Katherine Parkinson
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March 9, 1978
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Katherine Parkinson Bio
Katherine Jane Parkinson (born March 9, 1978) is an actress from England. She starred as Jen Barber in Channel 4's The IT Crowd, for which she won a British Comedy Best TV Actress Award in 2009 and 2014. She was also nominated twice for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance, winning once in 2014.
Parkinson was born in Hounslow, London, to a British mother and a Northern Irish father, Alan Parkinson. She grew up in Tolworth and Surbiton and attended Tiffin Girls' School before going to St Hilda's College, Oxford, to study classics. She went on to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, but she dropped out before graduating to star in the play The Age of Consent, which had its world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2001.
In 2007, she garnered great reviews for her performance in a new production of Chekhov's The Seagull at London's Royal Court Theatre, opposite Kristin Scott Thomas and Mackenzie Crook. Since then, she has appeared in other blockbusters and won BAFTA Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance in 2014.
