Pooky Quesnel

AKA: Joanna Quesnel
1.4955

1965-01-01

Eccles, Greater Manchester, England, U.K

Biography

Crew Roles

Writer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {55}

Lillian

2022-10-14 3.333

My Eyes Are Up Here

Sonya is a super-busy, sought-after model and dating doesn’t really fit her lifestyle. However, a one-night stand with a clumsy but considerate man changes her perspective. ...
Genre :Drama

WPC Clarke

1993-12-03 5.8

The Hawk

Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she ...
Genre :Thriller, TV Movie

Homeowner

2007-02-25 6.381

Recovery

Alan and Tricia Hamilton are blissfully happy. Until one day their perfect life is torn apart when Alan steps in front of a passing car, and he is left with a brain injury that completely transforms h ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Stella Acton

2021-10-18 5

The Trick

The Trick tells the story of world-renowned Professor Philip Jones; Director of Climate Research at the University of East Anglia, who back in 2009 found himself at the eye of an international media s ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

Suzi

2007-05-16 4.6

Walk Away and I Stumble

Andy Spader has been happily married for 13 years, with two teenage children, when he meets a younger woman, Claire Holmes, after going to investigate a break-in at her travel agency shop. Having told ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, TV Movie

Mother

2009-01-01 0

Be Good

An amiable slacker decides to do good in the world. Things don't go to plan. ...
Genre :Comedy

Aunt Phillips

2016-02-04 6.165

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England. Feisty h ...
Genre :Romance, Horror, Comedy, Thriller

Theresa Blyton

2009-11-16 6.4

Enid

A poignant biography of one of the most successful and wildly-read writers of the 20th century. Her stories enthralled children everywhere but her personal struggles often proved too much. ...
Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

Fern

2007-01-01 4.4

Oh Happy Day

Jonathan and David meet at a black tie dinner and end up spending the night together at Jonathan's London flat. The challenges begin when Jonathan's nine–year–old daughter bounds into the bedroom very ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Sarah Pocket

2012-11-30 6.41

Great Expectations

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the be ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Mrs Jeffries

2011-12-18 6.6

Just Henry

Prompted by horrific nightmares, Henry delves into the mystery of his past and begins to uncover the truth about his father's death, triggering a series of revelations that will change his family fore ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Maude

1999-12-05 6.946

A Christmas Carol

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that a ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Captain

2010-12-25 7.951

Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol

Amy Pond and Rory Williams are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way the Eleventh Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser. But is Kazran Sardick, the richest man ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Drama

Celeste

2025-09-26 0

Life Class

Life Class centres on a pivotal exchange between Eve (Molly Vevers), who's trapped in a relationship that’s no longer working, and Celeste (Pooky Quesnel), whose reflections on love and loss unfold al ...
Genre :Drama

Sharon Hill

2020-03-16 4

Heart to Heart

A young girl is scared to make the first move. But her heart has something to say about it. Literally. ...
Genre :

Claire

2007-01-25 8.142

Skins

Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Nita McKinnon

2007-06-28 7

True Dare Kiss

True Dare Kiss is a British television drama produced for BBC One. It is written by Debbie Horsfield and produced by Marcus Wilson and features Dervla Kirwan, David Bradley and Lorraine Ashbourne. It ...
Genre :Drama

2005-09-14 0

The Golden Hour

The Golden Hour was an ITV drama series, first shown in 2005. The series centred on the activities of a specialist medical unit, HEMS which is based in London, operated by the London Ambulance Servic ...
Genre :Drama

Mandy

2020-09-02 7.287

Two Weeks to Live

When strange young misfit Kim Noakes was just a little girl, her father died in murky circumstances and her mother Tina whisked her away to a remote rural life of seclusion and bizarre survival techni ...
Genre :Comedy, Action & Adventure, Crime

Maxine

2021-09-10 6

Wolfe

The adventures of Professor Wolfe Kinteh, a crime scene investigator in the north of England. ...
Genre :Crime

Ruth Moore

2013-01-14 7.6

Father Brown

Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

Lynne

2009-05-18 7.1

Moving On

Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on. ...
Genre :Drama

Olga Fitzgerald

2006-03-09 7.1

Waterloo Road

Affairs, scandals, blackmail and many, many headteachers. Who said education was easy? ...
Genre :Drama

Catherine Bryant

2004-01-01 7.362

New Tricks

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pul ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

2000-02-27 7.3

Monarch of the Glen

Archie MacDonald, a young restaurateur is called back to his childhood home of Glenbogle where he is told he is the new Laird of Glenbogle. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Dr. Jenny Northam

2011-10-31 7.457

Top Boy

A thrilling and raw crime drama following a gang of drug dealers in Hackney, London - an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city drug and gang culture. ...
Genre :Drama

Emma Keaton

1998-11-15 7.611

Cold Feet

Follow the lives and loves of a group of thirtysomethings in a heart-warming comic drama as they try to find true love - or at least keep their relationships on track. In this wry and funny look at a ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Josie Daley

1999-01-16 3.5

Sunburn

Sunburn is a British television series that followed the lives of a group of British holiday reps. It was broadcast on BBC One between 16 January 1999 and 1 May 2000, running for two series of six and ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1998-01-04 6

