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Katherine Parkinson

Acting
Known For

47 Years Old

Katherine Parkinson 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).

Born

Hounslow, Greater London, England, UK on 9th March 1978

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Would I Lie to You?
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Have I Got a Bit More News for You
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Inside No. 9
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Room 101
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Taskmaster
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8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
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Duck Quacks Don't Echo
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The IT Crowd
Jen Barber
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Humans
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Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
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The Honourable Woman
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Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
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In the Club
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Defending the Guilty
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The Kennedys
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Harry Potter
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The Old Guys
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The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
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The Boat That Rocked
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
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Easy Virtue
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The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff
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The Nan Movie
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The Great Outdoors
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Ahead of the Class
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The IT Crowd Manual
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Inside No. 9: The Party's Over
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Fear, Stress & Anger
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The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008
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