Hyacinth Bucket
| Hyacinth Bucket | |||||||||||||||
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| Keeping Up Appearances character | |||||||||||||||
Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances | |||||||||||||||
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| Duration | 1990–1995, 2016 | ||||||||||||||
| First appearance | "Daddy's Accident" (29 October 1990) | ||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | Young Hyacinth (2 September 2016) | ||||||||||||||
| Created by | Roy Clarke | ||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | Harold Snoad | ||||||||||||||
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Hyacinth Bucket (née Walton; sometimes known as "The Bucket Woman") is a fictional character in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, and one of the main characters of its spinoff special, Young Hyacinth. She is portrayed by Patricia Routledge in Keeping Up Appearances and Kerry Howard in Young Hyacinth. Routledge won a British Comedy Award in 1991 and was nominated for two BAFTA awards in 1992 and 1993 for her portrayal.