1. Nicola Walker won the 2013 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for the play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and was twice nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for the BBC drama Last Tango in Halifax.
Nicola Walker attended Saint Nicholas School at Old Harlow in Essex, and Forest School, Walthamstow.
Nicola Walker undertook acting classes from the age of 12 in order to speak to boys.
Nicola Walker studied English at New Hall, Cambridge, becoming the first member of her family to go to university.
Nicola Walker started her acting career with the Cambridge Footlights.
Nicola Walker's contemporaries included Spooks writer David Wolstencroft and comedian Sue Perkins, who were all part of the 1990 national tour.
Nicola Walker asked to borrow my bike, got drunk, and I never saw it again.
Nicola Walker acted at the Edinburgh Festival and the London Festival Fringe.
Nicola Walker has appeared in guest roles in episodes of series such as Dalziel and Pascoe, Jonathan Creek, Pie in the Sky, and Broken News.
Nicola Walker played the leading part of DI Susan Taylor in the ITV thriller serial Touching Evil in 1997, co-starring opposite Robson Green.
Nicola Walker appeared in its two sequel serials in 1998 and 1999.
Also in 2003, Nicola Walker played Molly Millions in the BBC Radio adaptation of Neuromancer by William Gibson.
Nicola Walker remained with the show until the fifth series, during the production of which it was announced she was expecting her first child and would be leaving.
Nicola Walker returned in 2009 and continued until the series ended in 2011.
In 2007, Nicola Walker had a prominent supporting role as a child snatcher in the ITV1 drama serial Torn and appeared in the BBC adaptation of Oliver Twist.
In 2010, Nicola Walker appeared as a beleaguered wife of a murderer in an episode of the BBC1 crime thriller Luther.
Nicola Walker was twice nominated for a Television BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for this role.
In February and March 2013, Nicola Walker reunited with her former Cambridge Footlights colleague Sue Perkins in the BBC comedy Heading Out.
Nicola Walker starred, alongside actor Sanjeev Bhaskar, in series one through four of the ITV drama series Unforgotten as DCI Cassie Stuart.
From 2018 to 2022, Nicola Walker starred as Hannah Defoe Stern, a divorce lawyer, in all three series of the BBC drama series The Split.
Nicola Walker was number 10 on the "Radio Times TV 100" list for 2018, a list said to be determined by television executives and broadcasting veterans.
In 2021, she starred in the British crime drama television series Annika, based on the BBC Radio 4 drama Annika Stranded, with Nicola Walker reprising the title role.
In 2022, Nicola Walker appeared in Stefan Golaszewski's drama, Marriage alongside Sean Bean.
Nicola Walker won an Olivier Award in 2013 for Best Supporting Actress in her role as Judy, the main character Christopher's mother, in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
In film, Nicola Walker's roles have tended to be smaller supporting parts.
Nicola Walker appeared in the feature film adaptation of the television series Thunderbirds.
In 2002, Nicola Walker co-starred in the BBC radio production of William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer.
The Chenka character proved popular both with producers and listeners, and in February 2014 Nicola Walker returned to the role, this time as a foil for Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor in Dark Eyes 2.
Nicola Walker returned to the role in the follow-up four-volume Doom Coalition, Ravenous and Stranded.
Nicola Walker played the role in an 18-part series titled The Robots, starring alongside Claire Rushbrook.
Since 2013, Nicola Walker has voiced the Norwegian detective Annika Strandhed in the BBC Radio 4 drama series Annika Stranded by Nick Nicola Walker.
Nicola Walker met actor Barnaby Kay when they worked together with the Out of Joint Theatre Company, in a 1994 touring production of The Man of Mode and The Libertine; they married in 2006, and have a son, Harry, together.