Jenny Funnell

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 in 1985, the BBC police series Bergerac in 1988, and the episode "Peril at End House" in Series 2 of Agatha Christie's Poirot, on ITV in 1990.

Funnell started taking on comedy parts in 1989, with an appearance in the comedy/drama Boon on ITV 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.