Katherine Parkinson
Actor
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
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
as Isola Pribby 2018
Radioactive
as Jeanne Langevin 2020
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as PR Woman 2008
Easy Virtue
as Marion Whittaker 2008
That Christmas
as Mrs. Forrest (voice) 2024
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
as Physics Teacher 2009
The Nan Movie
as Nell 2022
The IT Crowd Manual
as Self - Jen Barber 2014
Christmas at the Riviera
as Vanessa 2007
How to Fake a War
as Kate 2020
Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
as Clemmie 2021
Ahead of the Class
as Vicky Foley 2005
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
as Self 2024
National Theatre Live: Much Ado About Nothing
as Beatrice 2022
Coma Girl
as Pip 2011
Guitar Man
as Ms. Elanor 2018