
Sara Powell
Actress
Born: June 23, 1968 (57 years old)
Place of birth: Jamaica
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.
Filmography (25)
- Denial (2016, ★ 6.8)
- Last Christmas (2019, ★ 7.2)
- Silent Witness (1996, ★ 7.5)
- Holby Blue (2007, ★ 7.1)
- Ghosts (2019, ★ 7.9)
- Judge John Deed (2001, ★ 6.7)
- Doctor Who (2005, ★ 7.6)
- Little Boy Blue (2017, ★ 7.6)
- You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015, ★ 6.8)
- Midsomer Murders (1997, ★ 7.5)
- Death in Paradise (2011, ★ 7.5)
- National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III (2018, ★ 6.3)
- Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster (2025, ★ 6.5)
- Damned (2016, ★ 6.4)
- Captivated (2024, ★ 6.5)
- The Killing Kind (2023, ★ 6.3)
- The Ice Cream Girls (2013, ★ 6.6)
- Murder in Provence (2022, ★ 6.8)
- Dalgliesh (2021, ★ 6.8)
- Hostage (2025, ★ 6.7)
- Vanity Fair (1998, ★ 7.6)
- Murphy's Law (2001, ★ 7.7)
- Public Enemies (2012, ★ 6.6)
- Murder Most Horrid (1991, ★ 6.8)
- Between the Lines (1992, ★ 5.2)