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Joanna Gabrielle " Pooky" Quesnel is an English actress, screenwriter and singer.

Early life

Quesnel was born and raised in Eccles, Lancashire, along with her five siblings. Her father was born in Trinidad. She read English at Oxford University before spending a year at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts. In the 1980s, she performed in Humphrey Carpenter's Vile Bodies band at the Ritz Hotel, and performed in a tribute concert to him following his death in 2005. In 2003, she began screenwriting, producing scripts for Doctors and Family Affairs, appearing in the latter as Diane Short.

Career

Quesnel has played Dr. Monica Broome in the first series of Cardiac Arrest and DC Grace Harris in the first two series of Thief Takers. She had a recurring role in the third series of Cold Feet as Emma Keaton and returned to medical dramas in 2006, playing Dr. Christine Whelan in The Golden Hour. In 2007, she starred as Nita in the BBC One series True Dare Kiss, and later that year began a recurring role in EastEnders as Rachel Branning, taking over the character from Sukie Smith. In February 2008, she played the spoken title role in a City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra production of Stravinsky's Perséphone, broadcast on BBC Radio 3. In July 2008, she appeared in an episode of the ITV murder mystery series, Midsomer Murders as journalist Julie Benson, and in an episode of George Gently entitled "The Burning Man", playing the character Wanda Lane. In March 2010, she appeared as Maureen in BBC One's second series of Five Days. She also played the spaceship captain in the Doctor Who 2010 Christmas special, "A Christmas Carol". In November 2010, she appeared as Christopher Eccleston's character's wife in Jimmy McGovern's Accused.

From 2014 to 2015, she played the role of Olga Fitzgerald, Geography teacher and Headteacher Vaughan Fitzgerald's estranged wife in BBC's Waterloo Road. The following year she played Dorothea Ames, Head teacher at Coal Hill Academy, in the BBC3 series Class, and provided the voice of Yuria of Londor in the video game Dark Souls III. She played Louise Wilson in BBC's The A Word, and reprised the role more prominently in its spin-off series Ralph & Katie.

Personal life

Quesnel practises kickboxing, tai chi, and flamenco dancing. In 2017, Quesnel won bronze at the British Council for Chinese Martial Arts (BCCMA) annual British Tai Chi Championships in the Open Weapon category for her Wudangquan taijijian routine.

