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Victoria Wicks

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{{Infobox person

| name = Victoria Wicks

| image = Victoria Wicks 2008.JPG

|birth_name= Beverly Victoria Anne Wicks

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1959|4|18}}

| birth_place = Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, UK

| death_date =

| death_place =

| occupation = Actress

| alma_mater = Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

| yearsactive =

| spouse = {{marriage|Peter Williams|1984|2004|reason=divorced}}

| children = 1

}}

Victoria Wicks (born Beverly Victoria Anne Wicks; 18 April 1959) is a British actress. She is known for her role as Sally Smedley in Channel 4's comedy series Drop the Dead Donkey (1990–1998), Mrs. Gideon in The Mighty Boosh (2004), and the College Director in Skins (2007–08). Her film appearances include The Imitation Game (2014) and High-Rise (2015). She is an associate of Howard Barker's theatre company, The Wrestling School.

Biography

= Early life and education =

Wicks was born Beverley Victoria Anne Wicks in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, to Brian and Judith Wicks. Wicks's mother, Judith Bates, born 1933, was the second child of the writer H. E. Bates. Wicks is the niece of Jonathan Bates, a sound editor who died in 2008, and the television producer Richard Bates, who produced the television adaptation of The Darling Buds of May. Wicks is a director of Evensford Productions Ltd, the company set up in 1955 to protect and promote H. E. Bates's work.{{cite web|url=http://www.pollingerltd.com/estates/he_bates.htm|title=Estates – H. E. Bates}}{{cite web|url=https://www.companiesintheuk.co.uk/director/340880/beverly-wicks|title=Beverly Wicks|author=Comdevelopment Ltd}}

Wicks trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama where she was awarded the Pernod and Bisquit Award for the most promising graduate.

= Career =

Her first job was as acting assistant stage manager at Northampton Rep for a year, before going to Bristol Old Vic, Regent's Park and then the RSC. In 1988 Wicks was in Andy Hamilton's black comedy Tickets for the Titanic, and then went on to play Sally Smedley in all six series of Drop the Dead Donkey.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/23/arts/television-view-the-news-from-britain-sort-of.html|title=TELEVISION VIEW; The News From Britain, Sort Of|work=The New York Times |date=23 July 1995|last1=James |first1=Caryn }} The Mighty Boosh (a radio, television and stage show created by Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt) featured her in Series 1 as Mrs Gideon, the Head of Reptiles at the Zooniverse. Wicks also played Harriet Lawes, the Head of College in the first three series of Skins.

Wicks joined 'The Wrestling School' in 1996. The company was formed in 1988 for the sole purpose of performing the work of the dramatist Howard Barker. Since joining the company Wicks has appeared in nine plays by Barker, performing in London, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Adelaide and also in Rouen, Grenoble, Le Mans and Paris for the co-production of Les Animaux en Paradis, which was performed in French by four British and five French actors. Wicks is an associate of The Wrestling School. In 2010 Wicks was invited to the Segal Theatre Center in New York as guest of Theatre Minima to celebrate a day-long event on the work of Howard Barker.[http://events.cuny.edu/eventDetail.asp?EventId=27445 "Playwright Howard Barker (UK) at the Segal Center"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609190427/http://events.cuny.edu/eventDetail.asp?EventId=27445 |date=9 June 2010 }}, City University of New York, May 2010

Wicks played the high priestess of the Sybillines in The Fires of Pompeii, a 2008 episode of Doctor Who. In 2014, she played Dorothy Clarke in The Imitation Game and Susannah Marshall in the E4 drama Glue (2014).

= Personal life =

In 1984 Wicks married Peter Williams (divorced 2004); they have one daughter, Madelaine Rose, born 1985.

