Tracey Wilkinson

Who is Tracey Wilkinson?

Tracey Wilkinson is an English actress primarily known for her role as Di Barker before finally reverting to as Barker. In the series Bad Girls. She joined the prison drama in Series 2 as a prison officer new to G-Wing, but by the end of her time on the programme Di was herself behind bars in the prison in which she had served as an officer, suspected of killing her second husband, corrupt Wing Governor, Jim Fenner - though she was in fact innocent of the crime.

Tracey Wilkinson left Bad Girls in between the filming of the 2005 Christmas Special and the beginning of Series 8 and the fate of Di Barker remains unresolved, though she has presumably been transferred from G-Wing.

Tracey Wilkinson is from the North East England and her acting CV includes a number of productions set in and filmed in the region, including the films Billy Elliot and Purely Belter and the BBC drama Our Friends in the North.

She also appeared in Inspector George Gently - Gently in the Night as Margaret Bishop, a devout Catholic.