Victoria Wicks (born April 1959) is a British actress best known for her television work playing Sally Smedley in Drop the Dead Donkey, Mrs Gideon in The Mighty Boosh, Harriet Lawes, the Head of Roundview College in Skins and for her work with Howard Barker's theatre company, the Wrestling School. Other recent television work includes Lizzie Fraser in the BBC drama "Silent Witness", Gemma, in ITV’s drama Mistresses, as Angela Reeves, wife of Richard Reeves, played by Paul McGann, in ITV’s drama, Collision, and as the High Priestess of the Sybillines, in The Fires of Pompeii, Series 4 of Doctor Who, starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate.
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“Sometimes my wife complains that she’s overwhelmed with work and just can’t take one of the kids, for example, to a piano lesson. I’ll offer to do it for her, and then she’ll say, “No, I’ll do it.” We have to negotiate how much I trespass into that mother role—it’s not given up easily.”
—Anonymous Father. As quoted in Women and Their Fathers, by Victoria Secunda, ch. 3 (1992)
“All stars stand close in summer air
And tremble, and look mild as amber;
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