
Katherine Parkinson
Born
1978-03-09
Place of birth
Hounslow, Greater London, England, UK
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 c...
Known for

Sherlock
Kitty Riley

The Boat That Rocked
Felicity

The IT Crowd
Jen Barber

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
Isola Pribby

Radioactive
Jeanne Langevin

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
PR Woman

Humans
Laura Hawkins

Easy Virtue
Marion Whittaker

That Christmas
Mrs. Forrest (voice)

Extras
Woman in queue

Inside No. 9
Rebecca

Inside No. 9
Self

St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
Physics Teacher

Taskmaster
Self

Doc Martin
Pauline Lamb