CV: Victoria Hamilton

Currently starring in Doctor Foster spin-off Life (9pm, BBC1), Victoria was, until recently,

best-known for costume dramas – but that is steadily starting to change…

● Born in south London in 1971, she had intended ● In 2001, she played Queen Victoria in to read English at Bristol University, but chose Victoria & Albert, and also played the instead to study acting at the London Queen Mother in The Crown (2016-17). Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

● Increasingly, Victoria has escaped period

● She began her acting career in theatre, dramas, starring as the Downing Street where she had great success in both Chief of Staff in Sky One’s Cobra this year, classical and contemporary plays – including and as a US Senator in Deep State (2019). A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg, in the ● In addition to Doctor Foster and West End and on Broadway, which Life, Victoria worked with writer Mike was released as a TV movie in 2002. Bartlett on stage play Albion, which

● She made her screen debut in was screened on BBC4 earlier this year. 1995 in not one, but two Jane Austen ● She is married to fellow actor Mark TV adaptations – Persuasion Bazeley. Like many parents, they and Pride And Prejudice – while became, according to Victoria, ‘not a third Austen adaptation, of very good primary school teachers’ Mansfield Park, followed in 1999. to their two sons during lockdown.

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