Sarah Quintrell


Sarah Elizabeth Quintrell is an English writer and actress, best known for writing multi-award winning single drama Ellen and the five part crime dramaThe Trial: A Murder In The Family. In 2017 she was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit. As an actor, Sarah has had an extensive career on stage as well as appearing in television such as Rillington Place, Call the Midwife and Doctor Who.

Writer

Quintrell's writing debut Ellen, was broadcast on Channel 4, late 2016. Directed by Mahalia Belo and starring Jessica Barden, Yasmin Monet Prince, Jaime Winstone, Joe Dempsie and Charlie Creed-Miles.
Ellen won the Broadcast Television Award Best Single Drama 2017, Writers' Guild Great Britain Best Short Form Drama 2017, BAFTA Cymru Feature/Television Film 2017 and the Prix Italia TV Drama 2017. Quintrell was nominated for the BAFTA Breakthrough Talent Award at the 2017 BAFTA Craft Awards.
The Trial: A Murder In The Family was broadcast in May 2017. Directed by Kath Mattock and Nick Holt, starring Michael Gould, Emma Lowndes and Laura Elphinstone. In 2018 it was nominated for Best Original Programme at the Broadcast Awards.

Actor

Sarah Quintrell started her career playing Sinéad in the BBC TV sitcom Carrie and Barry. She has gone on to appear in Rillington Place , Call the Midwife , Doctor Who , Lewis , The Watcher , The Last Trace , The Marchioness Disaster , Doctors and Island at War .
Sarah has had an extensive career on stage and was the original Bobbie in Mike Kenny's The Railway Children at York Theatre Royal. She transferred with the production to London Waterloo Station, where it won the Olivier Award for Best Entertainment. She has also played Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion. Other theatre includes As You Like It, Forty Years On and an assortment of new writing including AgeSexLocation, Bloodtide and playing Natalie in James Phillips's City Stories, which had a residency in –15 at St James Theatre, London, . She transferred with the production to 59East59 Theater in New York as part of Brits Off Broadway and reprised the role at Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel, London, in 2018.

Awards

TELEVISION
YearTitleRoleNotes
2017Charlotte Link - Die letzte SpurChristy McMarrowTV movie
2016Rillington PlaceMurial EadyBBC, TV mini-series, "Ethel"
2016Call the MidwifeMrs PhillipsBBC, TV series, Episode #5.5
2015Der BeobachterChristy McMarrowDas Erste, TV movie
2014DoctorsDebbie KenlyBBC, TV series, "Rosie"
2011Doctor WhoLucy HaywardBBC, TV series, "The God Complex"
2011Doctor Who ConfidentialHerselfBBC, TV series, "Heartbreak Hotel"
2010DoctorsLeah WhiteheadBBC, TV series, "Sins of a Father"
2007DoctorsRose ThomBBC, TV series, "A Sting in the Tail"
2007The Marchioness DisasterTamsin ColeGranada Yorkshire, TV movie
2006BombshellLisaTV One, TV series, 2 episodes
2006Inspector LewisChloeITV, TV series, "Old School Ties"
2004-2005Carrie & BarrySineadBBC, TV series, 12 episodes