# Veronika Hyks

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English voice actress

**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](/source/Czech_Republic) parents[1] in the [London](/source/London) borough of [Westminster](/source/Westminster). Her family name is Hykšová.

She was a student at the [University of Bristol](/source/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](/source/Audio_description). She worked as a [continuity announcer](/source/Continuity_(broadcasting)) for [Channel 4](/source/Channel_4) in the 1980s. Most of her narration work has been for [BBC Two](/source/BBC_Two), and more recently [BBC Four](/source/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](/source/Frozen_(2013_film))*[2]

- *[Zootopia](/source/Zootopia)*

- *[Bambi](/source/Bambi)*[3]

- *[Airline](/source/Airline_(1998_TV_series))*

- *[Celebrity Fit Club](/source/Celebrity_Fit_Club)*

- *[Cutting Edge](/source/Cutting_Edge_(TV_series))*

- *[Everyman](/source/Everyman_(TV_series))*

- *[Horizon](/source/Horizon_(BBC_TV_series))*[4]

- *Inside Story*

- *[People's Century](/source/People's_Century)*

- *[Timewatch](/source/Timewatch)*

- *[World in Action](/source/World_in_Action)*

- *[Breaking the Sound Barrier](/source/Breaking_the_Sound_Barrier)*

- *Wild Discovery*

- Aristotle Onassis: The Golden Greek

## Personal life

She married in 1982 in [Westminster](/source/Westminster) and has a daughter.

## See also

- [Continuity announcers in the United Kingdom](/source/Continuity_announcers_in_the_United_Kingdom)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** David Vaughan (18 October 2010). ["Veronika Hyks: the past is not always a foreign country"](http://www.radio.cz/en/section/one-on-one/veronika-hyks-the-past-is-not-always-a-foreign-country). Český rozhlas.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** She credits herself in the UK description on Disney+

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** She credits herself in the UK description

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Horizon 1993–1994"](https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fxjfb). BBC.

## External links

- [Veronika Hyks](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1553172/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

Authority control databases International VIAF National Czech Republic

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