Anna Friel, Actress, - Biography
Actress,
Height 5 foot 2 (1.57 M)
born 12 July
1976, Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
Friel's acting career took off
when she played the role of Beth Jordache on the British Channel 4 soap opera,
Brookside from 1993-1995; she created a piece of British television history with
British TV's first pre-watershed lesbian kiss. . In 1995, Friel won the National
Television Award for Most popular actress for her work on Brookside.
In 1998, Friel courted further controversy when she appeared in the television film The Tribe by Stephen Poliakoff, which became most memorable for it's nudity & a much discussed menage-a-trois sex scene between characters played by Friel, Jonathan Rhys Meyers & Jeremy Northam.
In 1998, Friel appeared in the original broadway run of Closer by Patrick Marber at the Music Box Theatre to much acclaim, winning Drama Desk & Theatre World awards for her turn as Alice & in 2001, Friel made her West End stage debut in a fringe production of Lulu.
Her film credits include Rogue Trader opposite Ewan McGregor, David Leland's The Land Girls, which also starred Rachel Weisz & Catherine McCormack, All For Love with Richard E. Grant, A Midsummer Night's Dream with Michelle Pfeiffer, Timeline, Me Without You opposite Michelle Williams & Goal! & Goal! 2.
Friel's television work includes the short lived The Jury for the Fox Network & ITV1's Watermelon which was based on the novel by Marian Keyes. She will shortly be seen in Pushing daisies, a new pilot for the 2007 season on the American network ABC.
In November 2006 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Bolton for contributions to the performing arts.
She has recently been seen as the face of Pantene Pro-V Ice shine in the UK, appearing in both television commercials & print advertising, Friel has also previously appeared in commercials for 3 Mobile & Virgin Atlantic.
According to press reports, she narrowly missed out on the role of Jenny Everdeane in Gangs Of New York to Cameron Diaz. She will shortly be seen as Elizabeth Bathory in Bathory & in Angel Makers opposite Helen Mirren.
Once engaged to Darren Day, & having been
a girlfriend of Robbie Williams, she is currently living with her actor boyfriend
David Thewlis. Their daughter, Gracie, was born on 9 July 2005, in London. They
currently divide their time between Los Angeles & Windsor, Berkshire.
Friel
studied for her GCSEs at Crompton House School, in Shaw & Crompton, Greater
Manchester.
Written in April 2007
Pictures of Anna Friel . Her name is not spelt Anna Firel, Anna Freil, or Ann Friel, or Ana Friel, or Anna Freel,
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