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Anna Friel
Anna Louise Friel was born on the 12th July 1976 in Rochdale in Lancashire.
Her first appearance was in G.B.H. as Susan Nelson alongside Robert Lindsay, Michael Palin, Lindsay Duncan and Julie Walters, Emmerdale as Poppy Bruce, Medics as Holly Jarrett and Brookside as Beth Jordache.
Other roles include The Imaginatively Titled Punt & Dennis Show, Tales from the Crypt as Angelica and in Cadfael - The Complete Series 2 in the episode called A Morbid Taste for Bones as Sioned alongside Derek Jacobi and in the film called The Land Girls as Prue (Prudence) with Catherine McCormack and Rachel Weisz.
Other roles include Our Mutual Friend as Bella Wilfer with Paul McGann, The Stringer as Helen, The Tribe as Lizzie opposite Joely Richardson and Jeremy Northam and in St. Ives also known as All For Love as Flora Gilchrist alongside Miranda Richardson, Richard E Grant and Jean-Marc Barr.
Anna has appeared in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream as Hermia with Michelle Pfeiffer, Calista Flockhart, Kevin Kline and Rupert Everett, Rogue Trader as Lisa Leeson opposite Ewan McGregor and Yves Beneyton, Mad Cows as Maddy alongside Joanna Lumley and Greg Wise and in Sunset Strip as Tammy Franklin.
Another role was in An Everlasting Piece as Bronagh with Billy Connolly, Des McAleer, Barry McEvoy and Brían F. O'Byrne.
She has also starred in The Fear as the Storyteller, The War Bride as Lily with Brenda Fricker and Molly Parker, Me Without You as Marina opposite Kyle MacLachlan and Michelle Williams, Fields of Gold as Lucia Merritt and in Watermelon as Claire Ryan alongside Jamie Draven, Des Cave and Brenda Fricker.
She has voiced the part of Bodney in Last Rumba in Rochdale and appeared in Timeline as Lady Claire with Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor and Gerard Butler,
Perfect Strangers as Susie Wilding opposite Rob Lowe and Khandi Alexander and in Irish Jam as Maureen alongside Eddie Griffin and Roger Ashton-Griffiths.
Other roles include Goal! and Goal 2 - Living the Dream as Roz Harmison with Kuno Becker, Frances Barber, Mike Jefferies and Alessandro Nivola and also in Land of the Lost as Holly opposite Will Ferrell and Danny R. McBride.
Anna has starred in Niagara Motel as Denise opposite Craig Ferguson and Kevin Pollak, Rubbish as Isobel, Angel Makers as Lizzie and in Bathory as Countess Erszébet Bathory alongside Karel Roden and Hans Matheson.
She is perhaps notably known however for playing the part of Charlotte "Chuck" Charles in Pushing Daisies - Season 1 and Pushing Daisies - Season 2 with Chi McBride and Lee Pace.
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Friel wants Wonder Woman role -
11 June 2009
-Actress Anna Friel has added her name to the list of actresses competing to portray Wonder Woman on the big screen.-
-A host of A-list ladies have been tipped to take over from 1970s TV's Wonder Woman Lynda Carter in Joss Whedon's big screen remake, including Megan
Anna Friel - what members say
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worth watching 1 November 2004
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A Coming of age tale you really should see 6 February 2004
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War is hell...and so are families 7 March 2004
Anna Friel - filmography
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The Look of Love - Blu-ray
(2013)
Starring: Steve Coogan, Anna Friel, Tamsin Egerton
Director: Michael Winterbottom
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From director Michael Winterbottom comes the sexy, funny and outrageously true story of Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan), the controversial entrepreneur and property baron who established the Raymond Revue Bar in the 50Â’s and went on to become BritainÂ’s richest man by the early 90Â’s. THE LOOK OF LOVE is ..read more »
 
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The Look of Love
(2013)
Starring: Steve Coogan, Anna Friel, Tamsin Egerton
Director: Michael Winterbottom
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From director Michael Winterbottom comes the sexy, funny and outrageously true story of Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan), the controversial entrepreneur and property baron who established the Raymond Revue Bar in the 50Â’s and went on to become BritainÂ’s richest man by the early 90Â’s. THE LOOK OF LOVE is ..read more »
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Public Enemies
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Anna Friel, Daniel Mays
Director: Dearbhla Walsh
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"Public Enemies" is a drama about a probation officer, Paula Radnor (played by Anna Friel), suspended from her job when an ex-murder kills again on her watch.
