{{Short description|English actress}} thumb|Victoria Carling '''Victoria Carling''' is an English radio, television, film and theatre actress. She has an MA in English from Cambridge, and graduated from Bristol Old Vic in 1987,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.winterbourne.freeuk.com/BOVTSgraduates.html|title=Bristol Old Vic Theatre School: Graduates 1984-2005. History and information about the Gloucestershire village of Winterbourne.|author=John Kite|work=freeuk.com|access-date=4 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100508203133/http://www.winterbourne.freeuk.com/BOVTSgraduates.html|archive-date=8 May 2010|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> winning the Carleton Hobbs Award (with Stephen Tompkinson) in the same year.<ref>http://www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/1/F2200.html Victoria Carling</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/soundstart/roll.shtml|title=BBC - Radio Drama - SoundStart - Who's won Radio Drama's acting prizes since 1953?|work=bbc.co.uk|access-date=4 October 2015}}</ref>
After many roles for radio on BBC, including a dramatisation of ''The Railway Children'' (1991), she played Harriet Humphrey in the BBC sitcom ''Bonjour la Classe'' in 1993. Subsequent television roles have included ''Drop the Dead Donkey'', ''EastEnders'', ''Coronation Street'', ''Holby City'', ''Silent Witness'', the ITV drama ''Homefront'' and BBC One's ''Doctors'', and also an episode of ''The Green Green Grass''.
She appeared in the television mini series ''Anna Karenina'' of 2000, and the film of Harry Mulisch's ''The Discovery of Heaven'' of 2001. Her first theatre appearance was in the premiere of Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays in 1998, directed by the playwright, Alan Ayckbourn.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mrasamazing.alanayckbourn.net/MA_Productions.htm|work=alanayckbourn.net|access-date=2023-03-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723011226/http://mrasamazing.alanayckbourn.net/MA_Productions.htm |archive-date=2011-07-23 |title= Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays: Major Productions}}</ref>
In 1991, she appeared with Dawn French in Ben Elton's ''Silly Cow'', at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Other work includes a one woman show ''After Their Loving'' in 1990 (for which she was nominated for best actress in the Charrington Fringe Awards), Kafka's Dick at Watford Palace Theatre<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/content/articles/2008/05/14/kafkasdick_feature.shtml|title=BBC - Beds Herts and Bucks - Entertainment - Kafka's Dick gives pleasure in Watford!|work=bbc.co.uk|access-date=4 October 2015}}</ref> and appearances at the Chichester Festival Theatre and the Manchester Royal Exchange.
In July 2005, she appeared in a production of Steaming.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/jul/14/theatre1|title=Steaming|author=Alfred Hickling|work=The Guardian|date=14 July 2005|access-date=4 October 2015}}</ref> In 2011, she toured Dancing at Lughnasa with the ''Original Theatre Company'', playing Kate.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/dancing-at-lughnasa-review-olivier-theatre-national-theatre-london-brian-friel-josie-rourke-ardal-ohanlon-siobhan-mcsweeney-justine-mitchell-alison-oliver|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130422051140/http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/31104/dancing-at-lughnasa|url-status=live|archive-date=April 22, 2013|title=Theatre, dance, opera and cabaret reviews - The Stage|work=The Stage|access-date=4 October 2015}}</ref>
In 2013, she appeared in the BBC series ''Mayday'', and several episodes of ''Coronation Street''. From 2014 to 2016, she was a cast member in two series of the BBC drama ''In the Club''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07bmb8d|title=BBC In the Club|access-date=2 September 2016}}</ref> From 2016, she appears in ''4 O'Clock Club'' as Mrs Goodman, which is a regular role. In January 2020, she appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera ''Doctors'' as Anne Dolridge.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Outside, Inside|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d2sj|series=Doctors|series-link=Doctors (2000 TV series)|credits=Writer: Ben Ellis; Director: Kodjo Tsakpo; Producer: Gail Evans|network=BBC|station=BBC One|airdate=9 January 2020}}</ref>
==Awards== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year !! Award !! Result |- | 1987 || Carleton Hobbs|| {{Won}} |- | 1990 || Best Actress, Charrington Fringe Awards || {{sho|Nominated}} |}
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== External links == * [http://www.spotlight.com/interactive/cv/1/F2200.html Victoria Carling] at Spotlight *{{IMDb name|137557|Victoria Carling}}
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