Sara Powell
Acting
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
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tvHostage
2025
Kathy Macintyre
movieImplosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster
2025
Self - Narrator (voice)
movieThe Red Ball
2024
Mother
tvCaptivated
2024
Simone
tvThe Killing Kind
2023
Belinda Grey
tvMurder in Provence
2022
Cosette Faraud
tvDalgliesh
2021
Paula Rice
movieLast Christmas
2019
Casting Director
movieRuth
2019
Ruth
tvGhosts
2019
Jacqui
movieNational Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
2018
Lady Elizabeth Pembroke
tvLittle Boy Blue
2017
ACC Pat Gallan
movieDenial
2016
Reporter
tvDamned
2016
Cass
tvPublic Enemies
2012
Dawn Clough
tvDeath in Paradise
2011
Josephine Porter
tvHolby Blue
2007
Rachel Barker (Crown Prosecution Service)
tvDoctor Who
2005
Mary Seacole
tvMurphy's Law
2001
TV Reporter
tvVanity Fair
1998
Miss Swartz
tvMidsomer Murders
1997
Maxine Lockston
tvSilent Witness
1996
DS Esther Linden
Rumble
1995
Georgy
tvMurder Most Horrid
1991
Staff Nurse Jane