Alison Pargeter

Alison Pargeter (born 31 May 1972) is an English actress who played the roles of stalker Sarah Cairns in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, Mary Slessor in an 11-part television series of Mary Slessor, the Nag's Head barmaid called Val in the BBC Only Fools and Horses prequel Rock & Chips, She later played the role of Margaret Campbell in the third series of STARZ's Outlander, and also as a Kindly Old Woman in the HBO series The Nevers.

Alison Pargeter
Born	(1972-05-31) 31 May 1972 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2000–present
Television	The Nevers Outlander Rock & Chips Mary Slessor EastEnders

Career

Television appearances

Pargeter has made several guest appearances over the years, she has appeared in the Channel 5 Horror series Urban Gothic, the long-running ITV police drama series The Bill, Strange, Dalziel and Pascoe, and Holby City.

Between that time in 2004, she played a recurring role which was Martin Fowler's stalker Sarah Cairns in EastEnders, who appeared in 21 episodes, She was a barmaid who worked in Angie's Den club, and tried to split Martin Fowler up from his wife Sonia following a drunken night together. She exited the series following a fight where she accidentally stabbed Martin and got committed to a mental institution.

Since leaving EastEnders she moved back, and returned to doing guest appearances again, including The Courtroom, Love Soup, Channel 4 comedy series Green Wing, and returned for a second guest appearance in The Bill.

In 2008, Pargeter played another major the role called Mary Slessor in the Mary Slessor an 11-part television series.

Since then, she went back to doing guest appearances onces again, such as the Channel 4 comedy series Pete Versus Life, Rock & Chips, The Crimson Petal and the White, 24: Live Another Day inciding three guest roles in Doctors, Crashing, Outlander, The Dumping Ground, four guest roles in Casualty, Vanity Fair, Chernobyl, Catch-22, Father Brown, The Crown and most recently The Nevers.

In 2004 she appeared in the television advertisement for John Smith's bitter "Annie, I'm not your Daddy" which starred Peter Kay. Also in 2012 she appeared in a television advertisement for Miracle Whip: Village. she later played a role as a house wife for TV commercial Volvic Juicy drink back in 2015, at the end of 2018, she appeared as playing the role of mother of three children with her husband as part of an Sainsburys Christmas Advert, on a really important mission complete their Christmas shopping, In time for Christmas, and more recently, she played the role of a Vampire for an Birds Eye Commercial, advertising veggie burgers.

Films

Pargeter has appeared in seven films such as Calendar Girls (2003), Mad George (2004), Angel (2007), Reuniting the Rubins (2010), The National Union of Space People (2016), The Little Stranger (2018) and the upcoming movie called Shafted, which is currently still in pre-production.

Theatre

During 1997, Pargeter starred in the stage play Dinosaur Rock, and between 1999 and 2000, she ended up spending a year touring in the musical Grease playing the role of Jan who was one of the Pink Ladies.

Pargeter was a member of the Stephen Joseph Theatre Company in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, where she was directed by Sir Alan Ayckbourn in a trilogy of plays known collectively as Damsels in Distress, which subsequently transferred to the West End. For this, she won Best Newcomer in the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards and was nominated for an Evening Standard award, Manchester Evening News Award and a Whatsonstage Award.

Later parts include Sugar Daddies, again written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn; She Stoops to Conquer at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, for which she was nominated for a second Manchester Evening News award;

In June 2005, she played title role of Effie Gray in The Countess, playing opposite Nick Moran at the Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly.

In 2008 she recorded the voice of 'Wendy Darling' in a musical adaptation of Peter Pan with the music lyrics by Dallison/Wherry and was also narrated by Joe Parquale as 'Smee'.

Pargeter has starred in several Christmas Pantomimes for children over the years, she appeared in Alice in Wonderland, Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella.

In July 2011 Pargeter played the role of Gertrude Riall at the Manchester International Festival in a Victoria Wood's play called That Day We Sang.

