After Dinner Speakers: Tracey Ullman, Jeremy Moore, Stephen Hawking

(b 30 Dec. '59, Buckinghamshire) UK pop singer, actress, comedienne. Scholarship to stage school at age twelve; she was encouraged by the great British comedian Les Dawson; appeared with Shakin' Stevens in London stage show Elvis, also appeared in productions of Grease and Rocky Horror Show; starred in BBC TV series Three Of A Kind early '80s and launched singing career after meeting wife of Stiff label boss at the hairdresser's. Three top ten hits '83 with covers of others' hits: Jackie De Shannon's 'Breakaway', Kirsty MacColl's 'They Don't Know', Doris Day's 'Move Over Darling'; 'They Don't Know' reached Hot 100 USA '84. Guests in her promo videos incl. Paul McCartney, Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock. You Broke My Heart In 17 Places '83 incl. all her hits, plus more covers. She appeared in McCartney's panned Give My Regards To Broad Street '84, had further hit with Madness's 'My Guy's Mad At Me'. She concentrated on acting, appearing in Plenty with Sting, then married TV producer Allan McKeown and relocated to the USA. The Tracey Ullman Show on Rupert Murdoch's Fox TV network in USA, appeared on UK TV '88; her huge success in the USA without becoming a California airhead earned the hostility of the UK press. Films incl. Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway and Robert Altman's Prˆt-…-Porter.