Tessa is a fictional character portrayed by Frances de la Tour in the TV series Heartbeat.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Bad Penny (season 7), they were 53 years old.
They appear in 1 episodes out of a total of 372 aired
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Bad Penny
episode S7.E18 january 1998Somebody has been snatching Gina's empty bottles and PC Bradley has offered to stake out the pub. Meanwhile his past is catching up with him due to the death in custody case. His former girlfriend Penny turns up in Aidensfield with her baby son Tommy claiming that Bradley is the father. But also the gangsters Linden and Martin, who Bradley helped put away when he was with the Met, are eager to get hold of him when their sentences are reversed. Greengrass is "liberating" some fish from Lord Ashfordly when he befriends the tramp Tessa, who is doing a little liberating herself.