Katherine Parkinson
Katherine Parkinson was born in Hounslow, England, United Kingdom on March 9th, 1978 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 46, Katherine Parkinson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Career
In series two to four of the long-running ITV comedy-drama series Doc Martin, Parkinson played Pauline Lamb, a doctor's receptionist and later phlebotomist.
While working on Doc Martin, she was invited by her LAMDA colleague Chris O'Dowd to audition for the comedy series The IT Crowd as the show was having trouble casting a female lead. Parkinson said in an interview with The Independent that the show's creator, Graham Linehan, originally intended Jen to be "likeable," but "I know what he wanted now – he wanted her to be the more normal person people could relate to." The IT Crowd debuted in 2006 and ran for four seasons before crashing in 2014. Though Parkinson's role was largely praised by scholars and audiences alike, with her being nominated for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance in 2011. In 2014, she became the first woman to win the award.
Kristin Scott Thomas and Mackenzie Crook appeared in a new production of Chekhov's The Seagull at London's Royal Court Theatre in 2007, for which she received glowing feedback.
She has also contributed sketch characters to Katy Brand's Big Ass Show (2007-2009), having been friends with Brand since their time at university. She appeared in the Olivier award-winning play Cock at the Royal Court Theatre with Ben Whishaw and Andrew Scott at the end of 2009.
Laura Solon has appeared on BBC Radio 4, including on Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking; Mouth Trap; and The Odd Half Hour. She appeared in television advertisements for Maltesers as well as fellow actress and comedian Amanda Abbington.
In BBC Four's three-part comedy series The Great Outdoors (2010), Sophie was one of the lead roles alongside Mark Heap and Mark Heap. She appeared in two plays in 2010 and 2011: Season's Greetings at the National Theatre and Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal at the Barbican Centre. In 2011, she appeared in The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, which premiered on BBC Two in 2011, and in 2012, she made a guest appearance as Kitty Riley in "The Reichenbach Fall," the second series finale of Sherlock.
She appeared in Absent Friends at the Harold Pinter Theatre in 2012 and 2013, as Diana and Laura in Before the Party at the Almeida Theatre. Parkinson appeared in "Sardines," the first episode of the anthology series Inside No. 9. On BBC Two and in the United States, Ben Willbond appeared alongside Don Willbond on The Honourable Woman, as well as the miniseries The Honourable Woman, which aired in the UK and on Sundance television in the United Kingdom and in the United States.
Emma Kennedy wrote about growing up on a Stevenage estate in the 1970s in 2015. She appeared in all three series of the British-American science fiction series Humans, which aired on Channel 4 and AMC between 2015 and 2018.
In 2016, Parkinson appeared in the Vain Delicate Theatre's stage play Dead Comedian. She appeared in Home, I'm Darling, a legal sitcom that aired on BBC Two and was subsequently renewed for a second season due to coronavirus.
In Marjane Satrapi's film version of Lauren Redniss' Radioactive in 2019, Emma Jeanne Desfosses chronicles Marie Curie's life.
Following a month-long stay at the Edinburgh Fringe, Parkinson's debut as a playwright, Sitting, had its London premiere in 2019. The play was well researched, with The Guardian summing "Parkinson delicately points out links that, by the end, give the play a wistful emotional weight." In early 2021, Parkinson adapted the script for BBC Four.
Parkinson appeared in a series ten of Taskmaster in 2020. Parkinson won the second episode but fell short of total points for the majority of the series and ended up in last place.