# Victoria Bush

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{{BLP sources|date=March 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
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'''Victoria Bush''' is a [British](/source/British_people) [actress](/source/actress) and [comedian](/source/comedian). She is best known for portraying the roles of [Tina O'Kane](/source/Tina_O'Kane) in the [ITV](/source/ITV_(TV_channel)) prison drama series ''[Bad Girls](/source/Bad_Girls_(TV_series))'' (2001–2006), and [Sonya Donnegan](/source/List_of_Waterloo_Road_characters) in the [BBC One](/source/BBC_One) school-based drama series ''[Waterloo Road](/source/Waterloo_Road_(TV_series))'' (2012–2015). In 2024 she starred in the UK tour as Ann Frank with Su Pollard playing her mother.

==Career==
Bush trained at the [Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts](/source/Mountview_Academy_of_Theatre_Arts).<ref>{{cite news|last1=Pratt|first1=Steve|url=http://archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk/2005/5/12/13507.html|title=Bad news|work=Northern Echo|publisher=Newsquest Media Group|date=12 May 2005|access-date=24 July 2006}}</ref>

On leaving drama school, she secured her first major television role in the [ITV](/source/ITV_(TV_network)) prison drama ''[Bad Girls](/source/Bad_Girls_(TV_series))'' in 2001 as [Tina Purvis](/source/Tina_O'Kane) (later Julie O'Kane, then Tina O'Kane) during the shows' third series. Bush continued in the role for a further five series until the shows axe in 2006.

Bush is one half of female comedy duo of ''Checkley & Bush'' with [Laura Checkley](/source/Laura_Checkley). Tours include "Keep Calm and Carry On", which featured at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2011, which included cameos from Abbey Merritt and Vev Gaunt.

In 2012, Bush joined the cast of the [BBC](/source/BBC) school drama ''[Waterloo Road](/source/Waterloo_Road_(TV_series))'' as new school secretary [Sonya Donnegan](/source/List_of_Waterloo_Road_characters). She continued in the role for a further three series until the show's cancellation in 2015.

In 2015, she guest-starred in the BBC hospital drama ''[Casualty](/source/Casualty_(TV_series))'' as Florence Lale, and in 2016 the ITV [soap opera](/source/soap_opera) ''[Coronation Street](/source/Coronation_Street)'' as Vanessa. The following year, she played the part of Kitty Birch in BBC's ''[Doctors](/source/Doctors_(2000_TV_series))''.

==Filmography==
===Film===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes
|-
| 2012
| ''Undead Apocalypse''
| Zombie 2
|
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes
|-
| 2001–2006
| ''[Bad Girls](/source/Bad_Girls_(TV_series))''
| [Tina O'Kane](/source/Tina_O'Kane)
| Regular role; 73 episodes
|-
| 2012–2015
| ''[Waterloo Road](/source/Waterloo_Road_(TV_series))''
| [Sonya Donnegan](/source/List_of_Waterloo_Road_characters)
| Regular role; 62 episodes
|-
| 2015
| ''[Casualty](/source/Casualty_(TV_series))''
| Florence Lale
| Episode: "All the Single Ladies"
|-
| 2016
| ''[Coronation Street](/source/Coronation_Street)''
| Vanessa
| 1 episode
|-
| 2017
| ''[Doctors](/source/Doctors_(2000_TV_series))''
| Kate 'Kitty' Birch
| Episode: "A Tale of Two Kittys"
|-
| 2018–2019
| ''Lee and Dean''
| Maz Dolan
| 2 episodes
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|1009381}}

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Category:Living people
Category:English television actresses
Category:English women comedians
Category:21st-century English actresses
Category:Actresses from Norfolk
Category:Comedians from Norfolk
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

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