Anna Friel
Biography
Anna Friel is an English actress who began her professional career as a teenager in the 1991 miniseries G.B.H. and gained fame as Beth Jordache on the soap opera Brookside, a role that brought her a National Television Award in 1995. She made her feature film debut in The Land Girls (1998) and went on to appear in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999), Me Without You (2001), Timeline (2003), Goal! The Dream Begins (2005), Bathory: Countess of Blood (2008), Land of the Lost (2009), Limitless (2011), Books of Blood (2020), and Charming the Hearts of Men (2021). On television, she starred as Charlotte Charles on Pushing Daisies, earning a Golden Globe nomination, and later played the title character in the detective series Marcella, winning an International Emmy Award for Best Actress. Her stage work includes a Broadway debut in Closer, for which she won a Drama Desk Award.
50years old
Turns 51 on July 12in 273 days
- Born Rochdale
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
- Anna Louise Frier (birth name)Also credited as Anna Louise Friel
Movie Career
- Films
- 18
- Career span
- 25 years1998 to 2023
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First role
Friel's first professional role came at 13, in the television miniseries G.B.H. It aired in 1991 and earned several BAFTA nominations, and afterward she took small parts on the ITV soaps Coronation Street and Emmerdale.
Anna Friel movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Nine actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Also two films together3 more actors
- Kuno BeckerGoal II: Living the Dream (2007) and Goal! The Dream Begins (2005)
- Kieran O'BrienGoal II: Living the Dream (2007) and Goal! The Dream Begins (2005)
- Alfredo RodríguezGoal II: Living the Dream (2007) and Goal! The Dream Begins (2005)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Anna Friel's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$343 million
9 of the 18 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 18 films: 9 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 2 never in cinemas; 5 figure not found.
- 9Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
- 2Never in cinemas
- 5Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 99% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$162M47.2% of the total
- 2$69M20.0% of the total
- 3$44M12.8% of the total
- 4$28M8.0% of the total
- 5$16M4.7% of the total
- 6$8.3M2.4% of the total
- 7$7.9M2.3% of the total
- 8$7.0M2.0% of the total
$1.9 millionfrom the other 1 film with a worldwide figure, 1% of the total
Awards
Three awards and honors, one of them major.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emmy Awards | |||
| International Emmy Award for Best Actress | Won | ||
| Other honors | |||
| 1999 | Theatre World Award | Won | |
| Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play | Won | ||
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