Sarah Doon Mackichan is a British actress, comedian and writer. She co-created, wrote and performed in the double-Emmy-award-winning Smack the Pony. She frequently collaborates with Armando Iannucci and Steve Coogan, having played multiple characters in The Day Today, Brass Eye and Alan Partridge, and has also appeared in Toast of London and Two Doors Down. Mackichan was nominated for Best Female Comedy Performance at the 2014 British Academy Television Awards for her performance in Plebs and won critical praise for her performance alongside John Malkovich in Bitter Wheat in 2019.

Filmography

• 2026National Theatre at Home: Summerfolk — Kaleria
• 2026The Scarecrows' Wedding — Goose / Cow / Bee / Snail (voice)
• 2025Brighton Storeys
• 2022The Sea Beast — Queen (voice)
• Toast of Tinseltown — Jane Plough / Brooke Hooberman
• Dreaming Whilst Black — Pippa
• Flack — Victoria
• Good Omens — Michael, Miguel
• Pure — Sarah
• 2019Python at 50: Silly Talks and Holy Grails — Narrator
• 2018Death on the Tyne — Emily Valentine
• 2018Happy New Year, Colin Burstead — Sandy Burstead
• 2018Winterlong — Barbara
• 2017National Theatre Live: Twelfth Night — Feste
• 2016Breaking the Bank — Caroline
• Two Doors Down — Cathy
• 2015Draw on Sweet Night — Lady Elizabeth Kyston
• 2015Most Shocking Celebrity Moments 2015 — Narrator (voice)
• 2014Most Shocking Celebrity Moments 2014 — Narrator (voice)
• 2014Scotland In A Day
• Plebs — Flavia
• Psychobitches — Catherine Howard, Delilah, Statue of Liberty
• Toast of London — Jane Plough
• 2013Two Doors Down — Cathy
• 2012Acts of Godfrey — Jacqui
• Me and Mrs Jones — Selina
• 2011Anuvahood — Patricia
• Taking the Flak
• Comedy Map of Britain
• 2007The Best of Smack the Pony
• The Sarah Jane Adventures — Louise Marlowe
• Modern Toss
• The Good Housekeeping Guide
• A Bear's Tail
• 2005A Very Social Secretary — Cherie Blair
• Bromwell High
• Nathan Barley — Her Preposterous Voice
• 2005Sex Actually — Diana
• Twisted Tales — Sandra Barnes
• 2005X-Rated: The Ads They Couldn't Show — Narrator
• 2004Gladiatress — Dwyfuc
• New Tricks — Gillian Withall
• Comedy Connections
• Comic Relief Does Fame Academy
• Bedtime — Faith
• Don't Eat the Neighbours
• Beast — Kirsten
• The Strangerers — Galadriel
• 2000Wild About Harry — Tara Adair
• Smack the Pony — Various Characters, Writer
• 1999With or Without You — Deirdre
• Bob and Margaret
• Our Mutual Friend — Sophronia Lammle
• Stressed Eric
• Brass Eye — Accelorata Jengold, Dekadeeka Dekkadade / Rubeglia Palliativa, Woman on 'Fadanoid', Newsreader
• I'm Alan Partridge — Jenny
• 1997The Borrowers — Victoria Lender
• Agony Again — Debra
• The Glam Metal Detectives
• Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge — Shona McGough, Wanda Harvey
• The Day Today — Collaterlie Sisters / Various Characters
• 1993Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown — Journalist
• 1993Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase — Lucille Bromley
• 1993Space Virgins from Planet Sex — Daisy / Zapping Space Rat
• 1992Red Nose of Courage — Barbara
• 1992The Crying Game — Nurse
• Birds of a Feather — Nurse
• Five Alive

Appearances as themselves (10)

• 2025The Academy of Armando — Self
• 2017Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom? — Herself
• 2013Frost on Sketch Shows — Self
• The Great Sport Relief Bake Off — Self - Contestant
• Would I Lie to You? — Self
• QI — Self
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross — Self
• It's Only TV But I Like It — Self
• The Staying-In Show — Self
• An Audience with... — Self