Vicki Pepperdine

Vicki Pepperdine (born 1961) is an English actress and writer. She was nominated for two BAFTA TV Awards for co-writing the BBC sitcom Getting On (2009–12) and nominated for a British Comedy Award for her portrayal of Dr Pippa Moore. 2Career Born in London, Pepperdine co-wrote and starred in the multi-award-winning BBC Four sitcom Getting On with Jo Brand and Joanna Scanlan. Shared with Brand and Scanlan, she was nominated for two BAFTA TV Awards for Best Writing, and won two Writers' Guild of Great Britain awards, a Royal Television Society award and a British Comedy award. For radio, she and Melanie Hudson formed the comedy duo Hudson and Pepperdine; the pair wrote and starred in BBC Radio 4's The Hudson and Pepperdine Show.. Pepperdine currently has a podcast with Julia Davis, entitled Dear Joan and Jericha. Pepperdine's parents both worked in the NHS in south-west London (partly inspiring Getting On). Having studied history of art at the University of East Anglia, and having worked for Help the Aged and in publishing, at the age of 27 she applied to East 15 Acting School in Debden, because her heroine Alison Steadman had been there. She played a part in the first series of Doc Martin (2004). Pepperdine has also had recurring television roles in Julia Davis's Sky Atlantic series Camping, The Woman In White for BBC 1, Channel 4 series High and Dry, The Windsors as 'Princess Anne' for Channel 4, BBC Three series Together, the BBC Four sitcom Up the Women, the BBC's comedy drama Grass, and has appeared in over 50 TV shows including episodes of Rev, Still Open All Hours, New Tricks, Twenty Twelve, Lovesick, Julia Davis's dark comedy Nighty Night, Jack Dee's Lead Balloon, Steve Coogan's I'm Alan Partridge, "Mid Morning Matters" and Saxondale, and Miranda Hart's Christmas Unwrapped and Mirand