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Open Image ModalThe unassuming writer/performer Victoria Wood, with her BAFTA Award for The Best Light Entertainment Performance for "Victoria Wood As Seen on TV". (credit:PA/PA Archive)
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Open Image ModalComedienne Victoria Wood receives a Honorary Master of Science Dergree from UMIST, the Science, Engineering and Management University in Manchester today (Wednesday). Photo by Dave Kendall. See SHOWBIZ Wood. (credit:Dave Kendall/PA Archive)
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Open Image ModalComedienne Victoria Wood, holds up her OBE which was presented to her by the Prince of Wales on behalf of the Queen during today's (Friday) Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace. WPA ROTA Photo by Rebecca Naden/PA. See PA story ROYAL Investiture (credit:Rebecca Naden/PA Archive)
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Open Image ModalActress and comedienne Victoria Wood attends a party to celebrate 60 years of BBC television. (credit:NEIL MUNNS/PA Archive)
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Open Image ModalCOMEDIENNE VICTORIA WOOD, WHO WILL APPEAR IN 'DINNERLADIES', HER FIRST EVER SIT-COM. (credit:MATTHEW FEARN/PA Archive)
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Open Image ModalNorman Wisdom, First President of Comic Heritage, presents the first-ever Eric Morecambe award to Victoria Wood, at the heritage's Christmas dinner in London. (credit:David Giles/PA Archive)
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Open Image ModalVictoria Wood (left) and Julie Walters team up again, in Londn today (Friday), this time in Ms Wood's first ever sit-com, Dinnerladies, in which she plays Bren, one of five dinner ladies, with Walters playing her mother, Petula Gordeno. Dinnerladies will be shown on BBC-1 in November. (credit:Matthew Fearn/PA Archive)
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Open Image ModalVictoria Wood (credit:Steve Etherington/EMPICS Sport)
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Open Image Modal(From left; Back row) Mariella Frostrup, Davina McCall, Janice Robertson, (front row), Geri Halliwell, Emma Freud, Dervla Kirwan and Victoria Wood in Leicester Square to help launch the 1999 Comic Relief appeal, raising money through the sale of squeaking red noses. (credit:Fiona Hanson/PA Archive)
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Open Image ModalComedienne Victoria Wood and co-star from TV sitcom Dinner Ladies, actor Duncan Preston, arriving at the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTA's) at Grosvenor House in London. (credit:Stefan Rousseau/PA Archive)
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Open Image ModalVictoria Wood (left) and Julie Walters pose for photographers during a photocall outside the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London. The pair are discussing plans for their forthcoming musical based on Victoria's award-winning BBC sitcom 'Acorn Antiques'. Production is expected to enter the West End next year. (credit:Peter Jordan/PA Archive)
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Open Image ModalVictoria Wood pictured during the three days she spent working in the bakery at ASDA in Boldon near Newcastle for the store's new 'there's no place like ASDA' advertising campaign launched today. (credit:David Parry/PA Archive)
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Open Image ModalVictoria Wood at the National Blood Donor Day campaign, Trafalgar Square, London.Doug Peters/allactiondigital.com (credit:Doug Peters /Doug Peters)
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Open Image ModalVictoria Wood pictured during the three days she spent working in the bakery at ASDA in Boldon near Newcastle for the store's new 'there's no place like ASDA' advertising campaign launched today. (credit:David Parry/PA Archive)
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Open Image ModalSTRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL 2045 SUNDAY 20 MAY 2007. Victoria Wood with the award for Best Actress recieved for Hosewife 49 at the British Academy Television Awards, held at the London Palladium, central London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Sunday 20 May 2007. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire (credit:Yui Mok/PA Archive)
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Open Image ModalVictoria Wood receives her CBE at Buckingham Palace, London. (credit:Steve Parsons/PA Archive)
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Open Image Modal Victoria Wood arriving at the 2005 Comedy Awards, ITV Studios, Southbank, London.©Doug Peters/allactiondigital.com (credit:Doug Peters/Doug Peters)
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Open Image ModalVictoria Wood receives her CBE at Buckingham Palace, London. (credit:Steve Parsons/PA Archive)
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Open Image ModalVictoria Wood arrives for the press night of Entertaining Mr Sloane at the Trafalgar Studios in London. (credit:Ian West/PA Archive)
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Open Image ModalVictoria Wood and daughter arriving at The British Comedy Awards 2011, Fountain Studios, Wembley, London. (credit:Doug Peters/Doug Peters)
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Open Image Modal(Left - right) Victoria Wood, Michael Ball, Sophie Hunter, Benedict Cumberbatch talk with the Princess Royal as they attend a reception and dinner in support of Motor Neurone Disease Association at Buckingham Palace, London. (credit:Ian West/PA Archive)
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Open Image ModalVictoria Wood arriving for the Philips British Academy Television Awards at the Grosvenor House, 90 Park Lane, London. (credit:Yui Mok/PA Archive)
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Open Image ModalVictoria Wood arriving at the Sky Arts South Bank Awards, at the Dorchester hotel, in central London. (credit:Dominic Lipinski/PA Archive)
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Open Image ModalVictoria Wood arrives at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards held at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London. (credit:Jonathan Brady/PA Archive)
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Open Image ModalComedienne Victoria Wood (right) signals the beginning of The SunWalk, London, starting from Battersea Park in south London, a pirate themed charity walk to raise money and awareness for breast cancer. (credit:John Stillwell/PA Archive)
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Open Image Modal(Left - right) Michael Keaton, Graham Norton (top), Victoria Wood and Jamie Oliver during filming of the Graham Norton Show at the London Studios, in central London. (credit:Ian West/PA Archive)
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Open Image ModalVictoria Wood during filming of the Graham Norton Show at the London Studios, in central London. (credit:Ian West/PA Archive)