- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- June 23, 1968
- Place of Birth
- Jamaica
Sara Powell
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.
Filmography
tvHostage
2025 · Kathy Macintyre
movieImplosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster
2025 · Self - Narrator (voice)
movieThe Red Ball
2024 · Mother
tvCaptivated
2024 · Simone
tvThe Killing Kind
2023 · Belinda Grey
movieNational Theatre Live: The Seagull
2022 · Polina
tvThe House Across the Street
2022 · Joanne
tvMurder in Provence
2022 · Cosette Faraud
tvDalgliesh
2021 · Paula Rice
movieLast Christmas
2019 · Casting Director
movieRuth
2019 · Ruth
tvGhosts
2019 · Jacqui
movieNational Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
2018 · Lady Elizabeth Pembroke
tvLittle Boy Blue
2017 · ACC Pat Gallan
movieDenial
2016 · Reporter
tvDamned
2016 · Cass
tvYou, Me and the Apocalypse
2015 · Naomi
tvThe Ice Cream Girls
2013 · Fez
tvPublic Enemies
2012 · Dawn Clough
tvDeath in Paradise
2011 · Josephine Porter
tvFlorrie's Dragons
2010
tvHolby Blue
2007 · Rachel Barker (Crown Prosecution Service)
The Family Man
tvThe Family Man
2006
tvDoctor Who
2005 · Mary Seacole
tvJudge John Deed
2001
tvMurphy's Law
2001 · TV Reporter
tvVanity Fair
1998 · Miss Swartz
tvMidsomer Murders
1997 · Maxine Lockston
movieThe Office
1996 · Joan
tvSilent Witness
1996 · DS Esther Linden
Rumble
tvRumble
1995 · Georgy
movieOne Night Stand
1994 · Anna
movieVictoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
1992
tvBetween the Lines
1992
tvMurder Most Horrid
1991 · Staff Nurse Jane