20 Facts About Victoria Hamilton

Victoria Hamilton was born on 5 April 1971 and is an English actress.

Victoria Hamilton made her Broadway debut in 2003 when the production moved to New York, where she earned a Tony Award nomination.

Victoria Hamilton won the Critics' Circle Theatre Award and Evening Standard Theatre Award for her performance in the play Suddenly, Last Summer, held in 2004 at the Lyceum Theatre.

From 2008 to 2011, Victoria Hamilton was a cast member in the BBC1 series Lark Rise to Candleford.

Victoria Hamilton was born on 5 April 1971 in Wimbledon, London to a non-theatrical family.

Victoria Hamilton attended St Hilary's School, a private school in Surrey, from 1974 to 1982, then Prior's Field School, Godalming, until 1987.

Victoria Hamilton initially intended to read English at Bristol University, before opting to train at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Victoria Hamilton began her acting career in classical theatre, spending the first five years appearing in productions by companies such as the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre.

Victoria Hamilton stayed with the Royal Shakespeare Company for eighteen months.

Victoria Hamilton commented in 2001 that it was "very unfashionable" to begin a career in classical theatre, but she had sought to emulate the careers of actors like Judi Dench and Ian Holm who "started in rep and slowly built themselves into the position where they could juggle theatre and film".

In 1995, Victoria Hamilton appeared in Ibsen's The Master Builder directed by Peter Hall, starring Alan Bates and Gemma Jones and performed at the Haymarket Theatre in the West End of London.

Victoria Hamilton made her Broadway debut in the 2003 play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, co-starring alongside the comedian Eddie Izzard.

Victoria Hamilton had starred with Clive Owen, and later Izzard, in a successful London production of the play the previous year, in which she and Izzard portray the parents of a girl with severe brain damage who attempt to save their marriage through jokes and black comedy.

Victoria Hamilton's success led some of the media to brand her as "the next Judi Dench".

Victoria Hamilton took a three-year break from the stage before returning as Viola in the Shakespearean comedy Twelfth Night, staged at Wyndham's Theatre in the West End of London.

Victoria Hamilton is known for working in the costume drama genre.

Victoria Hamilton auditioned with the director John Erman in a London hotel suite, and after reading lines from several more scenes at his prompting, was offered the part immediately.

Victoria Hamilton described the production as having "some of the most beautiful scripts I've seen", and called her character Miss Granham "one of the strongest people on the boat".

In 2013, Victoria Hamilton played Peggy in the BBC drama series What Remains.

Victoria Hamilton reprised her role in the second series of the drama in 2017.