Pauline Turner
Acting
Biography
Pauline Turner is a Scottish actress, known for her role as Mary Graham on the BBC drama series Martin Chuzzlewit (1994), Frances on the BBC period drama series Peaky Blinders (2017–2019) and as June Begbie in the 2017 film T2 Trainspotting.
Born: October 1, 1972
Place of Birth: Dumbarton, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, UK
Known For
Peaky Blinders
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
Outlander
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
The Rise and Fall of Timex Dundee
This documentary is looking back at the 1993 protests against proposed layoffs at Timex's Camperdown Factory that had run for 47 years.
Martin Chuzzlewit
When old Martin Chuzzlewit disinherits his grandson, he falls prey to a host of rapacious relatives.
Shetland
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.
Call the Midwife
Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
Des
The story of one of the most infamous cases in UK criminal history, that of serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Told through the prism of three men, the series explores the personal and professional consequences of coming into contact with a man like Nilsen.
Heartbeat
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
T2 Trainspotting
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
Danny Boy
Soldier Brian Wood, is accused of war crimes in Iraq by the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner. The two men go head to head in a legal and moral conflict that takes us from the battlefield, at so-called Checkpoint Danny Boy, to the courtroom and one of Britain’s biggest ever public inquiries, the Al-Sweady Inquiry.
Filmography
as Esther Parry
as The Waitress
as Margaret Wood
as Irene
as Elizabeth Sinclair
as Narrator (voice)
as June
as Mrs. Crombie
as Frances
as Sheena Davidson
as Lily
as Connie
as Mary Graham
as Kim
as Mel Drinkwater