Sarah Niles is an English actress. She became widely known for her performance as Dr. Sharon Fieldstone in the Apple+ series ''

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'', for which she received two

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nominations. She has also appeared in '' Beautiful People'' (2009), '' Spotless'' (2015), '' Catastrophe'' (2015–2019), '' I May Destroy You'' and '' Trying'' (2020), '' Viewpoint'' (2021), '' Riches'' and '' The Sandman'' in 2022, among others.

Early life and education

Sarah Niles was born in Thornton Heath, south London, 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. She was a drama student at the Manchester School of Theatre, part of the Manchester Metropolitan University.

Career

Stage

Niles has appeared in many theatre productions, including shows at the National Theatre, 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

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and The Public Theater in

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. 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.

Screen

On the big screen, Niles appeared in Mike Leigh's '' Happy-Go-Lucky'' (2008), '' London Boulevard'', and '' Austenland''. She co-starred in the BBC TV comedy series '' Beautiful People'' alongside Olivia Colman. She has also had roles in various other high-profile comedy television shows, appearing opposite Sharon Horgan and American comedian Rob Delaney in '' Catastrophe'' and Jason Sudeikis in the second and third seasons of ''

''. 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, and also received two

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nominations: for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2022 and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2023. She appeared in Sarah Gavron's award-winning film '' Rocks'', Michaela Coel's '' I May Destroy You'', and Netflix's ''The Sandman''.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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