Victoria Scarborough

Biography

A classical actor, I trained at RADA between the years 1986-89; The Royal National Theatre (London), Hampstead Theatre (London), The Royal Exchange (Manchester), Chichester Festival Theatre, Birmingham Rep, The Glasgow Citz, Leeds Playhouse, Nottingham Playhouse, New Victoria Theatre, The New Vic (London), were some of the theatres I regularly performed at alternating with productions for the BBC, and mainstream ITV channels and independent film. Favourite plays and roles have been …in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Ophelia), Othello, (Desdemona), Sophocles Electra as ‘Electra’, The Winters Tale (Hermione), Middleton’s Women Beware Women (Bianca), and Venice Preserved (Aqualina), Molière’s, The Hypochondriac (Toinette), La Ronda (all female parts), Noel Coward’s, Gilda (Design For Living) and Sybil in Private Lives; The Rivals (Lydia Languish), Love for Love, and (Rosina), in The Barber of Seville (Rosina). Favourite screen roles have been, Betty Mcfarll in Catherine Cookson's, The Cinder Path, Ruth Bannerman in Russel T Davies series The Grand (second series) and Detective Kate Miskin in a BBC adaptation of a PD James novel - Death In Holy Orders.

Known For

Acting

2003

Ashes and Sand

as

Dawn

1994

Captives

as

Dental Nurse

Agatha Christie's Poirot

as

Party Dancer

Lovejoy

as

Susannah

The Grand

as

Ruth Manning

Rosemary & Thyme

as

Harriet Luke

Relic Hunter

as

Rita Rosellini

Peak Practice

as

Jane Barton

The Royal

as

Claire Massey

Heartbeat

as

Susan Siddons

The Upper Hand

as

Cass

Heartbeat

as

Caroline

Birds of a Feather

as

Janice

Death in Holy Orders

as

Inspector Kate Miskin

The Cinder Path

as

Betty MacFell

Production

Crew

Directing