Vicki trained at the Aida Foster Theatre School and quickly won a
variety of roles in film, television and on stage but it was her
portrayal of Yvette in the hit BBC series Allo Allo that gained her
worldwide recognition. Vicki played Yvette for all nine series with the
Allo Allo stage play taking her on national and international tours to
Australia and New Zealand smashing box office records, not to mention
four seasons in the West End at the Palladium, Prince of Wales and
Dominion theatres. Renowned for her versatility, Vicki began her
extensive acting career playing leading straight roles in Softly
Softly, The Professionals, Minder and Play for Today but her wonderful
gift for comedy timing soon brought her to the roles we are most
familiar with. On TV she has worked with the greatest names in comedy
including Les Dawson, The Two Ronnies, Ken Dodd and Kenny Everett, and
has appeared in such series as Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads,
Are you Being Served and Come Back Mrs Noah, her role in the latter
being directly instrumental in her winning the part of Yvette in Allo
Allo. She has also made guest appearances on countless chat and game
shows including Noel's Houseparty, where she played the role of Noel's
amorous next door neighbour for three seasons, This Morning, Generation
Game, Give Us A Clue, Through The Keyhole, All Over The Shop, Today's
The Day, Loose Lips, The Weakest Link, Stars Reunited, Britain's Best
Sitcom, Comedy Connections and the documentary Pantoland. Added to this
she is also an accomplished presenter and is frequently sought after
today as a speaker at corporate functions. She also regularly hosts
charity events around the country. Film credits include: - The Greek
Tycoon, The Likely Lads, Alfie Darling, Sweet William, Spectre, The
Last Days of Pompeii, George and Mildred, The Priest of Love, Queen
Kong, The Sentinel, Four on Four and The Colour of Funny. In the year
2000, Vicki embarked on a totally new venture working with English
Sinfonia. Not only did she perform with them at The Cressing Temple
Festival but also narrated Edith Sitwell poetry to William Walton's
Façade at the orchestra's home venue, bringing a sparkling new
dimension to the work which will long be remembered. Extensive theatre
work has taken her from drama to pantomime, musicals to comedy. She
played opposite Dudley Moore in Play It Again Sam at the Globe Theatre
- London, the leading roles of Vera in Doctor In The House, Mina in
Dracula, Renee in Women Of A Certain Age, Ruth in Alan Ayckbourn's
Round and Round The Garden and Table Manners, Pamela Willey in Out of
Order, Sally in Bedside Manners, performed overseas, Bathsheba in the
British musical version of Beauty and the Beast and the Narrator in
Reflections-The Musical Journey of Diana Ross. Recent years have proved
particularly momentous for Vicki in the theatre where she has performed
continuously scoring a string of major successes most notably for her
portrayals of Hilda Bigley in the new comedy Business Affairs by Jeremy
Lloyd and John Chapman; Glenda Parry in The Tart and the Vicar's Wife,
a role allowing her to rediscover her more dramatic roots; Jacqueline
in Don't Dress For Dinner, a role with which Vicki has become
synonymous; a gloriously, contrastingly funny and poignant portrayal of
Maxine in Richard Harris' Stepping Out adding tap dancing to her
repertoire; the hugely diverse roles of Lady Raeburn and Asphynxia in
the 50th Anniversry revival of the musical Salad Days for Matthew
Townshend and as the incorrigible Miss Hannigan in the musical Annie
where her dynamic performances were received by the rapturous response
of audiences and critics alike. An experienced pantomime performer,
Vicki has played the title role and Genie in Aladdin, the Red Queen in
Snow White, The Fairy in Jack and the Beanstalk and Mother Goose, Mrs.
Darling and Hook's sister, Harrietta in Peter Pan, the Lady Cruella in
Cinderella, Llandudno where she scored a major triumph with her
characterization, giving a modern approach to the traditional pantomime
'baddie' while retaining all the essential elements and a particularly
evil portrayal as the Wicked Fairy in Sleeping Beauty at the Broadway
Theatre Peterborough. She followed this a year later with an equally
enchanting portrayal of the Lilac Fairy from the same pantomime, this
time for Extravaganza Productions. In recent months on stage, Vicki has
returned to the role of Miss Hannigan in Annie, for Kevin Wood
Productions, reprised her roles in the musical Salad Days as Lady
Raeburn and Asphynxia again for Matthew Townshend Productions and
appeared as Betty in the Ray Cooney farce Funny Money for Ian Dickens
Productions. She has just completed a number of short theatre seasons
where she played Gillian in Simon Mawdsley's Audacity and identical
twins Dawn and Donna in Double Vision by Eric Chappell for Stage
Further Productions and a further short run as Miss Hannigan in the
musical Annie. She has also made a welcome return to television in the
new and slightly controversial film drama for Channel 4 Television, All
in the Game, in which she played the role of Emma, wife of troubled
football club manager Frankie (Ray Winstone) and returned to the role
of Yvette for a TV special entitled The Return of Allo Allo for BBC 2
screened in April of 2007. This generated a great deal of media
interest, initiating further guest appearances on This Morning, Richard
and Judy and Breakfast TV as well as numerous radio interviews. She has
just made her debut as Patricia Foster in the popular soap Emmerdale on
television.
