<P> Hamilton won the role of Queen Victoria in the 2001 BBC - TV production Victoria & Albert, despite facing strong competition and being relatively unknown at the time . She auditioned with the director John Erman in a London hotel suite, and after reading lines from several more scenes at his prompting, was offered the part immediately . Noting that the monarch is typically depicted as stern and stout, Hamilton desired to show a younger version who "loved parties and balls and theatre and opera and new dresses" after a childhood spent in a "forbidding environment". </P> <P> In 2005, Hamilton appeared in the three - part miniseries To the Ends of the Earth alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Jared Harris . The production, an adaptation of the novels of the same name by William Golding, featured various self - absorbed characters who are forced to remain in close quarters while sailing on a ship to Australia during the Napoleonic Wars . Hamilton described the production as having "some of the most beautiful scripts I've seen", and called her character Miss Granham "one of the strongest people on the boat". </P> <P> From 2008 to 2011, Hamilton appeared in the BBC1 series Lark Rise to Candleford as Ruby Pratt, one of two spinster sisters who run a high fashion shop in a small 19th - century town . The Guardian deemed Ruby's rivalry with her sister Pearl (played by Matilda Ziegler) as a highlight of the series, believing both actresses portrayed their characters with "infectious relish". In 2013, Hamilton played Peggy in the BBC drama series What Remains . </P> <P> In 2015, Victoria starred in the BBC1 Drama, Doctor Foster, playing a character named Anna, a lady who lived across the road from Gemma & Simon Foster, played by Suranne Jones and Bertie Carvel . </P>

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