Nichola McAuliffe has had a career which has spanned everything from theatre to television and from the voice of the Aston Martin in James Bond Die Another Day to Kiss me Kate with Thomas Allen. A member of the RSC she has won the Olivier Award for Outstanding Performance by an actress in a musical and Best Actress Award from The Stage at the Edinburgh Festival. On TV she is best known for her leading role in the series Surgical Spirit but has also terrified children as The Baroness in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in the West End.