Sarah Niles is a British film, television and theatre actress. She has appeared in Mister Eleven and Beautiful People (2009), Thorne: Sleepyhead (2010), Spotless (2015), Catastrophe (2015-2019), Trust Me (2019), I May Destroy You and Trying (2020), Viewpoint (2021), Riches and The Sandman in 2022. She is most notable for receiving a nomination for the Emmys for her performance as Dr. Sharon Fieldstone in Ted Lasso .
Niles was born in Thornton Heath, south London, and was the youngest daughter of three to her father an electrician, and her mother a care nurse, both Barbadian arriving to Britain in the late 1950s. She was a drama student at the Manchester School of Theatre, part of the Manchester Metropolitan University.
Niles has appeared mainly in theatre productions including shows at the National Theatre, The Royal Court, The Old Vic and The Bush Theatre. In 2013 and 2014 she worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company as Charmian in Anthony and Cleopatra, performing at Stratford Upon Avon and touring to Miami and The Public Theater New York. 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.

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