--- name: "Sara Vickers" canonical: "https://film.one/person/sara-vickers" roles: ["Actor"] born: "1 January 1985" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 83 average_as: "actor" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-17T15:24:54.706106+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Sara Vickers Actor. Born 1 January 1985 in Strathaven, UK. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 1 January 1985, Strathaven, UK - **Active:** 2013–2019 - **Also known as:** Sarah Vickers - **Average Fi1m score:** 83, as actor, over 2 titles - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Vickers, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28155259, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2335154/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1447224 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*Watchmen*](https://film.one/tv/watchmen-2019.md) (84) - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Endeavour*](https://film.one/tv/endeavour.md) (82) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Sara Vickers > Sara Vickers is good at showing how much a character keeps to herself. Her restrained work in *Endeavour* makes her worth following, though the elaborate puzzles of *Watchmen* give us fewer reasons to single her out. In *Endeavour* (2013), Sara Vickers gives Joan Thursday a convincing inner life without making a display of every feeling. Her restraint makes Joan worth following even when the investigations themselves feel over-familiar. Shaun Evans and Roger Allam supply much of the programme’s warmth, and Vickers works well within that company. We rate her for the emotional detail she brings to a recurring character. Her early work was concentrated in theatre, taking in Ibsen, Jacobean tragedy and Shakespeare. The film role of Eilidh in *Sunshine on Leith* (2013) accompanied the move towards screen work, but Joan was the breakthrough. Across *Endeavour* from 2013 to 2023, she had time to develop a woman negotiating social constraints. That sustained acquaintance makes her subtle approach easier to appreciate. *Watchmen* (2019), her first major international credit, offered a much stranger setting and less straightforward access to the people in it. At the manor in *Watchmen*, Vickers’s maid, Ms Crookshanks, attends Jeremy Irons’s Adrian Veidt alongside Tom Mison’s manservant, Mr Phillips. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross give these scenes jaunty music, encouraging us to enjoy their strangeness. Vickers fits comfortably into this peculiar household, although the writing keeps our attention on the puzzle surrounding it. We grew impatient with the manor scenes because Damon Lindelof kept withholding the explanations that would give them some purpose. Asking Vickers to make more of an impression would scarcely solve that problem. As Erin McKee in *Guilt* (2021), she takes a starring part in contemporary Scottish black comedy-drama. It is a welcome move beyond the period settings that have supplied so much of her screen work. We would like more such opportunities, with room for the emotional nuance that makes Joan persuasive. Start with *Endeavour*, provided familiar detective plots are a price worth paying for the people around them. ## Biography Sara Vickers is a Scottish actor. She was born in 1985 in Strathaven, South Lanarkshire, and grew up in Edinburgh. She graduated with a degree in psychology and anthropology from the University of Glasgow in 2006 and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2010. Vickers is best known for playing Joan Thursday in the ITV series *Endeavour* (2013–2023). Her other television credits include Ms. Crookshanks in the HBO series *Watchmen* (2019), Marion Crawford in *The Crown* (2016), Leanne Randall in *Shetland* (2016), and roles in *The Alienist* (2018) and *Guilt* (2021–2023). Film work includes *Sunshine on Leith* (2013). She has also appeared in theatre productions. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *Watchmen* (2019), Fi1m 84, as Ms. Crookshanks — [page](https://film.one/tv/watchmen-2019.md) - *Endeavour* (2013), Fi1m 82, as Joan Thursday — [page](https://film.one/tv/endeavour.md) ## Complete filmography (19) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Outlander: Blood of My Blood* (2025), series, as Davina Porter - *Guilt* (2019), series, as Erin, Erin McKee - *Watchmen* (2019), series, as Ms. Crookshanks — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/watchmen-2019.md) - *Connect* (2019), as Debbie - *The Alienist* (2018), series, as Jane Gooding - *The Crown* (2016), series, as Marion Crawford — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md) - *Lovesick* (2014), series, as Cara - *Passenger* (2014), as Alex - *Man Down* (2013), series, Acting - *Sunshine on Leith* (2013), as Eilidh - *Endeavour* (2013), series, as Joan Thursday — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/endeavour.md) - *Shetland* (2013), series, as Leanne Randall — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/tv/shetland.md) - *Privates* (2013), series, as Connie Charles - *Bert & Dickie* (2012), as Margaret - *A Woman in Winter* (2007), as Student 1 - *Original Bob* (2005), Acting - *The Two Loves of Anthony Trollope* (2004), as Daughter - *The Book Group* (2002), series, as Babysitter - *Taggart* (1983), series, as Angela Robertson --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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