Tessa Peake-Jones

Biography

Tessa Peake-Jones (born 9 May 1957) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Raquel in the television comedy series Only Fools and Horses. She had a co-starring role in the 1999 TV series Births, Marriages, and Deaths. She has appeared in the television series, 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). IMDb: Overview (1) Born May 9, 1957 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK Mini Bio (1) Tessa Peake-Jones was born on May 9, 1957 in Hammersmith, London, England. She is an actress, known for Only Fools and Horses (1981), Pride and Prejudice (1980) and Grantchester (2014). Trivia (6) Her former real-life partner, Douglas Hodge, played her on-screen son, Damian Trotter, in one of the Christmas special episodes of Only Fools and Horses in 1996. Appeared in the Culture Club video "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?" in the 1950s health spa sequence. Hobbies include gardening, reading, science and cooking. Her favourite actors and actresses are David Tennant and Judi Dench. Her favourite scene in Only Fools and Horses was giving birth in Only Fools and Horses: Three Men, a Woman, and a Baby (1991). During the episode of Only Fools and Horses (1981) when Raquel gives birth to Damien, Peake-Jones's dialogue was taken from the show's creator John Sullivan's wife when she was in labor. Neither Peake-Jones nor David Jason were parents at that time, so to make the scene realistic, they took advice from midwives at the West Middlesex Hospital while filming the scene.