Portrait of Pauline Quirke

Pauline Quirke

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.

Born: July 8, 1959

Place of Birth: Hackney, London, England, UK

Filmography

2021
Parkinson at 50

as Self (archive footage)

2013
Broadchurch

as Susan Wright

2007
Skins

as DS Blunt

2006
The Thieving Headmistress

as Colleen McCabe

2004
2002
Being April

as April

2001
2001
Murder in Mind

as Jane Saunders

1999
1999
1998
Maisie Raine

as D.I. Maisie Raine

1998
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

1989
Birds of a Feather

as Sharon Theodopolopodos

1989
Getting It Right

as Muriel Sutton

1987
1987
1987
Rockliffe's Babies

as Lorraine Morelli

1986
Casualty

as Mary Taylor

1986
Casualty

as Jackie Rogers

1985
Girls On Top

as Cleaner

1983
The Return of the Soldier

as Girl Searching in Hospital

1982
1982
Life After Death

as Checkout Girl

1982
1981
Baby Talk

as Tessa

1980
The Elephant Man

as 2nd Whore

1976
Beasts

as Noreen Beale

1976
Beasts: Special Offer

as Noreen Beale

1976
1975
Shadows

as Dawn

1975
1974
Eleanor

as Eleanor

1973
Malachi's Cove

as Girl in Store

1970
Play for Today

as Eleanor

1970
1970