Vicki Pepperdine

Vicki Pepperdine (born 24 July 1961, Roehampton, London, England) is an English comedy actress and writer, active since 1994. Both her parents worked in the NHS in south-west London — an experience that partly inspired her most celebrated project. She studied art history at the University of East Anglia, then worked for Help the Aged and in publishing before enrolling at the East 15 Acting School at age 27. She is best known for co-writing and starring as Dr Pippa Moore in the BBC Four sitcom Getting On (2009–2012, 15 episodes), alongside Jo Brand and Joanna Scanlan, for which she was nominated for two BAFTA TV Awards for Best Writing in a Comedy and a British Comedy Award, and which won…