Biography
Vivienne McKone is a British actress. She began dancing at the age of two and trained at a local dancing school in American tap and jazz before attending the Royal Ballet School. As a child she appeared in the West End and played Velma, the solo dancer, in Alan Parker's Bugsy Malone (1976).
Her other screen credits include the receptionist in How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989) and Julie Stevens in the BBC series Casualty (1989). She has also worked in television on series such as That's Love and The Boy Who Won the Pools. McKone is additionally a jazz and soul singer who released an eponymous album in 1992 and several singles.
