Vicki Pepperdine (born 24 July 1961) is an English comedy actress and writer. She was nominated for two BAFTA TV Awards for co-writing the BBC sitcom Getting On (2009–12), and was also nominated for a British Comedy Award for her portrayal of Pippa Moore in the series.
Vicki Pepperdine | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Vicki Pepperdine in May 2019 | |
| Born | 24 July 1961 London, England |
| Alma mater | East 15 Acting School |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, writer |
| Years active | 1994–present |
Career
editBorn in London, Pepperdine co-wrote and starred in the BBC Four sitcom Getting On with Jo Brand and Joanna Scanlan. Shared with Brand and Scanlan, she was nominated for two BAFTA TV Awards for Best Writing, and won two Writers' Guild of Great Britain awards, a Royal Television Society award and a British Comedy Award for her contributions to the show. For radio, she and Melanie Hudson formed the comedy duo Hudson and Pepperdine; the pair wrote and starred in BBC Radio 4's The Hudson and Pepperdine Show from 2000 onwards.[1] Pepperdine hosts a podcast with Julia Davis, entitled Dear Joan and Jericha.
Pepperdine's parents both worked in the NHS in south-west London (partly inspiring Getting On). After studying History of Art at the University of East Anglia, and subsequently working for Help the Aged and in publishing, at the age of 27 Pepperdine applied to East 15 Acting School in Debden, because her heroine Alison Steadman had studied there.[2]
Pepperdine has also had recurring television roles in Julia Davis's Sky Atlantic series Camping; The Woman In White for BBC One; the Channel 4 series High and Dry and The Windsors, in the latter of which she played Princess Anne; the BBC Three series Together; the BBC Four sitcom Up the Women; and the comedy drama Grass. She has appeared in over 50 TV shows, including episodes of Rev, Midsomer Murders, Still Open All Hours, New Tricks, Doc Martin, Twenty Twelve, Lovesick, frequent collaborator Julia Davis' dark comedy Nighty Night, Jack Dee's Lead Balloon, Steve Coogan's I'm Alan Partridge and Mid Morning Matters, Saxondale, and Miranda Hart's Christmas Unwrapped and Miranda. In 2014, Pepperdine played Harry Hill's housekeeper Mrs Flittersnoop in The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm on BBC One.[3] She played the regular role of midwife Anna Nikolayevna in both series of A Young Doctor's Notebook.[4]
Her theatre work includes the role of Mrs Candour in Deborah Warner's 2011 production of The School for Scandal at the Barbican Centre.[5]
In 2014, she co-wrote, co-produced and starred in Puppy Love, again with Joanna Scanlan (with whom she established a production company, George and George). Pepperdine is an executive producer on HBO's adaption of Getting On, and reprised her role as Pippa Moore in the season three episode "Am I Still Me?".
In 2017 Pepperdine appeared in comedy feature Eaten by Lions alongside Antonio Aakeel and Jack Carroll, directed by Jason Wingard.[6]
In 2018, she appeared in the Sky Atlantic sitcom Sally4Ever. She also appeared in the 2018 film Johnny English Strikes Again.
In 2019, it was announced that Pepperdine was working on a new TV show, an adaptation of Lissa Evans' comic novel Old Baggage.[7] In that same year, she appeared as Aunt Sally in the BBC children's miniseries, Worzel Gummidge.
Filmography
editFilm
edit| Year | Title | Role | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Gypsy Woman | Kate | Sheree Folkson |
| 2002 | Thunderpants | Reporter | Peter Hewitt |
| 2003 | Blackball | Henna Haired | Mel Smith |
| 2017 | My Cousin Rachel | Mrs Pascoe | Roger Michell |
| 2017 | Goodbye Christopher Robin | Betty | Simon Curtis |
| 2018 | Johnny English Strikes Again | Lydia | David Kerr |
| 2019 | Eaten by Lions | Ellen | Jason Wingard |
| 2019 | How to Build a Girl | Smart DSS Woman | Coky Giedroyc |
| 2022 | We Are Not Alone | Trater | Fergal Costello |
| 2023 | Magic Mike's Last Dance | Edna Eaglebauer | Steven Soderbergh |
| 2023 | Poor Things | Mrs Prim | Yorgos Lanthimos |
Television
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | The Bill | Michelle Grainger | Series 10 (guest; #10.55) |
| 1997 | Linda Martins | Series 13 (guest; #13.36) | |
| 1997 | Dad | WPC | Series 1 (guest; #1.5) |
| 1998–99 | How Do You Want Me? | Warren’s Wife | Series 1–2 (guest; #1.2 & #2.2) |
| 1998 | Comedy Nation | Various | Series 1 |
| 1998 | The Bill | Mrs Parker | Series 14 (guest; #14.26) |
| 1998 | In the Red | Bank Manager 1 | Miniseries (guest; episode 2) |
| 1998 | Vanity Fair | Ann Dobbin | Miniseries (guest; episodes 4 & 5) |
| 1999 | Coming Soon | Jen | T film |
| 1999 | Big Bad World | Mum in park | Series 1 (guest; #1.5) |
| 1999 | People Like Us | Series 1 (guest; #1.2) | |
