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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 9, 1978
Place of Birth
Hounslow, Greater London, England, UK
Also Known As
- Katherine Jane Parkinson
- کاترین پارکینسون
Katherine Parkinson
2.0 Popularity
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 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).
Known For
0.0
Claire
Dating Mark Silcox
2025
8.0
Self
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
2024
7.2
Mrs. Forrest (voice)
That Christmas
2024
7.1
Lizzie Vereker
Rivals
2024
6.2
Anna
Significant Other
2023
6.0
Beatrice
National Theatre Live: Much Ado About Nothing
2022
6.7
Rachel Jessop
Here We Go
2022
5.6
Nell
The Nan Movie
2022
5.3
Lauren
Spreadsheet
2021
0.0
Mary
Sitting
2021
Credits
Dating Mark Silcox
as Claire
2025
0.0
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
as Self
2024
8.0
That Christmas
as Mrs. Forrest (voice)
2024
7.2
Rivals
as Lizzie Vereker
2024
7.1
Significant Other
as Anna
2023
6.2
National Theatre Live: Much Ado About Nothing
as Beatrice
2022
6.0
Here We Go
as Rachel Jessop
2022
6.7
The Nan Movie
as Nell
2022
5.6
Spreadsheet
as Lauren
2021
5.3
Sitting
as Mary
2021
0.0
Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
as Clemmie
2021
6.1
How to Fake a War
as Kate
2020
3.8
Hitmen
as Kat Gaitskill
2020
5.8
Radioactive
as Jeanne Langevin
2020
6.6
Guitar Man
as Ms. Elanor
2018
0.0
Defending the Guilty
as Caroline
2018
7.0
Hang Ups
as Karen Muller
2018
6.4
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
as Isola Pribby
2018
7.4
Urban Myths
as Ange
2017
7.4
The Kennedys
as Brenda Kennedy
2015
5.9
Taskmaster
as Self
2015
8.2
Humans
as Laura Hawkins
2015
7.5
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
as Self - Guest
2015
6.3
In the Club
as Kim
2014
6.3
The Honourable Woman
as Rachel Stein
2014
7.3
Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
as Self
2014
7.1
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
2014
5.7
Inside No. 9
as Rebecca
2014
8.0
Inside No. 9
as Self
2014
8.0
The IT Crowd Manual
as Self - Jen Barber
2014
8.4
Crackanory
as Self
2013
6.8
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
as Self
2013
7.3
The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
as Conceptiva
2012
6.9
🎬
Coma Girl
as Pip
2011
2.5
Whites
as Caroline
2010
7.0
Whites
as Caroline
2010
0.0
The Great Outdoors
as Sophie
2010
6.7
Sherlock
as Kitty Riley
2010
8.5
Cooked
as (voice)
2010
0.0
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
as Physics Teacher
2009
5.6
Psychoville
2009
6.8
The Boat That Rocked
as Felicity
2009
7.2
The Old Guys
as Amber
2009
6.5
Easy Virtue
as Marion Whittaker
2008
6.5
The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008
2008
0.0
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as PR Woman
2008
6.0
Christmas at the Riviera
as Vanessa
2007
3.8
Katy Brand's Big Ass Show
as Various
2007
7.0
Would I Lie to You?
as Self
2007
7.8
Would I Lie to You?
as Self - Panellist
2007
7.8
Fear, Stress & Anger
as Gemma
2007
7.0
Hard to Swallow
as Katie
2007
0.0
The IT Crowd
as Jen Barber
2006
8.2
Ahead of the Class
as Vicky Foley
2005
6.8
Extras
as Woman in queue
2005
7.8
Doc Martin
as Pauline Lamb
2004
8.2
Room 101
as Self
1994
6.3
Have I Got News for You
as Self - Hostess
1990
7.1
Casualty
as Helen Gibbons
1986
6.1
Horizon
as Narrator
1964
7.4
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
as Self - Presenter
N/A
7.0
🎬
The Dream Lands
as Antonia
N/A
0.0