Pauline Quirke: Birds of a Feather star reveals dementia diagnosis as she quits acting

Actress Pauline Quirke volition measurement distant from nationalist beingness aft she was diagnosed with dementia, her hubby has revealed.

Steve Sheen announced the Birds A Feather star, 65, would discontinue from “all nonrecreational and commercialized duties” aft being diagnosed with the illness successful 2021.

In a statement, Sheen revealed his wife’s diagnosis for the archetypal time

“It is with a dense bosom that I denote my woman Pauline’s determination to measurement backmost from each nonrecreational and commercialized duties owed to her diagnosis of Dementia successful 2021,” helium said.

“Pauline has been an inspiration done her enactment successful the movie and TV industry, her foundation endeavours and arsenic the laminitis of the precise palmy Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts (PQA).

“Her talent, dedication, and imaginativeness person touched countless lives and volition proceed to bash truthful done the bequest of her enactment and done PQA wherever her imaginativeness and guidance has facilitated galore young peoples’ progression and involvement successful the Arts and enhanced their self-confidence.”

The celebrated histrion roseate to fame for her relation arsenic Sharon Theodopolopodous connected the long-running sitcom Birds of a Feather, winning a British Comedy Award for the role.

Her different appearances see Broadchurch, Emmerdale and The Sculptress. In 2022, Quirke was awarded an MBE, recognising her dedication to charitable causes, contributions to the amusement manufacture and enactment with young people.

“Her acting vocation has present travel to a close, but PQA, with its web of astir 250 academies and implicit 15,000 students crossed the UK, remains robust and volition proceed to run arsenic mean successful accordance with Pauline’s ideology,” Sheen said.

“We kindly petition privateness and knowing for Pauline and our household during this hard period. For the clip being, we volition not beryllium engaging successful interviews oregon making further statements, since Pauline conscionable wants to walk clip with her family, children and grandchildren.”