ANNA FRIEL
Updated 05-May-2020.
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Anna Friel – IMDb: Anna Friel, Actress: Land of the Lost. Anna Friel is an English actress, born in Rochdale. She has been acting since the age of 13, appearing in a number of British television programmes. She made her West End stage debut in London in 2001, and has subsequently appeared on stage in several productions, including an adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and as Yelena in a 2012 production…
International Emmy Awards: Kenneth Branagh, Anna Friel Among Winners – Complete List: The winners for the 45th annual International Emmy Awards were announced tonight, with Kenneth Branagh winning Best Actor for his role in Wallander and Anna Friel taking Best Actress for Marcella. …
Anna Friel – IMDb: Anna Friel on IMDb: Awards, nominations, and wins
Post-natal confession: She has dined with Madonna, been propositioned by Jack Nicholson and now has the most hotly debated figure of any new mother in Britain. But will Anna Friel ever be allowed to forget Brookside? In her first interview since giving birth, the actress talks to Marianne Macdonald.
SHOCK! Anna Friel and David Thewlis split – CelebsNow: Anna Friel has called time on her nine-year relationship
Anna Friel ‘shocked’ by her success as oil firm pulls out of Congo park: Campaigner and actress warns that gorillas may still not be safe in troubled nature reserve
Classic Football Adverts: Reebok Spluff £3m To Employ Cavalcade Of Nineties Pop Culture Royalty For ‘Theatre Of Dreams’ Commercial, 1998 (Video) | Who Ate all the Pies: While their presence in the football realm has waned since, Reebok were a big player on the scene throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, with Ryan Giggs, Dennis Bergkamp and Thierry Henry just three notable patrons. Indeed, the brand went big in an effort to launch their new Sidewinder boot in 1998, assembling a cornucopia of Nineties’ pop culture icons as Robbie Williams, Anna Friel, Sting, Reeves & Mortimer, Jarvis Cocker, Darling Dicky Attenborough, David Mellor, Tom Jones, Steven Berkoff, Sylvester McCoy, Jose Carreras, Chris Eubank, Warren Mitchell and Wallace & Gromit all playing their respective parts. Oh, and George Best too. As you might expect, the ‘Theatre of Dreams’ advert was an absolute nightmare to make, taking Reebok over 18 months and £3million to shoot (source: Campaign) despite only being 90 seconds long. The celebrities involved all volunteered their time for a nominal fee, with a donation made to children’s charity Barnados on their various behalves. Still,
Forget pink dresses – this is what matters most in ITV’s drama Butterfly: Butterfly. An ordinary everyday tale of trans yoof. Boy identifies as girl. Mum and Dad fall out. Local teen bullies call boy gay. Because that’s what bullies do. Drama. Pathos. Preconceptions challenged. Sorted. Except it’s not an everyday story. Not at all. Because despite the ubiquity of trans in the media, and in some edgier cinema, this – what happens when a child does identify as trans – has not aired much in the mainstream. And given how much the media likes to opine on trans kids, something, anything that opens the issue up is positive. What did I like? Most of it. As a good friend (well, an ex) put it the day after, one of the best things was how Butterfly contextualised and simplified in a way that abstract “debate” and inquiry does not. Children may challenge the identity assigned them in many ways. That includes gender. We know that not all gender-questioning kids go on to be trans. But we do know that many, perhaps most, trans people were once gender-questioning kids (even if many hid it from parents). So the best advice is to affirm. Let the child be, and over time they will sort themselves out. Either they are trans or they are not. It’s not a game in which one transitioner more or less is gain or loss. It’s about giving a child space to explore and arrive where they need to arrive. The show got that across, albeit in the context of a supportive mental health services appointment that is unlikely to have materialised quite so speedily in real life. The average time a gender-questioning child has to wait for their first gender clinic appointment is two years. At the same time, mental health services for children have been gutted. Support for – let alone awareness of – puberty blockers at this stage is unlikely. It’s best practice in many countries: but there is little evidence that best practice has yet infiltrated the NHS. Still, dramatic licence permits, along with a need to set the audience up for what I suspect will be future developments. New tropes were emerging by the minute. A sterling performance from Anna Friel as Mum Vicky, racked by guilt and asking if her child’s condition was her fault. Dad Stephen (Emmett Scanlan) alternates sensitivity with trying to bully the trans out of his “son”. Hackles up whenever Dad is on screen? Check! So I guess he nailed it. Lovely sister, Lily (Millie Gibson), gets it the way others don’t: since Sunday she is officially the sister almost every trans person in the UK wishes they’d had. And then there is Max – shy Max/Maxine – who lights up when allowed to be the girl she knows she is, captured perfectly by Callum Booth-Ford. Despite this, on social media, the anti-trans brigade – and Mumsnet, natch – still didn’t get it. In one scene, Max wore pink. In another she joined in dancing with the girls. This elicited (I paraphrase) an oh-so-sympathetic: “It’s come to something if a boy can’t wear pink and enjoy dancing without our insisting on lopping his dick off.” Were these people watching the same show? Because for trans folk everywhere, two lines resonated above all: a hushed, near inaudible comment by Max that she belonged with the girls. And a tearful admission that she “didn’t want to” (transition). But she “had to”. The point? Max is trans, which here may manifest in clothes and dance. But that’s not why she is trans. Those are but symptoms… and reading it the other way round puts the motivation back to front. Take when Max expresses distress at having a penis. Because this rejection of body – not an obsession with fashion – is at the core of transness. At least, binary transness. We may have to wait a while for the non-binary equivalent of Butterfly. But as a first outing on a topic that will obsess the commentariat for weeks to come, this was not bad. Serious. Tear-making. Even a dash of humour. Did the directors really intend the stone-faced grandma who dismissed Max’s transness as “a phase he’ll grow out of” to resemble Germaine Greer? Or is that just my warped imagining? I have no idea. Though I do know I am now waiting eagerly the next episode of Butterfly on Sunday 24 October.
