About
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.
Filmography
Here We Go: Our New Year’s Fireworks Fantasaganza2025 · Rachel Jessop
Dating Mark Silcox2025 · Claire
Inside No. 9: The Party's Over2024 · Self
That Christmas2024 · Mrs. Forrest (voice)
Here We Go: Mum's Classic Family Christmas2023 · Rachel Jessop
National Theatre Live: Much Ado About Nothing2022 · Beatrice
The Nan Movie2022 · Nell
Sitting2021 · Mary
Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break2021 · Clemmie
How to Fake a War2020 · Kate
Radioactive2020 · Jeanne Langevin
Guitar Man2018 · Ms. Elanor
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society2018 · Isola Pribby
Off the Page: Britain Isn't Eating2014 · Marion/Sarah
Sardines2014 · Rebecca
The IT Crowd Manual2014 · Self - Jen Barber
Coma Girl2011 · Pip
Cooked2010 · (voice)
St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold2009 · Physics Teacher
The Boat That Rocked2009 · Felicity