Katherine Parkinson

Katherine Parkinson
Birth date:	9 March 1978
Work in the DWU
Main roles:	Danika Meanwhile
Main jobs:	Actor
Stories:	The Death Collectors
Main time period active:	2008
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Doc Martin, Extras, The IT Crowd, The Boat that Rocked, Psychoville, The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, Sherlock, Inside No. 9, The Honourable Woman, Crackanory, The Kennedys, Humans, Defending the Guilty, Taskmaster
IMDb profile

Katherine Parkinson (born 9 March 1978) is an English actor who voiced engineer Danika Meanwhile, effectively the one-off assistant of the Seventh Doctor in the Big Finish audio adventure The Death Collectors.

Career

Parkinson is more familiar as Jen Barber, the long-suffering boss of the IT department featured in The IT Crowd. She is also well-known as Martin Clunes' secretary in several series of Doc Martin, a programme in which Ian McNeice also plays a major role.

A much-in-demand comedic actor, she has been a member of the regular casts of several series in the 2000s and 2010s, including: The Great Outdoors, co-starring Ruth Jones and Gwyneth Keyworth; Whites, written by The Shakespeare Code actor Matt King; and The Old Guys starring Roger Lloyd Pack, Clive Swift and Jane Asher.

She was also a main character in The Grinning Man, the feature-length episode of the originally Verity Lambert-produced Jonathan Creek, which introduced Sheridan Smith as a member of the regular cast.

Personal life

She is married to Harry Peacock and is the sister-in-law of Daniel Peacock.

External links

• Katherine Parkinson at the Internet Movie Database