Katherine Parkinson (Katherine Parkinson) is a British comedy actress, the most famous of which brought the role of Jen Barber in the series “Computers”.
She was born on 9 March 1978 in Cambridge. She has Russian, Italian and Mongolian ancestors. Katherine’s mother, a teacher, teaches at James Allen’s Girls’ School in London, an old and respected school. Parkinson was educated at Tiffin Girl’s School in Kingstom-upon-Thames in Surrey, England. She studied classical languages and literature at St.
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Katherine Parkinson (Katherine Parkinson) is a British comedy actress, the most famous of which brought the role of Jen Barber in the series “Computers”.
She was born on 9 March 1978 in Cambridge. She has Russian, Italian and Mongolian ancestors. Katherine’s mother, a teacher, teaches at James Allen’s Girls’ School in London, an old and respected school. Parkinson was educated at Tiffin Girl’s School in Kingstom-upon-Thames in Surrey, England. She studied classical languages and literature at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she met her best friend, future comedian Kathy Brand. After Oxford, Parkinson went to London, where she studied at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. There she met future colleague on the TV series “Computers” and several other films, Irish actor Chris O’Dowd.
Katherine Parkinson dropped out of the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts after she landed the lead role in the theater production The Age of Consent. Since then, the actress has devoted herself to the theater, participating in such famous productions as Chekhov’s “Seagull”, where, in addition to her, Kristin Scott Thomas and Mackenzie Crook played. She also participated in comedy sketches by her Oxford friend Katie Brand, who by that time had her own program on ITV2, and also performed on several radio programs of the BBC radio station RADIO 4.
In 2006, Katherine Parkinson starred in one of the most successful TV series of the British channel Channel 4 "The IT Crowd". She got the lead female role of Jen Barber (Jen Barber), a young and ambitious boss who becomes the head of the technical support department, consisting of two computer scientists, Roy (Chris O’Dowd) and Moss (Richard Ayoade), each of whom has their own oddities, and lives in the server room of the Goth Richmond (Noel Fielding). Despite the fact that after a while it turns out that Jen does not understand anything about computers (she, for example, believes that the Internet can fit in a small box), she manages to find a common language with her colleagues.
In 2009, after the third season of the series “Computers”, Catherine Parkinson was recognized as one of the highest paid actresses on Channel 4. In 2009, Parkinson received the award “Best Actress of a Television Comedy” for her work in the television series “Computers”. Along with fellow "Computers" Chris O'Dowd, Catherine Parkinson played small roles in the films "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" (2008) and "The Boat That Rocked" ( 2009).
In addition, she took part in advertising Maltesers chocolates with her friend, comedian Amanda Abbington. In 2010, she voiced a commercial for Herbal Essences shampoo. Katherine Parkinson is currently starring in the three-part BBC Four comedy series The Great Outdoors. The first episode of the series aired on July 28, 2010.
In 2007, Catherine Parkinson announced her engagement to British comedian Harry Peacock. There was no official announcement of the wedding, but in 2009, at the Best Actress of a Television Comedy Awards, Parkinson spoke of Peacock as her husband. /