A huge name in British telly is starring in a new comedy show, from the award-winning team behind Smack The Pony and Green Wing.

The actress, 55, looks completely unrecognisable in the first photos shared of new ITV comedy Piglets, coming to screens this summer. 

Ditching her usual long, brown locks for a short grey wig, the actress posed for an on set selfie as she declared: 'Say hello to Superintendent Julie Spry. What a cracker!'

So can you guess who it is? 

A huge name in British telly is starring in a new comedy show, from the award-winning team behind Smack The Pony and Green Wing - guess who it is?  

It's Sarah Parish!

The actress, who has previously starred in the likes of Cutting it, Broadchurch and Doctor Who, is heading up the cast for Piglets - a brand new series set in a fictional police training college. 

The government’s stated policy of recruiting 20,000 new police officers in double quick time has not come at the cost of lowering standards. Or has it?

Piglets follows a newly recruited group of six very different would-be cops and the handful of key staff whose thankless task it is to knock them into some kind of shape.

Sarah posed in character as Superintendent Julie Spry for an Insta snap shared on Wednesday night, whilst also joining her co-stars for a cast photo. 

Heading up the cast are Sarah and Friday Night Dinner star Mark Heap as no-nonsense Superintendent Julie Spry and some-nonsense Superintendent Bob Weekes, whose job it is to oversee the training of the next batch of police recruits.

Those new recruits are Steph (played by Callie Cooke), Leggo (Sam Pote), Geeta (Sukh Kaur Ojla) Afia (Halema Hussain), Dev (Abdul Sessay) and Paul (Jamie Bisping).

Working alongside Superintendents Julie Spry and Bob Weekes are Head of Admin Melanie (Rebecca Humphries) and police trainers Mike & Daz (Ukweli Roach and Ricky Champ).

It's Sarah Parish! The actress, who has previously starred in the likes of Cutting it is heading up the cast for Piglets - a brand new series set in a fictional police training college

Piglets follows a newly recruited group of six very different would-be cops and the handful of key staff whose thankless task it is to knock them into some kind of shape

The six part, 30 minute episode series is will simultaneously drop as a full series box set on ITVX and air weekly on ITV1 primetime.

It's written by Robert Harley, James Henry, Oriane Messina, Victoria Pile, Richard Preddy and Fay Rusling - the team responsible for Green Wing (Channel 4) - and ITV’s Comedy Writers Initiative candidate Omar Khan.

It's a return to the police for Sarah, whose first TV role was a small part in The Bill back in 1994. 

She went on to star as Dawn Rudge in Peak Practice in the late nineties and Allie in Cutting it which ran for four seasons between 2002 and 2005 and was set in two rival hairdressing salons in Manchester.

Sarah posed in character as Superintendent Julie Spry for an Insta snap shared on Wednesday night, whilst also joining her co-stars for a cast photo

Heading up the cast are Sarah and Friday Night Dinner star Mark Heap as no-nonsense Superintendent Julie Spry and some-nonsense Superintendent Bob Weekes