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Who was this woman? It's driving me potty.

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TwigletsAndRadishes · 27/07/2024 13:47

I saw her at Stansted airport a couple of weeks ago, so no idea what area of the Uk she lives, but I'm pretty sure she's English.

I recognise her from the telly. Probably around 60. Slim. Nice looking. Not a huge household name but definitely recognisable. Auburn hair, collar/shoulder length. It might have been dyed, but I feel she's probably a natural redhead. A bit freckly.

I think she's maybe been in some long running show like Emmerdale or Holby or something like that. But equally she could be a presenter. It's really bugging me that I can't place her.

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Angelbakes · 28/07/2024 19:31

Yay!!!! I thought of her because you said your mystery woman looked like Tanya Franks. So glad to have helped 😊

Waterboatlass · 28/07/2024 19:52

Yassss!! Her face is familiar but I wouldn't have known her name or placed her

SadAboutSD · 28/07/2024 19:58

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Sugden

Either of the actresses that played sarah sugden in emmerdale, both were auburn. Alison spiro, madeleine howard.

ToniGreen · 28/07/2024 20:01

Wow! Know the face but not the name. Thank f we got there!!

Willmafrockfit · 28/07/2024 20:12

stand down
Pooky!

thanks so much

Iudncuewbccgrcb · 28/07/2024 21:08

WalkInAStraightLine · 28/07/2024 19:06

Mumsnet HQ should offer a prize in these situations Grin

Back in the day I won a mumsnet mug for something.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 28/07/2024 21:19

Well done! You should get a prize as well, @TwigletsAndRadishes, as for once your description was absolutely on the money. I was confidently expecting if you ever did get a name that it would turn out to be a 30yo blonde with square features. Grin

Now we all have to face the prospect that posters who haven't looked at the date of the OP or the number of posts on the thread and who haven't thought of checking the end of the thread will carry on saying 'Sarah Jarvis?' to the end of time.

Gilliebobs · 28/07/2024 21:38

ApolloandDaphne · 28/07/2024 07:51

Gillian Anderson? I know she is American but she does English well in shoes.

I think she's Canadian ?

iwasashowgirl · 28/07/2024 23:42
night out drinking GIF by VH1

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CorporaINobbyNobbs · 29/07/2024 01:52

Angelbakes · 28/07/2024 19:31

Yay!!!! I thought of her because you said your mystery woman looked like Tanya Franks. So glad to have helped 😊

And Pooky played Tanya Franks’s sister in law in Eastenders! Well done.

GillianCarole · 29/07/2024 02:04

Carol Vorderman - slim (she has an hourglass figure), chestnut long hair, and she's in her 60s.

nutbrownhare15 · 29/07/2024 08:28

Amelia Bullmore?

TwigletsAndRadishes · 29/07/2024 09:06

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 28/07/2024 21:19

Well done! You should get a prize as well, @TwigletsAndRadishes, as for once your description was absolutely on the money. I was confidently expecting if you ever did get a name that it would turn out to be a 30yo blonde with square features. Grin

Now we all have to face the prospect that posters who haven't looked at the date of the OP or the number of posts on the thread and who haven't thought of checking the end of the thread will carry on saying 'Sarah Jarvis?' to the end of time.

Yes, we could still be going for quite some time. 😂

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Efrogwraig · 29/07/2024 11:14

This reply has been deleted

Withdrawn at OP's request.

Lots of work done...

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 29/07/2024 12:21

Miriam Stoppard was mentioned a couple of times. She's 87. Looking good on it, admittedly, but not likely to be taken for 60, I'd say.

ruthgordon123 · 30/07/2024 09:49

Is she Kim Thomson? She was in Holby for a while, but I remember her from the old Dalgleish days. She was always ethereal and I can imagine her looking a lot younger than she really is.

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 30/07/2024 13:14

Pooky Quesnel sounds like a Harry Potter spell.

LiterallyOnFire · 30/07/2024 13:15

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 30/07/2024 13:14

Pooky Quesnel sounds like a Harry Potter spell.

I know. A name like that and people still can't remember it when they see you!

Milliemoo6 · 03/08/2024 18:42

TwigletsAndRadishes · 27/07/2024 13:47

I saw her at Stansted airport a couple of weeks ago, so no idea what area of the Uk she lives, but I'm pretty sure she's English.

I recognise her from the telly. Probably around 60. Slim. Nice looking. Not a huge household name but definitely recognisable. Auburn hair, collar/shoulder length. It might have been dyed, but I feel she's probably a natural redhead. A bit freckly.

I think she's maybe been in some long running show like Emmerdale or Holby or something like that. But equally she could be a presenter. It's really bugging me that I can't place her.

She was a dr in holby city, had really short brown hair in it though, cant remember what her name was

NannyChirley · 03/08/2024 19:38

Geraldine Somerville - Penthallagon in Cracker
Sarah Parish
Bonnie Langford

NigelHarmansNewWife · 03/08/2024 19:51

Read the thread people: she's been identified!

DrSarahJarvis · 03/08/2024 20:12

Ffs

TheMerryTiger · 03/08/2024 20:19

This is beyond tedious

usersuserse · 03/08/2024 20:53

TwigletsAndRadishes · 28/07/2024 18:10

Yes! YEEEESSSS!!!! Halle-fucking-lujah.

Thank you so much! I was losing the will to live. I have actually NEVER heard her name and I as I was googling it I wondered if you'd made it up for a joke. 😁

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Pooky Quesnel. She does have very dark auburn hair, she has pointy features (in a very nice way) she's 58 and I guessed about 60 (sorry Pooky) and she has played a doctor in three medical dramas no less. Holby being the one I must have remembered her from, because I definitely never saw the other two. Not that I ever consciously watched Holby either but I must have seen it at some point.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=pooky+quesnel

Edited

FOR GODS SAKE THE OP GOT AN ANSWER
IT WAS THE RANDOMLY NAMED POOKY QUESNEL.

TRY READING THE OP'S POSTS BEFORE POSTING.

NanLyn · 04/08/2024 10:18

Joanne Mailin ( Central news presenter)

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