Victoria Wicks
Victoria Wicks (born 18 April 1959) is a British actress. Recent credits include Dorothy Clarke in The Imitation Game, Susannah Marshall in E4's acclaimed drama, Glue, the villainous Chancellor Kooth in the final episode of Wizards v Aliens Series 2: All Out War written by Russell T Davies, the High Priestess of the Sybillines, in The Fires of Pompeii, Series 4 of Doctor Who, Mrs Gideon in The Mighty Boosh, and Harriet Lawes, the Head of Roundview College in Skins. She is best known for creating the role of Sally Smedley in Channel 4's award winning comedy series Drop the Dead Donkey. Wicks is an Associate of Howard Barker's theatre company, The Wrestling School.
Biography
Early life, background and education
Wicks was born Beverly Victoria Anne Wicks in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England to Brian and the late 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, the award-winning 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.
Wicks, Victoria Filmography
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2015, role: actress , character name: Miriam
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2014, role: actress , character name: Vendor
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2014, role: actress , character name: Susannah Marshall
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2014, role: actress , character name: Joan's Mother
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2009, role: actress , character name: Mother
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2008, role: actress
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2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
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2003, role: actress , character name: Henry's Secretary
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1997, role: actress , character name: Miss Montrose
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1993, role: actress , character name: Princess Lovelypenny
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1991, role: actress , character name: Sally Smedley
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1990, role: actress , character name: Georgina Oakley
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1987, role: actress , character name: Alan's Wife
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1986, role: actress , character name: Sarah Lowther
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