
Pearce Quigley
Department: Acting
Biography
Pearce Quigley is a Salford born actor known for his work on films such as Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Danny Boyle's Millions, The House of Mirth and The Way Back. He is also a familiar face on TV, specifically in comedy having appeared in That Peter Kay Thing, Peter Kay's Car Share, Happiness, Rovers, and the detectorists, as well as dramas such as Three Girls, In The Dark, Cutting It, Prime Suspect 3 and Our Friends in the North. He is also a celebrated stage actor, performing at the National Theatre and the Globe.
Known For

Killing Dad (Or How to Love Your Mother)
1989

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010

Grow Your Own
2007

Two Minutes
1997

Big Dippers
2005

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2014

We Wish You a Mandy Christmas
2021

Within the Whirlwind
2009

Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger
2025

The House of Mirth
2000

Breaking the Bank
2016

Millions
2005

Peterloo
2018

The Way Back
2010

Taming of the Shrew
2013

Hamlet - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2018

The Merry Wives of Windsor - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2019

National Theatre Live: The Beaux Stratagem
2015

Doctor Faustus - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2012

Talk Radio
2021

The Critic
2024

Born Equal
2006

Fish & Chips
2026

Down from London
2019

Cutting It
2002

McDonald & Dodds
2020

Inspector Morse
1987

Detectorists
2014

Together
2015

Rovers
2016

Home from Home
2018

Pie in the Sky
1994

Heartbeat
1992

Our Friends in the North
1996

The Thick of It
2005

Death in Paradise
2011

The Wheel of Time
2021

The Gentlemen
2024

Midsomer Murders
1997

Lovesick
2014

Being Human
2009

15 Storeys High
2002

Three Girls
2017

Mandy
2020

Art Detectives
2025

Showtrial
2021

In the Dark
2017

Hippies
1999

Small Prophets
2026

Queer as Folk
1999

Pay and Display
2000