Jenny Funnell

Jenny Victoria Funnell (born 20 May 1963) is a British actress best known for her role as Sandy in the hit long-running British sitcom As Time Goes By from 1992-2005.

Jenny Funnell
Born	20 May 1963 Nairobi, Kenya
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1988–present
Children	1[1]

Early life

Funnell was born in Kenya and has a twin sister. She moved to Britain when she was four years old, and attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art[2] She initially started voice acting in radio drama while still a student at drama school, winning the Carleton Hobbs BBC Radio Drama Award in 1984.

Career

Her earliest television work was also in 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).

Between 1992 and 2005, Funnell appeared in 58 episodes of the popular BBC sitcom As Time Goes By, in the role of 'Sandy' alongside Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer. The show lasted for nine series and was aired on BBC One.

She later made 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).

Since 2009, she has voiced nine different characters in the FromSoftware series Dark Souls and Bloodborne.

Her stage roles have included Sense and Sensibility at the Watermill Theatre, Bagnor, West Berkshire[3] in April 2014 and What the Butler Saw at The Haymarket Theatre in Basingstoke during September 2015.[4]

Personal life

Funnell and her husband, also an actor, live near Brighton in England. The couple have a daughter.[5]

Filmography

Year	TV Series/Film Name	Role	Role Notes
1985	Brookside
1985	Bergerac
1989	Norbert Smith A Life
1990	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Nurse	Series 2 Episode 1 "Peril at End House"
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
2016	Dark Souls III	Karla

References

1. "Jenny Funnell on PBS". Atgbcentral.com. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
2. Category:Alumni of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art
3. "REVIEW: Sense and Sensibility, The Watermill Theatre, Bagnor". Basingstoke Gazette.
4. "Actress Jenny Funnell talks about starring in "riotous farce" 'What the Butler Saw', which is coming to Basingstoke" Basingstoke Gazette, 4 September 2015
5. Vanessa (23 June 2007). "POP GOES THE WORLD: A night with Moira Brooker". Pop-goes-the-world.blogspot.com. Retrieved 23 July 2012.

External links

• Jenny Funnell at IMDb
• Jenny Funnell at As Time Goes By Central