---
name: "Valda Aviks"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/valda-aviks"
fi1m_id: "valda-aviks"
imdb_id: "nm0043137"
tmdb_id: 1261112
wikidata_id: "Q27553539"
roles: []
born: "1 January 1945"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T03:23:26.887112+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."
---

# Valda Aviks

## Identity

Valda Aviks

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/valda-aviks
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** valda-aviks
- **IMDb ID:** nm0043137
- **TMDB ID:** 1261112
- **Wikidata ID:** Q27553539
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27553539, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0043137/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1261112

Actor. Born 1 January 1945 in Germany (refugee camp).

## Details

- **Born:** 1 January 1945, Germany (refugee camp)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27553539, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0043137/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1261112

## Biography

Valda Aviks is a British actress and soprano. Born in 1945 in a refugee camp in Germany to Latvian parents, her family later moved to the United States. She studied at the University of Kansas before moving to Canada.

Aviks was an original cast member of the 1972 Toronto production of *Godspell*, alongside performers including Victor Garber, Eugene Levy and Martin Short. She later appeared in the West End and elsewhere in musicals such as *Cats*, *Les Misérables*, *Sweeney Todd*, *Into the Woods* and *Funny Girl*.

Her screen credits include the role of Mellissa Rickman in *Nightbreed* (1990), a German Woman in *Doctor Who* (2008), the Crone in *Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert* (2010), and appearances in *Little Britain* (2003) and *Sparks and Embers* (2015). She features as herself in the 2025 documentary *You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution...*.

*Sources: imdb.com, it.wikipedia.org, collider.com, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution...* (2026), Fi1m 77, as Self / Peggy — [page](https://film.one/film/you-had-to-be-there-how-the-toronto-godspell-ignited-the-comedy-revolution.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Into the Woods* (2011), as Grandmother
- *Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert* (2010), as Crone
- *Doctor Who* (2005), series, as German Woman — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who-2005.md)
- *Nightbreed* (1990), as Mellissa Rickman
- *Words of Love* (1989), as Marge
- *Santa Fe* (1987), Actor

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