Pauline Quirke
Born: 1959-07-08 in Hackney, London, England, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
Pauline Perpetua Quirke is a retired English television and film actress, best known for her role as Sharon in the long-running BBC comedy series "Birds of a Feather". In 2025, Quirke's husband announced that she would be retiring from all professional and commercial duties due to a diagnosis of dementia which she had received in 2021.
Filmography
2021
- Parkinson at 50 as Self (archive footage)
2015
- You, Me and the Apocalypse as Paula
2013
- Broadchurch as Susan Wright
- Tipping Point: Lucky Stars as Self - Contestant
2009
2007
- Skins as DS Blunt
- The Alan Titchmarsh Show as Self
2006
- Celebrity Masterchef
- The Thieving Headmistress as Colleen McCabe
2004
- North & South as Dixon
- Carrie's War
2002
- Being April as April
2001
- Murder in Mind as Jane Saunders
- Office Gossip
- Arthur's Dyke as Janet
2000
- Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
- Down to Earth as Faith Addis
- Checkout Girl as Lynda
1999
- David Copperfield as Peggotty
- Last Christmas as Gwen
1998
- Maisie Raine as D.I. Maisie Raine
- Our Boy as Sonia
1997
- The Canterville Ghost as Madame Murielle
1996
- The Sculptress as Olive Martin
1995
- Soccer AM as Self
1994
- Ready, Steady, Cook as Self - Guest
- An Audience with Bob Monkhouse
1993
- The Good Sex Guide as Self
1989
- Birds of a Feather as Sharon Theodopolopodos
- Getting It Right as Muriel Sutton
1988
- Distant Voices, Still Lives as Doreen
1987
- Going Live! as Self
- Rockliffe's Babies as Lorraine Morelli
- Hardwicke House as Gladys
- Little Dorrit as Maggy
1986
- Casualty as Mary Taylor
1985
- Girls On Top as Cleaner
1983
- The Return of the Soldier as Girl Searching in Hospital
1982
- Shine on Harvey Moon as Veronica
- Q.E.D.
- Life After Death as Checkout Girl
1981
- Baby Talk as Tessa
1980
- The Elephant Man as 2nd Whore
- Name for the Day as Ann
1979
- Lovely Couple as Carole Richards
1978
- An Audience with... as Self
1976
- The Duchess of Duke Street as Pearl
- Beasts as Noreen Beale
- Plays for Britain as Marilyn
- Sunshine in Brixton as Marilyn
- Beasts: Special Offer as Noreen Beale
- Pauline's Quirkes
1975
- Angels
- Shadows as Dawn
- You Must Be Joking!
- Jenny Can't Work Any Faster as Jenny
1974
- Eleanor as Eleanor
1973
- Malachi's Cove as Girl in Store
1972
1970
- Play for Today as Eleanor
- Junket 89