Sarah Parish
Sarah Parish (born June 7, 1968 in Yeovil , Somerset ) is a British actress .
life and career
Sarah Parish was born in Yeovil, England, to Bill and Thelma Parish. She has a sister named Julie and a brother, the musician John Parish .
Parish attended the local Preston School . She later studied at the London Academy of Live and Recorded Arts . She made her debut in the television series Peak Practice , in which she starred from 1997 to 1999.
From 2002 to 2005 Parish starred in one of the lead roles in the television series Cutting It . For this role she was nominated for the British National Television Award in 2003 . There she met fellow actor James Murray , married in 2007 and lives with their daughter (born November 2009) in Hampshire . In January 2009, their first-born daughter died at the age of only seven months due to a serious heart defect.
In the thriller Sirens of Darkness (2002) she took on one of the bigger roles, in the thriller Unconditional Love (2003) and in the drama Reversals (2003) she was each seen in one of the leading roles. In the comedy Wedding Date (2005) she appeared alongside Dermot Mulroney , in the comedy Love Needs No Holidays (2006) she starred alongside Cameron Diaz , Kate Winslet , Jude Law and Jack Black .
In the six-part BBC - Musical -Drama Blackpool (2004) and in the TV movie Recovery (2007, also BBC) they played each the female lead alongside David Tennant . She was in front of the camera again with Tennant in the Doctor Who Christmas special The Runaway Bride (again for the BBC), where she played the Empress of the Racnoss , an arachnid alien and antagonist of Tennant's tenth doctor . The fourth joint appearance followed in 2017, when Parish took on the role of the witness Cath Atwood, a friend of the victim, in the final third season of Chris Chibnall's award-winning crime drama Broadchurch ( ITV ). Tennant played the main character of DI Alec Hardy in the series . Also in 2017, Parish made a cameo in Georgia Tennant's movie You, Me and Him , in which David Tennant also played a role.
Since 2017 she has played a leading role in the ITV series Bancroft . A second season has already been confirmed. In 2018 she made an appearance as Lucrezia Tornabuoni in the series The Medici - Rulers of Florence .
Parish founded the production company Aphra Productions together with fellow actor Dervla Kirwan .
Filmography (selection)
- 1997–1999: Peak Practice (TV series)
- 1999: Parting Shots
- 2000: Hearts and Bones (TV series)
- 2002: The Mysterious Passenger ( Impact )
- 2002: Sirens of Darkness ( Sirens )
- 2002–2005: Cutting It (TV series)
- 2003: Unconditional Love
- 2003: Reversals
- 2004: Blackpool (TV series)
- 2005: Wedding Date ( The Wedding Date )
- 2005: Our Hidden Lives
- 2005: Much Ado About Nothing (Much Ado About Nothing)
- 2006: Only About Her Corpse ( If I Had You )
- 2006: Aftersun
- 2006: Love Doesn't Need a Vacation ( The Holiday )
- 2006: Doctor Who (TV series, Christmas special The Runaway Bride )
- 2007: Recovery (TV movie)
- 2007: Mistresses - From Lust and Passion ( Mistresses , BBC series)
- 2009: Merlin - The New Adventures ( Merlin , TV series, guest role)
- 2010: The Pillars of the Earth ( The Pillars of the Earth )
- 2011: Monroe (TV series)
- 2012: Hatfields & McCoys
- 2013–2015: Atlantis (TV series)
- 2017: Broadchurch (TV series, 8 episodes)
- 2017: You, Me and Him
- since 2017: Bancroft (TV series)
- 2018: The Medici rulers of Florence ( Medici: Masters of Florence , TV series)
Web links
- Sarah Parish in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Sarah Parish in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Press release of ITV regarding the continuation of Bancroft .
- ↑ Sarah Parish's biography in the Internet Movie Database .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Parish, Sarah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th June 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yeovil , Somerset , England , UK |