Sarah Niles


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, Spotless, Catastrophe, I May Destroy You and Trying, Viewpoint, Riches and The Sandman in 2022, The Loud House and its film No Time to Spy, among others.
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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 Barbadians 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.

Screen

On the big screen, Niles appeared in Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky, 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 Catastrophe 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

YearTitleRoleNotes
1999StationGirlfriendShort
2008Happy-Go-LuckyTash
2010London BoulevardHospital Matron
2012Now Is GoodNurse #2
2013AustenlandDelilah
2014Cuban FurySalsa Pupil
2014The CrucibleTituba
2014StillHeadmistress M. Jones
2019RocksMs. Booker
2020Richard IIBolingbroke
2020National Theatre Live: Three SistersLolo
2021Guide Me HomeMichelleShort
2022This Is ChristmasJudith
2023The Toxic AvengerMayor Togar
2024No Time to SpyX
2025F1Bernadette Pearce
2025Heads of StateSimone Bradshaw
2025The Fantastic Four: First StepsLynne Nichols