Pauline Quirke retires from acting after a 50-year career after receiving a dementia diagnosis.

Steve Sheen, the husband of Birds of a Feather singer Pauline Quirke, said today that his wife has been diagnosed with dementia.

The actress, 65, who portrayed Sharon Theodopolopodous in the sitcom’s original season and its 2014–2017 revival,

plans to “step away from all commercial and professional duties” in order to spend more time with her family.

In 1990, Pauline, who has starred in Emmerdale, Broadchurch, and The Sculptress, took home the British Comedy Awards’ Best TV Comedy Newcomer prize for her performance in Birds of a Feather,

Which aired on BBC One. When the comedy came back in 2014, this time to ITV, she, Linda Robson, and Lesley Joseph all played the same parts again.

 

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