Anna Friel
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Anna Friel (born 12 July, 1976) is an English actress born in Rochdale.
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Acting career
Friel's acting career took off when she played the role of Beth Jordache on the British Channel 4 soap opera, Brookside; she created a piece of British television history with British TV's first pre-watershed lesbian kiss . After leaving Brookside she appeared for a spell on Broadway in the play Closer.
Since then, she has appeared in films such as Rogue Trader opposite Ewan McGregor, David Leland's The Land Girls, which also starred Rachel Weisz and Catherine McCormack, All For Love with Richard E. Grant, and A Midsummer Night's Dream with Michelle Pfeiffer.
In November 2006 she was awarded an Honorary degree by the University of Bolton for contributions to the performing arts.
Selected filmography
- Goal!2 (2007) (awaiting release)
- Goal! (film)|Goal! (2005)
- The Jury (TV series)|The Jury (2004) (Fox Network)
- Timeline (film)|Timeline (2003)
- Me Without You (film)|Me Without You (2001)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999 film)|A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
- Rogue Trader (book)|Rogue Trader (1999)
- The Land Girls (film)|The Land Girls (1998)
- Brookside (1993 - 1995) (Channel 4)
Personal life
Once engaged to Darren Day, and 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.
Friel studied for her GCSEs at Crompton House School, in Shaw and Crompton, Oldham.
