Victoria Carling is an English radio, television, film and theatre actress. She has an MA in English from Cambridge and graduated from Bristol Old Vic in 1987, winning the Carleton Hobbs award in the same year. After many roles for BBC radio including a 1991 dramatisation of The Railway Children, she played Harriet Humphrey in the BBC sitcom Bonjour la Classe in 1993. Subsequent television roles have included Drop the Dead Donkey, East Enders, Coronation Street, Holby City, Silent Witness, the ITV drama Homefront and BBC1's Doctors. She appeared in the 2000 TV mini-seies Anna Karenina and the 2001 film of Harry Mulisch's The Discovery of Heaven. Her first theatre appearance was in the 1988 premiere of Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays, directed by the playwright, Alan Ayckbourn. In 1991, she appeared with Dawn French in Ben Elton's Silly Cow at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Other work includes a one-woman show After Their Loving in 1990, Kafka's Dick at Watford Palace Theatre and appearances at the Chichester Festival Theatre and the Manchester Royal Exchange. In 2005, the Guardian newspaper said she "adroitly capture[d] the anxiety of a mature student" in a production of Steaming.