Katherine Parkinson
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).
Filmography
Here We Go: Our New Year’s Fireworks Fantasaganza
2025
as Rachel Jessop
Dating Mark Silcox
2025
as Claire
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
2024
as Self
That Christmas
2024
as Mrs. Forrest (voice)
Here We Go: Mum's Classic Family Christmas
2023
as Rachel Jessop
National Theatre Live: Much Ado About Nothing
2022
as Beatrice
The Nan Movie
2022
as Nell
Sitting
2021
as Mary
Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
2021
as Clemmie
How to Fake a War
2020
as Kate
Radioactive
2020
as Jeanne Langevin
Guitar Man
2018
as Ms. Elanor
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018
as Isola Pribby
Off the Page: Britain Isn't Eating
2014
as Marion/Sarah
Sardines
2014
as Rebecca
The IT Crowd Manual
2014
as Self - Jen Barber
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Coma Girl
2011
as Pip
Cooked
2010
as (voice)
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
2009
as Physics Teacher
The Boat That Rocked
2009
as Felicity
Easy Virtue
2008
as Marion Whittaker
The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008
2008
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
as PR Woman
Christmas at the Riviera
2007
as Vanessa