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









