Victoria Wicks

Acting

Victoria Wicks

Born 1959-04-18 · Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, UK

British actress. She is best known for creating the role of Sally Smedley in Channel 4's award winning comedy series Drop the Dead Donkey. She has had memorable roles in Channel 4 dramas Glue and Skins, and BBC Three comedy series The Mighty Boosh.

Acting credits

The Imitation Game poster
8.0

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

The Imitation Game

2014

What a Girl Wants poster
6.3

American Daphne Reynolds heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her boho mother, she learns the love of her mom's life is an uptight politician. The only problem now is that her long-lost father is engaged to a fiercely territorial social climber with a daughter who makes Daphne's life miserable.

What a Girl Wants

2003

High-Rise poster
5.6

Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.

High-Rise

2015

Finding Your Feet poster
7.0

When her life is turned upside down upon discovering her husband's affair, Sandra Abbott seeks refuge in London with her estranged older sister Bif. She begins to find her feet again after letting Bif drag her along to a community dance class.

Finding Your Feet

2017

Roar poster
7.5

London. It's Christmas. Tom is a timid loner who cuts keys in a dry-cleaners in Soho. He's dominated by his extroverted boss, Mick, who habitually cracks on to his female clientele. One customer, Eva, is particularly unimpressed by Mick's behaviour. When Tom tries to apologise, she gives him the cold shoulder. Wanting emotional contact, Tom tries unsuccessfully to call his estranged father. Desperate, Tom takes drastic action.

Roar

2009

Ping Pong poster
5.5

After restaurateur Sam Wong dies in a telephone booth after making a call, law clerk Elaine Choi is tasked with executing his will. In order for the will to be valid, it needs to be signed by its recipients, but Choi finds that each of them are reluctant to do so.

Ping Pong

1987

Amnesty International's Big 30 poster
4.0

In the tradition of the acclaimed series of British concerts known as The Secret Policemen's Ball, Amnesty International celebrates its 50th Anniversary live at Radio City Music Hall.

Amnesty International's Big 30

1991

Prince Cinders poster
9.0

Fairy-tale fantasy is turned on its head this time, as a fairy godmother in training commits the ultimate faux pas and transforms a handsome young man into an ugly ape. Prince Cinders then spends all his time doing housework, while his brothers traipse about creating havoc.

Prince Cinders

1993

Notes on Blindness poster
6.9

After losing sight in 1983, John Hull began keeping an audio diary, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness. Following on from the Emmy Award-winning short film of the same name, Notes on Blindness is an ambitious and groundbreaking work, both affecting and innovative.

Notes on Blindness

2016

Bright Hair poster
4.1

A solitary schoolgirl, prone to sudden blackouts after she's stumbled into a murder scene, gets involved with her English teacher. Then, when his wife is also murdered, questions about what's real and what's made up start haunting her.

Bright Hair

1997

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6.9

Four victims of a stock swindle meet and plot to get their money back from the crooked financier responsible. Each man, an Oxford professor, a Harley Street physician, an art dealer and a British aristocrat deploy their individual talents in elaborate stings to get back "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less"

Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less

1990

The Mighty Boosh: Inside the Zooniverse poster
10.0

Documentary of the creation of Series 1 of The Mighty Boosh.

The Mighty Boosh: Inside the Zooniverse

2005

Welcome to the Powder Keg poster
NR

Tommy is struggling to keep up with payments for his mothers medical treatment. An opportunity to fight in the underground world of no rules bare knuckle fighting would give him the cash he needs to help his mother, but at what cost?

Welcome to the Powder Keg

2020