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.

Known For

Midsomer Murders

Doctor Who

Death in Paradise

Silent Witness

Ghosts

Dalgliesh

Between the Lines

Judge John Deed

All Movies (10)

• Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster2025 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• The Red Ball2024 · as Mother
• National Theatre Live: The Seagull2022 · as Polina
• Last Christmas2019 · as Casting Director
• Ruth2019 · as Ruth
• National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III2018 · as Lady Elizabeth Pembroke
• Denial2016 · as Reporter
• The Office1996 · as Joan
• One Night Stand1994 · as Anna
• Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast1992

All TV Shows (25)

• Hostage2025 · as Kathy Macintyre
• Captivated2024 · as Simone
• The Killing Kind2023 · as Belinda Grey
• The House Across the Street2022 · as Joanne
• Murder in Provence2022 · as Cosette Faraud
• Dalgliesh2021 · as Paula Rice
• Ghosts2019 · as Jacqui
• Little Boy Blue2017 · as ACC Pat Gallan
• Damned2016 · as Cass
• You, Me and the Apocalypse2015 · as Naomi
• The Ice Cream Girls2013 · as Fez
• Public Enemies2012 · as Dawn Clough
• Death in Paradise2011 · as Josephine Porter
• Florrie's Dragons2010
• Holby Blue2007 · as Rachel Barker (Crown Prosecution Service)
• The Family Man2006
• Doctor Who2005 · as Mary Seacole
• Judge John Deed2001
• Murphy's Law2001 · as TV Reporter
• Vanity Fair1998 · as Miss Swartz
• Midsomer Murders1997 · as Maxine Lockston
• Silent Witness1996 · as DS Esther Linden
• Rumble1995
• Between the Lines1992
• Murder Most Horrid1991 · as Staff Nurse Jane