Jill Baker


Gillian Mary Baker is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Pauline Harris, the ex fiancée of Del Trotter in the Only Fools and Horses episode "The Second Time Around".

Personal life

Baker is a graduate of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
She and actor Bob Peck were married for 17 years, from 1982 until his death, in 1999. They had three children.

Career

Her theatre work includes the premiere of The Secret Rapture in 1988. She has also been working as an actress in British television since 1975. Along with playing a recurring lead character in Rides and Fish, she has made cameo appearances in individual episodes of Blore M.P, The Professionals, Only Fools and Horses, Me and My Girl, "Last Bus to Woodstock , Tales of Sherwood Forest, Prime Suspect, The Broker's Man, The Vanishing Man, Perfect Strangers, New Tricks, A Touch of Frost, Secret Smile, Waking the Dead, Holby City, , Spooks and Wallander, Episode 1 in 2008. She has also appeared as Lady de Lesseps in Shakespeare in Love. In 2009 she appeared in the ITV Drama Whatever It Takes, In 2010 she appeared in the ITV Drama Midsomer Murders. In 2014, she appeared in Happy Valley as Helen Gallagher. Baker appeared in Only Fools and Horses in the episode "The Second Time Around", as Del Boy 's ex-fiancée, Pauline Harris.