Filmography

Film and television

1993	The Hawk	WPC Clarke	Feature film
1993	A Woman's Guide to Adultery	Francie	2 episodes
1994	Cardiac Arrest	Dr. Monica Broome	6 episodes
	Finney	Carol	All 6 episodes
	The Bill	Elaine Curtis	Episode: "Licensed to Kill"
1996	Thief Takers	DC Grace Harris	Main role; 16 episodes
1998	The Ambassador	Liz	Episode: "Nine Tenths of the Law"
1999	A Christmas Carol	Maude	Television film
2000	The Mrs Bradley Mysteries	Delilah Hicks	Episode: "The Worsted Viper"
	Sunburn	Josie Daley	Series 2: Episode 7
	City Central	Zora	Episode: "Respect"
	Innocents	Michaela Willis	Television film
	Cold Feet	Emma Keaton
2001		Eleanor Flood	Series 1: Episodes 5 and 6
	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries	Stepha Odell	Episode: "A Great Deliverance"
	Doctors	Angela Crowther	Episode: "Bring Me Sunshine"
	The Armando Iannucci Shows		Episode: "Imagination"
2001–2002	Family Affairs	Diane Short	Regular role Nominated, British Soap Award for Best Actress, 2002
2003	Holby City	Melanie Knox	Episode: "House of Cards"
2003	The Bill	Jo Fox	Series 19: Episode 99
2004	Monarch of the Glen	Kelly McGee	Series 6: Episode 6
2005	Doctors	Rebecca Dobson	Episode: "When Two Become One"
	Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee	Bea	Miniseries; 2 episodes
	The Golden Hour	Dr. Christine Whelan	Miniseries; all 4 episodes
	Walk Away and I Stumble	Suzi	Television film
2006	Holby City	Jill Pearce	Episode: "Invasion"
2007	Skins	Claire	Episode: "Jal"
	Recovery	Homeowner	Television film
	Oh Happy Day	Fern	Feature film
	True Dare Kiss	Nita McKinnon	All 6 episodes
	Suburban Shootout	Penny Hawthorne	Episodes: "Fight Club" and "In it For the Wild Life"
2007–2010	EastEnders	Rachel Branning	Recurring role; 18 episodes
2008	Midsomer Murders	Julia Benson	Episode: "Midsomer Life"
	Inspector George Gently	Wanda Lane	Episode: "The Burning Man"
	Casualty	Pennie Ashton	Episode: "Guilt Complex"
2009	Ashes to Ashes	Ruth Irvine	Series 2: Episode 1
	The Bill	Maria Walmsley	Episode: "Down South"
	Criminal Justice	Amelia Rose	5 episodes
	The Clinic	Sue Murdoch	Series 7: Episode 3
	Enid	Theresa Blyton	Television film
	Paradox	D.C.I. Sarah Bower	Miniseries; 3 episodes
2010	Five Days	Maureen Hardy	4 episodes
	Doctors	Dr. Diana Flaxman	3 episodes
	New Tricks	Lady Catherine Bryant	Episode: "Good Morning Lemmings"
	Moving On	Lynne	Episode: "Sauce for the Goose"
	Accused	Carmel Houlihan	Episode: "Willy's Story"
		Andrea Raines	Episode: "Shaken"
	Doctor Who	The Captain	Episode: "A Christmas Carol"
2011	Shameless	Sandra Brown	Episode: "Kidnap and Ransom"
	Scott & Bailey	Siân Cook	Episode: "Personal"
	Ideal	Donna	Episode: "The Love"
	In with the Flynns	Rachel	Episode: "Whistleblowing"
	Casualty	Emma Davies	Episode: "Starting Out"
	The Body Farm	Sarah Haines	Episode: "You've Got Visitors"
	Top Boy	Dr. Jenny Northam	3 episodes
	Just Henry	Mrs Jeffries	Television film
2012	Preston Passion	Betty Cleasby	Television film
	Silent Witness	Helen Karamides	Episodes: "Paradise Lost": Parts 1 & 2"
	Starlings	Lynn	Series 1: Episode 7
	Great Expectations	Sarah Pocket	Feature film
2013	Not Going Out	Pregnant Woman	Episode: "Skiing"
	The Guilty	Ruth Hyde	Miniseries; all 3 episodes
	Truckers	Pauline	Series 1: Episode 5
2014	Doctors	Wanda Aleksandrov	Episode: "Made in Heaven"
2014	Endeavour	Muriel Todd	Episode: "Trove"credits on DVD
2014–2015	Waterloo Road	Olga Fitzgerald	Series 10; 12 episodes
2016	Father Brown	Ruth Moore	Episode: "The Resurrectionists"
2016	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies	Mrs. Phillips	Feature film
2016–2020	The A Word	Louise Wilson	All 18 episodes
2016	The Living and the Dead	Agnes Thatcher	3 episodes
2016	Class	Headmistress Dorothea Ames	Recurring role; 4 episodes
2017	Tommies	Vera Bliss (voice)	Episode: "17th April 1917"
	W1A	Fiona Craig	Recurring role; 3 episodes
	The Wright Stuff	Guest panelist	1 episode
2018	Kiss Me First	Marion	Miniseries; 2 episodes
2018	The Queen and I	Delia Manson	Television film
2019	The Victim	Mo Buckley	Miniseries; all 4 episodes
2019	Ransom	Olga	Episode: "Prima"
2020	Two Weeks to Live	Mandy	3 episodes
2021	Ladhood	Maria Pearce	Episode: "Mary"
	Wolfe	Maxine	3 episodes
	Riding Liberty	Sue	Short film
	The Trick	Stella Acton	Television film
2022	The Chelsea Detective	Julia Romano	Episode: "Mrs. Romano"
	Ralph & Katie	Louise Wilson	All 6 episodes
	The Confessions of Frannie Langton	Linux
2023	Beyond Paradise	Louise Fitzallan	Series 1: Episode 3
2024	Moonflower Murders	Pauline Treherne / Maureen Gardner	All 6 episodes

Stage

1991	Sweet Sessions	The Dark Lady	Old Fire Station, OxfordLondon theatre record, Volume 11, Issues 14–26
1993	Don't Fool with Love	Peasant Girl	National tour
	A Month in the Country	Verochka	Salisbury Playhouse
	Billy Liar	Rita	Salisbury PlayhousePlays and players: Volumes 489–492; Volumes 494–500, 1993
1995	Racine's Andromaque, adapted by Craig Raine	Annette LeSkye	Almeida TheatrePlays international, Volume 11, Chancery Publications Ltd., 1995Plays and players, Issues 501–510. Hansom Books, 1996
1997	Jane Eyre	Bertha	Shared Experience theatre company at the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Young Vic Theatre, London, and touring (1998). 9781854593290, Nick Hern Books. . ISBN 9781854593290
1998	Anna Karenina	Kitty and Seriozha	Brooklyn Academy of Music's Majestic Theater, Lyric Hammersmith
2003	Present Laughter	Monica	Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, King's Theatre, Glasgow
2004	Loot	Fay	Bristol Old Vic
2005	Romeo and Juliet	Lady Capulet	Royal Exchange Theatre
2005	Sitting Pretty		New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich
2008	Perséphone	Persephone	City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

Video games

2015	Bloodborne	Arianna Lady of the Night, Yharnamite, Female Protagonist Voice
2016	Dark Souls III	Yuria of Londor, Birch Woman(Ashes of Ariandel DLC)
2020		Mary Kelley

External links

Official website
Pooky Quesnel at the British Film Institute

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