
Acting
May 7, 1983
Nottingham, England
Vicky McClure
Acting
Biography
Vicky McClure – English actress and presenter, born 8 May 1983 in Wollaton, Nottingham, England. She made her screen debut at 15 in A Room for Romeo Brass (1999) and broke through as Lol Jenkins in This Is England (2006) by director Shane Meadows, a role she reprised in the sequel mini-series This Is England '86 (2010), This Is England '88 (2011), and This Is England '90 (2015), winning a BAFTA for Best Actress for the '86 series. Her other notable film credits include Filth and Wisdom (2008, Madonna's directorial debut) and Hummingbird (2013) opposite Jason Statham. On television she is best known for Detective Inspector Kate Fleming in Line of Duty (2012–2021, 36 episodes), Karen White in Broadchurch (2013), Mrs. Jones in Alex Rider (2020–2024), and EXPO Lana Washington in Trigger Point (2022–present). She was awarded an MBE in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours for services to drama and charity.
Feature Films (23)

Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous stranger, comes between them. Morell befriends with the two boys and later asks them to help him pursue Romeo's beautiful elder sister. He gradually becomes more violent after she rejects him.
A Room for Romeo Brass

A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends, even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
This Is England

Tommy, an out of work building contractor, faces up to the consequences when a series of phone calls expose a lie that spirals out of control. With his family in danger and everything he knows rapidly unravelling around him, he must make the toughest decision of his life. Set entirely within the claustrophobic confines of a parked car, HOLD brings an atmospheric and tense twist on a familiar genre.
Hold

Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity, transforming into an avenging angel in the process.
Hummingbird

Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts them down and offers them his management services. They are young, arrogant, sexy and utterly magnificent. Putting their demo on a cassette tape, Dixie heads out onto the streets of London…
Svengali

Two friends attempt to rob a petrol station but are so useless that they end up working there all night.
Convenience

"It’s the story of the people who escape to the alternative reality of being a football manager, and the effect this has had on their lives. It’s also the story of how a computer game made by football fans has become a part of the world it set out to replicate." - Miles Jacobson
An Alternative Reality: The Football Manager Documentary

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
Anna Karenina

An Emergency Services Operator in a Fire Control Room has just started a long night shift when she picks up a call from a desperate young mother. An hour previously, Gemma had fallen asleep in front of the television and has now woken to find the room full of smoke. Her three year old son is trapped in his bedroom upstairs. Flames have started to creep down the stairs that Gemma must use in order to reach him. The operator’s guidance is all that Gemma can rely on in order to survive.
Operator

A short film about a boy balancing the stress of growing up with his love for Grimsby Town F.C
A Plea for Grimsby
Television & Series (27)

Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
The Graham Norton Show

For London's bomb disposal experts, no day is ever the same as they risk their lives protecting the city from harm.
Trigger Point

It's 1986 - the year Maradona ends England's World Cup dreams in Mexico; the year Top Gun is the highest grossing film; the year over 3.4 million Brits are unemployed and the year Shaun is leaving school.
This Is England '86

A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
Line of Duty

A five-part series of intertwining, semi-improvised love stories exploring the reality of love in the modern world.
True Love

Shaun, Harvey, Gadget, Trev and Kelly hit up the nightlife of raves and ecstasy. Woody and Lol are happy, living together with their kids and Combo is still in prison. But things slowly change. This is the year 1990 and This is England.







