“I find the whole ceremony of marriage a bit like going to work. Putting on a lovely dress and make-up, learning lines, someone doing your hair.”

English actress

Nicola Walker is an English actress with a career that has run from the 1990s onward. She is known for leading and supporting roles in British television, including Ruth Evershed in Spooks, DCI Cassie Stuart in Unforgotten, and Hannah Stern in The Split. Her work also extends to theatre, radio and film. In 2013, she won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and she was twice nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for Last Tango in Halifax.