Sarah Parish

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Sarah Parish
Born (1968-06-07) 7 June 1968 (age 55)
Yeovil, Somerset, England
OccupationActress
Years active1993–present
Spouse
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(m. 2007)​
Children2

Sarah Parish (born 7 June 1968) is an English actress. She is known for her work on television series including The Pillars of the Earth , Peak Practice , Hearts and Bones , Cutting It , Doctor Who , Mistresses , Merlin , Atlantis , Monroe , HBO's Industry , Stay Close , Trollied, W1A and, as the titular character, Bancroft.

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Early life

Parish was born in Yeovil, Somerset, to Bill and Thelma Parish; she has a sister, Julie, and a brother, musician John Parish. She was educated at the local Preston School and Yeovil College. She began acting at an early age and believes her first stage appearance was aged two in a pantomime in the village of Tintinhull playing the pearl in an oyster. She later attended Yeovil Youth Theatre. [1]

Career

After training at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in London, her appearance in a cult advert for Manchester-based Boddingtons bitter in 1994 (as Vera, who likes nothing better than "a good rub down with chip fat"), led to a series of roles as Northern women, including Dawn Rudge in Peak Practice (1993), Allie Henshall in Cutting It (2002), Annie Naylor in Trust and Natalie Holden in Blackpool (2004). She starred alongside Debra Messing in the movie The Wedding Date , had a small role in The Holiday , which starred Jude Law, and appeared as the Empress of the Racnoss in the Christmas 2006 Doctor Who episode "The Runaway Bride".

Parish appeared in the one-off drama Recovery . She also starred in the BBC series ShakespeaRe-Told in which she played Beatrice. She returned as GP Katie Roden in series two and three of Mistresses , which debuted on BBC One in February 2009. She played Lady Catrina in the BBC television series Merlin . [2]

In 2011 Parish co-starred in ITV's medical drama Monroe , alongside James Nesbitt. From 2013 to 2015 she appeared in the BBC TV series Atlantis , playing one of the main characters, Pasiphaë. [3] From 2014 to 2017 she played the role of Anna Rampton in three series of the BBC TV comedy W1A . Since November 2015 Parish has portrayed Cheryl Fairweather in Sky One sitcom Trollied .

In December 2017 she played Supt Elizabeth Bancroft in the ITV miniseries Bancroft . The second series was broadcast in January 2020. [4] [5]

In December 2019 she appeared in The Cockfields as Melissa, girlfriend of Nigel Havers' character, Larry. [6] She later appeared in the HBO/BBC drama Industry the following year. Parish appeared in Netflix original Stay Close as Lorraine in December 2021.

Co-stars

She has frequently co-starred opposite David Tennant  — in the 2004 musical serial Blackpool ; the Tony Marchant drama Recovery ; the 2006 Doctor Who Christmas special episode, "The Runaway Bride"; in the third series of the ITV crime drama Broadchurch ; and in the 2017 film You, Me and Him. [7] She has joked: "We're like George and Mildred – in 20 years' time we'll probably be doing a ropey old sitcom in a terraced house in Preston." [8]

Personal life

Parish married James Murray on 15 December 2007 in Hampshire. It was announced in January 2008 that she was pregnant with their first child, due on Parish's 40th birthday. Their daughter Ella-Jayne was born with Rubinstein–Taybi syndrome and died in 2009. [9] In her memory, Parish and Murray raise funds for the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Southampton General Hospital. [10] As of December 2019, they had raised £5.2 million towards the PICU. [11] Their second daughter, Nell, was born on 21 November 2009. [12]

When asked about her hobbies and interests, Parish cites her vegetable garden. [13]

On 2 March 2018, Parish sustained an accident, breaking her leg when sledging in the snow. [14] She commented: "Note to self: cheap plastic sledges are for sitting in and gently trundling down primary slopes-- NOT a substitute for a stand up snowboard". [15]

Filmography

Television
YearTitleRoleNotes
1994 The Bill Linda PinchamEpisode: "Taking Stock"
1997–1999 Peak Practice Dawn Rudge
1998 Babes in the Wood RoxyOne episode
2000 Beast Helen
City Central Karen Ridley
Brotherly Love Julia Empthorpe
Kiss Me Kate Liz
2000–2001 Hearts and Bones Amanda Thomas
2001 The Vice Jane Farrell
2002–2005 Cutting It Allie Henshall
2003 Unconditional Love Lydia Gray
Trust Annie Naylor
ReversalsCharlotte Woods
2004 Blackpool Natalie Holden
2005 Monkey Trousers Various Characters
ShakespeaRe-Told BeatriceEpisode: "Much Ado About Nothing"
2006Aftersun [16] Sue
Agatha Christie's Marple Evie BallantineEpisode: Sleeping Murder
If I Had You Sharon Myers
Doctor Who Empress of the Racnoss Episode: "The Runaway Bride"
2008–2010 Mistresses Katie Roden
2009 Merlin Lady Catrina Episodes: “Beauty and the Beast“ parts 1 and 2
2010 The Pillars of the Earth Regan Hamleigh
2011–2012 Monroe Jenny Bremner
2012 Hatfields & McCoys Levicy Hatfield
2013 Agatha Christie's Poirot Flossie MonroEpisode: "The Big Four"
Breathless Margaret Dalton
2013–2015 Atlantis Pasiphaë
2014–2017 W1A Anna RamptonThree series
2015–2018 Trollied Cheryl FairweatherMain role, 24 episodes
2016 The Collection Marjorie Stutter
2017 Broadchurch Cath Atwood Series three
2017–2018 The Keith & Paddy Picture Show Herself/Dana Barrett (Ghostbusters)/Charlie Blackwood (Top Gun)Episode(s): "Ghostbusters"
"Top Gun"
2017–2020 Bancroft Det Supt Elizabeth BancroftMain role
2018-2019 Medici Lucrezia Tornabuoni
2019–present The Cockfields MelissaSupporting role
2020–present Industry Nicole Craig
2021 Inside No. 9 DawnEpisode: "Last Night of the Proms"
2021 Stay Close Lorraine
2022 Heathrow: Britain's Busiest Airport NarratorSeries 8
Film
YearTitleRoleNotes
1998 Middleton's Changeling Asylum inmate
1999 Parting Shots Ad agency receptionist
2005 The Wedding Date TJ
2006 The Holiday Hannah
2018 You, Me and Him Mrs Jones
2018 Bad Apples Nurse

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  2. ↑ "Merlin: Series 2". Merlins Keep. Archived from the original on 27 May 2009. Retrieved 7 April 2009.
  3. ↑ Power, Vicki (18 January 2014). "Atlantis actress Sarah Parish on dates, parties and being a noisy neighbour". Express. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
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  5. ↑ "When is Bancroft back on TV for series 2?". Radio Times. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
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  7. ↑ "Who's new". Bbc.co.uk . 8 October 2006. Retrieved 8 October 2006..
  8. ↑ Dempster, Sarah (21 February 2007). "Scissor sister". The Guardian . Retrieved 28 January 2014.
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