Editing Tracey Ullman (section)

==Early life==

Tracey Ullman was born in [[Slough]], [[Buckinghamshire]] (now [[Berkshire]]),<ref name="queenofparody">{{cite web|title=Tracey Ullman Is Sitting Pretty as the Queen of Parody and Pops|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20089118,00.html|first=Barbara|last=Graustark|date=12 November 1984|access-date=10 June 2015|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|archive-date=10 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610211834/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20089118,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> the younger of two daughters,<ref name="prodigal">{{cite web|title=Return of the Prodigal Daughter|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4709481/Return-of-the-prodigal-daughter.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160226080757/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4709481/Return-of-the-prodigal-daughter.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 February 2016|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=5 July 1997|access-date=29 August 2018}}</ref> to Doreen ([[née]] Cleaver; 1929–2015), who was of British and [[Romani people|Roma]] extraction,<ref>{{harvnb|Ullman|1998|p=98}}</ref> and Anthony John Ullman (1917–1966), a [[Roman Catholicism in Poland|Roman Catholic]] [[Polish people|Pole]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The International Who's Who 2004|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wwXjAAAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Psychology Press|page=1712|isbn = 9781857430813}}</ref> Anthony served in the [[Polish Army]] and took part in the [[Battle of Dunkirk]] during [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Tracey Takes Charge : Ullman's at Home Behind the Scenes and in Front of the Camera |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-02-07-ca-33095-story.html|first=Judith|last=Michaelson|date=7 February 1996|access-date=28 February 2021|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> After emigrating and marrying in England, he worked as a [[solicitor]], a furniture salesman, and a travel agent. He also brokered marriages and translated among the émigré Polish community.<ref name="skitcom"/>

When she was aged six, Ullman's father, who had been recovering from a heart operation, died of a heart attack in front of her.<ref name=npr-state>{{cite web|title=Tracy Ullman Takes on the 'State of the Union'|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89037585|work=[[NPR]]|publisher=NPR|date=25 March 2008|access-date=10 June 2015}}</ref><ref name=vanityfair-88>{{cite magazine |last=Kaplan |first=James |date=March 1991 |title=Amazing Trace |magazine=Vanity Fair |publisher=Condé Nast Publications Inc.|volume=54 |issue=3 |pages=88}}</ref> She was subsequently uprooted to [[Hackbridge]], southwest [[London]]. Her mother struggled to make ends meet without their father's income.<ref name="shemadeit">{{cite web |url=http://www.shemadeit.org/meet/biography.aspx?m=83 |title=The Paley Center for Media &#124; She Made It &#124; Tracey Ullman |publisher=She Made It |date=30 December 1959 |access-date=17 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140317140929/http://www.shemadeit.org/meet/biography.aspx?m=83 |archive-date=17 March 2014}}</ref> In an effort to cheer her family up, Ullman, along with her sister Patti, created and performed nightly shows on their mother's bedroom windowsill. After their mother remarried, the family began moving around the country, with Ullman attending numerous state schools, where she wrote and performed in school plays.<ref>{{cite journal |date=16 February 1984 |title=The Tracey Ullman Show |url=http://41.media.tumblr.com/10173329d75001ab79fdb6810b83168b/tumblr_nky5r4PyEW1upi75eo1_1280.jpg |journal=Smash Hits |pages=38}}</ref>

She eventually caught the attention of a headmaster who recommended that she attend a performing arts school. She won a full scholarship to the [[Italia Conti Academy]] at the age of twelve.<ref name="liveandexposed">{{cite video |people=Ullman, Tracey |date=2005 |title=Tracey Ullman: Live and Exposed |medium=DVD |publisher=HBO Video}}</ref> At sixteen, she attended a dance audition under the impression that she was applying for summer season in [[Scarborough, North Yorkshire|Scarborough]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Furness |first=Adrian |date=27 March 1982 |title=Two Little Words Made Her a Star |journal=TVTimes Magazine |pages=75}}</ref> The audition resulted in a contract with a German ballet company for a revival of ''[[Gigi (musical)|Gigi]]'' in Berlin.<ref name="TVNYT">{{cite news|last=O'Connor|first=John J.|title=Television Review – A Case of Multiple Personalities|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/24/arts/television-review-a-case-of-multiple-personalities.html|work=The New York Times|date=24 January 1996|access-date=15 December 2015}}</ref> Upon returning to England, she joined the Second Generation dance troupe, performing in London, [[Blackpool]], and [[Liverpool]].<ref>[http://www.dareland.com/emulsionalproblems/ullman.htm Tracking Tracey]{{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100921223706/http://dareland.com/emulsionalproblems/ullman.htm |date=21 September 2010 }}. Retrieved 1 April 2007.</ref> She branched out into musical theatre and was cast in numerous [[West End theatre|West End]] musicals including ''[[Grease (musical)|Grease]]'', ''[[Elvis (musical)|Elvis The Musical]]'', and ''[[The Rocky Horror Show]]''.<ref name="vanityfair-88"/><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040212073207/http://www.rockyhorror.org/faq/faqframe/m-hrhs.html History Of The RHPS]. Retrieved 1 April 2007.</ref>