Victoria Scarborough

Classically trained English actress and RADA graduate with an extensive career spanning theatre, BBC television, and independent film.

Victoria Scarborough - Personal Information

  • Name: Victoria Scarborough
  • Date of Birth: January 1, 1967
  • Place of Birth: England, UK
  • Gender: Female
  • Job Title: Actor

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.

Filmography

A selection of Victoria Scarborough's notable screen appearances across television and film.

  • Rosemary & Thyme (TV - 2003) as Harriet Luke
  • Death in Holy Orders (TV - 2003) as Inspector Kate Miskin
  • Ashes and Sand (2003) as Dawn
  • The Royal (TV - 2003) as Claire Massey
  • Relic Hunter (TV - 1999) as Rita Rosellini
  • The Grand (TV - 1997) as Ruth Manning
  • Chiller (TV - 1995) as Janet
  • Captives (1994) as Dental Nurse
  • The Cinder Path (TV - 1994) as Betty MacFell
  • Peak Practice (TV - 1993) as Jane Barton

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