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).
Filmography
Cast Credits

Dating Mark Silcox
Character: Claire
MOVIE • 2025

Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2024

That Christmas
Character: Mrs. Forrest (voice)
MOVIE • 2024

Rivals
Character: Lizzie Vereker
TV • 2024

Significant Other
Character: Anna
TV • 2023

National Theatre Live: Much Ado About Nothing
Character: Beatrice
MOVIE • 2022

Here We Go
Character: Rachel Jessop
TV • 2022

The Nan Movie
Character: Nell
MOVIE • 2022

Spreadsheet
Character: Lauren
TV • 2021

Sitting
Character: Mary
MOVIE • 2021

Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
Character: Clemmie
MOVIE • 2021

How to Fake a War
Character: Kate
MOVIE • 2020

Hitmen
Character: Kat Gaitskill
TV • 2020

Radioactive
Character: Jeanne Langevin
MOVIE • 2020

Guitar Man
Character: Ms. Elanor
MOVIE • 2018

Defending the Guilty
Character: Caroline
TV • 2018

Hang Ups
Character: Karen Muller
TV • 2018

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
Character: Isola Pribby
MOVIE • 2018

Urban Myths
Character: Ange
TV • 2017

The Kennedys
Character: Brenda Kennedy
TV • 2015
Crew