Katherine Parkinson
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).
64 acting credits
Acting · 64
Have I Got News for You
1990
Casualty
1986
Horizon
1964
Sherlock
2010
Rivals
2024
Taskmaster
2015
Inside No. 9
2014
Doc Martin
2004
The IT Crowd
2006
Would I Lie to You?
2007
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
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Humans
2015
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
2013
Great British Menu
2006
Extras
2005
Room 101
1994
Urban Myths
2017
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
2015
Psychoville
2009
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
2014
Crackanory
2013
Here We Go
2022
The Honourable Woman
2014
Radioactive
2020
Hitmen
2020
In the Club
2014
The Boat That Rocked
2009
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018
Whites
2010
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
2012
Hang Ups
2018
The Old Guys
2009
That Christmas
2024
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
2009
Spreadsheet
2021
Defending the Guilty
2018
Easy Virtue
2008
Significant Other
2023
The Nan Movie
2022
The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008
2008
The Dream Lands
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The Kennedys
2015
The Great Outdoors
2010
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
2024
Fear, Stress & Anger
2007
National Theatre Live: Much Ado About Nothing
2022
Ahead of the Class
2005
Katy Brand's Big Ass Show
2007
Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
2021
Coma Girl
2011
Christmas at the Riviera
2007
Guitar Man
2018
The IT Crowd Manual
2014
Cooked
2010
Here We Go: Our New Year’s Fireworks Fantasaganza
2025
How to Fake a War
2020
Hard to Swallow
2007
Sardines
2014
Off the Page: Britain Isn't Eating
2014
Sitting
2021
Dating Mark Silcox
2025
Here We Go: Mum's Classic Family Christmas
2023