a bittersweet comedy written by Steven Moffat and broadcast on BBC Two. ...


Her television performances in the 1990s include:

She presented Tracie Goes To Hollywood for OK! TV (for Carlton), and won an Audie Award for Comedy Best Actress for her narrations for the audio books of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. The Upper Hand was a sitcom, produced by Central Television and broadcast by ITV from 1990 to 1996. ... Heartbeat is a long-running British TV police drama series set in 1960s Yorkshire. ... The Ruth Rendell Mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 1987 and 2000. ... People Like Us is a British comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary (or mockumentary) written by John Morton, and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer. ... All Creatures Great and Small was the title given to a U.S. volume first published in 1972 comprising James Herriots first two novels, If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldnt Happen to a Vet, which were considered too short to publish individually in the U.S... Carlton Television was the United Kingdom Channel 3 (ITV) licensee for London and the surrounding areas, Monday 9:25am, to Friday, 5:15pm (and for legal formalities still is; see below). ... The Audie Awards (or Audies) are annually bestowed for outstanding audiobooks. ... Cassette recording of Patrick OBrians The Mauritius Command An audio book is a recording of the contents of a book read aloud. ... Helen Fielding (born February 19, 1958 in Morley, West Yorkshire) is a British author, best known as the author of the novel Bridget Joness Diary and its sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason The Bridget Jones books had their origins in a column published in The Independent and... Bridget Joness Diary is a 1996 novel by Helen Fielding. ... Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is a book by Helen Fielding as well as movie based on the book. ...


Tracie was winner of Celebrity Stars in their Eyes, as Judy Garland, in 2000. She has since appeared in: Stars in Their Eyes is a British television talent show in which contestants impersonate showbiz stars. ... Judy Garland (June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969), born Frances Ethel Gumm, was an American film actress considered by many to be one of the greatest singing stars of Hollywoods Golden Era of musical film. ...

Where the Heart Is is a British television drama series set in the fictional town Skelthwaite. ... Merseybeat is the name of a BBC One television drama about police officers on Merseyside, starring Leslie Ash, Joanna Taylor, John McArdle and Michelle Holmes. ... Casualty is a long-running BBC television drama serial, first broadcast in 1986 and transmitted on BBC One. ... The Royal is a British medical drama. ...

Stage

On stage, Tracie has appeared in:

In 1995 she won a Laurence Olivier Award as Best Supporting Performance in a Musical for She Loves Me at the Savoy Theatre. Carousel is a 1945 stage musical by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics) that was adapted from Ferenc Molnars play Liliom. ... She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by Oliver Goldsmith, first performed in 1773. ... One for the Road is a play written by Harold Pinter. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Chicago is a musical, first performed in 1975, based on the play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins. ... 20th Anniversary London Poster (c) Bill Kenwright Limited Blood Brothers is a 1982 musical, with book, lyrics, and music by Willy Russell. ... Educating Rita is a stage comedy by British playwright Willy Russell which premièred at The Warehouse, London, in 1980; and a film (1983) directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Julie Walters, Michael Caine, and Maureen Lipman with a screenplay by Russell. ... The Laurence Olivier Awards, previously known as The Society of West End Theatre Awards, were renamed in honour of British actor Laurence Olivier, Baron Olivier in 1984, having first been established in 1976. ... She Loves Me is a Broadway musical. ... Savoy Theatre London, December 2003 The Savoy Theatre, which opened on 10 October 1881, was built by Richard DOyly Carte (1844 - 1901) on the site of the old Savoy Palace in London as a showcase for the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, which became known as the Savoy Operas...


She played Ida in Honk!, which won the 2000 Olivier award for Best Musical. [1] Image:Honk!, st leonards college production, ida and ducklings. ...


In 2003 she was critically acclaimed for her role in High Society in the West End, and for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award in 2004. She then appeared in Sex, Chips and Rock 'n' Roll at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, for which she was nominated for a TMA Theatre Award as Best Supporting Actress in a Musical. This article is about the film; for the pornographic magazine of the same name, see High Society (magazine). ... Royal Exchange The Royal Exchange Theatre is a producing theatre in Manchester, England. ... Manchester is a city in England, considered by many to be the countrys second city [1][2]. It is a centre of the arts, the media, higher education and big business. ...


In January 2006, Tracie joined the London production of Les Misérables in the role of Madame Thénardier at the Queen's Theatre. 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... // West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland . Along with New Yorks Broadway Theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of theatre in the... Les Misérables programme from Palace Theatre purchased for £5 in July 2003. ... The musical Les Misérables transferred to the Queens Theatre in March 2004 after its run at the Palace Theatre The Queens Theatre is a theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue in the West End of London, next to the Gielgud Theatre, as whose twin it was designed by W. G...


External links

  • Biography at Corrie.net
  • Tracie Bennett at the Internet Movie Database
  • Les Miserables Extensive list of credits
  • "TV and stage actress Tracie Bennett joins the cast of Les Miserables from 17 January", Ticketmaster, 13 January 2006.
  • "Manchester Celebrities: Television, Film, Media & Broadcasting (21)", Manchester UK, 12 November 2005.


 

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