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Victoria Wood

1953 - 2016

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Victoria Wood (19 May 1953 – 20 April 2016) was an English comedian, actress, lyricist, singer, composer, pianist, screenwriter, producer and director. Wood wrote and starred in dozens of sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms over several decades and her live comedy act was interspersed with her own compositions which she performed at the piano. Much of her humour was grounded in everyday life and included references to activities, attitudes and products that are considered to exemplify Britain. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victoria Wood has received more than 5,158,948 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Victoria Wood is the 10,540th most popular actor (up from 10,640th in 2019), the 6,634th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 6,420th in 2019) and the 1,168th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 35.82

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Victoria Woods by language

Over the past year Victoria Wood has had the most page views in the with 416,790 views, followed by Simple English (8,964), and German (1,566). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (188.23%), Cornish (183.41%), and Irish (35.04%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Victoria Wood ranks 10,540 out of 13,578. Before her are Ivanna Sakhno, Lee Si-yeon, Lee Thompson Young, Éric Caravaca, Małgorzata Kożuchowska, and Selina Jen. After her are Ever Anderson, Amara, Liu Yan, Jean Brooks, Ariana DeBose, and Park Ji-hu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Victoria Wood ranks 676. Before her are Linda A. Morabito, Carl Hiaasen, Desi Arnaz Jr., John Lucas II, Kate Schmidt, and Chris Smith. After her are Russ Feingold, Kath Soucie, Kenny Burns, Danny Philip, Ian Ferguson, and Gus Williams. Among people deceased in 2016, Victoria Wood ranks 607. Before her are Big Syke, David Cañada, Bahman Golbarnezhad, José María Rivas, Ali Hussein Shihab, and Wendell R. Anderson. After her are Arthur Maia, Ralph Stanley, Henry Worsley, Bruno Rangel, René Marsiglia, and Deborah S. Jin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Victoria Wood ranks 6,634 out of 8,785. Before her are Mary Tamm (1950), Paul Merson (1968), Lily Cole (1987), Marc Albrighton (1989), Morgan Nicholls (1971), and Marlon Roudette (1983). After her are Rachel Goswell (1971), Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn (1945), Anna Burns (1962), Amanda Redman (1957), Mark Wright (1963), and Ann Widdecombe (1947).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Victoria Wood ranks 1,168. Before her are Rafe Spall (1983), Con O'Neill (1966), Sophie Ward (1964), Holliday Grainger (1988), Mary Tamm (1950), and Lily Cole (1987). After her are Amanda Redman (1957), Gemma Whelan (1981), Bella Ramsey (2003), Neil Jackson (1976), Heather Sears (1935), and Stephen Campbell Moore (1979).

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Television and Movie Roles

Housewife, 49
Nella Last
Downtrodden wife and mother Nella's life takes an unexpected turn for the better after she joins the Women's Voluntary Service office in Barrow-in-Furness during the Second World War. However, her new-found happiness is shattered when her son Cliff leaves to join the troops - provoking a painful confrontation with her husband Will.
Dec 10o 20066.2 / 10
Ballet Shoes
Nana
An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy -- and raise them as sisters in 1930s London. But the girls must fend for themselves when Gum doesn't return from one of his adventures. Together, they nurture their passions for acting, aviation and ballet in this charming TV adaptation of Noel Streatfield's novel.
Aug 26o 20086.398 / 10
Pat and Margaret
Margaret
Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent.
Sep 11o 19947.5 / 10