Sarah Niles

Sarah Niles is a British film, television and theatre actress. She has appeared in Mister Eleven and Beautiful People (2009), Thorne: Sleepyhead (2010), Spotless (2015), Catastrophe (2015–2019), Trust Me (2019), I May Destroy You and Trying (2020), Viewpoint (2021), Riches and The Sandman in 2022. She is most notable for receiving two nominations for an Emmy Award for her performance as Dr. Sharon Fieldstone in Ted Lasso.

Early life

Niles was born in Thornton Heath, south London, and was the youngest daughter of three to her father an electrician, and her mother a care nurse, both Barbadians who arrived in Britain in the late 1950s.^[1] She was a drama student at the Manchester School of Theatre, part of the Manchester Metropolitan University.^[1]

Career

Niles has appeared mainly in theatre productions including shows at the National Theatre,^[2] the Royal Court Theatre, The Old Vic and The Bush Theatre. In 2013 and 2014, she worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company as Charmian in Antony and Cleopatra, performing at Stratford Upon Avon and touring to Miami and The Public Theater New York. In the same year she played Tituba in a sold-out production of The Crucible at the Old Vic, which was streamed to cinemas throughout the UK and internationally. In 2017, she appeared as Carmen in Guillermo Calderón's play B at the Royal Court alongside Paul Kaye, Aimee-Ffion Edwards and Danusia Samal.^[2]

On screen Niles is best known for co-starring in the BBC comedy Beautiful People alongside Olivia Colman. She has also had roles in various high-profile comedy television shows, appearing opposite Sharon Horgan and American comedian Rob Delaney in Catastrophe^[3] and Jason Sudeikis in the second and third seasons of Ted Lasso, for the latter she won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series along with the cast of the series^[4] and received two Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2022 and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2023.^[5][6] She recently appeared in Sarah Gavron's award-winning film Rocks, Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You and Netflix's The Sandman. Previously, she appeared in Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky, London Boulevard and Austenland.^[7]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Station	Girlfriend	Short
2008	Happy-Go-Lucky	Tash
2010	London Boulevard	Hospital Matron
2012	Now Is Good	Nurse #2
2013	Austenland	Delilah
2014	Cuban Fury	Salsa Pupil
	The Crucible	Tituba
	Still	Headmistress M. Jones
2019	Rocks	Ms. Booker
2020	Richard II	Bolingbroke
	National Theatre Live: Three Sisters	Lolo
2021	Guide Me Home	Michelle	Short
2022	This Is Christmas	Judith[8]
2023	The Toxic Avenger	Mayor Togar
2024	No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie	X (voice)
2025	F1 †	Bernadette	Filming
TBA	Heads of State †		Post-production
	The Thursday Murder Club †		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	A Touch of Frost	WPC #1	Episode: "Line of Fire: Part 1"
2008	Doctor Who	Node 1	Episode: "Silence in the Library"
	Peep Show	Cashier	Episode: "Jeremy's Broke"
2008–2009	Beautiful People	Reba	10 episodes
2009	Mister Eleven	Audrey	2 episodes
2010	Thorne: Sleepyhead	Maggie Byrne	3 episodes: "Sleepyhead" 1, 2, 3
2011	Being Human	Dr. Hayley Hamilton	Episode: "Though the Heavens Fall"
2014	Death in Paradise	Sylvaine Dor	Episode: "Rue Morgue"
	Waterloo Road	Cecile Tsibi	2 episodes: "Dynasty's Choice", "A Bolt from the Blue"
2015	Don't Take My Baby	Claire	TV film
	Spotless	DCI Diane Squire	3 episodes: "Say What You See", "Fallowfield", "DCI Diane Squire"
2015–2019	Catastrophe	Melissa	8 episodes
2016	Marley's Ghosts	Sue	Episode: "Fit"
	Stan Lee's Lucky Man	Nurse Aboko	Episode: "A Twist of Fate"
2017	Holby City	Miriam 'Mim' Sugarman	Episode: "The Hard Way Home"
2018	Moving On	Debs	Episode: "Two Fat Ladies"
2019	Trust Me	Stella McCain	2 episodes
2020	I May Destroy You	Officer Funmi	3 episodes: "Line Spectrum Border", "It Just Came Up", "Officer Funmi"
	Trying	Alisha	2 episodes: "Show Me the Love" and "Tickets for a Queue"
	Dracula	Meg	Episode: "The Dark Compass"
2021	Danny Boy	Stella Marshall	TV film
	Viewpoint	DCI Jill Conroy	5 episodes
2021–2023	Ted Lasso	Dr. Sharon Fieldstone	Season 2–3, 13 episodes
2022	Riches	Claudia Richards	6 episodes
	The Sandman	Rosemary	Episode: "A Hope in Hell"
2023	Rugrats	Nanny Pip (voice)	Episode: "Tommy the Giant/Nanny Pip"

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2021	Pena de Prata	Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series	Ted Lasso	Nominated	[9]
		Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series (shared)		Won	[9]
2022	74th Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series		Nominated	[9][5]
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series		Won	[9][4]
2023	75th Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series		Nominated	[9]

References

1. "You've got to bask in the sun of life: actor Sarah Niles on her newfound acclaim". theguardian.com. 21 August 2022.
2. "national Theatre – Sarah Niles". nationaltheatre.org.uk. 2008. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012.
3. Catastrophe a new C4 comedy created by Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan
4. "The 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | Screen Actors Guild Awards". Screen Actors Guild Awards. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
5. Emmy Awards (12 July 2022). "Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series – 2022". Television Academy. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
6. "Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series Nominees / Winners 2023". Television Academy. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
7. "Sarah Niles". comedy.co.uk. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
8. "Kaya Scodelario and Alfred Enoch to star in Sky rom-com This Christmas". Radio Times.
9. "Sarah Niles Awards". IMDB (Index source only). Retrieved 28 October 2022.

External links

• Sarah Niles at IMDb
• Sarah Niles at Spotlight