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.
Acted in
The Red Ball
2024
as Mother
Too Good to Be True
2024
as Simone
The Killing Kind
2023
as Belinda Grey
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
2022
as Polina
The House Across the Street
2022
as Joanne
Last Christmas
2019
as Casting Director
Ruth
2019
as Ruth
Ghosts
2019
as Jacqui
National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
2018
as Lady Elizabeth Pembroke
Little Boy Blue
2017
as ACC Pat Gallan
Denial
2016
as Reporter
Damned
2016
as Cass
You, Me and the Apocalypse
2015
as Naomi
The Ice Cream Girls
2013
as Fez
Death in Paradise
2011
as Josephine Porter
Florries Dragons
2010
Holby Blue
2007
as Rachel Barker (Crown Prosecution Service)
The Family Man
2006
Doctor Who
2005
as Mary Seacole
Judge John Deed
2001
Murphy's Law
2001
Vanity Fair
1998
as Miss Swartz
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Maxine Lockston
Silent Witness
1996
as DS Esther Linden
Rumble
1995
One Night Stand
1994
as Anna
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
1992
Between the Lines
1992
Murder Most Horrid
1991
as Staff Nurse Jane