Jenny Victoria Funnell (born 20 May 1963) is a British actress. Her roles include Sandy in the British sitcom As Time Goes By from 1992 to 2005.
Early life Funnell was born in Kenya. She moved to the UK when she was four years old, and attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. 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 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 in April 2014, What the Butler Saw at The Haymarket Theatre in Basingstoke during September 2015,"Actress Jenny Funnell talks about starring in "riotous farce" 'What the Butler Saw', which is coming to Basingstoke" Basingstoke Gazette, 4 September 2015 and A Murder Is Announced, which toured around the United Kingdom throughout 2019. Funnell was part of the original West-End cast of Michael Grandage's Hamlet, which starred Jude Law in the titular role. The production opened at the Donmar Warehouse in 2009. It then went to Denmark, performing in the gothic setting of Kronborg Castle, Shakespeare's inspiration for his fictionalised Elsinore, before finally transferring to the Broadhurst Theatre, on Broadway, in August 2009.
She also is a City of London Green Badge Tour Guide, offering general and special topic tours of the City of London.
Personal life Funnell has a daughter, who is also an actress.
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 Appearance1999Monster TVLinda DoddsMain character, 26 episodes 2002, 2004, 2011 Doctors 3 separate episodes. 2003 The Royal Anna Freeman 2005 Love Soup Philippa Guest Appearance 2006 The Bill Stephanie Taylor 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 2020House HackPaulieFilm, supporting character 2021Everything I Know About LoveLesley1 episode
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