Nicola Walker

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Nicola Walker (born 15 May 1970) is an English actress best known for her appearances in various British television shows from the 1990s to 2011, including Ruth Evershed in the spy drama Spooks from 2003 to 2011.

She has worked in theatre, radio, and film.

She received the 2013 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for the film The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, and she has twice been nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for the BBC drama Last Tango in Halifax.

Early life

Walker was born in Stepney, London's East End, and has an elder brother. She attended Saint Nicholas School in Old Harlow, Essex, and Forest School, Walthamstow, Walthamstow, and started acting classes from the age of 12 in order to speak to boys. "I was really encouraged by my mother," she said when interviewed by The Daily Telegraph in 2014. "It was a stupid thing to do," my dad thought.

Walker studied English at New Hall, Cambridge, becoming the first member of her family to attend university. She began her acting with the Cambridge Footlights. Spooks writer David Wolstencroft and comedian Sue Perkins, who were both part of the 1990 national tour, were among her contemporaries. Perkins, then an older undergraduate, had been chosen to be her "college mother," but Walker later said: "She was the worst college mother I could have had." They're supposed to take your hand. "I asked to borrow my bike, became inebriated, and I never saw it again." Walker appeared on stage as Perkins' stooge, and years later, when Perkins cast Walker in her sitcom Heading Out, Perkins revived their relationship.

Personal life

Walker is married to actor Barnaby Kay. Harry Pearce, the character of her co-star Peter Firth in Spooks, is named after Harry Pearce, who was born in October 2006).

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Career

On her way to university from Cambridge, Walker had already worked as an agent and an agent, so she decided to pursue her acting career. She lived in London and worked with Perkins, Sarah Phelps, and Emma Kennedy, and she appeared at the Edinburgh Festival and the London Festival Fringe.

In 1997, Walker appeared on Channel 4's adaptation of A Dance to the Music of Time, as Gypsy Jones, and as English teacher Suzy Travis in two series of Steven Moffat's school-based sitcom Chalk. She has appeared in guest appearances on television shows including Dalziel and Pascoe, Jonathan Creek, Pie in the Sky, and Broken News.

Susan Taylor, the leading actress of DI Susan Taylor's ITV thriller serial Touching Evil co-starring Robson Green, appeared in the film Touching Evil serial on ITV in 1997. She appeared in its two sequel serials in 1998 and 1999. She appeared in The Last Train, a post-apocalyptic drama serial that was also broadcast on ITV (and written by future Spooks writer Matthew Graham). Walker appeared in William Gibson's BBC Radio version of Neuromancer in 2003.

Ruth Evershed was written specifically for Walker from Series 2 in 2003, with Kudos Television's production staff trying to replace the character played by Jenny Agutter in Series 1 of Spooks. She remained with the show until the fifth season, when it was announced that she was pregnant and would be leaving. She returned in 2009 and continued until the series came to an end in 2011. "Actor who has squeezed every drop out of television's greatest ever dumbstruck doormat for the best part of a decade," Benji Wilson of The Daily Telegraph praised Walker's appearance, saying, "an actress who has squeezed every drop out of television's finest ever dumbstruck doormat for the first time in a decade." Any recent episode, her scenes with Peter Firth, another fine actor, have turned into self-contained little bubbles of weltschmerz.

Walker appeared in Oliver Twist's BBC adaptation in 2007 as a child snatcher in the ITV1 drama series Torn.

In 2009, she appeared as a maid in a new BBC adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, which also starred Michelle Dockery and Sue Johnston. In an episode of the BBC1 crime drama Luther, Walker appeared as a beleaguered wife (Linda Shand) of a murderer.

Wendy in the BBC TV series Being Human, she appeared as tense social worker Wendy in February 2011. She appeared in the one-off BBC crime drama Inside Men in February 2012.

She appeared in five series of the BBC original drama Last Tango in Halifax from 2012 to 2020, as Gillian Greenwood (née Buttershaw).

Walker and her late Cambridge Footlights colleague Sue Perkins reunited in February and March 2013 in the BBC comedy Heading Out. Helen Bartlett appeared in the second series of Prisoners' Wives and the third series of Scott & Bailey as Helen Bartlett.

Walker was nominated for a Television BAFTA for her role in Last Tango in Halifax in 2014, but Sarah Lancashire received the accolade.

In the BBC drama series River, Jackie "Stevie" Stevenson, the colleague of DI John River played by Stellan Skarsgrd, appeared as Jackie "Stevie" Stevenson.

In series one (2015–2021) of the ITV drama series Unforgotten, Walker appeared alongside actor Sanjeev Bhaskar, as DCI Cassie Stuart.

Hannah Defoe Stern, a divorce advocate, appeared in all three series of the BBC drama series The Split from 2018 to 2022. She appeared in the BBC2 serial Collateral in 2018.

Walker ranked #10 on the "Radio Times TV 100" list for 2018, which was expected to be voted by television executives and broadcasting veterans.

Annika Stranded, a British crime drama television series, based on the BBC Radio 4 drama Annika Stranded, starred in 2021, with Walker reprising the title role. The first episode, produced by Black Camel Pictures for Alibi and All3Media, aired on August 20, 2021. This is her eighth different police officer or detective appearance she has played on British television.

Walker appeared in Stefan Golaszewski's drama, Marriage with Sean Bean in 2022. Both critics and viewers gave the program mixed feedback.

In her role as Judy, Christopher's mother in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Walker received an Olivier Award in 2013. The play received seven Olivier Awards, beating Matilda the Musical's record win in 2012.

She appeared in Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge, alongside Mark Strong and Phoebe Fox, at the Young Vic theatre in 2014. Critical and transfered to Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End in 2015 and the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway, the play received overwhelmingly positive feedback from critics and tourists alike.

Miss Lily Moffat appeared in The Corn is Green, Emlyn Williams' 1938 autobiographical play, in 2022.

Walker's roles in film have tended to be smaller supporting parts. During the first church service, she sang "Can't Smile Without You" in one half of the folk trio in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), her most prominent role. She appeared in the 2004 television film adaptation of Thunderbirds.

In 2005, she portrayed a British journalist caught up in the Rwandan genocide in Shooting Dogs.

Walker appeared in William Gibson's cyberpunk book Neuromancer on BBC radio in 2002.

Liv Chenka played a significant supporting role in the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio drama Robophobia, opposite Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor. The Chenka character was popular with producers and listeners, and in February 2014, Walker returned to the role, this time as a foil for Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor in Dark Eyes 2. The character was maintained through Dark Eyes 3 and Dark Eyes 4, in which it was revealed that Chenka would continue as the Doctor's trusted traveling companion. Walker played a part in the fourth volume of the Doom Alliance, Ravenous and Stranded, a sequel. In 2017, she appeared in the company's H.G. adaptation. The Shape of Things to Come is a well-written book by Wells.

Annika Strandhed, a Norwegian detective, has been on radio 5's Annika Strandhed since 2013 and was produced by Sweet Talk. Eleanor Peck played Dr. Eleanor Peck in the RedHookStories' case, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Whisperer in Innsmouth, and The Shadow Over Innsmouth, from 2018 to 2020.

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