1. Anne-Marie Duff is best known for her BAFTA nominated television roles in Shameless and The Virgin Queen, and her performance as Grace Williams in Bad Sisters, for which she won the Best Supporting Actress BAFTA in 2024.
20 Facts About Anne-Marie Duff
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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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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 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 the 2014 film Before I Go to Sleep.
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In 2016, Anne-Marie Duff was cast in an 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 was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2025 New Year Honours for services to drama.