Sarah Parish is a British actress who played Lady Catrina in the Beauty and the Beast two-parter in the BBC drama series Merlin. She has also appeared on another BBC show, Doctor Who. She has had series of roles as Northern women, including Dawn Rudge in Peak Practice (1993), Allie Henshall in Cutting It (2002), Annie Naylor in Trust and Natalie Holden in Blackpool (2004).