Between February and June 2013, Pargeter went on A National Tour, touring eleven theatres around parts of the UK, and played the role of Eliante in the Roger McGough's play called The Misanthrope and on 10 March 2013 The Misanthrope also went live from the Everyman Playhouse and English Touring Theatre on BBC Radio 3.

Between 2013 and 2016, she appeared in two more stage plays including Sex Cells and her more recent was All My Sons.

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Role	Notes
TBA	Shafted	Svetlana Gobbleoff	In pre-production
2023	Wonka	Wendy Chucklesworth
2018	The Little Stranger	Maid
2016	The National Union of Space People	Danielle Chief
2010	Reuniting the Rubins	Nurse
2007	Angel	Edwina
2004	Mad George	Sandra	Short film
2003	Calendar Girls	Chemist's Assistant

Television

Year	TV Show	Role	Notes
2023	You	Dawn Brown	Recurring role, Season 4
2022	Wedding Season	Claire	Episode 6
2021	Holby City	Wendy Carrington	4 episodes
	The Nevers	Kindly Old Woman	Episodes "Exposure", "Ignition"
2020	The Crown	Buckingham Palace Maid 1	Episodes "Fagan", "War"
	Father Brown	Anna Bailey	Series 8, episode 6 "The Numbers of the Beast"
2019	Catch-22	Nurse Cramer	Episode 6
	Chernobyl	BCP HQ Aide Female	"Please Remain Calm"
2018	Vanity Fair	Glorvina O'Dowd	Episodes "In Which a Painter's Daughter Meets a King", "Endings and Beginnings"
	Casualty	Theresa Jordons	1 episode
2017	The Dumping Ground	Janet Umbleby	Episodes "Back in the Game - Part 1", "Back in the Game - Part 2", "The Fairytale Princess", "Save the DG", "What Lies Beneath"
	Outlander	Margaret Campbell	Episodes "Creme de Menthe", "The Bakra" "Eye of the Storm"
2016	Crashing	Nurse	Episode 6
2015	Casualty	Flo Hill	Episode "Maybe This Year"
	Suspicion	Anita	Episode "Death Next Door"
2014	Quiet Desperation	Gabby	Pilot
	Doctors	Matilda	Episodes "The Moon Girl Chronicles: Part One", "The Moon Girl Chronicles: Part Two", "Love is a Battefield"
	24: Live Another Day	Lydia	Episode "10:00 p.m.-11:00 a.m."
2013	Toast of London	Senna Poddington	Episode "Vanity Project"
2012	Doctors	Annie Hanks	Episode "Ticks and Twitches"
2010–2011	Rock & Chips	Val	Episodes Pilot Special, "Five Gold Rings", "The Frog and the Pussycat"
2011	The Crimson Petal and the White	Amelia	TV mini-series, Episode 4
2010	Pete Versus Life	Valerie	Episode "Ollie's Girlfriend"
2009	Casualty	Rosie Pullen	Episode "Could We Be Heroes?"
2008	Doctors	Nina Jarvis	Episode "I Know What You Did Last Semester"
	Mary Slessor	Mary Slessor	11 episodes
2007	The Bill	Shelley Cooper	Episodes "Line of Fire: Part 1", "Line of Fire: Part 2"
2006	Casualty	Donna Carlyle	Episode "In Good Faith"
	Green Wing	Nurse	Series 2, episode 1
2005	Love Soup	Siobhan	Episode "There Must Be Some Way Out of Here"
2004	The Courtroom	Deborah Harker	Episodes "Five Below Zero", "Zero"
	EastEnders	Sarah Cairns	21 episodes
	Holby City	Sylvia Dyson	Episode "The Kindness of Strangers"
	Dalziel and Pascoe	Barmaid	Episode "A Game of Soldiers"
2003	Strange	Natalie	Episode "Incubus"
2001	The Bill	Katie	Episode "Billy the Kid"
2000	Urban Gothic	Leila Haze	Episode "Sum of the Parts"

External links

• Alison Pargeter at IMDb