Vivienne Soan
Biography
Graduated in Drama from Goldsmiths College in 1977, her first professional engagement was a five year European tour with a devising comedy troupe. London engagements at the original comedy store and the alternative comedy scene in the early 80's is where Vivienne met and married comic performer Martin Soan her now husband of 29 years. Whilst bringing up two daughters Vivienne was a keen Saxophonist from 1988 - 2012 playing with Funk, Punk and Glam rock bands live and for Videos, film, radio. In 2002 Vivienne played tenor Sax in the Kit Kat band for the Chichester Festival Theatre stage production of Cabaret.
Known For & Full Filmography13 Titles
Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes • as Gwen Metcalfe
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • as Mrs. Penton
Five years after the death of schoolgirl Andie Bell, Pippa Fitz-Amobi sets out to uncover what really happened to her. Sal Singh, Andie's boyfriend, admitted to the murder before taking his own life, but Pip doesn't believe he's responsible and teams up with Sal's brother Ravi to uncover the truth. If Sal Singh isn't a murderer and the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from finding out the truth?
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Duchess
Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.
Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • as Neighbour
After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.
Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • as Mary Sparrow
London, 1605. Robert Catesby, a 33-year old Warwickshire gentleman, devises a plot to blow up Parliament and kill the King.
Movie - 1998, 2h 15m • as Nurse
Helen, a London ad executive, is fired from her job and rushes out to catch a train, but, as she runs down, her life suddenly splits off. In one version she catches the train; in the second, she misses it. Her whole life changes in that one second, and the rest of the film depicts what happens in each scenario.
Drama Series - 2022, 16 episodes • as Lesley
Join Red Guy, Yellow Guy and Duck as they learn everything there is to know with the help of some friendly talking objects, in this comedy-horror puppet show based off the popular YouTube web series.
Drama Series - 2022, 16 episodes • as Mary
Danny was a baby when his mother was killed in a car crash. Overcome with grief, his father locked him away in a house, telling him the outside world is full of monsters that will spirit him away like his mother.
Drama Series - 2000, 16 episodes • as Tortoise Owner
Beast is a BBC One sitcom based in a veterinary surgery. Two series of six episodes each were made, with the first broadcast in early 2000 and the second in early 2001. The main premise of the show is that the main character and practice owner doesn't like being a vet and has a strong dislike of animals.
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as Toffee Apple Woman
An endearing outlier, Brian lives alone in a Welsh valley, inventing oddball contraptions that seldom work. After finding a discarded mannequin head, Brian gets an idea. Three days, a washing machine, and sundry spare parts later, he’s invented Charles, an artificially intelligent robot who learns English from a dictionary and proves a charming, cheeky companion. Before long, however, Charles also develops autonomy. Intrigued by the wider world — or whatever lies beyond the cottage where Brian has hidden him away — Charles craves adventure.
Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • as Hospital Chaplain
A gentle, sweet, funny, romantic story of love in later life. Following a couple in their sixties, Dave and Fern who get to know one another over the course of 23 dog walks. Set against the dramatic background of the changing seasons of one year.
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as Nora
The untold disability civil-rights love story of two cabaret performers, Barbara and Alan, who met at a gig, fell in love, and became the driving force behind an unprecedented campaign of direct action that ultimately led to the passing of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act.
Movie - 2023, 2h 15m • as Creepy cleaner / Dead mum
A Kafka-esque nightmare about a screenwriting professor whose life slowly unravels after he learns he may lose his job to a man who appears to him as his doppelgänger. As the Brutalist architecture of Jeremy's world closes in on him, he makes a terrible decision...