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name: "Vicki Pepperdine"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/vicki-pepperdine"
fi1m_id: "vicki-pepperdine"
imdb_id: "nm0672621"
tmdb_id: 1248292
wikidata_id: "Q7925436"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 11
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 11
updated: "2026-10-12T20:11:36.928197+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."
---

# Vicki Pepperdine

## Identity

Vicki Pepperdine

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/vicki-pepperdine
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** vicki-pepperdine
- **IMDb ID:** nm0672621
- **TMDB ID:** 1248292
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7925436
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicki_Pepperdine, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7925436, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0672621/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1248292

Actor. Born 1 January 1961 in London.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 1961, London
- **Active:** 1997–present
- **Also known as:** Vicky Pepperdine
- **Frequently works with:** [India Brown](https://film.one/person/india-brown.md), [Mackenzie Crook](https://film.one/person/mackenzie-crook.md), [Steve Pemberton](https://film.one/person/steve-pemberton.md), [Thierry Wickens](https://film.one/person/thierry-wickens.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as actor, over 11 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 80 (2), 2000s 79 (2), 2010s 73 (4), 2020s 61 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 63 to 61 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 5 at 60–79, 3 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 4 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 9, Drama 3, Romance 2, Action 1, Adventure 1, Kids 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $329m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicki_Pepperdine, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7925436, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0672621/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1248292

## Coming up

- *Club Kid* (2026-11-04), as Lydia Chestworth — [page](https://film.one/film/club-kid.md)

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Worzel Gummidge*](https://film.one/tv/worzel-gummidge.md) (84)
- **Hulu:** [*Poor Things*](https://film.one/film/poor-things.md) (76)
- **HBO Max:** [*Magic Mike's Last Dance*](https://film.one/film/magic-mikes-last-dance.md) (52)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Vicki Pepperdine

> Vicki Pepperdine plays women who are sure of their standing and wrong about it, stiff-necked, grand-voiced and never winking at us. Television and audio have given her room; film has so far given her a scene or two.

Aunt Sally, in *Worzel Gummidge* (2019), is a wooden doll from the manor who considers herself above a scarecrow, and Vicki Pepperdine plays her with a stiff neck, a grand voice and not a flicker of doubt. That is the Pepperdine part in miniature. Her women are practical, bossy and certain they are in charge, and the joke is that nobody around them has noticed. She does not play the certainty as a pose; it is real, and the comedy is in how little it gets her.

She came to acting late, training at East 15 after years in publishing and at Help the Aged, and spent the 1990s in small television parts, including *The Bill* and *I'm Alan Partridge*. The turn came in 2009 with *Getting On*, the BBC Four sitcom she co-wrote and played in with Jo Brand and Joanna Scanlan, as the consultant Dr Pippa Moore. From there the work runs through comedy she had a hand in making: *Puppy Love* (2014) with Scanlan, Princess Anne in *The Windsors* from 2016, and a long partnership with Julia Davis across *Nighty Night*, *Camping*, *Sally4Ever* and the improvised podcast *Dear Joan and Jericha*, which began in 2018. Of the Anne she said, "It's definitely not an impressions show, and I'm not an impressionist", which is the point. She is building a woman, not a likeness.

Film found her later and has used her more sparingly. In *Johnny English Strikes Again* (2018) she plays Lydia. In *Magic Mike's Last Dance* (2023) she is Edna Eaglebauer, the woman from the council who argues with Mike about licences, and she is briskly funny in a stretch of the film that otherwise lists its scenes rather than playing them. In *Poor Things* (2023) she is Mrs Prim, in a part so small our review did not mention her. Neither film is among our favourites; she is a point in each one's favour for exactly as long as she is on screen, which is not long.

Our honest reaction is to *Worzel Gummidge*. We laughed at Aunt Sally more than at anything else in the series, because Pepperdine gives a doll's snobbery the full weight of a duchess and never lets on that it is funny, and we were a little sorry each time the hour moved on to the fields without her. That series underuses its grown-ups, and she is the clearest case.

Where she writes, or where Davis or Scanlan writes with her in mind, she gets a whole woman to play. Where a director has a scene to fill, she gets the scene and fills it. Start with *Worzel Gummidge* and *Getting On*. The films can wait until one of them gives her more than a licence to argue about.

## Biography

Vicki Pepperdine is an English actress and writer. She trained at East 15 Acting School after studying History of Art at the University of East Anglia and working in publishing and for the charity Help the Aged.

She co-wrote and starred as Dr Pippa Moore in the BBC sitcom *Getting On* (2009–2012), receiving two BAFTA TV Award nominations for her writing and a British Comedy Award nomination for her performance. Pepperdine has appeared in films including *My Cousin Rachel* (2017) as Mrs Pascoe, *Goodbye Christopher Robin* (2017) as Betty, *Johnny English Strikes Again* (2018) as Lydia, *Magic Mike's Last Dance* (2023) as Edna Eaglebauer and *Poor Things* (2023) as Mrs Prim.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (11)

