Jenny Funnell

Who is Jenny Funnell?

Jenny Funnell is a British actress best known for her role as Sandy in the British sitcom As Time Goes By.

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, the police series Bergerac, and the episode "Peril at End House" in Series 2 of Agatha Christie's Poirot.

Funnell started taking on comedy parts with an appearance in the comedy/drama Boon, 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 and the romantic comedy Love Soup. She later did guest appearances in the ITV hospital drama The Royal, played two separate parts in the BBC's medical drama Doctors, and appeared in the ITV police series The Bill.

She and her husband and daughter live in England.