External links
- Kerri Quinn at IMDb and misspelled Kerri Quinn at IMDb
- Profile "Kerri Quinn". The Artists Partnership. Archived from the original on 2024-09-26. Retrieved 2024-09-19.
Kerri Quinn | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Alma mater | Queen's University Belfast |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, singer |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Children | 1 |
Kerri Quinn (born c. 1977) is an actress and singer from Northern Ireland. On television, she is known for her roles in Coronation Street and Hope Street .
At the age of 13, Quinn started singing in bands. That gave her a boost in confidence, which prompted her to take on acting lessons. [1] Quinn followed theatre studies at the Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education (BIFHE) and went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts honours degree at Queen's University Belfast in 2004. [2] [3] She didn't go on with the studies, bored with writing essays, but instead chose to learn the art hands on, in the theatre. [4]
Quinn thinks she's lucky to be one of the few theatre talents that got a series of roles. [1] Her skills as a musician, certainly helped with that. She performed in bands, [5] as an in house singer, [6] and toured pubs and clubs with an ABBA tribute band. [7] Some of the interesting theatre pieces she played in, are the musicals West Side Story (2006) and Dancing Shoes (The George Best Story, 2010), the rock-and-play Huzzies (2012) and The Threepenny Opera (2018).
At the end of 2023 Quinn made her first appearance as a radio narrator. It was in the BBC miniseries The Mystery of Mount Stewart, about a boat that sank on Strangford Lough in April 1895. Theresa, Lady Londonderry had lend her sailing boat to her senior servants, as a treat. The series tries to uncover what happened to the boat and its eight passengers that went missing. [8]
In 2024 Quinn starred in the RTÉ comical radio drama Helen Wheels by Fion Foley. Helen is the mother of a bicycle courier, working for a food delivery company, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in Belfast. When she finds drugs in her son's delivery bag, she decides to step in and go on a ride herself. [9] The programme won the 2024 IMRO Radio Award in the category Speech Drama. [10] [11]
In the 2010s Quinn had bought a bungalow in north Belfast, at walking distance from her parents. Union flags were raised in the local area, likely as a form of intimidation. A flag near her home was taken down by a sectarian element who further took out their frustration on Quinn by smashing her windows. After the attack, she and her daughter moved in with her parents. [12] When she asked for help, estate agents and politicians told her to simply sell the place. She left the house boarded up for a while. [13]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Fishbowl | Tina | short by Martin McCann | |
| 2016 | Unhappy Endings | The Derby Woman | short thriller | |
| 2018 | The Good Christian Women's Writing Group | Jackie | short | |
| 2020 | Caroline | Caroline | short | |
| 2023 | The Bully | Gloria | short | [14] [15] |
| 2023 | Faith of Our Fathers | Ann | drama | |
| 2024 | Kneecap | Spin instructor | dark comedy | cameo [13] |
| Year | Title | Role | Episodes | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Sketchy with Diarmuid Corr | various roles | 1/9 (S2E2) | ||
| 2011 | Brendan Smyth: Betrayal of Trust | Dervla | TV movie | BBC | [16] |
| 2015 | The Frankenstein Chronicles | Mrs. Bowyer | 1/12 (S1E2) | ITV | [17] |
| 2018 | Come Home | Brenna Coyle | 3/3 | BBC One, RTÉ One | |
| 2018 | Care | Hilary | TV movie | ||
| 2018 | Torvill & Dean (film) | Mrs Murray / Woman in garden | TV movie | ITV | |
| 2018–2019 | Coronation Street | Vicky Jefferies | 60/... | ITV | |
| 2019 | Derry Girls | Rita | 1/19 (S2E3) | Channel 4 | [18] |
| 2021–present | Hope Street | Sergeant Marlene Pettigrew | 35/36 | BBC | |
| 2021 | Three Families | Louise Byrne | 2/2 | BBC One | |
| 2022 | The Witcher: Blood Origin | Aevenien | 2/4 | Netflix | |
| 2023 | Der Irland-Krimi | Saoirse Flynn | S4E2 | German production | |
| 2024 | Dead and Buried | Sally Bowman | 4/4 | BBC NI, Virgin Media Television | |
| 2024 | Say Nothing | Chrissie | ... | FX (USA) Disney+ (UK IE) |
| Year | Title | Role | Theatre | Location | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | West Side Story | Anita | Gaiety Theatre | Dublin | [3] [19] |
| 2009 | Three Women | Woman Two | [20] | ||
| 2009 | The Weein | Susie Ego | Old Museum Arts Centre Down Arts Centre | Belfast Downpatrick | [21] |
| 2010 2015 | Dancing Shoes - The George Best Story (musical) | Angie Best Mrs Fullaway | on tour Grand Opera House | UK Tour Belfast | [22] [23] |
| 2012 | Huzzies | Dee | Tinderbox Theatre Company | The MAC Belfast | [24] [25] [5] |
| 2014 | Cabaret (musical) | Sally Bowles | Metropolitan Arts Centre | Belfast | [3] |
| 2016 2017 | Educating Rita | Susan (Rita) White | Lyric Theatre | Belfast All Ireland Tour | [26] [2] |
| 2017 | The Weir | Valerie | Lyric Theatre | Belfast | [27] |
| 2018 | The Threepenny Opera | Jenny Diver | Lyric Theatre | Belfast, 13 performances | [28] |
| 2023 | Burnt Out | Cheryl | Lyric Theatre | Belfast | [29] |
"Other theatrical roles include The Nativity... What The Donkey Saw, Smiley and Here Comes The Night (Lyric Theatre), What We're Made Of (Tinderbox)," [2] "Lisa/Tracey in the all-female production of Flesh and Blood Women (GreenShoot Productions), Mother/Princess in Nivellis War (Cahoots NI), Roberta in Belfast by Moonlight (Kabosh), Beauty Queen in Hatch (P.J O'Reily/The Mac), Patsy in Baby its Cold Outside (Greenshoot Productions) Ma in Weddins Weeins and Wakes (Lyric Theatre), Emily in Titanic Boys (GBL Productions)." [26]
| Year | Title | Role | Channel | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | The Mystery of Mountstewart | Narrator | BBC Radio Ulster BBC Radio Foyle | documentary in 3 episodes | [8] [30] |
| 2024 | Helen Wheels | Narrator/Main | RTÉ | comedy drama | [9] |
