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- Vicki
- Victoria O'Keefe was born on March 27, 1969 in England. Victoria attended St. Joseph's RC School, St. John Fisher RC High School, and Dewsbury College in Dewsbury, England. She joined the Dewsbury Arts Group at age eleven. O'Keefe played the title character in the children's TV mini-series "Letty" and World War II evacuee Nicole Burke on two episodes of the TV show "Nanny." Victoria gave a very strong and impressive performance in the powerful BBC docudrama "Threads" as Jane, a laconic and apathetic teenager who's forced to live a grim and thankless existence in a harsh and unforgiving world that's been ravaged by a nuclear war. O'Keefe acted in stage productions of the plays "Beauty and the Beast," "All My Sons," and "Daisy Pulls It Off" for the Dewsbury Arts Group. Her final film role was the female lead in the fifteen minute short "Positively Negative." Victoria's life was tragically cut short at age twenty-one when she was killed in an automobile accident on the M62 motorway nearby Bold, Merseyside, England on April 18, 1990.- IMDb Mini Biography By: woodyanders
- The Vicki O'Keefe Memorial Trophy for the Best Actress Under 21, was presented as one of the awards at the Kirklees Drama Festival in March 1991.
- Best known for her role as Jane in Threads (1984), which first aired on BBC2 on the 23rd September 1984, to an audience of 6.9 million. It has since gained a cult following.
- To research her role as the wheelchair user Letty (1984), she spent time with three young disabled men at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield.
- She was a prominent member of the Dewsbury Arts Group, which she joined aged eleven. She took part in many stage productions and drama festivals as both an actress and working behind the scenes.
- Was a fan of the rock band Depeche Mode.
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