Tessa Peake - Jones - wikipedia Tessa Peake - Jones Tessa Peake - Jones ( 1957 - 05 - 09 ) 9 May 1957 ( age 61 ) Hammersmith, Middlesex, England Occupation Actress Years active 1979 -- present Television Only Fools and Horses ( 1988 -- 2003 ) Partner ( s ) Douglas Hodge ( 1984 / 1985 - 2012 ) Children Tessa Peake - Jones ( born 9 May 1957 ) is an English actress. She is known for her role as Raquel in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses, whom she played from December 1988 until it ended in 2003. Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Television 3 Personal life 4 Filmography and TV roles 5 References 6 External links Early life and education She was educated at Kenmore Park Junior School, Harrow and Downer Grammar School, now known as Canons High School, before training at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Television This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. Find sources : `` Tessa Peake - Jones '' -- news newspapers books scholar JSTOR ( February 2018 ) Peake - Jones is best known for playing Raquel Turner, the longtime partner of the main character Derek `` Del Boy '' Trotter, in the television comedy Only Fools and Horses. She had a co-starring role in the 1999 TV series Births, Marriages, and Deaths. Her other television appearances include The Demon Headmaster, Midsomer Murders, Casualty, Holby City, The Bill, Up the Garden Path and So Haunt Me. She appeared in the BBC adaptation of Iris Murdoch 's The Bell ( 1982 ). She also played the role of the bookish sister Mary Bennet in the BBC serial adaptation of Pride and Prejudice ( 1980 ). In both 2009 and 2011, Peake - Jones played Sue Bond in the BBC daytime soap opera, Doctors. In 2013 she appeared in the Doctor Who Christmas episode `` The Time of the Doctor '', playing a character called Marta. In March 2008 she appeared as a member of staff in the Channel 4 drama Poppy Shakespeare. Set in psychiatric hospital, the production also starred Naomie Harris and Anna Maxwell Martin. Since 2014 she has appeared in Grantchester as Mrs Sylvia Maguire, the vicar 's religious and cantankerous housekeeper Personal life Her partner was Douglas Hodge, who played her son Damien Trotter as an adult in the Only Fools and Horses episode `` Heroes and Villains ''. They announced that they had split up in February 2013 after 27 years together. They have two children, a daughter, Mollie Rose, born in 1991, and a son, Charlie, born c. 2000. Filmography and TV roles The Danedyke Mystery ( 1979 )... Angela Horton Pride and Prejudice ( 1980 )... Mary Bennet The Bell ( 1982 )... Dora Greenfield BBC Television Shakespeare -- The Two Gentlemen of Verona -- ( 1983 )... Julia Charters and Caldicott ( 1985 )... Jenny Quartermaine 's Terms ( 1987 )... Anita What the Butler Saw ( 1987 )... Geraldine Barclay Only Fools and Horses ( 1988 -- 2003 )... Raquel Turner Anything More Would Be Greedy ( 1989 )... Jonquil Vickery Casualty ( 1990 )... Esther MacCauley Up the Garden Path ( 1990 -- 1993 )... Maria So Haunt Me ( 1992 -- 1994 )... Sally Rokeby The Good Sex Guide ( 1994 )... Herself Casualty ( 1995 )... Jenny Hodges The Demon Headmaster ( 1996 -- 1998 )... Mrs. Hunter Midsomer Murders ( 1998 )... Sarah Lawton Births, Marriages and Deaths ( 1999 )... Molly The Lost World -- Mrs Summerlee ( 2001 ) Holby City... Maggie Latham ( 2001 ) Heartbeat... Lady Jocelyn ( 2008 ) Poppy Shakespeare ( 2008 ) ( TV Drama )... Psychotic Ward Nurse Doctors ( 2009, 2011 )... Sue Bond Agatha Christie 's Poirot -- The Clocks ( 2010 )... Valerie Bland Casualty ( 2010 )... Tina Flannery First Night ( 2010 )... Mrs. Hammond Marchlands ( 2011 TV series )... Evelyn Bowen Holby City ( 2012, 2016 )... Imelda Cousins Doctor Who -- `` The Time of the Doctor '' ( 25 December 2013 )... Marta Grantchester ( 2014 -- )... Mrs Maguire Bonobo ( 2014 )... Judith Unforgotten ( 2015 )... Sheila ( 4 episodes ) Midsomer Murders ( 2016 )... Mary Appleton References Jump up ^ `` Only Fools And Horses actors Tessa Peake - Jones and Douglas Hodge split ''. 6 February 2013. Jump up ^ Daily Mail Weekend interview 14 January 2012 Jump up ^ Costa, Maddy ( 16 January 2008 ). `` One of the girls ''. The Guardian. Retrieved 16 January 2008. External links Tessa Peake - Jones on IMDb Appeared in Tom Jones as Bridget Allworthy, 1997 BBC production ISNI : 0000 0001 2382 5599 SUDOC : 149261128 VIAF : 172189039 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tessa_Peake-Jones&oldid=853403875 '' Categories : 1957 births English television actresses English film actresses Living people People from Hammersmith Actresses from London Alumni of the Central School of Speech and Drama British comedy actresses Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from December 2016 EngvarB from December 2016 Pages to import images to Wikidata Articles with hCards BLP articles lacking sources from February 2018 All BLP articles lacking sources Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Français עברית Türkçe Edit links This page was last edited on 4 August 2018, at 15 : 07 ( UTC ). 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Question: who plays rachel in only fools and horses
Answer: Tessa Peake-Jones