Nicola Walker is hardly an unknown. She has been a stage and television actor in the UK for 30 years and a star for more than 20. A performer of deep humanity who can take a character from cheeky humour to gimlet-eye resolution as quick as a weather change on the English coast, she has won an Olivier award – for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – and received multiple Bafta nominations for her work in television.
Her name recognition may not be what it should be outside the UK – though that may soon change with Alice and Steve, which is streaming on Disney+.
A comedy of betrayal and vengeance created and written by Sophie Goodhart (Sex Education, Rivals), Alice and Steve chronicles the epic fallout between two long-time besties after Alice (Walker) discovers that Steve (Jemaine Clement) has slept with, and wants to keep seeing, her 26-year-old daughter Izzy (Yali Topol Margalith).
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