Upon her return, she has to supervise Eddie Mottram (Daniel Mays), who has been released after serving ten years for the murder of his ..read more »
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Neverland - The Complete Series
(2011)
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Keira Knightley, Brandon Robinson
Director: Nick Willing
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Charlie Rowe, Rhys Ifans and Anna Friel star in this TV fantasy adventure, which explores a new beginning to the origins of J.M. Barrie's classic children's story. Scraping a living on the streets of Victorian London, orphan Peter (Rowe) and his pickpocket friends find themselves transported to a ..read more »
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Without You
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Anna Friel, Marc Warren, Marc Warren
Director: Tim Fywell
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Anna Friel stars as schoolteacher Ellie Manning, happily married to accountant Greg, with whom she is eager to start a new family. However, EllieÂ’s plans for a romantic dinner at home with her husband one evening are shattered when the police arrive to inform her Greg has been killed in an horrific ..read more »
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Limitless
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish
Director: Neil Burger
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A paranoia-fuelled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic ..read more »
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Limitless - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish
Director: Neil Burger
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A copywriter discovers a top-secret drug, MDT-48, that enhances intellect and other abilities. As his usage begins to change his life, he begins to consider the drug's shadowy origins; meanwhile, a group of killers trail his every move.
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Neverland - The Complete Series - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Rhys Ifans, Anna Friel, Charles Dance
Director: Nick Willing
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Neverland reveals the never-before-told story of how Peter Pan became the Boy Who Never Grew Up. It's an enthralling fantasy adventure for all of the family, starring Rhys Ifans, Anna Friel, Charles Dance, Bob Hoskins, with Charlie Rowe as Peter and Keira Knightley as the voice of Tinker Bell.
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Land of the Lost
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Ben Best, John Boylan, Will Ferrell
Director: James L. Henderson, Brad Silberling
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Space-time vortexes suck. Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into one and spat back through time. Way back. Now, Marshall has no weapons, few skills and questionable smarts to survive in an alternate universe full of marauding dinosaurs and fantastic creatures from beyond our world--a place of spectacular ..read more »
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The Street - Series 3 - Complete
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Timothy Spall, Anna Friel, Bob Hoskins
Director: David Blair
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From acclaimed writer Jimmy McGovern (Cracker, Hillsborough, Priest) The Street follows the lives and passions of neighbours in a North of England street.
This BAFTA, RTS and International Emmy award winning drama sees Timothy Spall reprise his role and will be joined by an all new cast featuring ..read more »
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Pushing Daisies - Series 2 - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Ellen Greene, Chi McBride, Swoosie Kurtz
Director: Peter O'Fallon, Adam Kane, Lawrence Trilling
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All 13 episodes from the second season of the American comic fantasy series starring Lee Pace and Anna Friel, about a man who helps solve murder mysteries by using his ability to bring people back from the dead. Episodes are: 'Bzzzzzzzzz!', 'Circus, Circus', 'Bad Habits', 'Frescorts', 'Dim Sum Lose ..read more »
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Bathory - The Countess of Blood
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Michaela Drotárová, Karel Roden, Vincent Regan
Director: Juraj Jakubisko
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Slovak filmmaker Juraj Jakubisko directs this English-language historical drama based on the legend of 16th-century Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory. Bathory, who became famous for supposedly bathing in the blood of virgins in a bid to preserve her youth and beauty, has even been included in ..read more »
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Pushing Daisies - Season 2
(4 discs)
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Ellen Greene, Chi McBride, Swoosie Kurtz
Director: Peter O'Fallon, Adam Kane, Lawrence Trilling
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All 13 episodes from the second season of the American comic fantasy series starring Lee Pace and Anna Friel, about a man who helps solve murder mysteries by using his ability to bring people back from the dead. Episodes are: 'Bzzzzzzzzz!', 'Circus, Circus', 'Bad Habits', 'Frescorts', 'Dim Sum Lose ..read more »
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Goal!
(2005)
Starring: Cassandra Bell, Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola
Director: Danny Cannon
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Sporting drama starring Kuno Becker. When Santiago Munez (Becker) crossed the Mexican border into America at the age of 10, he had two things in his possession: his football and a tattered picture of the World Cup. Working menial jobs while growing up in Los Angeles, Santiago's passion was playing ..read more »
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Niagara Motel
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Anna Friel, Craig Ferguson, Kevin Pollak
Director: Gary Yates
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Eight people, each struggling with a personal crisis, all cross paths at the honeymoon town of Niagara Falls. Although the town is a romantic destination for newlyweds and a symbol of beginnings, promise and potential, this is just not the case here...
