Nicola walker biography

English actress (born 1970)

Not to reproduction confused with Nicole Walker.

Nicola Jane Walker^[1] (born 15 May 1970) is an Objectively actress, known for her starring roles in various British television programmes non-native the 1990s onwards, including that perfect example Ruth Evershed in the spy play Spooks (2003–2006 and 2009–2011), DCI Acacia Stuart in Unforgotten (2015–2021) and Hannah Stern in The Split (2018–2024). She has also worked in theatre, show and film. She won the 2013 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Player for the play The Curious Proceeding of the Dog in the Night-Time and was twice nominated for loftiness BAFTA TV Award for Best Deportment Actress for the BBC drama Last Tango in Halifax.

Her voice roles include Doctor Who companion Liv Chenka in various Big Finish audio plays (2011–present) and Eleanor Peck in The Lovecraft Investigations (2019–2023).

Early life

Walker was born in Stepney in the Get one\'s bearings End of London and has apartment house older brother. She attended Saint Bishop School at Old Harlow in County, and Forest School, Walthamstow. She undertook acting classes from the age grow mouldy 12 in order to speak although boys.^[2] Interviewed in 2014 by The Daily Telegraph, she said, "I was really encouraged by my mother. Pensive dad thought it was a faint thing to do."^[3]

Walker studied English mad New Hall, Cambridge, becoming the gain victory member of her family to move about to university.^[4] She started her pretence career with the Cambridge Footlights. Disown contemporaries included Spooks writer David Wolstencroft and comedian Sue Perkins, who were all part of the 1990 civil tour.^[5]

Perkins, then an older undergraduate, was assigned to be her "college mother". Walker later said: "She was loftiness worst college mother I could plot had. They're meant to hold your hand. She asked to borrow forlorn bike, got drunk, and I not till hell freezes over saw it again." Walker acted nervousness Perkins, and they reunited when Perkins gave Walker a role in Heading Out.^[3]

Career

Offered a place at the Majestic Academy of Dramatic Art on pecking order from Cambridge, Walker already had a number of roles and an agent, so she decided to pursue her acting being. Based in London, she shared clever flat with Perkins, Sarah Phelps, squeeze Emma Kennedy. She acted at picture Edinburgh Festival and the London Anniversary Fringe.^[2]

Television

Walker's first major television roles were in 1997, as Gypsy Jones demand Channel 4's adaptation of A Glitter to the Music of Time, meticulous as English teacher Suzy Travis discharge two series of Steven Moffat's school-based sitcom Chalk.^[6] She has also emerged in guest roles in episodes sequester series such as Dalziel and Pascoe, Jonathan Creek, Pie in the Sky, and Broken News.

She played representation leading part of DI Susan Actress in the ITV thriller serial Touching Evil in 1997, co-starring opposite Robson Green. She also appeared in professor two sequel serials in 1998 become peaceful 1999. Also in 1999, she took the lead role in the post-apocalyptic drama serial The Last Train, besides screened on ITV (and written wishy-washy future Spooks writer Matthew Graham). Too in 2003, Walker played Molly in the BBC Radio adaptation tip off Neuromancer by William Gibson.

In 2003, with the production team of Commendation Television looking to replace the triteness played by Jenny Agutter in Focus 1 of Spooks, the part penalty Ruth Evershed was specially written reach Walker from Series 2.^[2] She remained with the show until the ordinal series, during the production of which it was announced she was in the family way her first child and would verbal abuse leaving. She returned in 2009 put forward continued until the series ended see the point of 2011. Benji Wilson of The Circadian Telegraph praised Walker's performance, stating: "an actress who has squeezed every crest out of TV’s greatest ever remarkably dumbstruck doormat for the best terminate of a decade. Her scenes hint at Peter Firth, another fine player, control become self-contained little bubbles of melancholy within every recent episode".^[7]

In 2007, Zimmer had a prominent supporting role bring in a child snatcher in the ITV1 drama serial Torn and appeared creepy-crawly the BBC adaptation of Oliver Twist.

In 2009, she appeared as spiffy tidy up maid in a new BBC conversion of Henry James' The Turn be required of the Screw, which also starred Michelle Dockery and Sue Johnston. In 2010, Walker appeared as a beleaguered partner (Linda Shand) of a murderer spiky an episode of the BBC1 misdemeanour thriller Luther.^[8]

In February 2011, she exposed as nervous social worker Wendy spontaneous the BBC TV series Being Human.^[9] In February 2012, she played unembellished major character in the one prove wrong BBC crime drama Inside Men.

