Victoria Nicolls
{{Short description|Australian actress and television personality}}
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{{BLP sources|date=January 2013}}
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Victoria Nicolls, (born February 1954) often misspelt as Victoria Nicholls, is an Australian actress and television personality.{{cite web |title=The serious side of a zany star - The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982) - 20 Jan 1982 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/55463525 |website=Trove - National Library of Australia |date=20 January 1982 |access-date=22 December 2019 |language=en}} Nicolls is well remembered by viewers for appearing in the Australian game show Sale of the Century as a hostess from 1980 to 1982.{{cite web |title=Sale of the Century – Series 1 episode 1 |url=https://aso.gov.au/titles/tv/sale-of-the-century/clip1/ |website=australianscreen |access-date=18 December 2019 |language=en}} She is also noted for her dramatic roles, such as Raeleen Archer in The Restless Years in the late 1970s,{{cite web |title=Australian who's who of television - The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982) - 8 Sep 1982 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/45656124/4804324# |website=Trove - National Library of Australia |access-date=22 December 2019 |language=en}} and as officer Heather Rodgers in Prisoner in 1984. In 1995 she was a leading cast member of the soap opera Echo Point.{{IMDb name|id=0629515|name=Victoria Nicholls}}
Discography
=Studio albums=
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! Title ! Album details |
| scope="row" | Frizzle Frazzle Frozzle
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=Singles=
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|+ List of singles, with Australian chart positions ! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Year ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:12em;" | Title ! scope="col" colspan="1" | Peak chart |
| scope="col" style="text-align:center;" | AUS {{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=218}} |
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| 1979
! scope="row" | "Midnite Rendezvous"{{cite web |title=45cat - Cover - Victoria Nicolls - Midnite Rendezvous / Until Then - Arrival - Australia - AR-102 |url=http://www.45cat.com/45_record_cover.php?r=ar102au |website=www.45cat.com |access-date=20 December 2019}} | style="text-align:center;" | 57 |
Filmography
=Film=
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! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Type | |||
| 1979 | Temperament Unsuited | Karen | Film short |
| 1979 | The Journalist | Phillipa Richards | Feature film {{cite web |title=Victoria Nicolls |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bb4c2ba05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222171136/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bb4c2ba05 |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 December 2019 |website=BFI |access-date=22 December 2019 |language=en}} |
=Television=
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! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Type |
| 1977-1980
| Regular role: Raelene Geddes |
| 1980
| Simon Townsend's Wonder World | Guest | TV series, 1 episode |
| 1983
| Pretty Petrol | Regular role: Lucy James | TV pilot |
| 1984
| Prisoner | Recurring role: Heather Rodgers | TV series, 24 episodes {{cite web |title=Episode 465 - Prisoner Cell Block H (Credits) | website=YouTube | date=16 March 2015 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdFePXFSlyIt=2687 |access-date=22 December 2019 |language=en}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead YouTube link|date=February 2022}} |
| 1990
| Recurring guest role | TV series |
| 1994; 2000
| Guest roles: Tricia Quinn / Wendy Ruhl | TV series, season 1, 1 episode: "Meat Is Hung, Men Are Hanged",Season 7: "Life Class" |
| 1995
| Regular role: Trish Loman |
| 1998; 1999
| Denise | Guest | TV series, 2 episodes |
| 2000
| Guest role: Chris Folsen | TV series, 1 episode: "The Anchovy" |
| 2003
| MDA | Guest role: Meredith Cooper | TV series, 1 episode: "Paved with Good Intentions" |
= Other appearances =
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| 2007
|Guest (with John Burgess, Barbie Rogers, Rosemary Margan) |TV series, 1 episode |
| 2002
|The Best of Aussie Cop Shows |Herself |TV special |
| 1999
|Fox Studios Australia: The Grand Opening |Herself |TV special |
| 1996
|English: Have a Go |Herself |TV series{{cite web |title=Learn English Conversation - English Have A Go 02 (Credits) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo5UYRxMYPU?t=1664 |access-date=22 December 2019 |website=YouTube | date=4 May 2016 |language=en}} |
| 1991
|Contestant (with Debbie Newsome, Barbie Rogers & Ena Harwood) |TV series, 1 episode: "Hosts v Hostesses" |
| 1989
|Guest (with Jane Clifton & Julie Adams) |TV series, 1 episode |
| 1988
|Herself |TV series, 1 episode ("Red Faces" segment) |
| 1986
|Kids 21st Birthday Channel Ten Telethon |Guest |TV special |
| 1983
|Telethon, South Australia 1983 |Guest |TV special |
| 1980-1982
|Hostess |TV series |
| 1982
|The Daryl Somers Show |Guest |TV series, 2 episodes |
| 1980
|Telethon '80 |Herself & Tony Barber |1979 |
| 1980
|Mardi Gras |Mardi Gras |Herself as Presenter |
| 1979
|Performer (singing "Midnite Rendezvous") |TV series, 1 episode |
References
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Category:20th-century Australian actresses
Category:21st-century Australian actresses
Category:Australian film actresses
Category:Australian soap opera actresses
Category:Australian game show hosts
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