Victoria Plucknett

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Victoria Plucknett is a Welsh television actress, best known for playing the character of Diane Ashurst in the Welsh soap opera Pobol y Cwm [1] and Mary in The Duchess of Duke Street .

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She played WPC Beck in Z-Cars . [2] She played Phebe in the 1978 BBC videotaped version of As You Like It. [3]

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