Anna Friel
Anna Friel
Anna Louise Frielis an English actress. Born in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, she has been acting since the age of 13, appearing in a number of British television programmes. She played Beth Jordache in the Channel 4 soap Brookside, and portrayed the first lesbian kiss in a British soap opera in January 1994. She made her West End theatre début in London in 2001 and has subsequently appeared in several productions, including in an adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's and...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth12 July 1976
CityRochdale, England
If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?
People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.
I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.
I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.
I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.
But Americans find me bizarre and always ask me why I eat so many carbs. I tell them I don't get full otherwise.
I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited.
I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.
Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.
Any scene that involves stripping off is hell. You just know it's going to take a day or more to get it right. It never gets any better and it's always uncomfortable, and all you can do is grin and bare it. I just pray it's never gratuitous and that it doesn't look so fake that all you hear in the audience is, 'Well, that's not really her, is it?'
Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.
I've never been onstage in my life.
Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.
When I'm working, it's those actors (you know who you are) who sit around moaning that their trailer isn't big enough, or how bad their facilities are. I can't be doing with any of that, I just like to get on with it.