Katherine Parkinson
Acting
1978-03-09 · 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).
Filmography
TheatersMog's Bad Thing
2026 · Movie
Live from the Lycett Arms
2026 · Series
Rivals: The Official Podcast
2026 · Series
Here We Go: Our New Year’s Fireworks Fantasaganza
2025 · Movie
Dating Mark Silcox
2025 · Movie
LOL: Last One Laughing UK
2025 · Series
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
2024 · Movie
That Christmas
2024 · Movie
Rivals
2024 · Series
Here We Go: Mum's Classic Family Christmas
2023 · Movie
Significant Other
2023 · Series
National Theatre Live: Much Ado About Nothing
2022 · Movie
Here We Go
2022 · Series
The Nan Movie
2022 · Movie
Spreadsheet
2021 · Series
Sitting
2021 · Movie
Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
2021 · Movie
How to Fake a War
2020 · Movie
Hitmen
2020 · Series
Radioactive
2020 · Movie
Guitar Man
2018 · Movie
Defending the Guilty
2018 · Series
Hang Ups
2018 · Series
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018 · Movie
Urban Myths
2017 · Series
The Kennedys
2015 · Series
Taskmaster
2015 · Series
Humans
2015 · Series
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
2015 · Series
Off the Page: Britain Isn't Eating
2014 · Movie
In the Club
2014 · Series
The Honourable Woman
2014 · Series
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
2014 · Series
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
2014 · Series
Sardines
2014 · Movie
Inside No. 9
2014 · Series
The IT Crowd Manual
2014 · Movie
Crackanory
2013 · Series
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
2013 · Series
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
2012 · Series
Coma Girl
2011 · Movie
Whites
2010 · Series
The Great Outdoors
2010 · Series
Sherlock
2010 · Series
Cooked
2010 · Movie
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
2009 · Movie
Psychoville
2009 · Series
The Boat That Rocked
2009 · Movie
The Old Guys
2009 · Series
Easy Virtue
2008 · Movie
The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008
2008 · Movie
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008 · Movie
Christmas at the Riviera
2007 · Movie
Katy Brand's Big Ass Show
2007 · Series
Would I Lie to You?
2007 · Series
Fear, Stress & Anger
2007 · Series
Hard to Swallow
2007 · Movie
Great British Menu
2006 · Series
The IT Crowd
2006 · Series
Ahead of the Class
2005 · Movie
Extras
2005 · Series
Doc Martin
2004 · Series
Room 101
1994 · Series
Have I Got News for You
1990 · Series
Casualty
1986 · Series
Horizon
1964 · Series
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Series
The Dream Lands
Series
The Bride of Vernon
Movie