Credits

= Work for Howard Barker =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

! class="unsortable" |Notes

1996

|Uncle Vanya{{Cite web|title=Bloomsbury Collections - Howard Barker's Theatre - Wrestling with Catastrophe|url=https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/howard-barkers-theatre-wrestling-with-catastrophe/notes-on-contributors|access-date=2021-10-19|website=www.bloomsburycollections.com}}

|Helena

|London, Berlin, Stockholm

1998

|Ursula; Fear of the Estuary

|Mother Placida

|London, Birmingham, Copenhagen

1999

|Scenes From an Execution

|Rivera

|BITE Festival, Barbican Theatre (London)

2000

|The Ecstatic Bible

|Mrs Golllancz

|Adelaide Theatre Festival (Australia)

2000

|He Stumbled

|Turner, The Queen

|Riverside Studios (London) and Samuel Beckett Theatre (Dublin)

2001

|The Swing at Night

|Klatura

|Marionette Theatre for Puppet Theatre Barge

2002

|Gertrude – The Cry{{Cite web|title=Production of Gertrude – the Cry {{!}} Theatricalia|url=https://theatricalia.com/play/abk/gertrude-the-cry/production/n4a|access-date=2021-10-20|website=theatricalia.com}}

|Gertrude

|Elsinore Castle (Denmark), Birmingham Rep and Riverside Studios (London)

2003

|13 Objects{{Cite web|title=Production of 13 Objects {{!}} Theatricalia|url=https://theatricalia.com/play/ffe/13-objects/production/1045|access-date=2021-10-20|website=theatricalia.com}}

|Cruel Cup, Kind Saucer, The Ring, Blue Shoe, The Drum

|Birmingham Rep, Everyman Theatre (Liverpool) and Riverside Studios (London)

2005

|The Fence in Its Thousandth Year

|Algeria

|Birmingham Rep, Oxford Playhouse, York Theatre Royal

2005

|Les Animaux en Paradis

|Tenna

|Théâtre des Deux Rives (Rouen), Paris, Grenoble and Le Mans

2008

|I Saw Myself

|

|Premiere reading New End Theatre, Hampstead

Unknown

|Actress With an Unloved Child

|

|Premiere reading at Lewis Festival

Unknown

|Screaming in Advance

|

|Premiere readings of Concentration and Dying in the Street at The Print Room (London)

2010

|Smack Me

|Thing, A Searcher

|Premiere reading at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre (London)

1997

|The Love of a Good Man{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/991325febfd24969bf2bea81f8b856ce|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=9 March 1997 }}

|Mrs Sylvia Toynbee

|BBC R3 Drama

1999

|A House of Correction{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/863e31de626149d4bdb5c7e290a59ea1|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=14 February 1999 }}

|Lyndsay

|BBC R3 Drama

2001

|Knowledge and a Girl{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/469a48f80ecd491c81679dea3d28a078|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=23 February 2001 }}

|The Queen

|BBC R4 Drama

= Television =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

! class="unsortable" |Notes

1984

|Prisoner of Zenda{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a420bb125fb54d7792dad516acdb2be7|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=23 December 1984 }}

|Princess Flavia

|episodes: 1-6

1985

|Adultery: My Little Grey Home in the West{{Cite web|title=My Little Grey Home in the West (1985)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6e86781f|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020102135/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6e86781f|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 October 2021|access-date=2021-10-20|website=BFI|language=en}}

|Janet

|Ch4

1986

|Two of Us

|Jackie

|

1987

|Rumpole of the Bailey{{Cite web|title=Rumpole and the Old, Old Story (1987)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b764aaa81|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323223645/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b764aaa81|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 March 2019|access-date=2021-10-20|website=BFI|language=en}}

|Amanda Gleason

|episode: "Rumpole and the Old, Old, Story"

1987

|The Houseman's Tale{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1ff91cca51154251a3cbcddf5ca63234|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=21 March 1987 }}

|Allison Quothquan

|episodes: 1-2

1987

|Hold the Dream{{Cite web|title=Hold the Dream (1986)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b727abb44|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108061813/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b727abb44|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 January 2019|access-date=2021-10-20|website=BFI|language=en}}

|Sarah Lowther

|episode: 1

1988

|Tickets for the Titanic{{Cite web|title=Pastoral Care (1988)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b79a03189|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020102218/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b79a03189|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 October 2021|access-date=2021-10-20|website=BFI|language=en}}

|Arbuthnot

|episode: "Pastoral Care"

1988

|Gems

|Elinor Whiteside

|episodes: 3.25, 3.26, 3.27

1989

|Storyboard{{Cite web|title=Snakes & Ladders (1989)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7a5ee424|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181230123950/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7a5ee424|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 December 2018|access-date=2021-10-20|website=BFI|language=en}}

|Virginia

|episode: "Snakes & Ladders"

