The versatile star, who has died aged 96, portrayed absurdly pretentious and apparently grotesque characters with wonderful sympathy Patricia Routledge was an actor of uncommon versatility equally at home in musicals, the classics and modern drama. But, if one had to seize on a defining quality, it was her ability to see the humanity in a variety of eccentrics and outsiders. That was true whether she was playing the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM on October 3, 2025