- Born
- Birth nameKatherine Jane Parkinson
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- 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.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- SpouseHarry Peacock(2009 - present) (2 children)
- ParentsJanet ParkinsonAlan F Parkinson
- Studied Classics at Oxford University.
- She was nominated for a 2019 Laurence Oliver Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance as 'Judy' in West End play "Home, I'm Darling".
- Trained on the two year post-grad course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), but left in her second year when she was offered a role in a professional play.
- In December 2009 it became know that she had married her fiancé of 2 years Harry Peacock sometime earlier.
- People don't realise what a nice thing it is for an actor to go to a job where they know or like everybody, because you're so often having to do new beginnings, starting off on set with people you don't know, having to introduce yourself and make friends.
- I did a lot of serious plays, and I did the Oxford Review as well, which is supposed to be funny, but I'm not sure how funny we were when we did it. Then, when I finished my course, it was only then that I decided to go to drama school and try and do acting because I was enjoying it so much and so on.
- There are a few people who genuinely see the best in everyone.
- I've become one of those women who thrusts her engagement finger out all the time.
- I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless.
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