Anna Friel
Biography of Anna Friel
Anna Louise Friel was born on 12 July 1976 in Rochdale. She is a British actress.
Friel began her career starring on the soap opera Brookside, which she appeared on British television on Channel 4 between 1993 and 1995. Here she caused a stir when she gave another actress the first lesbian kiss on British television. Since then she has starred in many films, including the 1999 Shakespeare film A Midsummer Night's Dream. She was nominated for a Genie Award in 2002 for her starring role in The War Bride (2001). From 2007 to 2008 she starred alongside Lee Pace in Pushing Daisies. Friel won the 2017 International Emmy Award for Best Actress for her title role in the series Marcella.
In the late 1990s, Friel had a six-month relationship with singer Robbie Williams. On July 9, 2005, she gave birth to a daughter. The child's father is fellow actor David Thewlis, with whom she dated from 2001 to 2010. She has been in a relationship with Welsh actor Rhys Ifans since 2011.
Filmography
1998 The Stringer
1998 The Land Girls
1999 A Midsummer Night's Dream
1999 Rogue Trader
1999 Mad Cows
2000 Sunset Strip
2000 An Everlasting Piece
2001 The War Bride
2001 Me Without You
2003 Last Rumba in Rochdale
2003 Timeline
2005 Goal!
2006 Irish Jam
2006 Niagara Motel
2007 Goal II: Living the Dream
2007 Rubbish
2008 Bathory
2009 Land of the Lost
2010 London Boulevard
2010 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2011 Limitless
2012 Metamorphosis: Titian 2012
2013 The Look of Love
2013 Having You
2014 Good People Sarah
2014 Advent
2015 Urban & the Shed Crew
2016 The Cleanse Maggie
2016 I.T.
2017 Tomato Red
2018 The Sea
2019 Sulphur and White
2020 Books of Blood
2021 Charming the Hearts of Men
Television
1991 G.B.H.
1991 Coronation Street
1992 Emmerdale
1993 Medics
1993–1995 Brookside
1995 The Imaginatively
1996 Tales from the Crypt
1996 Cadfael
1998 Our Mutual Friend
1998 The Tribe
1998 St. Ives
2001 The Fear
2002 Fields of Gold
2003 Watermelon
2004 The Jury
2004 Perfect Strangers
2007 Pushing Daisies
2009 The Street
2011 Neverland
2011 Treasure Guards
2011 Come Fly with Me
2011 Without You Ellie
2012 Public Enemies
2013 Playhouse Presents
2013 The Vatican
2014 The Psychopath Next Door
2015 American Odyssey
2015 The Heavy Water War
2016 Marcella
2017 The Keith and Paddy Picture Show
2017 Broken
2017 The Girlfriend Experience
2018 Butterfly
2019 Deep Water
2022 Monarch
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