Tessa Wyatt
Known For
Acting
Born
1948-04-23 in Woking, Surrey, England, UK
Biography
Tessa Wyatt is an English actress best known for her role as Vicky Tripp (née Nicholls) on the ITV sitcom Robin's Nest. Wyatt was born in Woking, Surrey and attended Elmhurst Ballet School. She was encouraged to act by her maternal grandmother and got her first professional job at the age of 12, appearing in a television programme featuring Richard Hearne's Mr. Pastry character. Soon after, she was represented by an agent. Wyatt's early television appearances include parts in Z-Cars, The Wednesday Play, Tales of Unease, ('Suspicious Ignorance', episode), Public Eye (in which she played a character with the surname Blackburn - she would later marry Tony Blackburn in 1972), Callan, Dixon of Dock Green, Doctor at Large, Play for Today, and UFO. Her film appearances include Wedding Night (1970), the cult horror film The Beast in the Cellar (1970) and Spy Story (1976). Wyatt claimed during a 2013 interview that while filming England Made Me (1973) opposite Peter Finch and Michael York, as a young actress alone abroad the "pervy director" Peter Duffell tried to coerce her into unnecessarily stripping naked for a scene. From 1977 to 1981, Wyatt played Vicky Nicholls, later Tripp, in the ITV sitcom Robin's Nest. Her on-screen boyfriend Robin Tripp was played by Richard O'Sullivan. Following Robin's Nest, Wyatt appeared in Return of the Saint, Boon and 2point4 Children. Wyatt was part of the original cast of the Channel Five soap opera Family Affairs, playing Samantha Cockerill. Since 2000 she has also appeared in Casualty and Doctors. She appeared in the fifth series of Peep Show as Jeremy's mother and was Tom's love interest in an episode of The Old Guys opposite Roger Lloyd-Pack and Clive Swift. In 2013, she joined the cast of EastEnders, playing Betty Spragg. She made a second appearance on the BBC series Doctors on 19 May 2015 alongside George Layton, another sitcom stalwart from the 1970s.
Most Known For
Play for Today
as Jane
Theatre 625
as Amelia Blair
BBC Play of the Month
as Miranda
BBC Play of the Month
as Lisette
UFO
as Catherine Frazer
Peep Show
as Jackie Usborne
The Wednesday Play
as Lorina Liddell
Public Eye
as Judy Blackburn
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Return of the Saint
as Anna
The Main Chance
as Joey Richards
Out of the Unknown
as Gwenn
2Point4 Children
as Carol
Mystery and Imagination
as Gertrud
Callan
Russian Roulette
as Anna Snitkin
Robin's Nest
as Vicky Nicholls
Pride and Prejudice
as Georgiana Darcy
Cows
as Jane
Superstitious Ignorance
as Penny