“I've always had a resting expression that either makes me look deep in thought or as though I'm about to fight you. I've lost count of the number of directors asking me what the problem is when all I'm doing is sitting still and being.”

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.