[1] Prior to that, she spent a brief time presenting Holiday,[2] a travel show that has also provided a presenting venue for the likes of Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Charlie Dimmock, and Hermione Norris over the years.
Studd had just one acting role, playing Lucy in the independent film titled Privileged in 1982, which was also the feature debuts for future stars Hugh Grant and Imogen Stubbs.
[3] In the film, she played the girlfriend of Hugh Grant's character.
In an article for Bnet, Studd said that the pair came close to kissing; "So one day when we were walking home with him, I said: 'Hugh, if I'm going to play your girlfriend convincingly, I really should know what it's like to kiss you.'
"[4] Grant has said that, in a sense, he owes his entire career to Studd; "The first time I was in front of a camera was when I was at Oxford University and we did a very pretentious student film, I didn't have any goal apart from having sex with a girl called Victoria Studd who was in the film.