- *Savage House* (2026), Fi1m 56, as Mrs. Bennett — [page](https://film.one/film/savage-house.md)
- *Magic Mike's Last Dance* (2023), Fi1m 52, as Edna Eaglebauer — [page](https://film.one/film/magic-mikes-last-dance.md)
- *Poor Things* (2023), Fi1m 76, as Mrs. Prim — [page](https://film.one/film/poor-things.md)
- *Worzel Gummidge* (2019), Fi1m 84, as Aunt Sally — [page](https://film.one/tv/worzel-gummidge.md)
- *Johnny English Strikes Again* (2018), Fi1m 52, as Lydia — [page](https://film.one/film/johnny-english-strikes-again.md)
- *Sally4Ever* (2018), Fi1m 78, as Belinda — [page](https://film.one/tv/sally4ever.md)
- *Twenty Twelve* (2011), Fi1m 77, as Sarah Slocombe — [page](https://film.one/tv/twenty-twelve.md)
- *Saxondale* (2006), Fi1m 75, as Squirrel Woman — [page](https://film.one/tv/saxondale.md)
- *Green Wing* (2004), Fi1m 83, as Neighbour — [page](https://film.one/tv/green-wing.md)
- *Vanity Fair* (1998), Fi1m 72, as Ann Dobbin — [page](https://film.one/tv/vanity-fair.md)
- *I'm Alan Partridge* (1997), Fi1m 88, as Patricia Lessing — [page](https://film.one/tv/im-alan-partridge.md)

## Complete filmography (63)

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

- *Club Kid* (2026), as Lydia Chestworth — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/club-kid.md)
- *Savage House* (2026), as Mrs. Bennett — Fi1m 56, [page](https://film.one/film/savage-house.md)
- *Dirty Business* (2026), series, as Lucy Hunt
- *“Wuthering Heights”* (2026), as Sister Mercy — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/film/wuthering-heights-2026.md)
- *Idiomatic* (2024), as Kris
- *Bad Education: A Christmas Carol* (2023), as Bernadette Hoburn
- *Poor Things* (2023), as Mrs. Prim — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/poor-things.md)
- *A Small Light* (2023), series, as Gerdi Lange
- *Magic Mike's Last Dance* (2023), as Edna Eaglebauer — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/magic-mikes-last-dance.md)
- *We Are Not Alone* (2023), as Trater
- *Bad Education: Reunion* (2022), as Bernadette Hoburn
- *We Are Not Alone* (2022), series, as Trater
- *Worzel Gummidge: Calliope Jane* (2021), as Aunt Sally
- *The Cleaner* (2021), series, as Caroline
- *Murder, They Hope* (2021), series, as Sandra
- *How to Build a Girl* (2020), as Smart DSS Woman
- *We Hunt Together* (2020), series, as DSI Susan Smart
- *The Trouble with Maggie Cole* (2020), series, as Karen Saxton
- *Worzel Gummidge* (2019), series, as Aunt Sally — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/worzel-gummidge.md)
- *Wild Bill* (2019), series, as Broadbent
- *Sally4Ever* (2018), series, as Belinda — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/sally4ever.md)
- *Johnny English Strikes Again* (2018), as Lydia — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/johnny-english-strikes-again.md)
- *Eaten by Lions* (2018), as Ellen
- *High & Dry* (2018), series, as Harriett
- *Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators* (2018), series, as Penelope Pincott
- *The Overcoat* (2017), as The Policewoman
- *Goodbye Christopher Robin* (2017), as Betty
- *Summer Comedy Shorts* (2017), series, as Alison
- *My Cousin Rachel* (2017), as Mrs. Pascoe
- *The Educatoror* (2017), series, as Liz Church
- *The Windsors* (2016), series, as Princess Anne
- *Here Boy* (2016), as Sue
- *Camping* (2016), series, as Fiona
- *Professor Branestawm Returns* (2015), as Mrs Flittersnoop
- *Together* (2015), series, as Lesley Sheffield
- *The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm* (2014), as Mrs. Flittersnoop
- *Puppy Love* (2014), series, as Naomi
- *Lovesick* (2014), series, as Doctor
- *Getting On* (2013), series, as Dr. Pippa Moore · Executive Producer
- *Up the Women* (2013), series, as Gwen
- *A Young Doctor's Notebook* (2012), series, as Anna
- *Cuckoo* (2012), series, as Debbie
- *Twenty Twelve* (2011), series, as Sarah Slocombe — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/twenty-twelve.md)
- *Getting On* (2009), series, as Dr. Pippa Moore · Writer
- *The Only Boy for Me* (2006), as Mrs. Anderson
- *Saxondale* (2006), series, as Squirrel Woman — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/saxondale.md)
- *Pinochet in Suburbia* (2006), as Interviewer
- *Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures* (2004), as Carlo Fisher
- *Green Wing* (2004), series, as Neighbour — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/green-wing.md)
- *New Tricks* (2004), series, as Madeleine Simmonds
- *Blackball* (2003), as Henna Haired PA
- *tlc* (2002), series, as Chiropodist
- *Gypsy Woman* (2002), as kate
- *Thunderpants* (2002), as Reporter
- *Station Jim* (2001), as Nurse
- *My Family* (2000), series, as Martha — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/tv/my-family.md)
- *Beast* (2000), series, as Briony's Friend
- *Coming Soon* (1999), as Jen
- *Vanity Fair* (1998), series, as Ann Dobbin — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/vanity-fair.md)
- *In the Red* (1998), series, as Bank Manager
- *I'm Alan Partridge* (1997), series, as Patricia Lessing — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/im-alan-partridge.md)
- *Dennis Pennis R.I.P.* (1997), as Jenny Puss/Business Woman (as Vicky Pepperdine)
- *Midsomer Murders* (1997), series, as Barbara Walton — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/midsomer-murders.md)

## Gallery

- ![Vicki Pepperdine](https://film.one/media/person/9223/gallery-70196de515e2.jpg) Vicki Pepperdine — Matt Deegan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Vicki_Pepperdine_%2847829356202%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![190518_BPA_318 (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/9223/gallery-0098fa0333f9.jpg) 190518_BPA_318 (2019) — Matt Deegan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/British_Podcast_Awards_2019_%2847829356202%29.jpg/1280px-British_Podcast_Awards_2019_%2847829356202%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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