Acting

Sara Powell

Born 1968-06-23 · Jamaica

Sara Powell (born 23 June 1968) is a British-Jamaican stage, screen and voice-over actress and audiobook narrator. Her regular television roles include crown prosecutor Rachel Barker in the BBC's police procedural drama HolbyBlue (2007–2008), driver Sally Reid in ITV's firefighting drama London's Burning (1993–1994) and psychologist Cass in Channel 4's sitcom Damned (2016–2018). She also played historical figure Mary Seacole in the thirteenth series of the BBC One long-running science fiction series Doctor Who (2021), as well as a number of other characters in its spin-off audio dramas, produced by Big Finish Productions.

Credits

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Marble Hall Murders
as Dr. Liz Sawyer
2026
Hostage
as Kathy Macintyre
2025
Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2025
The Red Ball
as Mother
2024
Captivated
as Simone
2024
The Killing Kind
as Belinda Grey
2023
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
as Polina
2022
The House Across the Street
as Joanne
2022
Murder in Provence
as Cosette Faraud
2022
Dalgliesh
as Paula Rice
2021
Grace
as Cynthia Slater
2021
Last Christmas
as Casting Director
2019
Ruth
as Ruth
2019
Ghosts
as Jacqui
2019
National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
as Lady Elizabeth Pembroke
2018
Little Boy Blue
as ACC Pat Gallan
2017
Denial
as Reporter
2016
Damned
as Cass
2016
You, Me and the Apocalypse
as Naomi
2015
The Ice Cream Girls
as Fez Gorringe
2013
Public Enemies
as Dawn Clough
2012
Death in Paradise
as Josephine Porter
2011
Florrie's Dragons
2010
Holby Blue
as Rachel Barker (Crown Prosecution Service)
2007
The Family Man
2006
Doctor Who
as Mary Seacole
2005
Judge John Deed
2001
Murphy's Law
as TV Reporter
2001
Vanity Fair
as Miss Swartz
1998
Midsomer Murders
as Maxine Lockston
1997
The Office
as Joan
1996
Silent Witness
as DS Esther Linden
1996
Rumble
as Georgy
1995
One Night Stand
as Anna
1994
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
1992
Between the Lines
1992
Murder Most Horrid
as Staff Nurse Jane
1991
69
as Erica
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