Jenny Funnell
| Jenny Funnell | |
|---|---|
| Born |
20 May 1963 Nairobi, Kenya |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1988-present |
| Children | 1[1] |
Jenny Funnell (born 20 May 1963) is a British actress best known for her role as Sandy in the British sitcom As Time Goes By (1992–2005).
Funnell was born in Kenya, then still a British colony, and has a twin sister. She moved to Britain when she was four years old, and initially started voice acting in radio drama while still a student at drama school, winning the Carleton Hobbs BBC Radio Drama Award in 1984.
Her earliest television work was also in drama, including the British soap opera Brookside (1985), the police series Bergerac (BBC 1988), and the episode "Peril at End House" in Series 2 of Agatha Christie's Poirot (ITV 1990).
Funnell started taking on comedy parts with an appearance in the comedy/drama Boon (ITV 1989), and a role in the television movie Norbert Smith: A Life. Other comedy roles for TV have included a guest appearance in the Channel 4 newsroom sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey (1994) and the romantic comedy Love Soup (2005). She later did guest appearances in the ITV hospital drama The Royal (2003), played two separate parts in the BBC's medical drama Doctors (2002 and 2004), and appeared in the ITV police series The Bill (2006).
Her stage roles have included 'Sense and Sensibility' at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor, West Berkshire[2] in April 2014 and 'What the Butler Saw' at The Haymarket Theatre in Basingstoke during September 2015.
She and her husband and daughter live in England.[3]
Filmography
| Year | TV Series/Film Name | Role | Role Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Brookside | ||
| 1985 | Bergerac | ||
| 1988 | Agatha Christie's Poirot | Nurse | Series 2 Episode "Peril at End House" |
| 1989 | Norbert Smith A Life | ||
| 1992–2005 | As Time Goes By | Sandy | One of the main roles. Film credit. |
| 1994 | Drop the Dead Donkey | Guest Appearance | |
| 2002, 2004, 2011 | Doctors | 3 separate episodes. | |
| 2003 | The Royal | ||
| 2005 | Love Soup | Guest Appearance | |
| 2006 | The Bill | ||
| 2008 | Coming of Age | Chloe Wheeler's mother | |
| 2009 | Demon's Souls | Yuria the Witch | |
| 2011 | Dark Souls | Quelana of Izalith, Darkmoon Knightess | |
| 2014 | Hollyoaks | Receptionist | |
| 2015 | Bloodborne | Vileblood Queen Annalise, Doctor Iosefka |
References
- ↑ "Jenny Funnell on PBS". Atgbcentral.com. Retrieved 2013-10-28.
- ↑ "REVIEW: Sense and Sensibility, The Watermill Theatre, Bagnor". Basingstoke Gazette.
- ↑ Vanessa (2007-06-23). "POP GOES THE WORLD: A night with Moira Brooker". Pop-goes-the-world.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
External links
- Jenny Funnell at the Internet Movie Database
- Jenny Funnell at As Time Goes By Central
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