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Victoria Wicks
Born
Beverly Victoria Anne Wicks

(1959-04-18) 18 April 1959 (age 65)
Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, UK
OccupationActress
Spouse
Peter Williams
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(m. 1984; div. 2004)​
Children1

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 Beverly 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.[1][2]

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.[3] 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.[4]

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

Year Title Role Notes
Unknown Concentration and Dying in the Street Premiere readings of Screaming in Advance at The Print Room, London
Unknown Smack Me Premiere reading at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London
Unknown Actress With an Unloved Child Premiere reading at Lewis Festival
Unknown I Saw Myself Premiere reading Hampstead
Unknown The Fence in Its Thousandth Year Algeria London
Unknown Les Animaux en Paradis Tenna Théâtre des Deux Rives in Rouen, Paris, Grenoble, Le Mans
Unknown 13 Objects Cruel Cup, Kind Saucer, The Ring, Blue Shoe, The Drum London
2002 Gertrude – The Cry Gertrude Elsinore Castle, Denmark and London
Unknown He Stumbled Turner, The Queen London
Unknown The Ecstatic Bible Mrs Golllancz Adelaide Theatre Festival, Australia
Unknown Scenes From an Execution Rivera Barbican Theatre, London
Unknown Ursula; Fear of the Estuary Mother Placida London, Birmingham, Copenhagen
Unknown Uncle Vanya Helena London, Berlin, Stockholm
Unknown The Love of a Good Man Mrs. Toynbee BBC Radio Drama
Unknown A House of Correction Lyndsey BBC Radio Drama
Unknown Knowledge and a Girl The Queen BBC Radio Drama
Unknown The Swing at Night Klatura Marionette Theatre for PuppetBarge

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1984 Prisoner of Zenda Princess Flavia episodes: 1-6
1986 Two of Us Jackie
1987 Rumpole of the Bailey Amanda Gleason episode: "Rumpole and the Old, Old, Story"
1987 The Houseman's Tale Allison Quothquan episodes: 1-2
1987 Hold the Dream Sarah Lowther episode: 1
1988 Tickets for the Titanic Arbuthnot episode: "Pastoral Care"
1988 Gems Elinor Whiteside episodes: 3.25, 3.26, 3.27
1989 Storyboard 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 Georgina Oakley TV movie
1990 Drop the Dead Donkey Sally Smedley Ch4
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"
1994 Murder Most Horrid Jocasta episode: "We all hate Granny"
1994 Mud Miss Palmer
1995 Smith and Jones episode: 8.3 & 8.6
1995 The Imaginatively Titled Punt & Dennis Show episode: 2.2
1996 Delta Wave Olga Crick
1996 Testament: The Bible in Animation Jezebel (voice) episode: Elijah
1997 Bright Hair About the Bone Miss Montrose TV movie
1997 Snap Jane Taylor
2001 Peak Practice Judy episode: 12.3
2001 Bernard's Watch Aunt Rowena CITV
2002 Casualty Connolly QC
2002 Doctors Various
2004 The Brief Magistrate episode: "So Long, Samanatha"
2004 The Mighty Boosh Mrs. Gideon BBC 3
2007 M.I. High Head of MI9
2007 My Family Bex's Mother
2008 The Object Burlap Mum
2008 Mistresses Jemma Grey
2008 Doctor Who High Priestess of The Sybillines episode: "The Fires of Pompeii"
2004 Midsomer murders Helen Callaghan episode: "Sins of Commission"
2007 Skins Head of College E4
2008 Midsomer murders Sarah Stone episode: 18.6 "Talking to the Dead"
2009 No Signal episode: 1.8 & 1.9 (You Me 'n' Him)
2009 Roar Mother
2009 Emmerdale Mrs. Conway episode: 1.5420
2009 Collision Angela Reeves episode: 1, 2 & 5
2009 Poirot Mrs Swinburne episode: "The Clocks"
2010 Sherlock Margaret Patterson episode: "A study in Pink"
2010 At Home with the Georgians Lady Stanley episode: "A Woman's Touch"
2011 EastEnders Sandra Halliday episode: 15th & 16th September
2012 Silent Witness Lizzie Fraser episode: "Death has no Dominion" parts I & II
2013 Wizards v Aliens Chancellor Kooth CBBC
2014 Glue Susannah Marshall E4
2014 Crackanory Mrs. Murray, Head teacher episode: 2.4 (Self Storage & the Obituary Writer)
2016 Sliding Bronwen
2017 Finding your Feet 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 My Little Grey Home in the West Janet
Unknown The Ward Barbara
Unknown No Worries Sarah
Unknown Streetwise Mrs Daniels

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1986 Ping Pong Maggie Alan's wife
1990 Strike It Rich Jane Truefit
2003 What A Girl Wants Henry's Secretary
2014 The Imitation Game Dorothy Clarke Joan's mother
2015 High Rise Miriam
2016 The Brother Vendor
Unknown Stick With Me Kid Christina

Theatre

Year Title Role Notes
Unknown Quartermaine's Terms Melanie Garth by Simon Gray
Unknown A Woman of No Importance Mrs Arbuthnot by Oscar Wilde
Unknown As You Like It Rosalind by William Shakespeare
Unknown Blithe Spirit Elvira by Noël Coward
Unknown Twelfth Night Olivia by William Shakespeare
Unknown Julius Caesar Portia by William Shakespeare
Unknown Charley's Aunt Amy Spettigue by Brandon Thomas
Unknown Chinamen Jo, Bee, and Alex by Michael Frayn
Unknown A Midsummer Night's Dream Helena by William Shakespeare
Unknown As You Like It Hymen by William Shakespeare
Unknown The Country Wife Mistress Squeamish by William Wycherley

Radio

Year Title Role Notes
Unknown Anything Legal
Unknown The Cask of Amontillado
Unknown Get Together
1991 The Cabaret of Dr Caligari Anthrax
Unknown The Cleverest Man at Oxford
Unknown Riding to Jerusalem
Unknown Albert's Extra Parliamentary Activities
Unknown The Secret Parts

References

  1. ^ "Estates – H. E. Bates".
  2. ^ Comdevelopment Ltd. "Beverly Wicks".
  3. ^ "TELEVISION VIEW; The News From Britain, Sort Of". 23 July 1995.
  4. ^ "Playwright Howard Barker (UK) at the Segal Center" Archived 9 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine, City University of New York, May 2010
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