Victoria Scarborough
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.
Acting
TV
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Party Dancer
1989
TV
Relic Hunter
as Rita Rosellini
1999
TV
Lovejoy
as Susannah
1986
Movie
Captives
as Dental Nurse
1994
TV
Heartbeat
as Susan Siddons
1992
TV
Heartbeat
as Caroline
1992
TV
Rosemary & Thyme
as Harriet Luke
2003
TV
Birds of a Feather
as Janice
1989
Movie
Ashes and Sand
as Dawn
2003
TV
Peak Practice
as Jane Barton
1993
TV
The Royal
as Claire Massey
2003
TV
Chiller
as Janet
1995
TV
The Cinder Path
as Betty MacFell
1994
TV
The Grand
as Ruth Bannerman
1997
TV
Death in Holy Orders
as Inspector Kate Miskin
2003
TV
The Upper Hand
as Cass
1990
TV
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
as Estella
1996