Katherine Parkinson

Acting

Katherine Parkinson

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
Mar 09, 1978 (47 years old)

Katherine Parkinson

Known For

Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
1h
DOLBY
Movie 2024

Inside No. 9: The Party's Over

This documentary tells the story of one of TV's darkest...

That Christmas
1h 31m
DOLBY
Movie 2024

That Christmas

It's an unforgettable Christmas for the townsfolk of Wellington-on-Sea when...

Significant Other
6 Episodes
DOLBY
TV Show 2023

Significant Other

Significant Other follows two lonely neighbours who embark on a...

Here We Go
14 Episodes
DOLBY
TV Show 2022

Here We Go

Family life with no filter. The Jessops navigate life's everyday...

The Nan Movie
1h 35m
DOLBY
Movie 2022

The Nan Movie

Catherine Tate's iconic character Nan hits the big screen as...

Spreadsheet
8 Episodes
DOLBY
TV Show 2021

Spreadsheet

Divorced, hectic mother-of-two, Lauren is looking for sex without commitment....

Sitting
1h
DOLBY
Movie 2021

Sitting

Bafta Award-winning Katherine Parkinson's debut play. Three characters sit for...

Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
1h 50m
DOLBY
Movie 2021

Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break

A weedy charity-shop worker is set on winning the big...

How to Fake a War
1h 22m
DOLBY
Movie 2020

How to Fake a War

When an unexpected outbreak of peace leads to a ceasefire...

Radioactive
1h 51m
DOLBY
Movie 2020

Radioactive

The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her...

Biography

Katherine Parkinson 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).