1989

|Snakes & Ladders

|Hotel receptionist

|episodes: 2 & 4

1990

|Grange Hill

|Doctor Burton

|episode: 13.17

1990

|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/6501e979a5294174ae67ce3f4767abc9|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=8 April 1990 }}

|Georgina Oakley

|TV movie

1990

|Drop the Dead Donkey

|Sally Smedley

|Ch4

1991

|Amnesty International's Big 30

|As Sally Smedley

|

1993

|Paul Merton: The Series

|Emily

|episode: 2.3

1993

|Blossom

|Jacqueline Renaud

|episode: 4.2 & 4.4 (Blossom in Paris)

1993

|Comic Timing

|Sarah St. John Walderbury

|episode: "No Worries"

1993

|Prince Cinders{{Cite web|title=Prince Cinders (1993)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7d19d018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303051659/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7d19d018|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 March 2017|access-date=2021-10-20|website=BFI|language=en}}

|Princess Lovelypenny (voice)

|Animation

1993

|The Main Event{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/fad5c5e584c44e92952e9aa5774ebb89|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=26 June 1993 }}

|As herself

|BBC game show

1994

|Children in Need{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/04ca3e1541bc4dd997928dad172719b6|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=25 November 1994 }}

|As herself

|BBC

1994

|You Bet

|As herself

|ITV game show ep: 7.13

1994

|Murder Most Horrid{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/268359b77cfa4788b020637eb088483a|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=24 March 1994 }}

|Jocasta

|episode: "We all hate Granny"

1994

|Mud{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c9f6944c27ac4800902061e6843539e4|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=24 February 1994 }}

|Miss Palmer

|

1995

|Smith and Jones

|

|episode: 8.3 & 8.6

1995

|The Imaginatively Titled Punt & Dennis Show

|

|episode: 2.2

1995

|Stick with Me Kid

|Christina Samone

|

1996

|Delta Wave

|Olga Crick

|

1996

|Testament: The Bible in Animation{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/edb3fc281546403bb34e05ff6bc15bfb|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=6 November 1996 }}

|Jezebel (voice)

|episode: Elijah

1997

|Bright Hair (About the Bone){{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d0fde4f2ad33461a98ede0d458a66c45|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=11 October 1997 }}

|Miss Montrose

|TV movie

1997

|Snap

|Jane Taylor

|

1998

|Late Lunch with Mel and Sue{{Cite web|title=Late Lunch with Mel and Sue[04/11/98] (1998)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b820af635|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020102158/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b820af635|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 October 2021|access-date=2021-10-20|website=BFI|language=en}}

|As herself

|Ch4 ep: 2.3

2001

|Peak Practice

|Judy

|episode: 12.3

2001

|Bernard's Watch

|Aunt Rowena

|CITV

2002

|Casualty{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e8c4827ed6da44c1b2e172602b93dd41|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=5 October 2002 }}

|Connolly QC

|

2002, 2007, 2009, 2011–2012, 2015, 2022

|Doctors

|Alison Matthews,
Marjorie Middleton,
Yvonne Diamond,
Jenny Rockman,
Jocasta Rathbone,
Elspeth Manners,
Jenny Nicholson{{cite news |last1=Timblick |first1=Simon |title=Doctors spoilers: Scarlett Kiernan is out for PAYBACK on Princess! |url=https://www.whattowatch.com/spoilers/doctors-spoilers-scarlett-kiernan-is-out-for-payback-on-princess |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=What to Watch |publisher=(Future plc)}}

|7 episodes

2002

|My Family{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/55452fcc112d4e7a96bb5fc80a164e49|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=17 October 2002 }}

|Bex's Mother

|Also in 2003, 2005

2004

|The Brief

|Magistrate

|episode: "So Long, Samanatha"

2004

|The Mighty Boosh{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/bfa44cac1fc84ebca3876a9f733c282e|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=December 2004 }}

|Mrs. Gideon

|BBC 3

2004

|Midsomer murders

|Helen Callaghan

|episode: "Sins of Commission"

