{{Short description|English voice actress}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Veronika Hyks''' (born 21 October 1951) is an English voice over actress and narrator. Hyks is often employed as a voice actress or works as a narrator.

==Early life== Hyks was born to [[Czech Republic|Czech]] parents<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/veronika-hyks-the-past-is-not-always-a-foreign-country | title=Veronika Hyks: the past is not always a foreign country | author1=David Vaughan | publisher=Český rozhlas | date=2010-10-18 }}</ref> in the [[London]] borough of [[Westminster]]. Her family name is Hykšová.

She was a student at the [[University of Bristol]], where she read Drama and Spanish, before graduating in 1974.

==Career== She mainly works as a voice-over artist, and works in [[audio description]]. She worked as a [[Continuity (broadcasting)|continuity announcer]] for [[Channel 4]] in the 1980s. Most of her narration work has been for [[BBC Two]], and more recently [[BBC Four]]. She is a Trustee for the Audio Description Association, a UK charity.

===Voice over artist=== Productions she has worked for as a narrator include: * ''[[Frozen (2013 film)|Frozen]]''<ref>She credits herself in the UK description on Disney+</ref> * ''[[Zootopia]]'' * ''[[Bambi]]''<ref>She credits herself in the UK description</ref> * ''[[Airline (1998 TV series)|Airline]]'' * ''[[Celebrity Fit Club]]'' * ''[[Cutting Edge (TV series)|Cutting Edge]]'' * ''[[Everyman (TV series)|Everyman]]'' * ''[[Horizon (BBC TV series)|Horizon]]''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fxjfb | title=Horizon 1993–1994 | publisher=BBC }}</ref> * ''Inside Story'' * ''[[People's Century]]'' * ''[[Timewatch]]'' * ''[[World in Action]]'' * ''[[Breaking the Sound Barrier]]'' * ''Wild Discovery'' * Aristotle Onassis: The Golden Greek

==Personal life== She married in 1982 in [[Westminster]] and has a daughter.

==See also== * [[Continuity announcers in the United Kingdom]]

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDb name|1553172}}

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