
Sara Powell
Department: 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.
Known For

One Night Stand
1994

Ruth
2019

National Theatre Live: The Seagull
2022

The Red Ball
2024

Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
1992

Denial
2016

Last Christmas
2019

National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III
2018

Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster
2025

The Office
1996

Silent Witness
1996

Between the Lines
1992

Holby Blue
2007

Judge John Deed
2001

Rumble
1995

The Family Man
2006

Ghosts
2019

Doctor Who
2005

Little Boy Blue
2017

You, Me and the Apocalypse
2015

Midsomer Murders
1997

Damned
2016

Captivated
2024

The Killing Kind
2023

The House Across the Street
2022

Death in Paradise
2011

Florrie's Dragons
2010

The Ice Cream Girls
2013

Murder in Provence
2022

Dalgliesh
2021

Hostage
2025

Public Enemies
2012

Vanity Fair
1998

Murphy's Law
2001

Murder Most Horrid
1991