2006

|Comedy Connections

|As herself

|

2007

|M.I. High{{Cite web|title=Episode - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b0079cnp|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=19 February 2007 }}

|Head of MI8/MI9

|

2007

|My Family{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f1d9fa44538d4cad839bcf89a3aa0237|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=25 May 2007 }}

|Dinner Guest

|

2007

|Skins{{Cite web|title=Skins[10/04/2008] (2008)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8c997075|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211070905/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8c997075|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 February 2018|access-date=2021-10-20|website=BFI|language=en}}

|Head of College (Harriet)

|E4

2008

|Midsomer murders

|Sarah Stone

|episode: 18.6 "Talking to the Dead"

2008

|The Object{{Cite web|title=The Object (2008)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/5b19c1e8ed115|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729170420/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/5b19c1e8ed115|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 July 2021|access-date=2021-10-20|website=BFI|language=en}}

|Burlap Mum

|

2008

|Mistresses{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e2c720e3754043b38ed2af10f6e16e19|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=12 February 2008 }}

|Gemma Grey

|

2008

|Doctor Who{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1c8f0e872c8a40c285181ca8a37943c0|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=12 April 2008 }}

|High Priestess of The Sybillines

|episode: "The Fires of Pompeii"

2009

|No Signal

|

|episode: 1.8 & 1.9 (You Me 'n' Him)

2009

|Roar

|Mother

|

2009

|Emmerdale

|Mrs. Conway

|episode: 1.5420

2009

|Collision{{Cite web|title=Collision[09/11/2009] (2009)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8d9a4e74|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170523211220/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8d9a4e74|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 May 2017|access-date=2021-10-20|website=BFI|language=en}}

|Angela Reeves

|episode: 1, 2 & 5

2009

|Poirot{{Cite web|title=The Clocks (2011)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/510b7f696697a|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180624011119/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/510b7f696697a|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 June 2018|access-date=2021-10-20|website=BFI|language=en}}

|Mrs Swinburne

|episode: "The Clocks"

2010

|Sherlock{{Cite web|title=Episode - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b00t8wp0|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=25 July 2010 }}

|Margaret Patterson

|episode: "A study in Pink"

2010

|At Home with the Georgians / Behind Closed Doors

|Lady Stanley

|episode: "A Woman's Touch"

2011

|EastEnders{{Cite web|title=Episode - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b014qryx|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=15 September 2011 }}

|Sandra Halliday

|episode: 15 & 16 September

2012

|Silent Witness{{Cite web|title=Episode - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b01fltr3|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=April 2012 }}

|Lizzie Fraser

|episode: "Death has no Dominion" parts I & II

2013

|Wizards v Aliens{{Cite web|title=Episode - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b03lbhh1|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=3 December 2013 }}

|Chancellor Kooth

|CBBC

2014

|Glue{{Cite web|title=Glue[06/10/2014] (2014)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/542b2b6ef3ae6|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170309223706/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/542b2b6ef3ae6|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 March 2017|access-date=2021-10-20|website=BFI|language=en}}

|Susannah Marshall

|E4

2014

|Crackanory

|Mrs. Murray, Head teacher

|episode: 2.4 (Self Storage & the Obituary Writer)

2016

|Sliding

|Bronwen

|

2017

|Finding your Feet{{Cite web|title=Finding Your Feet (2018)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/5a78f814256fb|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023033030/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/5a78f814256fb|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 October 2020|access-date=2021-10-20|website=BFI|language=en}}

|Pru - Swimmer

|

2018

|The Royals

|Ingrid

|episode: "Confess Yourself to Heaven"

2019

|Welcome to the Powder Keg

|Lois

|

2019

|Mary in the Mirror

|Therapist

|

2021

|The Larkins (2021 TV series)

|Mrs Fothergill

|Also credited as SCRIPT EDITOR

Unknown

|The Ward

|Barbara

|

Unknown

|No Worries

|Sarah

|

Unknown

|Streetwise

|Mrs Daniels

|

= Film =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

! class="unsortable" |Notes

1986

|Ping Pong{{Cite web|title=Ping Pong (1987)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b75837499|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160504124352/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b75837499|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 May 2016|access-date=2021-10-20|website=BFI|language=en}}

|Maggie Wong

|Alan's wife

1990

|Strike It Rich

|Jane Truefit

|

2003

|What A Girl Wants{{Cite web|title=What a Girl Wants (2003)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8848f471|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171229203615/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8848f471|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 December 2017|access-date=2021-10-20|website=BFI|language=en}}

