Victoria Hamilton

Victoria Hamilton is an English actress born in Wimbledon, London, who trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and began in classical theater with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. She became known for costume dramas, taking supporting roles in Jane Austen adaptations such as Pride and Prejudice (1995), Persuasion (1995), and Mansfield Park (1999). She played Queen Victoria in the miniseries Victoria & Albert (2001), and later appeared in Lark Rise to Candleford (2008 to 2011), Doctor Foster (2015 to 2017), The Crown (2016 to 2017), and Cobra (2020 to 2023). On stage, she starred in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg in London and on Broadway, earning a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play. Her other stage work includes The Master Builder, As You Like It, Suddenly, Last Summer, and Twelfth Night. She won Critics' Circle Theatre Awards and an Evening Standard Theatre Award.