Katherine Parkinson
Actor
- Born
- March 9, 1978 (age 48) · Hounslow, Greater London, England, UK
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.
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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).
Known for
The Boat That Rocked
April 1, 2009
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
April 19, 2018
Radioactive
March 11, 2020
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
October 2, 2008
Easy Virtue
November 7, 2008
That Christmas
November 27, 2024
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
December 18, 2009
The Nan Movie
March 18, 2022
The IT Crowd Manual
January 4, 2014
How to Fake a War
August 21, 2020
Christmas at the Riviera
December 23, 2007
Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
March 17, 2021
Acting27
- 2025Here We Go: Our New Year’s Fireworks Fantasaganza as Rachel Jessop
- 2025Dating Mark Silcox as Claire
- 2024Inside No. 9: The Party's Over as Self
- 2024That Christmas as Mrs. Forrest (voice)
- 2023Here We Go: Mum's Classic Family Christmas as Rachel Jessop
- 2022National Theatre Live: Much Ado About Nothing as Beatrice
- 2022The Nan Movie as Nell
- 2021Sitting as Mary
- 2021Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break as Clemmie
- 2020