# Kerri Quinn

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.

## Biography
### Early life and career

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. 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. She didn't go on with the studies, bored with writing essays, but instead chose to learn the art hands on, in the theatre.
Quinn thinks she's lucky to be one of the few theatre talents that got a series of roles. Her skills as a musician, certainly helped with that. She performed in bands, as an in house singer, and toured pubs and clubs with an ABBA tribute band. 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).

### Radio and podcasts

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.
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. The programme won the 2024 IMRO Radio Award in the category Speech Drama.

## Personal life

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. 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.

## Filmography
### Film

| 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 | |
| 2023 | Faith of Our Fathers | Ann | drama | |
| 2024 | Kneecap | Spin instructor | dark comedy | cameo |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Episodes | Notes |
| 2011 | Sketchy with Diarmuid Corr | various roles | 1/9 (S2E2) | |
| 2011 | Brendan Smyth: Betrayal of Trust | Dervla | TV movie | BBC |
| 2015 | The Frankenstein Chronicles | Mrs. Bowyer | 1/12 (S1E2) | ITV |
| 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 |
| 2020–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) |

### Theatre

| Year | Title | Role | Theatre | Location | Ref. |
| 2006 | West Side Story | Anita | Gaiety Theatre | Dublin | |
| 2009 | Three Women | Woman Two | | | |
| 2009 | The Weein | Susie Ego | Old Museum Arts Centre Down Arts Centre | Belfast Downpatrick | |
| 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 | |
| 2014 | Cabaret (musical) | Sally Bowles | Metropolitan Arts Centre | Belfast | |
| 2016 2017 | Educating Rita | Susan (Rita) White | Lyric Theatre | Belfast All Ireland Tour | [26] [2] |
| 2017 | The Weir | Valerie | Lyric Theatre | Belfast | |
| 2018 | The Threepenny Opera | Jenny Diver | Lyric Theatre | Belfast, 13 performances | |
| 2023 | Burnt Out | Cheryl | Lyric Theatre | Belfast | |
"Other theatrical roles include The Nativity... What The Donkey Saw, Smiley and Here Comes The Night (Lyric Theatre), What We're Made Of (Tinderbox)," "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)."

### Radio

| Year | Title | Role | Channel | Notes | Ref. |
| 2023-24 | The Mystery of Mountstewart | Narrator | BBC Radio Ulster BBC Radio Foyle | documentary in 3 episodes | |
| 2024 | Helen Wheels | Narrator/Main | RTÉ | comedy drama | |