Patricia Routledge

**Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge** (/ˈraʊtlɪdʒ/ ROWT-lij; 17 ga Fabrairu 1929 - 3 ga Oktoba 2025) 'yar wasan kwaikwayo ce kuma mawaƙiya ta Ingila. An fi saninta da rawar da ta taka a matsayin Hyacinth Bucket a cikin jerin wasan kwaikwayo na BBC One Keeping Up Appearances (1990-1995), wanda aka zaba ta sau biyu don kyautar BAFTA TV don Mafi kyawun Nishaɗi.

Routledge ta fara wasan kwaikwayo na farko a Liverpool Playhouse a 1952, kuma ta fara wasan West End a 1959. Ta fara bugawa Broadway a shekarar 1966, kuma ta lashe lambar yabo ta Tony ta 1968 don 'yar wasan kwaikwayo mafi kyau a cikin Musical saboda rawar da ta taka a Darling of the Day . Ta lashe lambar yabo ta Olivier ta 1988 don 'yar wasan kwaikwayo mafi kyau a cikin Musical don Candide a The Old Vic . Fim dinta ya hada da To Sir, tare da Ƙauna (1967) da Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968).

Routledge ya zama sananne a cikin shekarun 1980 a cikin maganganun talabijin da Alan Bennett da Victoria Wood suka rubuta, ya bayyana a cikin Bennett's A Woman of No Importance (1982) kuma a matsayin Kitty a Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV (1985-1986), kuma an zabi shi don BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for Bennett's Talking Heads: A Lady of Letters (1988). Ta kuma fito a matsayin Hetty Wainthropp a cikin jerin shirye-shiryen talabijin na Hetty Waintheropp Investigates (1990, 1996-1998). An sanya Routledge a matsayin Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) saboda hidimarta ga gidan wasan kwaikwayo da sadaka a cikin 2017.

An haifi Katherine Patricia Routledge a Tranmere (wanda a lokacin yake a Cheshire kuma yanzu yana cikin Merseyside) a ranar 17 ga Fabrairu 1929,   'yar Catherine Perry da haberdasher da kuma mai ba da kayan ado Isaac Routledge. Iyayenta sun yi aure a shekara ta 1924. Routledge ta halarci Birkenhead High School a Oxton  kafin ta yi karatu a Jami'ar Liverpool,  inda ta sami digiri tare da girmamawa a cikin Harshen Ingilishi da Littattafai. Ta shiga cikin al'ummar jami'ar, inda ta yi aiki tare da masanin kimiyya Edmund Colledge, wanda ya jagoranci kuma ya yi aiki a cikin ayyukan al'umma da yawa; ya shawo kanta ta bi aikin wasan kwaikwayo. Bayan kammala karatunta, ta horar da ita a Makarantar wasan kwaikwayo ta Bristol Old Vic kuma ta koma Liverpool don fara aikinta na wasan kwaikwayo a Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Liverpool . 

## Ayyuka

### Gidan wasan kwaikwayo
Routledge tana da dogon aiki a gidan wasan kwaikwayo, gami da gidan wasan kwaikwayo na kiɗa, a Ƙasar Ingila da Amurka,  muryarta ita ce ta mezzo-soprano. A shekara ta 1956 ta bayyana a matsayin Adriana a cikin wani kiɗa na The Comedy of Errors tare da kiɗa na Julian Slade a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Arts, wanda daga baya aka watsa shi a kan ITV; Routledge ya yi sharhi a lokacin cewa "mutane da yawa waɗanda zasu iya kauce wa Shakespeare sun zo tare kuma sun bauta masa gaba ɗaya saboda kiɗa". A gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Chichester Festival rawar da ta fara takawa ita ce Agatha a cikin The Magistrate a shekarar 1969 a gaban Alastair Sim a cikin rawar da take takawa, wanda ya kasance babban nasara kuma ya koma West End; za su sake haduwa a 1973 a wani wasan da Pinero *Dandy Dick* ya yi inda ta buga Georgiana Tidman .  Daga baya bayyanar a Chichester sun hada da Emilia a *Othello* a 1975, Mrs Malaprop a cikin The Rivals wanda aka sauya zuwa West End, Miss Dyott a cikin The Schoolmistress a cikin 1994, Lady Bracknell a cikin The Importance of Being Earnest a cikin 1999 wanda da kuma West End canja wurin kuma ya zagaya Australia, da Duchess a cikin Wild Orchids a cikin 2002; nuna mace daya da aka haɗa da Come for the Ride a cikin 1989 tare da sassan wasan kwaikwayo na kiɗa, A Woman of No Importance da A Lady of Letters by Alan Bennett a cikin 1991, da Admission and Adcing One Shilling

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