She was subsequently uprooted to Hackbridge, southwest London. When she was six, Ullman's father, who had been recovering from a heart operation, died of a heart attack in front of her. He also brokered marriages and translated among the émigré Polish community.

After emigrating and marrying in England, he worked as a solicitor, a furniture salesman, and a travel agent. Anthony served in the Polish Army and took part in the Battle of Dunkirk during World War II. Tracey Ullman was born Trace Ullman in Slough, Buckinghamshire (now Berkshire), the younger of two daughters, to Doreen ( née Cleaver 1929–2015), who was of British and Roma extraction, and Anthony John Ullman (1917–1966), a Roman Catholic Pole. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including twelve American Comedy Awards, seven Primetime Emmy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, four Satellite Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

In 2017, Ullman was reportedly Britain's richest comedian and second-richest British actress, with an estimated wealth of £80 million. This led to the creation of the topical comedy series Tracey Breaks the News in 2017. In 2016, she returned to British television with the BBC sketch comedy show Tracey Ullman's Show, her first project for the broadcaster in over thirty years. Ullman was the first British woman to be offered her own television sketch show in both the United Kingdom and the United States. She has appeared in several feature films. Her sketch comedy series Tracey Ullman's State of the Union ran from 2008 to 2010 on Showtime. She later produced programmes for HBO, including Tracey Takes On. She would go on to star in her own network television comedy series, The Tracey Ullman Show from 1987 until 1990, which also featured the first appearances of the long-running animated media franchise The Simpsons. Ullman emigrated from the United Kingdom to the United States. After a brief singing career, she appeared as Candice Valentine in Girls on Top with Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. Her earliest mainstream 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). Tracey Ullman (born Trace Ullman 30 December 1959) is a British-American actress, comedian, singer, writer, producer, and director.

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