| 2000 | Beast | Briony’s Friends | Series 1 (guest; #1.4) |
| 2000 | Rhona | Ally Elvis | Series 1 (main; all 6 episodes) |
| 2001 | Los Dos Bros | Therapist | Series 1 (main; 5 episodes) |
| 2001 | World of Pub | Woman in Pub | Series 1 (guest; #1.6) |
| 2001 | Station Jim | Nurse | TV film |
| 2001 | Mr Charity | Hospice receptionist | Series 1 (guest; #1.4) |
| 2002 | I'm Alan Partridge | Patricia Lessing | Series 2 (guest; #2.3) |
| 2002 | TLC | Chiropodist | Series 1 (guest; #1.5) |
| 2003 | Grass | Lucy | Series 1 (recurring; #1.3, #1.6 & #1.8) |
| 2004 | Nighty Night | Mrs Horner | Series 1 (guest; #1.1) |
| 2004 | My Family | Martha | Series 5 (guest; #5.8) |
| 2004–05 | Doc Martin | Mrs Richards | Series 1–2 (guest; #1.2 & 2.2) |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures | Carlo Fisher | TV film |
| 2004 | Green Wing | Neighbour | Series 1 (guest; #1.9) |
| 2005 | Dead Man Weds | Annouska | Series 1 (guest; #1.4) |
| 2005 | Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps | Consultant | Series 5 (guest; #5.9) |
| 2006 | Pinochet in Suburbia | Interviewer | TV film |
| 2006 | Saxondale | Squirrel Woman | Series 1 (guest; #1.5) |
| 2006 | The Only Boy for Me | Mrs Anderson | TV film |
| 2006 | Lead Balloon | Newsagent | Series 1 (guest; #1.2) |
| 2007 | Holby City | Lynn Cassidy | Series 9 (guest; #9.48) |
| 2009 | No Signal! | Series 1 (guest; #1.8) | |
| 2009–12 | Getting On | Pippa Moore | Series 1–3 (main; all 15 episodes) |
| 2010 | Life of Riley | Miss Kennedy | Series 2 (guest; #2.3) |
| 2011 | Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge | Terri Cohen | Series 1 (recurring; 3 episodes) |
| 2012 | New Tricks | Madeleine Simmons | Series 8 (guest; #8.1) |
| 2012 | Twenty Twelve | Sarah Slocombe | Series 2 (guest; #2.4) |
| 2012–13 | A Young Doctor’s Notebook | Anna | Series 1–2 (main; all 8 episodes) |
| 2012 | Miranda | Eaters Anonymous Leader | Series 3 (guest; #3.1) |
| 2013–15 | Up the Women | Gwen | Series 1–2 (main; all 9 episodes) |
| 2013 | Chickens | Hesta | Series 1 (main; 5 episodes) |
| 2014 | Rev | Geri Tennison | Series 3 (guest; #3.1 & #3.5) |
| 2014 | Lovesick | Abigail | Series 1 (guest; #1.1) |
| 2014 | Puppy Love | Naomi Singh | Series 1 (main; all 6 episodes) |
| 2014 | The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm | Mrs Flittersnoop | TV film |
| 2015 | Still Open All Hours | Mrs Dawlish | Series 1 (guest; #1.4) |
| 2015 | Together | Lesley | Series 1 (main; all 6 episodes) |
| 2015 | Getting On (American version) | Pippa Moore | Season 3 (guest; #3.4) |
| 2015 | Professor Branestawm Returns | Mrs Flittersnoop | TV film |
| 2016 | Camping | Fiona | Series 1 (main; all 6 episodes) |
| 2016–23 | The Windsors | Princess Anne | Series 1–3 (recurring; 6 episodes)and 2023 Coronation Special |
| 2017 | Midsomer Murders | Barbara Walton | Series 19 (guest; #19.2) |
| 2017 | The Educatoror | Liz Church | Miniseries (main; all 3 episodes) |
| 2017 | Summer Comedy Shorts | Alison | Miniseries (guest; 1 episode) |
| 2018 | Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators | Penelope Pinchot | Series 1 (guest; #1.2) |
| 2018 | The Woman in White | Mrs Michelson | Miniseries (guest; 3 episodes) |
| 2018 | High & Dry | Harriett | Series 1 (main; all 6 episodes) |
| 2018 | Cuckoo | Debbie | Series 4 (guest; #4.5) |
| 2018 | The Reluctant Landlord | Head Teacher | Series 1 (guest; #1.1 & #1.2) |
| 2018 | Sally4Ever | Belinda | Series 1 (guest; 3 episodes) |
| 2019 | Wild Bill | Broadbent | Series 1 (recurring; 3 episodes) |
| 2019 | Defending the Guilty | Beth | Series 1 (guest; #1.3) |
| 2019– | Worzel Gummidge | Aunt Sally | Series 1– (main; 3 episodes) |
| 2020– | The Trouble with Maggie Cole | Karen Saxton | Series 1– (main; 6 episodes) |
| 2020 | We Hunt Together | DSI Susan Smart | Series 1 (main; all 6 episodes) |
| 2022- | Bad Education | Bernadette Hoburn | Reunion special, Series 4, Series 5 |
| 2023 | A Small Light | Gerdi Lange | TV Miniseries |
| 2024 | The Cleaner | Caroline |
References
edit- ^ "The Hudson and Pepperdine Show". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
- ^ "Getting On's Vicki Pepperdine and Joanna Scanlan turn to the world of dog training in new BBC sitcom Puppy Love". The Independent. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
- ^ "The Problem with Professor Branestawm". The Guardian. 24 December 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
- ^ "A Young Doctor's Notebook". Big Talk. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
- ^ "The School for Scandal". Barbican. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
- ^ "Filming underway on new movie Eaten by Lions". British Comedy Guide. 29 April 2017. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
- ^ Chortle - New Suffragette Comedy for Vicki Pepperdine and Joanna Scanlan