Katherine Parkinson

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Katherine Jane Parkinson (born on 9 March 1978) is an English actress who studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Between 2005 and 2009 she was a main cast member of the TV show Doc Martin.

Between 2006 and 2013 she played Jen Barber in Channel 4’s The IT Crowd, for which she received British Comedy Best TV Actress Awards in 2009 and 2014, and a BAFTA Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance in 2014.

In 2007, she appeared in a new production of Chekhov’s The Seagull at London’s Royal Court Theatre.

Between 2007 and 2009 she contributed sketch characters to Katy Brand’s ITV2 show Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show.

In 2009 she appeared in the Olivier award winning play Cock at the Royal Court Theatre, and in the film The Boat That Rocked.

In 2010 she played Sophie, one of the lead roles alongside Mark Heap in BBC Four’s three-part comedy series The Great Outdoors. The same year, she appeared in Season’s Greetings at the National Theatre.

In 2011 she appeared in The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff on BBC Two, and as Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal at the Barbican Centre.

In 2012 she made a guest appearance as Kitty Riley in The Reichenbach Fall, the second series finale of the TV series Sherlock, and played the role of Diana in the play Absent Friends at the Harold Pinter Theatre.

In 2013 she played the role of Laura in Before the Party at the Almeida Theatre.

In 2014 she appeared in Sardines, the first episode of the anthology series Inside No. 9, as well as in the miniseries The Honourable Woman.

In 2015 she starred in the BBC One comedy series The Kennedys, written by Emma Kennedy, about growing up on a Stevenage estate in the 1970s. She also played one of the lead roles in all three series of the British-American science fiction series Humans (2015-2018).

In 2016 Parkinson performed in the stage play Dead Funny at the Vaudeville Theatre.

In 2018 she performed in the play Home, I’m Darling, for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award, and in the film The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

In 2019 she appeared in Defending the Guilty, a legal sitcom on BBC Two. She also played Emma Jeanne Desfosses in Marjane Satrapi’s film adaptation of Lauren Redniss’s Radioactive, detailing the life of Marie Curie.

Also in 2019, Parkinson’s debut work as a playwright, Sitting, had its London premiere, following a month-long run at the Edinburgh Fringe. Parkinson adapted the play for BBC Four in early 2021.

She appeared in series 10 of Taskmaster in 2020.

[Source: Wikipedia, 03/03/2021.]