Anna Friel

Anna Friel

Date of Birth: 12 Jul 1976

Country: UK

Total Credits at Criticker: 49 (Actor)

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    An Everlasting Piece
    Against the turbulent backdrop of Belfast in the 1980s, two fellow barbers -- Colm, a Catholic, and George, a Protestant -- form an unlikely partnership to corner the toupee market in Northern Ireland. (DreamWorks)
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    A Midsummer Night\
    Shakespeare's comedy about two couples in love with the wrong partners, and how they are finally brought together rightly, thanks in part to the bungling work of Puck.
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    Sunset Strip
    A day in Hollywood, 1972, with young people looking for the 24 hours that will change their lives.
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    Timeline
    A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued. (imdb)
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    Niagara Motel
    In Niagara Motel, a group of struggling individuals cross paths at a low-rent motel in the tourist Mecca of Niagara Falls. They are not tourists and they are all, for various reasons, at crisis points in their lives. In this story, tragedy waltzes with unpredictable comedy in an intense dance of life. (Mongrel Media)
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    Goal!
    Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... (imdb)
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    Rogue Trader
    Ambitious, wide-boy Nick Leeson is determined to rise in the world and be more than a simple bank clerk. When his employers, Barings Bank, offer him the opportunity to go to Jakarta to sort out a problem that nobody else wants, he seizes the opportunity with both hands... (imdb)
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    Goal II: Living the Dream
    After gaining experience with the football club Newcastle United, Santiago Munez (Becker) gets a huge break when he's transferred to Real Madrid. (imdb)
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    Irish Jam
    Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest with a tempting grand prize -- the deed to their local pub. But what could happen when a duplicitous American rapper (Griffin) emerges as the best poet around? (imdb)
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    Bathory: Countess of Blood
    Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief, Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman who ultimately fell victim to mens aspirations for power and wealth. (imdb)
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    The War Bride
    Anna Friel stars in classy wartime drama The War Bride. She plays Lily, an orphan who suddenly finds herself married, with child and living with hostile in-laws in the wilds of Canada. Thematically similar to Friel's Land Girls, this is a much more accomplished affair. Her star turn is well complimented by Brenda Fricker and Molly Parker as her agitated in- laws. (imdb)
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    Perfect Strangers
    Lloyd works in New York, Susie in London, both for the same ad agency. An arrangement is made where they will swap jobs and live in each other's homes for a month; this involves frequent phone conversations for various reasons. Lloyd's career and his marriage plans are threatened when he's accused of betraying his company, but he and Susie work together to restore his reputation, and along the way, fall in love. (imdb)
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    Land of the Lost
    On his latest expedition, Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into a space-time vortex alongside his research assistant and a redneck survivalist. In this alternate universe, the trio make friends with a primate named Chaka, their only ally in a world full of dinosaurs and other fantastic creatures.
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    The Tribe
    The Tribe (1998) - TV Movie
    A man, instructed by his employers to evict a mysterious cult from an abandoned building, finds solace from his otherwise hum-drum life in the tribe's alluring, self-contained world of lust and intrigue.
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    Our Mutual Friend
    Our Mutual Friend (1998) - TV Mini-Series
    Based on Dickens' novel about a rich misanthrope who leaves his estate to his estranged son with an odd condition.
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    G.B.H.
    G.B.H. (1991) - TV Mini-Series
    Michael Murray is an ambitious and charismatic politician, Jim Nelson is a much loved headmaster of a local school for disturbed children. When the paths of these two men cross, things are destined never to be the same again. (imdb)
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    You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
    A little romance, some sex, some treachery, and apart from that, a few laughs. The lives of a group of people, whose passions, ambitions and anxieties force them all into assorted troubles that run the gamut from ludicrous to dangerous. (facebook.com)
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    The Land Girls
    During World War II, a new regiment called "Land Girls" was formed in England for recruiting women to work at farms where men left to go to war. Three women of different social backgrounds - quiet Stella, young hairdresser Prue and Cambridge graduate Ag join the Land Girls. (imdb)
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    Watermelon
    Watermelon (2003) - TV Movie
    A woman (Anna Friel) retreats to her hometown to contemplate her future after her lover learns he is not the father of her baby and leaves her. (reelzchannel)
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    London Boulevard
    "London Boulevard" is the story of a man newly released from prison who falls in love with a reclusive young movie star and finds himself in a duel with a vicious gangster. (imdb)
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    Limitless
    A struggling novelist acquires a top-secret drug which gives him superhuman abilities.
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    Rubbish
    Rubbish (2007) - Short Film
    Kevin is taking out the bins from his apt but won't take his neighbor Julian's multiple bags down to the recycling. On his way back he bumps into his new neighbor Isobel who, it transpires is not only gorgeous but also needs to know where the bins are. Kevin says he was just going and grabs his neighbours bags as his own before rejoining her and taking her downstairs. Unfortunately Isobel discovers that someone had dumped their black bag in the recycling bin and sets out to put them straight.
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    Neverland
    Neverland (2011) - TV Mini-Series
    Orphaned Peter and his pals have been rounded up by their mentor Jimmy Hook to snatch a priceless, magical treasure which transports them to another world, Neverland, where pirates and the Native American indians are in war for legendary mysteries of eternal youth. (imdb)
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    The Look of Love
