
Sara Powell
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.
10
Films
23
TV Shows
Known For
33 Credits
Midsomer Murders
as Maxine Lockston
1997

Doctor Who
as Mary Seacole
2005

Death in Paradise
as Josephine Porter
2011

Silent Witness
as DS Esther Linden
1996

Ghosts
as Jacqui
2019

Dalgliesh
as Paula Rice
2021

Hostage
as Kathy Macintyre
2025

Judge John Deed
2001

Between the Lines
1992

Murder Most Horrid
as Staff Nurse Jane
1991

Last Christmas
as Casting Director
2019

Vanity Fair
as Miss Swartz
1998