Biography

Katherine Jane Parkinson is an English actress. She appeared in Channel 4's The IT Crowd comedy series 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.

Writer

Sitting(2021)

Comedy Lab(1998)

Actress

Harry Potter(2026)as Molly Weasley

Rivals(2024)as Lizzie Vereker

Here We Go(2020)as Rachel Jessop, Rachel

Badjelly(2025)as Flo, Mum (Flo)

That Christmas(2024)as Mrs. Forrest

Soundtrack

The IT Crowd(2006)

Self

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown(2012)as Self, Self - Special Guest

Have I Got News for You(1990)as Self - Guest Presenter

Would I Lie to You?(2007)as Self - Guest, Self

Inside No. 9: The Party's Over(2024)as Self

Just a Minute(2008)as Self

Archive Footage

Have I Got News for You(1990)as Self - Guest Presenter

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown(2012)as Self - Special Guest

Would I Lie to You?(2007)as Self - Guest, Self

Comedy Bloopers(2015)as Jen Barber

Known for

Pirate Radio2009 · Actress The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society2018 · Actress Easy Virtue2008 · Actress The IT Crowd2006 · Actress

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Katherine Parkinson and Sonya Cassidy in Humans (2015)

Tom Goodman-Hill, Finlay Robertson, Katherine Parkinson, and Pixie Davies in Humans (2015)

Tom Goodman-Hill, Katherine Parkinson, Theo Stevenson, Pixie Davies, and Lucy Carless in Humans (2015)

Credit Score: Katherine Parkinson

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Wed Oct 24 2012 – Sun Jan 15 2017

#	Name	Score	Year	Known	★	Wins	Noms	Votes
1	Sherlock	500.00	2010	•	9.0	9	39	1087950
2	The IT Crowd	32.50	2006	•	8.5	3	7	176050
3	Doc Martin	12.50	2004	•	8.4	0	0	22731
4	Rivals	10.00	2024	•	7.9	2	7	17027
5	Humans	6.50	2015	•	7.9	0	2	45993
6	The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society	4.88	2018	•	7.3	0	0	57897
7	Pirate Radio	3.75	2009	•	7.3	0	0	120506
8	How to Lose Friends & Alienate People	2.50	2008	•	6.4	0	0	72096
9	Easy Virtue	2.50	2009	•	6.6	0	0	23368
10	Fear, Stress and Anger	2.50	2007	•	6.9	0	0	61