Sarah Niles is an English actress. She became widely known for her performance as Dr. Sharon Fieldstone in the Apple+ series Ted Lasso, for which she received two Emmy Award 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, The Loud House and its film No Time to Spy (2024–2025), among others.
Early life and education 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 Bajans 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 Miami and The Public Theater in New York City. 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. Niles played the role of Enid in the 2018 revival of Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock at the Bush Theatre.
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 CatastropheCatastrophe a new C4 comedy created by Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan 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, and also received two Emmy 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.
Niles also voiced the spy boss X in The Loud House franchise film No Time to Spy and also reprised her role in the main series episode "Europe Road Trip: A Knight to Remember".
She also featured in the Marvel Studios film The Fantastic Four: First Steps.
Filmography Film
Year Title RoleNotes 1999 Station Girlfriend Short 2008 Happy-Go-Lucky Tash 2010 London Boulevard Hospital Matron 2012 Now Is Good Nurse #2 2013 Austenland Delilah2014 Cuban Fury Salsa Pupil The Crucible Tituba Still Headmistress M. Jones 2019 Rocks Ms. Booker2020 Richard II Bolingbroke National Theatre Live: Three Sisters Lolo 2021 Guide Me Home Michelle Short 2022 This Is Christmas Judith 2023 The Toxic Avenger Mayor Togar 2024 No Time to Spy X (voice) 2025 F1 Bernadette Pearce Heads of State Simone Bradshaw The Fantastic Four: First Steps Lynne Nichols
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 episodes2016 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 episodes2020 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 2021–2026 Ted Lasso Dr. Sharon Fieldstone Season 2–4, 14 episodes2022 Riches Claudia Richards 6 episodes The Sandman Rosemary Episode: "A Hope in Hell" 2023 Rugrats Nanny Pip (voice) Episode: "Nanny Pip" 2024 Fallen Miriam / Sophia 8 episodes 2025 The Loud House X (voice) Episode: "Europe Road Trip: A Knight to Remember"
Awards and nominations YearAwardCategoryWorkResultRef. 2019 Offie Best Female Performance in a Play Leave Taking Won https://offies.london/2019-finalists-winners/2021 Pena de PrataBest Supporting Actress in a Comedy SeriesTed LassoBest Ensemble in a Comedy Series (shared)202274th Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series28th Screen Actors Guild AwardsOutstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series202375th Primetime Emmy AwardsOutstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
References
External links
Sarah Niles at Spotlight