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 four 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 (1985), the police series Bergerac (BBC 1988), and the episode "Peril at End House" in Series 2 of Agatha Christie's Poirot (ITV 1990).Funnell started taking on comedy parts with an appearance in the comedy/drama Boon (ITV 1989), 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 England.
With Moira Brooker, fellow cast member of As Time Goes By (1992), she was in Dallas, Texas on the local Public Television Station KERA Channel 13 supporting the pledge drive for British comedies. [March 2009]
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Freddie as F.R.O.7.
1992
Additional Voices (voice)
El C.I.D.
1991
TV Series
Stewardess
Agatha Christie's Poirot
1990
TV Series
Nurse Andrews
Boon
1989
TV Series
Nurse Doyle
Sir Norbert Smith, a Life
1989
TV Movie
Eileen (as Jenny Funnel)
Coronation Street
1989
TV Series
W.P.C. Morgan
Bergerac
1988
TV Series
Estate Agent Girl
David Copperfield
1986
TV Mini-Series
Janet
Brookside
1985
TV Series
Dylis Parry / Dilys Parry
Dark Souls III
2016
Video Game
Karla / Old Woman of Londor (voice)
Bloodborne
2015
Video Game
Annalise, Vileblood Queen / Doctor Iosefka (voice)
Doctors
2002-2014
TV Series
Mary Dalmond / Angela Redden / Victoria Wilson / ...