“I found myself at Cambridge, loved my course, and met these amazing people who got me heavily involved. I presumed I would have to go to drama school, but I did a play with my uni friends, who were doing lots of pub theatre in London, and through that met my agent. She said 'Don't go to drama school. I'll get you a job' and two weeks later she did.”

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.