Victoria Hamilton

At 53 years old, Victoria Hamilton has this physical status:

Victoria Hamilton (born 5 April 1971) is an English actress.

Hamilton began her career in classical theatre after attending performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre in London.

In 2002, she appeared in the London stage play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg with Clive Owen and later Eddie Izzard. When the show in New York premiered in 2003, she received a Tony Award nomination.

For her role in the play Suddenly, Last Summer, which was held at the Lyceum Theatre in 2004, she received the Critics' Circle Theatre Award and Evening Standard Theatre Award. Hamilton has worked in costume dramas often.

She appeared in three Jane Austen adaptations, including the 1995 film Persuasion and the 1999 film Mansfield Park. Hamilton appeared in the role of Queen Victoria in Victoria & Albert's 2001 television film portraying the monarch in her early years.

Hamilton appeared in BBC1's Lark Rise to Candleford from 2008 to 2011.

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was the character in the Netflix historical drama series The Crown from 2016 to 2017.

Source

Career

Hamilton was born in Wimbledon, London, on 5 April 1971 to a non-theatrical family. She attended St Hilary's School, a private school in Surrey, from 1974 to 1982, then Prior's Field School in Godalming, 1987.

She had intended to read English at Bristol University before choosing to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She began her acting career in classical theatre, appearing in the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre for the first five years. She stayed with the Royal Shakespeare Company for eighteen months. She said in 2001 that beginning a classical theatre career was "very unfashionable," but she wanted to mimic actors such as Judi Dench and Ian Holm, who "started in rep" and then climbed to a position where they could juggle theatre and film.

Hamilton appeared in Peter Hall's The Master Builder, starring Alan Bates and Gemma Jones, in 1995 and performed at the Haymarket Theatre in London. Hamilton, despite being a newbie, was described by the Independent as a "formidable performer" and that she had appeared in two London performances, one of which being an adaptation of a James Saunders play. Hamilton was awarded the Most Promising Newcomer by the London Critics Circle Theatre in 2009. She was awarded the Critics' Circle Theatre Award in 2000 for her performance in As You Like It, Crucible Theatre.

She appeared on Broadway for the first time in the 2003 play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, co-starring Eddie Izzard. She appeared in Clive Owen and later Izzard in a London production of the play in which she and Izzard played the parents of a child with serious brain injuries who want to save their marriage by jokes and black comedy. Hamilton was nominated for Best Actress in a Play for her role in the Broadway revival.

She appeared in Suddenly, Last Summer (2004), a Tennessee Williams play, at the Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield, the following year. By winning the Critics' Circle Theatre Award and the Evening Standard Theatre Award, she was honoured for her appearances. Her success earned some of the media to brand her as "the next Judi Dench."

Hamilton took a three-year break from the stage before returning as Viola in the Shakespearean drama Twelfth Night (2008), which was staged at Wyndham's Theatre in the West End of London.

Hamilton is best known for his work in the costume drama style. She joked that she had been in corsets for the past seven years in 2001.

She appeared in three Jane Austen's adaptations in the 1990s. These include the 1995 serial Pride and Prejudice as Mrs Forster, Henrietta Musgrove's 1995 film Persuasion, and Maria Bertram's 1999 film Mansfield Park.

Despite fierce competition and being relatively unknown at the time, she won the role of Queen Victoria in the 2001 BBC-TV production Victoria & Albert. She auditioned with director John Erman in a London hotel suite and was offered the role immediately after reading lines from many other scenes. Hamilton, realizing that the monarch is often depicted as stern and stout, wants to display a younger version of the monarch who "loved balls, balls, and opera and new dresses" after growing up in a "forbidden setting."

She appeared in the three-part miniseries To the Ends of the Earth with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jared Harris in 2005. Various self-absorbed characters were forced to remain in close quarters when sailing on a ship to Australia during the Napoleonic Wars, which was a recreation of William Golding's books. Hamilton referred to the performance as having "one of the most beautiful scripts I've seen" and referring to Miss Granham as "one of the best people on board."

Ruby Pratt, one of two spinster sisters who operated a small 19th-century town, appeared in BBC1's Lark Rise to Candleford from 2008 to 2011. Ruby's rivalry with her sister Pearl (played by Matilda Ziegler) was a highlight of the series, according to the Guardian, both actresses portrayed their characters with "infectious relish." Hamilton appeared in The BBC drama series What Remains in 2013.

Anna Baker, a woman who lived across the road from Gemma and Simon Foster, appeared in the BBC1 drama Doctor Foster in 2015. In 2017, she reprised her role in the second season of the drama. Her character had shifted by the time of the last episode.

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother appeared in the first two seasons of Netflix's The Crown in 2016 and 2017. The drama series, which is planned to run for six seasons, portrays Queen Elizabeth II's friendship with Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, from 1947 to today.

Anna Marshall, the Downing Street Chief of Staff, has been active on Sky drama Cobra since 2020.

Source