Dame Patricia Routlege, the actress who was known for “Keeping Up performances”, died at the age of 96, October 3, 2025. The British Sitcom icon’s manager confirmed that the veteran actor took a quiet last breath in sleep, surrounded by love.
Dame Patricia Routledge’s Demise: Manager says her passion for crafts never faded
Routlege from a theater background held the Routledge screens alive with her presence, together with the stages, since the 1950s. She was known for her role as a snobbish social climber, Hyacinth Bucket, in the ‘Keeping up performances’, the BBC comedy show that had five seasons from 1990 to 1995. The agent gave an official statement about her passing, with the statement that she loved her audience and was passionate about her work. “Even at the age of 96, Dame Patricia’s passion for her work and to get in touch with living audiences never, just like new generations of audience, has continued to find her through her beloved TV roles,” the boss claimed, leaving that she was missing by the closest and admired of all, according to the deadline.
Who was Dame Patricia Routlege?
Born in 1929, Routlege worked extensively on stage after starting his career at West End on Broadway. She went on to win the prestigious Tony Award for best principal actress at ‘Darling of the Day’ in 1968. In 2017, she was named Dame Commander of the British Empire in Buckingham Palace after her productive contribution to performing arts. The valuable artist received two BAFTA nominations for “Keeping up performances” and a nomination of the BAFTA TV Award for Bennett’s “Talking Heads: A Lady of Letters” in 1988. She worked in the musicals Richard III and Henry V for the Royal Shakespeare Company and won the Olivier Award for best actress in a musical for Candide in the 1980s, according to the BBC. The reason for the passing of the famous actress has not yet been revealed.
