Patricia Routledge

Biography

Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge, DBE (17 February 1929 – 3 October 2025) was a British actress, comedian and singer. She was best known for her role as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, for which she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance in 1992 and 1993.

Patricia Routledge

Biography

Known For (Movies)

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River

The Beggar's Opera

Lock Up Your Daughters

To Sir, with Love

Talking Heads 2

A Visit from Miss Prothero

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

Miss Pym's Day Out

A Woman of No Importance.

30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

Missing Persons

Iolanthe

Talking Heads

Plain Jane

Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

Hildegard

The Pirates of Penzance

Known For (TV)

Tony Awards

Play for Today

Natural World

Tales of the Unexpected

BBC Play of the Month

Keeping Up Appearances

The Ed Sullivan Show

No Hiding Place

Parkinson

Z-Cars

An Audience with...

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

BBC2 Play of the Week

ITV Play of the Week

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

Ooh La La!

Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV

Nicholas Nickleby

...And Mother Makes Five