‘Marcella’ Coming Back for Netflix and ITV (EXCLUSIVE): Anna Friel will return for a third season of “Marcella” on Netflix and ITV, after a new season of the show got the green light. Friel won an international Emmy for playing the title character in th…
Marcella star Anna Friel: “I like to tackle controversial things”: The actress discusses the return of Marcella, occupational hazards and why she nearly pulled out of playing the detective
Saboteurs review – complex drama of wartime nuclear collaboration: A new mini-series starring Anna Friel dramatises the Nazis’ attempts to build a nuclear weapon – and the Allies’ desperate struggle to stop them
Showtime casts Anna Friel in ‘The Vatican’: Pushing Daisies star Anna Friel will play the younger sister of a cardinal in The Vatican, a drama pilot in the works at Showtime that’s…
Uncle Vanya, Vaudeville Theatre: review: Ken Stott and Anna Friel star in Lindsay Posner’s joyfully depressing revival of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya, Vaudeville Theatre, review: Charles Spencer reviews Anna Friel, Sam West and Ken Stott in Uncle Vanya at the Vaudeville theatre in the West End.
Without You, ITV1, review: Helen Brown reviews Without You, ITV1’s new drama starring Anna Friel.
Rewind TV – Without You; Come Date With Me; The Great British Property Scandal; Black Mirror; After Life: The Strange Science of Decay – review: Anna Friel excelled in ITV1’s gripping new thriller Without You while Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror raised the darkest of laughs, writes Euan Ferguson
Breakfast at Tiffany’s ban on taking pictures of Anna Friel: Theatre staff at the West End production of Breakfast at Tiffany’s have been ordered to confiscate mobile phones from audience members attempting to take covert pictures of its star, Anna Friel, in the nude.
Anna Friel’s ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ nude scene causing a stir | IrishCentral.com: Actress Anna Friel’s nude scene in the West End production of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is causing quite a stir.
Anna Friel: ‘My daughter didn’t ask to be from a broken home’: Actress Anna Friel on her complex family life, boyfriend Rhys Ifans, broodiness and her gritty new TV drama.
Anna Friel ‘terrified’ for first lesbian sex scene in 23 years: Anna Friel is appearing in her first lesbian sex scene in more than two decades – and she’s terrified.
Anna Friel: Lipstick thespian: It was a few hours after I interviewed her that I understood the full meaning of Anna Friel. She’d been thinner and brighter and more energetic than I’d expected, and she’d smoked a lot of cigarettes. She had short hair and glasses. She kept trying to pin herself down, but couldn’t; her main subject matter was change. She is young; her life is all about learning new things. She was extremely friendly; there was nothing cold or snobbish about her. She kept laughing, often at herself. These things were important, but they were not the full meaning. Afterwards, I met a friend, and lapsed into afternoon drinking; later that evening, shabby and slurred, I called my girlfriend.
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Anna Louise Friel (born 12 July 1976) is an english actress . born in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, she has been acting professionally since age 13 . she achieved fame with her portrayal of Beth Jordache outside of film, Friel has starred in numerous British and American television series . her stage work includes Patrick marber’s Closer (Broadway, 1999) her mother Julie (née Bamford) is a special her father, Desmond “Des” Friel, was born in Belfast and raised in County Donegal, Ireland . he is a former French teacher and folk guitarist, who now owns a web design company in 1992, she was cast as Beth Jordache on the channel 4 soap opera Brookside . she played the role for two years, and was involved in some of the series’ most famous plots . “for a in 1995, Friel won a National Television Award in the category of Most Popular Actress for her work on Brookside . Upon leaving the show, she was cast in an episode of Tales from the Crypt alongside Friel made her Broadway debut in a production of Patrick Marber’s Closer . the show was applauded by critics, many of whom mentioned her as a highlight . Friel won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a play . her film appearances included lead roles in an everlasting piece (2000) and Sunset Strip (2000) . she played Gerard Butler’s love Friel’s next starring role was in the television film Watermelon (2003) . she was then cast as Attorney Megan Delaney in the jury, an american legal drama series that ran on Fox for a single the following year, she starred in the Canadian film Niagara Motel . she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the university of bolton for contributions to the performing arts . in 2007, she was cast as lead character Charlotte “Ch friel was nominated for a Czech Lion Award for her performance . she returned to the west end in an adaptation of Truman capote’s breakfast at Tiffany’s . photos from a preview performance of in 2011, she appeared as a fictionalised version of herself in an episode of the mockumentary series Come Fly with Me . that same year, she earned critical acclaim with her performance in the ITV drama Without You next, she had leading roles in four films: Urban and the Shed Crew (2015), based on non-fiction book . in September 2013, she was cast alongside Kyle Chandler in the showtime pilot The Vatican . in 2017, Friel starred on the second season of The Girlfriend Experience . she was nominated for a bta for her performance in the six-part BBC drama Broken . since 2016, she has played the title in 2018, it was announced that the series would return for a third season . in October 2018, she starred as the parent of a transgender child in Butterfly . ‘people have so many comments and opinions, but they actually can be somewhat ill-informed,’ she said . in 2010, she starred as a chess player in the music video for the Manic Street Pre Gracie Ellen Mary Friel was an ambassador for the WWF wildlife charity . she collapsed and needed emergency surgery for a ruptured ovarian cyst . despite this, she became pregnant and gave birth to a In December 2010, Friel and Thewlis separated after almost ten years together .