The Ambassador

The Ambassador is a British television drama series produced by the BBC written by Hugh Costello. The series starred Pauline Collins in the title role as Harriet Smith, the new British ambassador to ...
Genre :Drama

2001-02-02 3

Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years

Adrian Mole: the Cappuccino Years is a British television series which was first aired on BBC One in 2001. The series was based on the fifth book from the Adrian Mole series, The Cappuccino Years. The ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Agnes

2016-06-28 6.7

The Living and the Dead

Somerset 1894. When a pioneering Victorian psychologist brings his vivacious young wife to live on his family's estate, he is confronted by one disturbing case after another. Are these strange event ...
Genre :Drama

Louise Wilson

2016-03-22 7.9

The A Word

The various generations of the Hughes family, who all love, work and fight like any other clan, find they must learn to communicate all over again when the youngest member is diagnosed with autism. ...
Genre :Drama

Pauline

2013-10-10 6

Truckers

Funny, moving and at times painful - Truckers tells stories of real life, ordinary people pushed to extremes. In each episode, one character undertakes a journey and we are along for the ride. In an a ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Francie

1993-11-29 1

A Woman's Guide to Adultery

The story of three women who are involved in adulterous affairs - and Rose, who believes that anyone who sleeps with another's husband is committing a crime against womanhood. Ah, but how long will Ro ...
Genre :Drama

Pennie Ashton

1986-09-06 6.185

Casualty

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives. ...
Genre :Drama, Soap

Emma Davies

1986-09-06 6.185

Casualty

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives. ...
Genre :Drama, Soap

Julia Romano

2022-02-07 6.305

The Chelsea Detective

Detective Inspector Max Arnold lives on a battered houseboat at the end of Cheyne Walk after separating from his art dealer wife Astrid. The son of a local bookshop owner, Max is a far cry from the af ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Fiona Craig

2014-03-19 7.8

W1A

The follow-up to 'Twenty Twelve' as Ian Fletcher takes up the position of 'Head of Values' at the BBC. His task is to clarify, define, or re-define the core purpose of the BBC across all its functions ...
Genre :Comedy

Angela Crowther

2000-03-27 4.7

Doctors

Set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the city of Birmingham, this soap opera follows the staff and families of a doctor's surgery. ...
Genre :Soap, Drama

Donna

2005-01-11 8.1

Ideal

Sitcom about a small-time dope dealer and his strange collection of acquaintances. ...
Genre :Comedy

Muriel Todd

2013-04-14 8.093

Endeavour

The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Carol

1994-11-17 7

Finney

Finney is a 5-hour, 6-episode made-for-British television film that follows the struggle for power between various crime families in the North of England. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

Mo Buckley

2019-04-08 7.148

The Victim

A grieving mother is accused of identifying online the man she believes killed her son. But is he really a notorious child murderer or a tragic victim of mistaken identity? ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Marion

2018-04-02 6.415

Kiss Me First

To escape reality 17-year-old Leila turns to a secret virtual paradise. Her real journey begins when this digital Eden turns dark. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Louise Fitzallan

2023-02-24 6.66

Beyond Paradise

After leaving paradise and seeking a quieter life, Humphrey has taken a job as Detective Inspector in his fiancée Martha's hometown. But with the high crime rate, maybe things will be louder than expe ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Narrator

2024-05-07 8

Holidaying in the 70s: Wish You Were Here

Two-part retro-doc about how British holiday habits changed in the 1970s. ...
Genre :Documentary

Julia Benson

1997-03-23 7.519

Midsomer Murders

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

DC Grace Harris

1996-01-25 7

Thief Takers

Thief Takers was a police drama series made by Central Independent Television for the ITV network. The show depicted the work of a team in the Metropolitan Police Service's Flying Squad. Each case was ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Carmel Houlihan

2010-11-15 8.113

Accused

How certain people end up being accused of a crime. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Pauline Treherne / Maureen Gardner

2024-11-16 7.353

Moonflower Murders

Susan has left publishing and is living in Crete with her long-time boyfriend, Andreas. But her idyll is disturbed by the shadow of a murder committed at a British country hotel eight years ago. Alan ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime

Louise Wilson

2022-10-05 10

Ralph & Katie

Spin-off series following the first year of marriage for the characters from The A Word (2016). Young couple Ralph and Katie face the domestic challenges faced by all newlyweds, but with the added fac ...
Genre :Drama

Pregnant Woman

2006-10-06 7.387

Not Going Out

Lee is a childish northerner who lives in a fancy penthouse apartment in London who goes through a variety of jobs such as a janitor and ice cream man, as well as attempting relationships with female ...
Genre :Comedy

Dorothea Ames

2016-10-22 6.332

Class

Coal Hill School has been a feature of Doctor Who since the first episode, but now we get to see the day-to-day adventures of the students coping with intrusions from space and time. ...
Genre :Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Sandra Brown

2004-01-13 7.6

Shameless

The story of a young group of siblings pretty much abandoned by their parents, surviving by their wits - and humor - on a rough Manchester council estate. Whilst they won't admit it, they need help an ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Dr. Monica Broome

1994-04-21 7

Cardiac Arrest

This series shows the workings of an English hospital through the eyes of its junior doctors. Naive and idealistic Dr Andrew Collins (Andrew Lancel), soon realises he still has much to learn. His boss ...
Genre :Drama