Anna Louise Friel was born on 12 July 1976 and is an English actress.
39 Facts About Anna Friel
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Anna Friel is the recipient of several accolades, including an International Emmy Award, a Drama Desk Award, a National Television Award, an RTS Award, and an honorary degree, as well as nominations for BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, Satellite Award, Saturn Award, Genie Award and Czech Lion Award.
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Anna Friel made her film debut in The Land Girls.
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Outside film, Anna Friel has starred in numerous British and American television series, such as The Jury, Pushing Daisies, 'Odyssey, The Girlfriend Experience, Butterfly, and Marcella.
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Anna Louise Friel was born on 12 July 1976 in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
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Anna Friel's mother Julie Bamford Friel was born on 1952 and is a special needs teacher.
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Anna Friel is a former French teacher and folk guitarist, who now owns a web design company.
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Anna Friel's brother Michael is a physician, who in his youth did television advertising work for Hovis.
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Anna Friel attended Crompton House School and later Holy Cross College.
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Anna Friel began her training as an actress at Oldham Theatre Workshop.
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Anna Friel played the role for two years, and was involved in some of the series' most famous plots, including the death of her on-screen father and a storyline featuring the first ever pre-nine-o'clock watershed lesbian kiss in British television history.
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In 1995, Anna Friel won a National Television Award in the category of Most Popular Actress for her work on Brookside.
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Anna Friel then played leading roles in small-screen adaptations of Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend and Robert Louis Stevenson's St Ives, and co-starred in several British films, such as The Land Girls, with Rachel Weisz; Rogue Trader, with Ewan McGregor; and Mad Cows, with Joanna Lumley.
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Anna Friel's Alice is both the nihilistic core of the play and its tender center, and the paradoxical mixture of toughness and fragility [she] brings to it are essential to the play's deepest truths.
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Later that year, Anna Friel won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play.
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In 2001, Anna Friel made her West End stage debut in an adaptation of Frank Wedekind's Lulu.
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Anna Friel starred in the Canadian film The War Bride, for which she received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress.
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Anna Friel's next starring role was in the television film Watermelon.
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Anna Friel was then cast as Attorney Megan Delaney in The Jury, an American legal drama series that ran on Fox for a single season in 2004.
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In 2007, Anna Friel was cast as lead character Charlotte "Chuck" Charles in Pushing Daisies, an American comedy-drama television series created by Bryan Fuller, which aired on ABC from 2007 to 2009.
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Subsequently, Anna Friel was offered six television roles during the following year's pilot season, but declined all of them in favour of focusing on her film career.
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Anna Friel was nominated for a Czech Lion Award for her performance.
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Anna Friel appeared nude in the production; an image of her nude scene, taken during a preview performance, ended up on the Internet, which prompted increased security at performances.
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In November 2009, Anna Friel received an RTS Award for her portrayal of a struggling single mother in the British drama series The Street.
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In 2010, Anna Friel appeared with Anthony Hopkins and Naomi Watts in the Woody Allen-directed comedy You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.
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In 2011, Anna Friel appeared as a fictionalised version of herself in an episode of the mockumentary series Come Fly with Me.
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Anna Friel then returned to the West End to play the role of Yelena in an adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, for which she received strong reviews.
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In September 2013, Anna Friel was cast alongside Kyle Chandler in the Showtime pilot The Vatican, directed by Ridley Scott.
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In 2015, Anna Friel was cast in the lead role of Sergeant Odelle Ballard in American Odyssey, which ran for a single season on the NBC network.
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Anna Friel starred in the acclaimed Norwegian miniseries The Heavy Water War, a drama set during World War II.
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In 2017, Anna Friel starred on the second season of The Girlfriend Experience, a drama series produced by Steven Soderbergh for the Starz network.
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Since 2016, Anna Friel has played the title role in the British "Nordic" noir detective series Marcella.
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Anna Friel won the International Emmy Award for Best Actress for her performance.
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In October 2018, Anna Friel starred as the parent of a transgender child in Butterfly.
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Anna Friel played Sharon Pici, a Kansas City detective, the lead role in The Box, which premiered on Viaplay on 28 November 2021.
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Anna Friel performed all of the songs her character sings, which includes a mixture of covers and originals, herself.
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Anna Friel has appeared as a cover girl for numerous magazines.
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In 2001, Anna Friel began a relationship with actor David Thewlis, after the pair met on a flight to Cannes.
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Later that year, Anna Friel collapsed and was rushed to a hospital, needing emergency surgery and two blood transfusions for a ruptured ovarian cyst.