Actor

Sara Powell

June 23, 1968 · Jamaica

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.

Notable work

7.6
Doctor Who (2005)
as Mary Seacole
7.2
Last Christmas (2019)
as Casting Director
6.8
Denial (2016)
as Reporter
7.5
Midsomer Murders (1997)
as Maxine Lockston
7.4
Death in Paradise (2011)
as Josephine Porter

Often works with

John Sessions
2 titles together
Denial, Judge John Deed
Pip Carter
2 titles together
Denial, Hostage
Mathew Baynton
2 titles together
Ghosts, You, Me and the Apocalypse
Lolly Adefope
2 titles together
Ghosts, Damned
Geoffrey McGivern
2 titles together
Ghosts, Murder Most Horrid
Tom Ward
2 titles together
Silent Witness, Vanity Fair

Full filmography · 32

Hostage
as Kathy Macintyre
20256.8
Captivated
as Simone
2024
The Killing Kind
as Belinda Grey
20236.4
The House Across the Street
as Joanne
2022
Murder in Provence
as Cosette Faraud
2022
Dalgliesh
as Paula Rice
20216.7
Ghosts
as Jacqui
20197.9
Little Boy Blue
as ACC Pat Gallan
20177.6
Damned
as Cass
2016
You, Me and the Apocalypse
as Naomi
20156.8
The Ice Cream Girls
as Fez Gorringe
2013
Public Enemies
as Dawn Clough
2012