Career

She was a presenter for Wish You Were Here? from 1991 to 1996, appearing in eight episodes in total. Before appearing on the show, she spent a brief time presenting Holiday, a travel shown that has seen the likes of Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Charlie Dimmock, and Hermione Norris presenting over the years.

She has had one acting role, playing Lucy in the independent film called Riverside in 1982, which introduced actors Hugh Grant

Hugh Grant

Hugh John Mungo Grant is an English actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César. His films have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant achieved international stardom after appearing in Richard Curtis's...

 and Imogen Stubbs

Imogen Stubbs

Imogen Stubbs, Lady Nunn is an English actress and playwright.-Early life:Imogen Stubbs was born in Northumberland, lived briefly in Portsmouth, where her father was a naval officer, and then moved with her parents to London, where they lived on an elderly river barge on the Thames...

. The character was the girlfriend of the then-unknown Hugh Grant's character. In an article for Bnet, Studd said that the pair came close to kissing; "So one day when we were walking home with him, I said: 'Hugh, if I'm going to play your girlfriend convincingly, I really should know what it's like to kiss you.' He agreed, and we were just going to kiss for the first time when a friend of his interrupted us." Grant has said that he owes his entire career to Studd; "The first time I was in front of a camera was when I was at Oxford University and we did a very pretentious student film, I didn't have any goal apart from having sex with a girl called Victoria Studd who was in the film. It was the only reason that I did it."

Personal life

Her father was Clifford Studd. She is married to Edward Bonham Carter

Edward Bonham Carter

Edward Henry Bonham Carter is an English fund manager.-Early life:Edward Henry Bonham Carter was born and raised in Golders Green, London. He is the elder son of Raymond Bonham Carter, who was a merchant banker, and Elena , a psychotherapist...

, brother of Oscar-nominated actress Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter

Helena Bonham Carter is an English actress of film, stage, and television. She made her acting debut in a television adaptation of K. M. Peyton's A Pattern of Roses before winning her first film role as the titular character in Lady Jane...

, and the couple have three children; Harry, Maud, and Tobias. They married on 1 October 1994 at Penn, Buckinghamshire, England. Her married name then became Bonham Carter, but she is still better known as Studd.

External links

Article about Victoria Studd and Hugh Grant http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20020512/ai_n12840600/