Sara Powell
Acting • Born 1968-06-23
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
35 credits
One Night Stand
Movie • 1994
Anna
National Theatre Live: The Seagull
Movie • 2022
Polina
Ruth
Movie • 2019
Ruth
The Red Ball
Movie • 2024
Mother
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
Movie • 1992
Denial
Movie • 2016
Reporter
Last Christmas
Movie • 2019
Casting Director
National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
Movie • 2018
Lady Elizabeth Pembroke
Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster
Movie • 2025
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Office
Movie • 1996
Joan
Murder Most Horrid
TV • 1991
Staff Nurse Jane
Silent Witness
TV • 1996
DS Esther Linden
Between the Lines
TV • 1992
Holby Blue
TV • 2007
Rachel Barker (Crown Prosecution Service)
Judge John Deed
TV • 2001
Rumble
TV • 1995
The Family Man
TV • 2006
Ghosts
TV • 2019
Jacqui
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Mary Seacole
Little Boy Blue
TV • 2017
ACC Pat Gallan
You, Me and the Apocalypse
TV • 2015
Naomi
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Maxine Lockston
Damned
TV • 2016
Cass
Captivated
TV • 2024
Simone
The Killing Kind
TV • 2023
Belinda Grey
The House Across the Street
TV • 2022
Joanne
Death in Paradise
TV • 2011
Josephine Porter
Florrie's Dragons
TV • 2010
The Ice Cream Girls
TV • 2013
Fez
Murder in Provence
TV • 2022
Cosette Faraud
Dalgliesh
TV • 2021
Paula Rice
Hostage
TV • 2025
Kathy Macintyre
Public Enemies
TV • 2012
Dawn Clough
Vanity Fair
TV • 1998
Miss Swartz
Murphy's Law
TV • 2001
TV Reporter