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).
as Mary Mae
as Antonia(1 ep)
as Self - Presenter(1 ep)
as Mrs. Ramsbottom (voice)
as Self / Pub Manager(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Rachel Jessop
as Claire
as Self
as Mrs. Forrest (voice)
as Lizzie Vereker(20 eps)
as Rachel Jessop
as Anna(6 eps)
as Rachel Jessop(19 eps)
as Nell
as Lauren(8 eps)
as Mary
as Clemmie
as Kate
as Kat Gaitskill(5 eps)
as Jeanne Langevin
as Ms. Elanor
as Caroline(6 eps)
as Karen Muller(6 eps)
as Isola Pribby
as Ange(1 ep)
as Brenda Kennedy(6 eps)
as Self(10 eps)
as Laura Hawkins(24 eps)
as Self - Guest(1 ep)
as Marion/Sarah
as Kim(12 eps)
as Rachel Stein(8 eps)
as Self(1 ep)
as Rebecca
as Rebecca(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Self - Jen Barber
as Self(1 ep)
as Self(2 eps)
as Conceptiva(3 eps)
as Pip
as Caroline(6 eps)
as Sophie(3 eps)
as Kitty Riley(1 ep)
as (voice)
as Physics Teacher
as Felicity
as Amber(8 eps)
as Marion Whittaker
as PR Woman
as Vanessa
as Various(18 eps)
as Self(2 eps)
as Self - Panellist(1 ep)
as Gemma(6 eps)
as Katie
as Self - Guest Judge(1 ep)
as Jen Barber(24 eps)
as Vicky Foley
as Woman in queue(1 ep)
as Pauline Lamb(39 eps)
as Self(1 ep)
as Self - Hostess(1 ep)
as Helen Gibbons(1 ep)
as Narrator(1 ep)