    The true story of British adult magazine publisher and entrepreneur Paul Raymond. A modern day King Midas story, Raymond became one of the richest men in Britain at the cost of losing those closest to him. (sundance.org)
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    Treasure Guards
    The Treasure Guard Angelo and the Archaeologist Victoria are on a hunt for the Seal of Solomon leading them from the Vatican to the Jordanian desert, risking their lives for the discovery of the millennia. (Netflix)
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    St. Ives
    In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the prison's commander, Major Farquar Bolingbroke Chevening, asks for lessons in communicating with women. Both men have their eyes on the lovely Flora, who resides with her aunt, the iconoclastic and well-traveled Miss Susan Emily Gilcrist. (imdb)
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    Fields of Gold
    Anna Friel plays press photographer Lucia and Phil Davis the world weary journalist Lodge, who together find themselves investigating the sinister connections between government, big business and bio technology.
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    Having You
    Jack has finally managed to propose to his infertile girlfriend when his life is turned upside down by the arrival of an old one-night stand that introduces him to his seven year old son. (imdb)
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    Good People
    Discovering a cache of cash in their dead tenant's apt, a couple in debt take the money and find themselves the target of a deadly adversary-the thief who stole it. (imdb)
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    American Odyssey
    Three families are torn apart when a stranded female soldier, a disillusioned corporate attorney and a disrespected political activist are pulled into the same shocking international military conspiracy. (imdb)
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    Pushing Daisies
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    The Street
    The Street (2006) - TV Series
    Series of one-off dramas, each focusing on a different house within the same street. (imdb)
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    Kampen om tungtvannet
    The story behind Hitler's plan of Germany getting the atomic bomb during WW2, and the heavy water sabotages in Rjukan, Norway, seen from four angles, the German side, the allied, the saboteurs and the company side. (imdb)
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    Marcella
    Marcella (2016) - TV Series
    Marcella Backland left the Metropolitan Police for the sake of her family, only to have her husband leave her. She returns to her job on the murder squad, investigating a case that seems disturbingly familiar to her. (imdb)
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    The Master Cleanse
    The Master Cleanse centers on a heartbroken man who attends a spiritual retreat, only to discover that the course releases more than everyday toxins and traumatic experiences. (imdb)
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    I.T.
    Mike Regan is a successful, self-made man who has it all: a gorgeous wife, a beautiful teenage daughter and a sleek, state-of-the-art "smart home". But he soon finds himself in a deadly, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse when his I.T. consultant, Ed, starts using his skills to stalk Mike's daughter and endanger his family, his business, and his life.
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    Tomato Red
    When small town drifter Sammy Barlach drives into town on the search for his next cold beer and the bunch that'll have him, he gets a lot more than he bargained for. Food, lodging and the possibility of a better future thanks to redheaded Jamalee and her brother Jason who dream of hitting the big time. But breaks aren't easy to come by if you live in Venus Holler. (imdb)
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    Broken
    Broken (2017) - TV Mini-Series
    Father Michael, a Catholic priest presiding over a Northern urban parish who is Modern, maverick, and reassuringly flawed; must be confidant, counsellor and confessor to a congregation struggling to reconcile its beliefs with the challenges of daily life. (imdb)
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    Butterfly
    Butterfly (2018) - TV Mini-Series
    11-year-old Max identifies as a girl and wants to live her life as Maxine. Her estranged parents Vicky and Stephen attempt to work out how best to cope with and support this huge life decision. (imdb)
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    The Stringer
    Vadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video camera, hoping to shoot footage that will interest Western press agencies. He falls in love with the beautiful Helen, an English media executive, and subsequently they must contend with the barriers that their different backgrounds present. (imdb)
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    Deep Water
    Deep Water (2019) - TV Mini-Series
    A modern day look at family through the eyes of three women as they work to balance work and life pressures.
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    Books of Blood
    A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
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    Charming the Hearts of Men
    A romantic drama set during the politically charged early 60s where a sophisticated woman returns to her Southern home town and discovers her options are limited yet discrimination is plentiful. With the help of a Congressional ally, she inspires historic legislation which allows opportunities and protections never before afforded to women.
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    Monarch
    Monarch (2022) - TV Series
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    The Box
    The Box (2021) - TV Series
    Follows Sharon Pici, a Kansas City police officer, who experiences a supernatural nightmare after getting obsessed with an investigation. (imdb)
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    Without You
    Without You (2011) - TV Mini-Series
    Ellie's beloved husband is killed in a car accident. A woman was in the car with him and killed too. Who was she? Was he having an affair? Was it an accident? (imdb)
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    Urban and the Shed Crew
    A hard living, disillusioned, ex social worker becomes the unlikely savior to an anarchic gang of joy-riding, drug taking, thieving, out of control, care home runaway kids. (imdb)
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    Locked In
    A kindly nurse tries to unlock the secrets of a coma patient's injury - and discovers the bitter rivalry, infidelity, betrayal and murder behind them. (imdb)
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    Public Enemies
    Public Enemies (2012) - TV Mini-Series
    Released from prison after serving 10 years for murder, Eddie tries to adjust to life outside with the help of his probation officer, Paula. (imdb)
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