Tessa Wyatt

Tessa Wyatt is an English actress best known for her role as Vicky Tripp née Nicholls on the ITV sitcom Robins 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 Hearnes Mr Pastry character Soon after she was represented by an agent Wyatts early television appearances include parts in ZCars 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 Robins Nest Her onscreen boyfriend Robin Tripp was played by Richard OSullivan Following Robins 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 Jeremys mother and was Toms love interest in an episode of The Old Guys opposite Roger LloydPack 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