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"I've only just started to think that I can make a career out of this. At the end of my time in Brookside, I wondered if I'd ever work again."

::Biography::

First experiences of acting: Performed in 8 productions for the Oldham Theatre Workshop. Also appeared at Liverpool Empire, Oldham Colliseum, Duke Of York.

Television: In Their Shoes, 8:15 From Manchester, GBH, Coronation Street, Going Live, In Suspicious Circumstances, Medics, Brookside, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Holiday Programme, Cadfael, You Drive Me, Tales From The Crypt, Our Mutual Friend, The Fear, Fields of Gold, Watermelon (in production).

Films: The Tribe, The Land Girls, St Ives (All For Love), The Stringer, Rogue Trader, Mad Cows, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Sunset Strip, An Everlasting Piece, The War Bride, Me Without You, TimeLine (in production)

Plays: Look Europe (London), Closer (Broadway), Lulu (London & Washington)

Awards: 1994 Best Newcomer (TV Quick Magazine)
1995 Best Actress (TV Times Awards)
1995 Best Actress (Smash Hits Poll Winners)
1999 Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (Drama Desk Award ) - for "Closer" on Broadway, New York.


(Closer's additional Broadway Production Awards were: Best Play - 1999 Tony Award® Nomination, Special Achievement Award to the cast of CLOSER for Ensemble Performance - 1999 Outer Circle Critics' Award, Best Foreign Play - New York Drama Critics' Circle Award 1999 )
(Our Mutual Friend (BBC) won 4 BAFTAs in 1999 for Design, Make Up/Hair, Sound and Best Drama Serial as well as being nominated for 5 other Awards. The series also won the 1998 Royal TV Society Award for Best Production Design & Drama, 2 1999 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards (Best Actor & Drama Serial) and the 1999 San Francisco International Film Festival Certificate of Merit for TV Drama Series.)



::DISCLAIMER::
[I am not Anna Friel, nor am I associated with her in any way! The is simply a role-playing game.]

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