Anne-Marie Duff made her breakthrough as Fiona Gallagher on the Channel 4 drama series Shameless and as Queen Elizabeth I in The Virgin Queen; both earned her BAFTA nominations for Best Actress.
23 Facts About Anne-Marie Duff
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Anne-Marie Duff was awarded the BAFTA Cymru Award for Best Actress for her work in the 2007 television film The History of Mr Polly.
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In film, Anne-Marie Duff has had roles in Enigma, The Magdalene Sisters, Notes on a Scandal, French Film, The Last Station and Nowhere Boy, alongside Shameless co-star David Threlfall; the latter earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
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Anne-Marie Duff later appeared in Before I Go to Sleep and Suffragette.
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Anne-Marie Duff was born in London on 8 October 1970, the youngest of two children of Irish immigrants: her father, a painter and decorator at Fuller's Brewery in Chiswick, was from County Meath and her mother was from County Donegal and worked in a shoe shop.
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The family lived in Southall, London, and Anne-Marie Duff attended Mellow Lane School.
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Anne-Marie Duff paid for singing lessons with a woman who taught classical singing, who made a huge impact.
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Anne-Marie Duff initially thought about pursuing a career as a singer and talked about it in great depth with her teacher, who looked at her and said, 'I think you have the soul of an actor.
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Anne-Marie Duff later made appearances in series such as Amongst Women, in Aristocrats as Lady Louisa Lennox and in 2003 BBC television film Charles II: The Power and the Passion as Henrietta of England.
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Anne-Marie Duff first came to the attention of the British public in 2002 for her work playing Margaret in The Magdalene Sisters.
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Anne-Marie Duff had a minor role in Holby City as Alison McCarthy.
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Anne-Marie Duff played Holly in the first series of Simon Nye sitcom, Wild West, alongside Dawn French and Catherine Tate in 2002.
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In 2002, Anne-Marie Duff appeared in her first major film role as Margaret McGuire in The Magdalene Sisters.
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In 2009, Anne-Marie Duff received further attention when she played the mother of John Lennon, Julia Stanley, a role for which she won British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress in Nowhere Boy.
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Anne-Marie Duff appeared in The Last Station, a biopic about Leo Tolstoy's later years, in which she played his devoted daughter Sasha.
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Anne-Marie Duff appeared in less known film roles following this before her appearance in 2014 film Before I Go to Sleep.
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In 2016, Anne-Marie Duff was cast in a new BBC animated miniseries of Watership Down, alongside her former husband James McAvoy.
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In 2019, Anne-Marie Duff appeared with McAvoy in the BBC One and HBO adaption of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials.
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Anne-Marie Duff later returned to the role for the third season.
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In June 2020, Anne-Marie Duff appeared in a main role as Tracy Daszkiewicz in three-part drama The Salisbury Poisonings.
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Anne-Marie Duff was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award in 2000.
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Anne-Marie Duff married Scottish actor James McAvoy in 2006, and gave birth to their son in 2010.
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Anne-Marie Duff's father called her by the nickname Smudge when she was growing up.