As
an actress, Vickery Turner created the role of the schoolgirl
Sandy in THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE,
starring opposite Vanessa Redgrave and won the London Critics’
Award and the Clarence Derwent Award.
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Above:
Vickery Turner & Vanessa Redgrave |
She
starred in UP THE JUNCTION directed
by Ken Loach.
Vickery played Olivia in TWELFTH NIGHT
with Malcolm McDowell at the Royal Court Theatre, starred in
MR PIM PASSES BY at the Hampstead
Theatre, among others, and appeared in such major television
dramas as Ibsen’s GHOSTS
with Tom Courtenay, HAY FEVER with
Ian McKellan and THE YEAR OF THE SEX OLYMPICS
with Brian Cox.
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She starred opposite Richard Chamberlain
at the Ahmanson Theater in RICHARD II
directed by Jonathan Miller.
She played Celemene in THE MISANTHROPE
with Lynda La Plante and John Rhys Davies at the Oxford Playhouse.
Subsequently she played Charlotte
Bronte in the Yorkshire Television mini series THE
BRONTES OF HAWORTH.
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The
Brontes of Haworth. Centre: Vickery Turner. Clockwise: Michael
Kitchen, Rosemary McHale, Ann Penfold and Alfred Burke. |
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Vickery also played Sonya in Chekov’s
THE WOOD DEMON with Ian Holm, a
BBC TV Play of the Month. In Los Angeles she starred in THE
DAY AFTER THE FAIR at the Shubert, a play which toured
the USA winding up at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.
She also starred in the Granada film THE
GOOD SOLDIER which was filmed on locaton in England and
Germany.
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From
left to right: Vickery Turner, Robin Ellis, Susan Fleetwood,
and Jeremy Brett |
