People often say I’m the one who laughs most on set, but that’s between takes, then I turn my poker face on. For Niles, the key to her understated performance is stillness – not always easy when you’re playing the straight person to the show’s star and co-creator, the American actor Jason Sudeikis. Photograph: LMKĭr Sharon arrived in season two of the much-loved soccer-com, helping to bring new depth to the show’s characters, and providing a gear change from the goofy comedy. Kicking off: Sarah Niles as Dr Sharon with Jason Sudeikis in Ted Lasso. Film fans might know her from Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky, or Sarah Gavron’s Rocks. Or from Catastrophe, as Sharon Horgan’s sarky schoolteacher colleague Melissa.
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TV viewers might recognise her from I May Destroy You, as Officer Funmi, who interviews Michaela Coel’s character after she’s raped.
Niles is a regular performer at the National Theatre, the Royal Court, the Old Vic and the RSC. Her role as the sports psychologist Dr Sharon Fieldstone in the hit football comedy Ted Lasso has brought overdue acclaim for an actor who’s been flitting between stage and screen for two decades.
A few hours later I started testing negative.” “I was feeling really sick,” she says, “but I soon got better. Sarah Niles was laid up in bed at home in London when she heard that, 5,000 miles away in Los Angeles, she’d been nominated for best supporting actress in a comedy series. Based on a sample size of one, it appears that an Emmy nod can cure Covid. I t might be the medical breakthrough the world has been waiting for.
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