Katherine Parkinson

Katherine Parkinson
Parkinson in 2016
Born
Katherine Parkinson

1977 or 1978 (age 46–47)[1]
Hounslow, London, England
EducationSt Hilda's College, Oxford
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
OccupationActress
Years active2001–present
Spouse
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(m. 2009)​
Children2[2]

Katherine Parkinson (born 1977 or 1978[1]) is an English actress and comedian. She appeared in Channel 4's The IT Crowd comedy series 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.[3] 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).

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  2. ^ Youngs, Ian (27 June 2018). "IT Crowd star Katherine Parkinson on the 'responsibility' to be a working mum". BBC News. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference BAFTA 2014 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).