The Best Of Anna Friel (20 titles)

Here is a list of my favourite films and tv shows starring Anna Friel.

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Described as a "forensic fairy tale", Pushing Daisies is about Ned a pie-maker with the power to bring the dead back to life. Anna plays Charlotte "Chuck" Charles who is Ned's childhood sweetheart who was murdered, so Ned brings her but back to life.

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Pushing Daisies - Season 1 (3 discs) on DVD (2007)
Starring: Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld, Paul A. Edwards, Adam Kane
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The story follows Ned (Lee Pace), who discovered as a boy he could bring the dead back to life. As an adult he is now a pie maker and not only uses this gift to ripen fruit for his pies but also solve murders alongside a private investigator. The tale then gets complicated as he brings his ..read more »

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Pushing Daisies - Season 2

Anna plays Charlotte "Chuck" Charles who is Ned's childhood sweetheart who was murdered, so Ned brings her but back to life.

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Pushing Daisies - Season 2 (4 discs) on DVD (2008)
Starring: Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride
Director: Adam Kane, Lawrence Trilling, Peter O'Fallon
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From a young age, Ned demonstrated a remarkable ability for raising the dead with a single touch. The only drawback to this seemingly miraculous gift is that a second touch from him would render them permanently dead. When a private investigator spots Ned's peculiar talent, he enlists him to help ..read more »

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Mad Cows

Anna stars as Maddy, a feisty single mother from Australia with few friends in the world, apart from the fabulous Gillian played Joanna Lumley.

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Mad Cows on DVD (1999)
Starring: Joanna Lumley, Anna Friel, Greg Wise
Director: Sarah Sugarman
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In MAD COWS, Anna Friel stars as Maddy, a feisty single mother from Australia with few friends in the world, apart from the fabulous Gillian (Joanna Lumley). While searching for her baby's father, the irresponsible Alex (Greg Wise), Maddy is nabbed for unwittingly stealing a bag of frozen peas from ..read more »

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Irish Jam

Anna Friel plays the part of Maureen Duffy.

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Irish Jam on DVD (2005)
Starring: Eddie Griffin, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Anna Friel
Director: John Eyres
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A South Central, LA con-artist (Eddie Griffin) finds that his rhyming skills can pay off in the least likely of venues after winning a poetry contest staged by a financially strapped Irish town.

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Niagara Motel

Niagara Motel features its namesake and the ongoings amongst the inhabitants of the motel located in Niagara Falls. Anna plays the part of Denise.

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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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All For Love

In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the prison's commander, Major Farquar Bolingbroke Chevening, asks for lessons in communicating with women. Both men have their eyes on the lovely Flora played by Anna, who resides with her aunt, the iconoclastic and well-traveled Miss Susan Emily Gilcrist.

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All For Love on DVD (1999)
Starring: Miranda Richardson, Richard E. Grant, Anna Friel
Director: Harry Hook
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Starring Miranda Richardson (Blackadder), Anna Friel (Our Mutual Friend), Richard E Grant (Bright Young Things), Tim Dutton (The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries). Based on the novel by Robert Louis Stephenson, St. Ives. Filmed on location in Ireland and Germany. Originally broadcast on BBC One in 1999 ..read more »

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Bathory

Anna plays the part of Elizabeth Bathory. The film is based on the story of Elizabeth Bathory (Erzsebet Bathory), a 16th/17th century Hungarian countess.

Bathory
Starring: Anna Friel, Karel Roden, Hans Matheson
Director: Juraj Jakubisko
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Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind.

Rate this: 64% from 17 members

An Everlasting Piece

The film follows two wig salesmen, one Catholic and one Protestant, who live in war torn Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the mid-'80s. Anna plays the part of Bronagh.

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An Everlasting Piece on DVD (2000)
Starring: Brian F. O'Byrne, Anna Friel, Billy Connolly
Director: Barry Levinson
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In the tradition of Waking Ned, An Everlasting Piece is a wicked and witty original comedy from director Barry Levinson. Set against the turbulent backdrop of Belfast in the 1980s, the Catholic Colm (Barry McEvoy) and Protestant George (Brian F. O’Byrne) convince a criminally insane wig salesman ..read more »

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Watermelon

Anna plays the part of Claire Ryan. It is a lighthearted Irish drama following the troubles of a young couple when the man discovers that his beloved is carrying another man's baby.

Watermelon on DVD
Starring: Jamie Draven, Des Cave, Brenda Fricker
Director: Kieron J. Walsh
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After being dumped by her boyfriend soon after she moved to London, Claire begins a relationship with a man who helped her get a job. However, she discovers she's pregnant.

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The Tribe

Anna plays Lizzie in The Tribe.

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.

Rate this: 58% from 18 members