Background
Pickles was born in Wakefield, although she now lives in North London. She is the daughter of the late Judge James Pickles, a niece of actress Christina Pickles, and great-niece of Wilfred Pickles, the television and radio personality.
Pickles was born in Wakefield, although she now lives in North London. She is the daughter of the late Judge James Pickles, a niece of actress Christina Pickles, and great-niece of Wilfred Pickles, the television and radio personality.
Pickles grew up in and attended school in Halifax in Yorkshire"s West Riding.
She played Shelley Williams in the Independent Television series Emmerdale. Pickles played the lead role as Mission Bluebell in the British Broadcasting Corporation series of the same name, based on the career of Margaret Kelly Leibovici, in 1986. She also appeared in The Bill for two years as DCI Kim Reid, as Simone Trevelyan in May to December, and in The Tales of Para Handy as Lady Catherine Ramsay.
Pickles also appeared in the cult British Broadcasting Corporation children"s educational drama series Through The Dragon"s Eye.
She was a leading character (12 episodes in 1982) in the television series We"ll Meet Again. Pickles has appeared in a number of films, including Roman Polanski"s Tess (1979), Agatha (1979) and The Mirror Crack"d (1980).
In 1995 she played as Linda Livingstone in Io no spik inglish with Paolo Villaggio. In 2013, Pickles played journalist Maggie Radcliffe in the Independent Television drama Broadchurch.