Jenny Funnell

Jenny Funnell
Born	20 May 1963 (1963-05-20) Nairobi, Kenya
Other names	Jenny Funnel
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1988 - present
Children	1 daughter

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

Funnell was born in Kenya, then still a British colony, and has a twin sister. She moved to Britain when she was 4 years old, and initially started voice acting in radio drama while still a student at drama school, winning the Carleton Hobbs BBC Radio Drama Award in 1984.

Her earliest television work was also in drama, including the British soap opera Brookside in 1985, the BBC police series Bergerac in 1988, and the episode "Peril at End House" in Series 2 of Agatha Christie's Poirot, on ITV in 1990.

Funnell started taking on comedy parts in 1989, with an appearance in the comedy/drama Boon on ITV 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). She later did 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).

She and her husband and daughter live in Sussex in England.

Filmography

Year	TV Series/Film Name	Role	Role Notes
1985	Brookside
1985	Bergerac
1988	Agatha Christie's Poirot	Nurse	Series 2 Episode "Peril at End House"
1989	Norbert Smith A Life
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
2009	Demon Souls	Yuria The Witch
2011	Dark Souls	Quelana of Izalith

External links

• Jenny Funnell at the Internet Movie Database
• Jenny Funnell at As Time Goes By Central