Acting · Jamaica · Born June 23, 1968
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.
TVHostage
2025
as Kathy Macintyre
MovieImplosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster
2025
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Red Ball
2024
as Mother
TVCaptivated
2024
as Simone
TVThe Killing Kind
2023
as Belinda Grey
MovieNational Theatre Live: The Seagull
2022
as Polina
TVThe House Across the Street
2022
as Joanne
TVMurder in Provence
2022
as Cosette Faraud
TVDalgliesh
2021
as Paula Rice
MovieLast Christmas
2019
as Casting Director
MovieRuth
2019
as Ruth
TVGhosts
2019
as Jacqui
MovieNational Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
2018
as Lady Elizabeth Pembroke
TVLittle Boy Blue
2017
as ACC Pat Gallan
MovieDenial
2016
as Reporter
TVDamned
2016
as Cass
TVYou, Me and the Apocalypse
2015
as Naomi
TVThe Ice Cream Girls
2013
as Fez
TVPublic Enemies
2012
as Dawn Clough
TVDeath in Paradise
2011
as Josephine Porter
TVFlorrie's Dragons
2010
TVHolby Blue
2007
as Rachel Barker (Crown Prosecution Service)
The Family Man
2006
TVDoctor Who
2005
as Mary Seacole
TVJudge John Deed
2001
TVMurphy's Law
2001
as TV Reporter
TVVanity Fair
1998
as Miss Swartz
TVMidsomer Murders
1997
as Maxine Lockston
MovieThe Office
1996
as Joan
TVSilent Witness
1996
as DS Esther Linden
Rumble
1995
as Georgy
MovieOne Night Stand
1994
as Anna
MovieVictoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
1992
TVBetween the Lines
1992
TVMurder Most Horrid
1991
as Staff Nurse Jane