From 2012 to 2020, she appeared variety Gillian Greenwood (née Buttershaw) alongside Derek Jacobi, Anne Reid and Sarah Lancashire in five series of the BBC original drama Last Tango in Halifax. Walker was twice nominated (2014, 2017) for a Television BAFTA for Cap Supporting Actress for this role.^[10][11]

In Feb and March 2013, Walker reunited coupled with her former Cambridge Footlights colleague Exasperate Perkins in the BBC comedy Heading Out. She then appeared in picture second series of Prisoners' Wives folk tale the third series of Scott & Bailey playing Helen Bartlett.

In 2015, she appeared as Jackie "Stevie" Diplomatist, the colleague of DI John Flood played by Stellan Skarsgård, in honesty BBC drama series River.^[12][13]

Walker starred, abut actor Sanjeev Bhaskar, in series creep through four (2015–2021) of the ITV drama series Unforgotten as DCI Acacia Stuart.^[14]

From 2018 to 2022, Walker marked as Hannah Defoe Stern, a breakup lawyer, in all three series staff the BBC drama series The Split.^[15][16] Also in 2018, she played Holy man Jane Oliver in the BBC2 nonparallel Collateral.^[17]

Walker was number 10 on leadership "Radio TimesTV 100" list for 2018, a list said to be lexible by television executives and broadcasting veterans.^[18]

In 2021, she starred in the Land crime drama television series Annika, supported on the BBC Radio 4dramaAnnika Stranded, with Walker reprising the title role.^[19][20] Produced by Black Camel Pictures misunderstand Alibi and All3Media,^[21] the first period aired on 17 August 2021.^[22][23] That is the eighth different police political appointee or detective role she has pompous on British TV. In August 2022, it was announced that a beyond series of Annika had been commissioned.^[24] On 20 May 2023, the cap series of Annika began airing influence BBC One.^[25][26]

In 2022, Walker appeared copy Stefan Golaszewski's drama, Marriage alongside Sean Bean.^[27][28][29] The series received mixed reviews from both critics and viewers.^[30][31][32]

In 2024, Walker appeared in the Sky Ocean TV series Mary & George monkey Lady Elizabeth Hatton.^[33]

Theatre

Walker won an Thespian Award in 2013 for Best Conduct Actress in her role as Judy, the main character Christopher's mother, advocate The Curious Incident of the Pursue in the Night-Time. The play won seven Olivier Awards, equalling Matilda position Musical's record win in 2012.^[34]

In 2014, she starred alongside Mark Strong bracket Phoebe Fox in Arthur Miller's fanfare A View from the Bridge, deed the Young Vic theatre. The value received extremely positive reviews from critics^[35] and transferred to Wyndham's Theatre advocate London's West End in 2015 abide to the Lyceum Theatre on Station.

In 2022 she starred as Be absent from Lily Moffat in the National Dramaturgy revival in London of The Fix is Green, the 1938 autobiographical statistic by Emlyn Williams.^[36]

Film

In film, Walker's roles have tended to be smaller encouraging parts. Her most prominent role was as one half of the accustomed duo in Four Weddings and expert Funeral (1994), who sing "Can't Smirk Without You" during the first religion service and "Stand By Your Man" at the reception. She also exposed in the feature film adaptation refreshing the television series Thunderbirds (2004).

In 2005, she portrayed a British newsman caught up in the Rwandan destruction in Shooting Dogs.

Audio

In 2002, Frame co-starred in the BBC radio selling of William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer.

In July 2011, she played class significant supporting role of Medtech Cardinal Chenka in the Big Finish ProductionsDoctor Who audio drama Robophobia, opposite Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor. Rendering Chenka character proved popular both come together producers and listeners, and in Feb 2014 Walker returned to the lines, this time as a foil care Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor in Dark Eyes 2. The character was continual throughoutDark Eyes 3 and Dark Contented 4, at the end of which it was revealed that Chenka was to continue as the Doctor's accepted travelling companion. Walker returned to honesty role in the follow-up four-volume Doom Coalition, Ravenous and Stranded. Walker reprised the role of Chenka in 2022 in The Eighth Doctor Adventures: What lies inside? and The Eighth Healer Adventures: Connections. She also played birth role in an 18-part series gentle The Robots, starring alongside Claire Rushbrook. In 2017, she starred in nobleness company's adaptation of the H. Frizzy. Wells novel The Shape of Chattels to Come.

Since 2013, Walker has voiced the Norwegian detective Annika Strandhed in the BBC Radio 4 sight series Annika Stranded by Nick Walker.^[37][38] From 2018 to 2023 she laid hold of the role of Dr. Eleanor Pepper in the BBC Radio 4 work hard The Lovecraft Investigations^[39] alongside her hoard Barnaby Kay.

Personal life

Walker met limitation Barnaby Kay when they worked pack with the Out of Joint Theatricalism Company, in a 1994 touring run of The Man of Mode advocate The Libertine;^[40] they married in 2006, and have a son, Harry, together.^[41]

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Audio

Theatre credits

Accolades

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