|Henry's Secretary (Caroline)

|

2014

|The Imitation Game{{Cite web|title=The Imitation Game (2014)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/5435b816e53e9|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310003155/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/5435b816e53e9|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 March 2016|access-date=2021-10-20|website=BFI|language=en}}

|Dorothy Clarke

|Joan's mother

2015

|High Rise{{Cite web|title=High-Rise|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/55104f778ddf7|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313120922/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/55104f778ddf7|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 March 2016|access-date=2021-10-20|website=BFI|language=en}}

|Miriam

|

2015

|Notes on Blindness{{Cite web|title=Notes on Blindness|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/579dce09e66a0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019163623/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/579dce09e66a0|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 October 2020|access-date=2021-10-20|website=BFI|language=en}}

|Sally (Librarian)

|

2016

|The Brother{{Cite web|title=The Brother (2014)|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/579dd98b9cf9b|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020102208/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/579dd98b9cf9b|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 October 2021|access-date=2021-10-20|website=BFI|language=en}}

|Vendor

|

= Theatre =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

! class="unsortable" |Notes

1980

|Quartet to Murder

|

|Theatre Royal, Northampton

1980

|Mother Goose

|

|Theatre Royal, Northampton

1981

|Whose Life is it Anyway?

|

|Theatre Royal, Northampton

1981

|Cinderella{{Cite web|title=Production of Cinderella {{!}} Theatricalia|url=https://theatricalia.com/play/4tp/cinderella/production/be9|access-date=2021-10-20|website=theatricalia.com}}

|

|Bristol Old Vic

1981

|The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui{{Cite web|title=Production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui {{!}} Theatricalia|url=https://theatricalia.com/play/57j/the-resistible-rise-of-arturo-ui/production/bdz|access-date=2021-10-20|website=theatricalia.com}}

|

|Bristol Old Vic

1981

|The Country Wife{{Cite web|title=Production of The Country Wife {{!}} Theatricalia|url=https://theatricalia.com/play/wd/the-country-wife/production/be8|access-date=2021-10-20|website=theatricalia.com}}

|Mistress Squeamish

|Bristol Old Vic

1982

|Taming of the Shrew{{Cite web|title=Production of The Taming of the Shrew {{!}} Theatricalia|url=https://theatricalia.com/play/1f/the-taming-of-the-shrew/production/yhg|access-date=2021-10-20|website=theatricalia.com}}

|A Haberdasher

|Regents Park Open Air Theatre

1982

|A Midsummer Night's Dream{{Cite web|title=Production of A Midsummer Night's Dream {{!}} Theatricalia|url=https://theatricalia.com/play/1e/a-midsummer-nights-dream/production/ygv|access-date=2021-10-20|website=theatricalia.com}}

|Helena

|Regents Park Open Air Theatre

1983

|From War to War with Love{{Cite news|last=Barber|first=John|date=27 January 1983|title="Everybody clap hands it's the 30s"|page=15|work=Daily Telegraph|url=https://go.gale.com/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=Newspapers&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&hitCount=24&searchType=BasicSearchForm¤tPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CIO0702195245&docType=Review&sort=Pub+Date+Forward+Chron&contentSegment=ZTHA-MOD1&prodId=TGRH&pageNum=1&contentSet=GALE%7CIO0702195245&searchId=R12&userGroupName=nlw_ttda&inPS=true|access-date=24 December 2021}}

|

|New End Theatre, Hampstead

1983

|Twelfth Night

|Olivia

|Royal Shakespeare Company

1983

|Julius Caesar

|Portia

|Royal Shakespeare Company

1983

|Measure for Measure{{Cite web|title=Production of Measure for Measure {{!}} Theatricalia|url=https://theatricalia.com/play/12/measure-for-measure/production/bnp|access-date=2021-10-20|website=theatricalia.com}}

|

|Royal Shakespeare Company

1983

|A New Way to Pay Old Debts{{Cite web|title=Production of A New Way to Pay Old Debts {{!}} Theatricalia|url=https://theatricalia.com/play/g1/a-new-way-to-pay-old-debts/production/1vz|access-date=2021-10-20|website=theatricalia.com}}

