Pauline Quirke

Pauline Quirke

Birthday: 1959-07-08

Place of Birth: Hackney, London, England, UK

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.

Movies

Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a ...

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Checkout Girl
Checkout Girl

Supermarket checkout girl Dianne Clarke embarks upon a campaign as a modern day Robin Hood, with no ...

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Arthur's Dyke
Arthur's Dyke

Twenty years ago, three men set out on the longest walk of their lives. They vowed to repeat the wal...

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Getting It Right
Getting It Right

Gavin is 31 years old and still lives with his parents. He is awfully shy but before he knows it the...

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Parkinson at 50
Parkinson at 50

Sir Michael Parkinson looks back over his 50 years as a broadcaster, revealing some tricks of the in...

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Jenny Can't Work Any Faster
Jenny Can't Work Any Faster

Jenny is an autistic teenager. Her father is concerned about her being withdrawn and hopes that empl...

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Our Boy
Our Boy

A parent's grief has no bounds. Our Boy tells the moving and tragic story of one couple’s struggle t...

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An Audience with Bob Monkhouse
An Audience with Bob Monkhouse

The late, great comedian Bob Monkhouse entertains a celebrity audience that includes Stephen Fry, Ma...

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The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville Ghost

'The Canterville Ghost' is one of the most popular choice for making a film in Oscar Wilde's works, ...

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Sunshine in Brixton
Sunshine in Brixton

Sixteen-year-old Otis loathes school. He wants to be a professional footballer, but is good at drawi...

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Carrie's War
Carrie's War

Carrie's War is an adaptation of a 1973 children's novel by Nina Bawden, set during the Second World...

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Distant Voices, Still Lives
Distant Voices, Still Lives

Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a...

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The Elephant Man
The Elephant Man

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

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Junket 89
Junket 89

Science-fiction comedy: Junket, a schoolboy, borrows an apparatus invented by the absent-minded scie...

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Beasts: Special Offer
Beasts: Special Offer

A misfit teenage checkout operator has an unrequited crush on her supermarket manager. At the same s...

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The Trouble with 2B
The Trouble with 2B

It isn't really the fault of the children in 2B that their efforts to be helpful end in disaster....

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The Trouble with 2b: Part Three, Trial of Strength
The Trouble with 2b: Part Three, Trial of Strength

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master,...

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The Trouble with 2b: Part Four, Parents' Day
The Trouble with 2b: Part Four, Parents' Day

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master,...

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The Trouble with 2b: Part One, Happy Days
The Trouble with 2b: Part One, Happy Days

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master,...

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The Trouble with 2b: Part Six, Blackboard Jungle
The Trouble with 2b: Part Six, Blackboard Jungle

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master,...

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The Trouble with 2b: Part Five, Thirty Years Younger
The Trouble with 2b: Part Five, Thirty Years Younger

A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master,...

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The Thieving Headmistress
The Thieving Headmistress

A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessi...

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Last Christmas
Last Christmas

A young boy's dream of finding his dead father comes true when his father visits him as an angel. Bu...

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Malachi's Cove
Malachi's Cove

A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She suppor...

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The Return of the Soldier
The Return of the Soldier

The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized...

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Eleanor
Eleanor

Eleanor seems normal enough to her parents and teachers. Why then has she disappeared?...

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Life After Death
Life After Death

"We were so close, we loved each other, we made a whole together. I feel cut in half." Meg struggles...

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Name for the Day
Name for the Day

Clive decides he will go mad. Stark raving mad. His wife doesn't take him seriously, until Clive doe...

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Baby Talk
Baby Talk

It's such a simple, natural thing to have a baby, thinks Mary. But she and husband Paul are preoccup...

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