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Katherine Parkinson
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 actor
Dating Mark Silcox
Here We Go: Our New Year’s Fireworks Fantasaganza
That Christmas
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
Here We Go: Mum's Classic Family Christmas
National Theatre Live: Much Ado About Nothing
The Nan Movie
Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break
Sitting
How to Fake a War
Radioactive
Guitar Man
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
The IT Crowd Manual
Sardines
Off the Page: Britain Isn't Eating
Coma Girl
Cooked
The Boat That Rocked
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold
Easy Virtue
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008
Christmas at the Riviera
Hard to Swallow
Ahead of the Class