Katherine Parkinson

Known for ActingBorn 1978-03-09 (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. 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).Read more

Movies & web series

Rivals: The Official Podcast

Sardines

Sherlock

Taskmaster

The IT Crowd Manual

Doc Martin

Inside No. 9

The IT Crowd

Would I Lie to You?

Extras

Rivals

Humans

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

Urban Myths

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

The Honourable Woman

Ahead of the Class

Defending the Guilty

That Christmas

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled

The Boat That Rocked

Whites

Fear, Stress & Anger

Katy Brand's Big Ass Show

Have I Got News for You

Horizon

Psychoville

The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff

Crackanory

National Theatre Live: Much Ado About Nothing

The Great Outdoors

Radioactive

Here We Go

The Old Guys

Hang Ups

Great British Menu

Easy Virtue

Room 101

Travel Man: 48 Hours in...

Inside No. 9: The Party's Over

In the Club

Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break

Hitmen

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

The Kennedys

Significant Other

Casualty

The Nan Movie