Ripper Street Season 2: 7 Actors Who Should Guest Star

5. Pauline Quirke

Did you watch Broadchurch earlier this year? If so then you would have noticed Pauline Quirke playing Susan, a hard-skinned, brooding, no-nonsense and mysteriously abrasive woman.

For me I found it difficult to cast possible women for Ripper Street, this is due to the content and era the story is set in, most female characters are either prostitutes, love interests or victims. Pauline Quirke would suit the show though, either as an antagonist, by this I don't even mean a villain but rather as an abrasive character who H Division come across, a reluctant witness or working-class mother who knows something she will not unveil, per se.

I really think she would fit into the 1890's era of Ripper Street, she has defined herself as a comedic actress yet has not shied away from roles that require her to portray a brash, dramatic side of her talents, which she does perfectly. In Broadchurch she is threatening simply in her demeanour, it is about time that H Division come across a lady of similar ilk.