Portrait of Sara Powell

Sara Powell

Acting

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.

Born: June 23, 1968

Place of Birth: Jamaica

Filmography

2025
Hostage

as Kathy Macintyre

2025
Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2024
The Red Ball

as Mother

2024
2023
The Killing Kind

as Belinda Grey

2022
Murder in Provence

as Cosette Faraud

2021
Dalgliesh

as Paula Rice

2019
Last Christmas

as Casting Director

2019
Ruth

as Ruth

2019
Ghosts

as Jacqui

2017
Little Boy Blue

as ACC Pat Gallan

2016
Denial

as Reporter

2016
Damned

as Cass

2012
Public Enemies

as Dawn Clough

2011
Death in Paradise

as Josephine Porter

2007
Holby Blue

as Rachel Barker (Crown Prosecution Service)

2005
Doctor Who

as Mary Seacole

1998
Vanity Fair

as Miss Swartz

1997
Midsomer Murders

as Maxine Lockston

1996
The Office

as Joan

1996
Silent Witness

as DS Esther Linden

1994
1991
Murder Most Horrid

as Staff Nurse Jane