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Vicki Pepperdine is an English comedy actress and writer. She co-wrote and starred as Pippa Moore in the BBC sitcom Getting On (2009–2012), for which she was nominated for two BAF…
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Vicki Pepperdine (born 24 July 1961) is an English comedy actress and writer. She co-wrote and starred as Pippa Moore in the BBC sitcom Getting On (2009–2012), for which she was nominated for two BAFTA TV Awards and a British Comedy Award.
Vicki Pepperdine is an English comedy actress and writer. She co-wrote and starred as Pippa Moore in the BBC sitcom Getting On (2009–2012), for which she was nominated for two BAFTA TV Awards and a British Comedy Award. She is also known for her long-time collaboration with Julia Davis.
Vicki Pepperdine (born 24 July 1961) is an English comedy actress and writer. She co-wrote and starred as Pippa Moore in the BBC sitcom Getting On (2009–2012), for which she was nominated for two BAFTA TV Awards and a British Comedy Award. She is also known for her long-time collaboration with Julia Davis (Nighty Night (2004), Camping (2016), Dear Joan and Jericha (2018–2025)).
Pepperdine was born in London on 24 July 1961.
Pepperdine's parents both worked in the NHS in south-west London (partly inspiring Getting On). Her father lost a leg in the second world war. He worked at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton. Pepperdine has memories of seeing him at work and also being invited to the yearly "The League of Pity Party", where very ill children would attend.
Pepperdine has a sister, Jane.
At school, Pepperdine was interested in music and drama; however, she did not realise a television career was an option.
Pepperdine studied History of Art at the University of East Anglia. There she had two lecturers, a Marxist and a Marxist-Feminist, who opened up new ideas to her. She subsequently worked for Help the Aged and in publishing. She also worked selling advertising space.
Having previously enjoyed but not been confident in her acting abilities, at the age of 27, Pepperdine applied to East 15 Acting School in Debden, Essex because her hero Alison Steadman had studied there. She was accepted for a one-year postgraduate course. Upon graduating, Pepperdine found there were not many parts for her age; as such, she went into writing.
Pepperdine and Melanie Hudson formed the comedy duo Hudson and Pepperdine. They performed at the Edinburgh Fringe together, and were picked up by French and Saunders' agent and a BBC Radio 4 show. In 1999, they appeared on Channel 4's Coming Soon.
Between 2009 and 2013, Pepperdine co-wrote and starred (as Dr. Pippa Moore) in the BBC Four sitcom Getting On with Jo Brand and Joanna Scanlan. Brand, Scanlan, and Pepperdine won the 2010 Royal Television Society Award for Best Writing in Comedy. In 2010 the three also won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain award for Best Comedy. The show also won the award for Best Sitcom at the British Comedy Awards. For the third series, Brand, Scanlan and Pepperdine were nominated for the 2012 Royal Television Society Award and the BAFTA TV Awards for Best Writing in Comedy. Pepperdine went on to executive Produce and appear (reprising her role as Pippa Moore in the season three episode "Am I Still Me?") in HBO's three-season adaptation of the series.
From 2012-13, Pepperdine played the regular role of midwife Anna Nikolayevna in both series of A Young Doctor's Notebook.
In 2014, Pepperdine co-wrote, co-produced and starred in the improvisational comedy, Puppy Love, again with Scanlan. She played the character Naomi Singh who attends dog training classes run by Scanlan's character Nana V. Pepperdine said that the series is about "why the UK's 7.3 million wonders choose to get a dog "when the reality of mishap, adventure and tribulation is often more than they bargained for"". The Independent described the show as being a "very funny...slow-build, slyly smart" character comedy.
In 2014, Pepperdine played Harry Hill's housekeeper Mrs Flittersnoop in The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm on BBC One.
Pepperdine has regularly collaborated with comedian and writer Julia Davis and credits her as being the "funniest person I know". She starred in series one of Davis' dark comedy Nighty Night (2004) as Mrs. Horner; the Sky Atlantic series Camping (2016) as overbearing mother and wife Fiona; and Belinda, the ineffectual therapist, in the Sky Atlantic sitcom Sally4Ever (2018).
From 2013-2015, Pepperdine played Gwen in Jessica Hynes' Up the Women, a sitcom about women in the Suffragette movement. She wore a pair of false teeth, which she later used for her role as Princess Ann in The Windsors.
Pepperdine is also known for her recurring role of Princess Anne in The Windsors (2016–2023). Fi Glover, on her BBC podcast Fortunately... with Fi and Jane, described Pepperdine's portrayal as "riveting, just riveting". Pepperdine described it as one of "my favourite jobs ever to do, because it's such fun".
In 2017, Pepperdine collaborated with Ellie White on Summer Comedy Shorts: Vicki Pepperdine & Ellie White's Summer for Sky Arts. The film was about a female Morris dancing troupe in the English countryside. Pepperdine played the character of Alison.
From 2000-2005, Pepperdine, as part of her comedy duo with Melanie Hudson, wrote and starred in BBC Radio 4's The Hudson and Pepperdine Show. The series was a variety comedy show, where they played two people sharing a flat. Other writers on the show included Dave Lamb, Jim North, Danny Robins, Dan Tetsell, Richie De
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In 2018, Pepperdine starred as Harriet in the show Channel 4 series High & Dry. The series is about a group of passengers who become stranded on a desert island after a plane crash. Harriet used to be a Brown Owl, and Pepperdine describes her as "incredibly practical, incredibly strong, very determined, very bossy and a bit of a nightmare for everyone else to be around".
Pepperdine and Joanna Scanlan established a production company together called George & George, with the aim of creating their own material as well as "commission others writing about the female experience". The company is named after George Eliot and George Sand, two women who published under men's names to be taken seriously. In 2019, it was announced that they were working in association with Steeve Coogan's production company Baby Cow on an adaptation of Lissa Evans' Old Baggage, a comic novel about the Women's Suffrage Movement. Pepperdine was set to take the role of The Flea. The series had a first-look deal with BBC Studios. The series was never made.
In 2019 and 2021, Pepperdine played Aunt Sally in BBC One's series Worzel Gummidge, created by MacKenzie Crook based on the books by Barbara Euphan Todd.
