Katherine Parkinson
Acting
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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
Rivals: The Official Podcast
2026
Here We Go: Our New Year’s Fireworks Fantasaganza
2025
Dating Mark Silcox
2025
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
2024
That Christmas
2024
Rivals
2024
Here We Go: Mum's Classic Family Christmas
2023
Significant Other
2023
National Theatre Live: Much Ado About Nothing
2022
Here We Go
2022
The Nan Movie
2022
Spreadsheet
2021
Sitting
2021
Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
2021
How to Fake a War
2020
Hitmen
2020
Radioactive
2020
Guitar Man
2018
Defending the Guilty
2018
Hang Ups
2018
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018
Urban Myths
2017
The Kennedys
2015
Taskmaster
2015
Humans
2015
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
2015
Off the Page: Britain Isn't Eating
2014
In the Club
2014
The Honourable Woman
2014
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014
Sardines
2014
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
2014
Inside No. 9
2014
The IT Crowd Manual
2014
Crackanory
2013
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
2013
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
2012
Coma Girl
2011
Whites
2010
The Great Outdoors
2010
Sherlock
2010
Cooked
2010
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
2009
Psychoville
2009
The Boat That Rocked
2009
The Old Guys
2009
Easy Virtue
2008
The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008
2008
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
Christmas at the Riviera
2007
Katy Brand's Big Ass Show
2007
Would I Lie to You?
2007
Fear, Stress & Anger
2007
Hard to Swallow
2007
Great British Menu
2006
The IT Crowd
2006
Ahead of the Class
2005
Extras
2005
Doc Martin
2004
Room 101
1994
Have I Got News for You
1990
Casualty
1986
Horizon
1964
The Dream Lands
Have I Got a Bit More News for You