Karen Vickery

Karen Vickery is a Canberra-based actor, director and NIDA graduate whose career spans stage, screen and radio. A stalwart of Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir and the ABC, she is celebrated for her versatility and formidable stage presence.

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Karen has multiple awards honoured by the Canberra Critics Circle: for her tour-de-force performances as Violet Weston in August: Osage County, with the ensemble, in Pigeonhole Theatre’s Playhouse Creatures. Also for her performance as Elizabeth I in Mary Stuart at ACT Hub in Canberra and for her riveting portrayal of Patricia Highsmith in Joanna Murray-Smith’s Switzerland, which also earned rave reviews and the 2022 H. Tsongas Award for Excellence in Acting. She won the Canberra Area Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for embodying Russian poet Anna Akhmatova in Alma de Groen’s The Woman in the Window.

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As a director, Karen received Canberra Critics Circle citations for Everyman Theatre’s The Normal Heart and Canberra Rep’s Brighton Beach Memoirs. On television, she appeared in cult favourite Love My Way, and her most recent screen credit is the Russian diplomat Linda Bukovska in NCIS: Sydney (Season 2).

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Whether commanding the intimacy of black-box theatre or the glare of the camera lens, Karen Vickery brings depth, intelligence and unmistakable gravitas to every role she inhabits.