|Waiting Woman

|Royal Shakespeare Company

1984

|Space Invaders{{Cite web|title=Production of Space Invaders {{!}} Theatricalia|url=https://theatricalia.com/play/g7/space-invaders/production/1x4|access-date=2021-10-20|website=theatricalia.com}}

|Shar

|Royal Shakespeare Company

1985

|Chinamen

|Jo, Bee, and Alex

|Latchmere, Battersea

1986

|Charley's Aunt

|Amy Spettigue

|Theatre Royal, Plymouth

1992

|As You Like It

|Rosalind

|Ludlow Festival

1993

|Blithe Spirit{{Cite web|title=Production of Blithe Spirit {{!}} Theatricalia|url=https://theatricalia.com/play/3gx/blithe-spirit/production/pze|access-date=2021-10-20|website=theatricalia.com}}

|Elvira

|Cheltenham Everyman Theatre

1994

|Dilemma for Murder

|

|Watermill Theatre, Bagnor

1995

|Mind the Gap by Meredith Oakes

|Ginny

|Hampstead Theatre

2006

|A Woman of No Importance{{Cite web|title=Theatre review: A Woman of No Importance at Salisbury Playhouse|url=https://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/noimportance-rev.htm|access-date=2021-10-20|website=British Theatre Guide|language=en-GB}}

|Rachel Arbuthnot

|Salisbury Playhouse

2008

|Quartermaine's Terms{{Cite web|title=Quartermaine's Terms Productions|url=http://simongray.org.uk/plays/quartermaines-terms/quartermaines-terms-productions/|access-date=2021-10-20|website=Simon Gray|language=en-US}}

|Melanie Garth

|Touring production. Kenwright

2015

|The One that Got Away

|Madame Latour

|Theatre Royal, Bath

Unknown

|As You Like It

|Hymen

|

2024

| Drop the Dead Donkey - Revisited

| Sally Smedley

| National tour - multiple venues

= Radio =

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Title

!Role

! class="unsortable" |Notes

Unknown

|Anything Legal

|Doreen

|By Wally K. Daly

1982

|The Cask of Amontillado{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/27587455f79846dba15e6a50997dddf6|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=4 December 1982 }}

|First Lady

|(BBC R4) By Nick Fisher

1982

|It's Disgusting at Your Age{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/549c62ab634941dd8eb92699b3e9d543|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=9 December 1982 }}

|Penny

|(BBC R4) By Jacqueline Wilson

1982

|Get Together{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/10a1444d4e6d4952bf9f56269f88f6ae|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=16 December 1982 }}

|Susy

|(BBC R4) By Barbara Clegg

1983

|The Cleverest Man at Oxford{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f07a3fd646904525888d2522b3f251be|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=11 June 1983 }}

|Gillian

|(BBC R4) By Geoffrey Parkinson

1984

|Riding to Jerusalem{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/24e5e5be135b48239ab55c57d7b072ee|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=17 November 1984 }}

|Amelia Man

|(BBC R4) By Elspeth Sandys

1985

|Albert's Extra Parliamentary Activities{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/7fe17dc3e5284195be790757a0f158fb|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=3 January 1985 }}

|Receptionist

|(BBC R4) By Nick Fisher

1991

|The Cabaret of Dr Caligari{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/30ca8b610744413abc18d50df9b09916|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=5 December 1991 }}

|Anthrax

|(BBC R4) By Alan Gilbey

2000

|The Secret Parts{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9ad4aef4b43c46bb827aace090d83d7e|access-date=2021-10-19|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=29 May 2000 }}

|Rosemary Malcolm

|(BBC R4) Adapted by David Edgar

References

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External links

  • {{IMDb name|name=Victoria Wicks|id=0927002}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20060212102854/http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/talent/w/wicks_victoria.shtml BBC Comedy Guide – Victoria Wicks]
  • Kilpatrick, David. [http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/theatre_journal/v055/55.4kilpatrick.html Gertrude—The Cry (review)]. Theatre Journal – Volume 55, Number 4, December 2003, pp. 704–706. The Johns Hopkins University Press
  • [https://www.theguardian.com/arts/critic/review/0,1169,818941,00.html Guardian review of the 2002 production of Gertrude—The Cry]

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