Katherine Parkinson
ActingAlso Known As
Katherine Jane Parkinson, کاترین پارکینسون
Biography
Katherine Parkinson (born March 9, 1978) is an English actress. She appeared in the Channel 4 comedy series The IT Crowd as Jen Barber, for which she received a British Comedy Best TV Actress Award in 2009 and 2014, and was nominated twice for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance, winning in 2014. Parkinson studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and has appeared on stage in the plays The Seagull (2007), Cock (2009), and Home, I'm Darling (2018), for which she was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Play. Parkinson was also a main cast member of the series Doc Martin for three series (2005–2009). She co-starred in all three series of Humans, a science-fiction drama on AMC/Channel 4, which aired from 2015 until 2018. She has also appeared in the films The Boat That Rocked (2009) and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018).
Movies
(26 total)
The Boat That Rocked
as Felicity
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
as Isola Pribby
Radioactive
as Jeanne Langevin
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as PR Woman
Easy Virtue
as Marion Whittaker
That Christmas
as Mrs. Forrest (voice)
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
as Physics Teacher
The Nan Movie
as Nell
The IT Crowd Manual
as Self - Jen Barber
Christmas at the Riviera
as Vanessa
How to Fake a War
as Kate
Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
as Clemmie
Ahead of the Class
as Vicky Foley
Sardines
as Rebecca
Guitar Man
as Ms. Elanor
Whites
as Caroline
Hard to Swallow
as Katie
Cooked
as (voice)
TV Shows
(40 total)
Sherlock
as Kitty Riley
The IT Crowd
as Jen Barber
Humans
as Laura Hawkins
Extras
as Woman in queue
Inside No. 9
as Rebecca
Inside No. 9
as Self
Taskmaster
as Self
Doc Martin
as Pauline Lamb
Would I Lie to You?
as Self
Would I Lie to You?
as Self - Panellist
The Honourable Woman
as Rachel Stein
Casualty
as Helen Gibbons
Have I Got News for You
as Self - Hostess
Rivals
as Lizzie Vereker
Whites
as Caroline
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
as Self - Guest
Horizon
as Narrator
Here We Go
as Rachel Jessop