Tracey Ullman, born December 30, 1959, in London, British comedienne, actress, and singer.
Her early appearances were in British TV sketch comedy shows with Rik Mayall in "Kick Up the Eighties" and "Three of a Kind" with Lenny Henry and the English comedian David Copperfield. She also appeared with French and Saunders & Ruby Wax in "Girls on Top".
In 1984, she had great success as a singer on the legendary punk label Stiff records, where she had six songs on the British Top 100 in less than two years, including her first hit "You Broke My Heart in 17 Places", and the international hit "They Don't Know". This wasn't punk. Her songs were over-the-top evocations of 60s and 70s pop music with an 80s edge, "somewhere between Minnie Mouse and the Supremes" as England's Melody Maker put it, or "retro before retro was cool", according to a retrospective review.
Her US television show, "The Tracey Ullman Show" earned four Emmies and spawned "The Simpsons", which was featured in very simple cartoon shorts. She later appeared in "Tracey Takes On . . . "
She has appeared in films included Love You to Death, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Household Saints. She is also the cartoon voice of Little Lulu.
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