Pauline Quirke

Pauline Perpetua Quirke ( born July 18, 1959 in Hackney, London) is a British actress.

Biography

Pauline Quirke began her career with already eight years as a child actress, she appeared in an episode by the TV series Dixon of Dock Green. Since then, she appeared as an actress in numerous films and television series.

In the 1970s, as a teenager, she had three children of their own programs called You Must Be Joking (1975 ), Pauline Quirke 's ( 1976) and Pauline 's People ( 1978-79 ). A year later she had a small role in the film The Elephant Man. Her career got a swing when she in the BBC sitcom Birds of a Feather took over in 1989, the main role of Sharon. She played this role until 1998 in a total of nine seasons ( about 100 episodes) to the end.

In 1996, she continued to play for productions by the BBC, as a film adaptation of the thrillers The Sculptress, by the author Minette Walters. After the end of their series Birds of a Feather, she also played in the series Maisie Raine (1998-1999) and Down To Earth (2000-2003) in the lead roles.

In 2001 she returned to the area of the sitcom and played the first role in Office Gossip. With over 6 million viewers at launch, the sitcom was a great success. For her performance in the series Quirke won an award.

In 2002, she starred in the drama series Being April on BBC One in six episodes. Followed in 2004, a film adaptation of the novel you hear, it is very close to 2005, the crime drama The Bill, where she represented a as child killer, suspected woman. In 2008 she starred in an episode of My Family the bank robber Joan.

From 2009 to 2010 she played in the BBC drama series Missing again the lead role of Mary Jane "MJ" Croft. In the same year it was announced that they will join his team added the soap opera Emmerdale as an actress.

Private

Quirke is married to the film producer Steve Sheen, with whom she has two children. The family lives in Penn, Buckinghamshire. With her in 2009 has also been diagnosed with arthritis, and has had to undergo surgery to replace their damaged bone.