Tracey Ullman It" category. In April 2009, it was announced that Ullman would be awarded a Lifetime Achievement BAFTA Award the following May. She became the first recipient of the Charlie Chaplin Lifetime Achievement Award for Comedy on 9 May 2009. Tracey Ullman Tracey Ullman (born 30 December 1959) is an English actress, comedian, singer, dancer, screenwriter, producer, director, author, and businesswoman. She holds dual British and American citizenship. Her earliest appearances were on British television sketch comedy shows "A Kick Up the Eighties" (with Rik Mayall and Miriam Margolyes) and "Three of a Kind" (with Lenny Henry and David Copperfield). After
Alfresco (TV series) Alfresco (TV series) Alfresco is a British sketch comedy television series starring Robbie Coltrane, Ben Elton, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Siobhan Redmond and Emma Thompson, produced by Granada Television and broadcast by ITV from May 1983 to June 1984. Running for two series, it totalled 13 episodes and was named Alfresco (from the Italian "al fresco", meaning "in the fresh air") because, unusually for a comedy sketch show of the time, it was shot on location rather than in a studio. The programme is a sketch show which was intended as an answer to the BBC's highly successful "Not the