Biography
Katherine Jane Parkinson (born 9 March 1978) is an English actress. She appeared in Channel 4's The IT Crowd comedy series 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
All 55
TV Shows 34
Movies 21
Self 6
Writter 1
Narrator 1
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)
Unprecedented (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)
In the Club (2014)
The Honourable Woman (2014)
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled (2014)
Duck Quacks Don't Echo (2014)
Inside No. 9 (2014)
Sardines (2014)
The IT Crowd Manual (2014)
The IT Crowd: The Internet Is Coming (2013)
Love Matters (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)
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)
The IT Crowd (2006)
Ahead of the Class (2005)
Extras (2005)
Doc Martin (2004)
Room 101 (1994)
Casualty (1986)
Horizon (1964)
Significant Other
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Information
Known forActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1977-07-08 (45 years old)
Place of birthHounslow, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also known asKatherine Jane Parkinson
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