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Irish Jam
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Togo Igawa, Tom Georgeson, Roger Ashton-Griffiths
Director: John Eyres
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Comedy starring Eddie Griffin. Upon discovering that their village is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest with a tempting grand prize - the deed to their local pub. But what could happen when a duplicitous American rapper (..read more »
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Timeline
(2003)
Starring: Paul Walker, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly
Director: Richard Donner
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Set in France in the near future. A group of students from Yale are studying a medieval site when their professor (Billy Connolly) goes mysteriously missing. They are told by Robert Doniger (David Thewlis) that the professor is trapped in 14th century France. In order to rescue him, two of the ..read more »
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Watermelon
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Sean McGinley, Ciaran McMenamin, Elaine Cassidy
Director: Kieron J. Walsh
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Television drama based on the novel by Marian Keyes. Claire Ryan (Anna Friel), a young woman with a strange relationship to the truth, is left literally holding the baby when her doting, not to mention gorgeous, boyfriend James (Jamie Draven) discovers that the child he thought was his is actually ..read more »
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Me Without You
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Oliver Milburn, Michelle Williams, Kyle MacLachlan
Director: Sandra Goldbacher
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Marina (Anna Friel) and Holly (Michelle Williams) are two best friends growing up in the London suburbs of the 1970s. As teenagers they experiment with drugs and boys, their close bond seeing them through all kinds of trouble. When they later attend university together, and both begin sleeping with ..read more »
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The War Bride
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Aden Young, Molly Parker, Brenda Fricker
Director: Lyndon Chubbuck
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In London at the height of the Blitz, Lily (Anna Friel) falls in love with, and marries, Charlie (Aden Young), a visiting Canadian soldier who is soon shipped off to fight on the Continent. After he leaves, Lily discovers that she is carrying his child and embarks on a journey across the Atlantic ..read more »
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An Everlasting Piece
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Desmond McAleer, Brian F. O'Byrne, Billy Connolly
Director: Barry Levinson
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Belfast, the 1980s. Protestant George (Brian F. O'Byrne) and Catholic Colm (Barry McEvoy) try to overcome their religious differences when they come up with a sure-fire money-making idea. They will get insane wig salesman 'The Scalper' (Billy Connolly) to give them insider information on the wig ..read more »
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Rogue Trader
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Yves Beneyton, Caroline Langrishe
Director: James Dearden
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Based on the true events of 1995, when Englishman Nick Leeson (Ewan McGregor) caused the downfall of Baring Banks through his siphoning of funds, which he had injudiciously traded on the Singapore International Money Exchange. The film follows Leeson, the son of a Watford plasterer, as he ..read more »
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Mad Cows
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Joanna Lumley, Phyllida Law, Greg Wise
Director: Sarah Sugarman
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Maddy (Anna Friel) is an Australian in London, trying to track down the feckless father of her baby boy. Her quest takes an unexpected turn when she is thrown in prison for stealing a bag of peas from Harrods. A plot is hatched between Maddy, her best friend Gillian (Joanna Lumley) and the prison ..read more »
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All For Love
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Jason Isaacs, Miranda Richardson, Tim Dutton
Director: Harry Hook
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Period drama based on an unfinished short story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Set during the Napoleonic wars, the film stars Jean-Marc Barr as Captain Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar who is captured and sent to a prison camp in Scotland, commanded by Major Chevening (Richard E. Grant). Both St. Ives and ..read more »
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The Tribe
(1998)
Starring: Joely Richardson, Jeremy Northam, Anna Friel
Director: Stephen Poliakoff
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Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they slowly drag him into their dark underworld of bizarre rituals and dangerous liaisons.
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The Land Girls
(1998)
Starring: Tom Georgeson, Catherine McCormack, Steven Mackintosh
Director: David Leland
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Whilst the men are sent abroad to battle against Hitler's army, England's women are left to do their bit on the homefront. In 1944, three young women - Stella (Catherine McCormack), Ag (Rachel Weisz) and Prue (Anna Friel) - are sent to work on a Dorset farm, where they are forced into an ..read more »
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...I enjoyed this, if somewhat predictable, film. Anna Friel appears to thrive in this type of role. I think they glam'ed up the Land Girls part played during the war, the f...
