Vilma Hollingbery

Vilma Jean Napier Brown (21 July 1932 – 11 September 2021), known professionally as Vilma Hollingbery, was a British character actress. She appeared in various television programmes and films over a span of sixty years, and was known for her appearances as Claudia Wren in Psychoville, and also appeared in A Touch of Frost, the 1980 film Babylon, Doctor Who and The Bill, in which she appeared six times as different characters. She also portrayed Barbara in Motherland.

Hollingbery was married to the actor and director Michael Napier Brown, the couple had a daughter together, who also became an actress. Her husband Napier Brown died in August 2016 aged 79, after a long period of ill health. Hollingbery herself died on 11 September 2021, aged 89.