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Pauline Perpetua Quirke (born 8 July 1959) is an English actress, known for her role as Sharon Theodopolopodos in the long-running comedy series ''Birds of a Feather'' from 1989 to 1998, and again since 2014. For this role, she won the 1990 British Comedy Award for Best Newcomer. She was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1996 BBC miniseries ''The Sculptress''. Her other television credits include ''Maisie Raine'' (1998–99), ''Down to Earth'' (2000–03), ''Emmerdale'' (2010–12) and ''Broadchurch'' (2013–). ==Career== Quirke began her career as a child actress aged eight with an appearance in ''Dixon of Dock Green'' and later had her own TV show, 'Pauline's Quirkes' ''Thames Television'' by 1976, that comprised pop music, teenage topics, and comedy sketches. In 1976, she played the lead role in the 'Special Offer' episode of ATV's 'Beasts', by Nigel Kneale, also starring Geoffrey Bateman, Wensley Pithey and Ruth Goring. Quirke also had a small role in the movie ''The Elephant Man'' in 1980, with future ''Emmerdale'' colleague Lesley Dunlop. Quirke played Veronica in ''Shine on Harvey Moon'', a British television series made by Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to 23 August 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian. Quirke's big break came in 1989, when she began playing the part of Sharon Theodopolopodos in the BBC sitcom ''Birds of a Feather'' with Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph. She remained with the series until its end in 1998 after nine series and over 100 episodes. In 1994, Quirke appeared in the Surf Advert with ''Linda Robson''. In 1996, she starred in the BBC television adaptation of ''The Sculptress'' by Minette Walters, receiving much critical acclaim for her performance, including a British Academy TV Award nomination for Best Actress. When ''Birds of a Feather'' ended, Quirke began playing DI Maisie Raine in ''Maisie Raine'', a drama series for BBC One, which ran in 1998 and 1999. From 2000 to 2003, Quirke starred opposite Warren Clarke in the BBC series ''Down to Earth''. She made a return to comedy in 2000 when she starred with Neil Stuke, Robert Daws and Pippa Haywood in BBC sitcom ''Office Gossip''. After a promising start with over six million viewers the ratings dropped and it was cancelled after only one series. However, Quirke was nominated for ''Most Popular Comedy Performer'' at the National Television Awards for her role. In 2002, she starred alongside Nitin Ganatra in ''Being April'', a comedy drama for BBC One. Quirke appeared in ''Carrie's War'' in 2004 and in 2005, played a major role in ''The Bill'' (a show she claimed she longed to be on saying ''I must be the only actor in the UK that hasn't been in The Bill!''), as Cath Wilson, a woman wrongly convicted of murdering a child. In 2006, Quirke played Colleen McCabe in ''The Thieving Headmistress'' and in 2008, she appeared in an episode of ''My Family'' as Sharon the Bank Robber. Quirke has frequently been seen in the audience of ''Strictly Come Dancing'' and has appeared on its companion show ''It Takes Two'' more than once. She was a contestant on BBC's ''Celebrity MasterChef'' in June 2007, but was disqualified for creating a dish that was described by Lloyd Grossman as "in no way resembling a meal".〔()〕 In 2009 and 2010, she played the lead role in the BBC daytime drama series ''Missing'' as DS Mary Jane "MJ" Croft, head of a Missing Persons Unit. In May 2010, it was announced that Quirke would be joining the rural soap opera ''Emmerdale'' as Hazel Rhodes, the mother of established character, Jackson Walsh. Quirke said, "I've never done anything like this before so it's something different for me and I'm very happy to be a part of it."〔 On 16 May 2011, it was announced that Quirke had decided to quit ''Emmerdale''. Hazel left on 25 January 2012, and Quirke has since said she would like to return. Since 2013, Quirke recurs as Susan Wright in ITV drama series ''Broadchurch''. Her pet Labrador, Bailey also appears in the programme. On 2 January 2014, Quirke returned to play Sharon Theodopolopodos when ITV decided to revive ''Birds of a Feather''. The second series premiered on 26 December 2014. A third revived series has been commissioned and will be filmed in 2015 before being aired in 2016. In 2015, she played the role of Paula Winton in the ten-part comedy thriller ''You, Me and the Apocalypse'' for Sky1. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pauline Quirke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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