Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1978-03-09 (Age: 48)
Place of Birth
Hounslow, Greater London, England, UK
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 (26)
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
Here We Go: Mum's Classic Family Christmas
2023
National Theatre Live: Much Ado About Nothing
2022
The Nan Movie
2022
Sitting
2021
Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
2021
How to Fake a War
2020
Radioactive
2020
Guitar Man
2018
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018
Off the Page: Britain Isn't Eating
2014
