Anna Friel Filmography

Born:: July 12, 1976 in Rochdale, Lancashire, England
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A staple of British soap operas before she was even out of her teens, Anna Friel experienced the type of fame encouraged by tabloids and Internet shrines before getting a chance to prove her talents on the stage and screen. Born in Rochdale, Lancashire on July 12, 1976, Friel began acting as a...Read More

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Land of the Lost

Actors: Will Ferrell, Anna Friel

Synopsis: His once-solid reputation irreparably damaged, a paleontologist, his assistant, and a swaggering tour guide are thrust into a strange world populated by dinosaurs, reptilian Sleestaks, and monkey people in this update of the popular Sid and Marty Krofft series directed by Brad Silberling and Read More

7/17/09
Pushing Daisies: Season 01

Actors: Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Kristin Chenoweth, Swoosie Kurtz

2007
Niagara Motel

Actors: Craig Ferguson, Anna Friel, Caroline Dhavernas, Peter Keleghan, Kristen Holden-Reid

Synopsis: A handful of oddballs and misfits cross paths at a motel overlooking one of Canada's more recognizable landmarks in this independent comedy. Phillie (Craig Ferguson) is the alcoholic and deeply depressed manager of the Niagara Motel, a shabby inn a stone's throw from the Canadian side of the Read More

11/11/05
Goal!

Actors: Leonardo Guerra, Tony Plana, Miriam Colon, Kuno Becker, Jorge Cervera, Jr.

Synopsis: One young man's dream takes him on a remarkable journey in this sports-themed drama. Santiago Munez (Kuno Becker) was born in Mexico, and came to California with his family when he was just a boy. One of the few things Santiago brought with him was a love for soccer, and while he holds down two Read More

9/30/05
Irish Jam

Actors: Eddie Griffin, Anna Friel, Kevin McNally

Synopsis: A South Central, LA con-artist finds that his rhyming skills can pay off in the least likely of venues after winning a poetry contest staged by a financially strapped Irish town in this fish out of water comedy starring Eddie Griffin and Mo'Nique. Ballywood, Ireland is a town with a cash flow Read More

2005
The Jury [TV Series]

Actors: Shalom Harlow, Billy Burke, Anna Friel, Jeff Hephner, Adam Busch

2004
Perfect Strangers

Actors: Rob Lowe, Anna Friel, Khandi Alexander

Synopsis: Though Lloyd Rockwell (Rob Lowe) and Susie Wilding (Anna Friel) both work for the same international advertising agency, they have never met: Lloyd lives in New York, while Susie is headquartered in London. New developments in their professional lives compel Lloyd and Susie to trade places, with Read More

2004
Timeline

Actors: Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly, David Thewlis

Synopsis: Directing his first film since 1998's Lethal Weapon 4, Richard Donner helmed this big-budget adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel of the same name. Featuring a script by first-time screenwriter George Nolfi, Timeline begins in France in the near future. A group of students from Yale are there Read More

11/26/03
Me Without You

Actors: Anna Friel, Michelle Williams, Kyle MacLachlan, Oliver Milburn, Trudie Styler, Marianne Denicourt

Synopsis: The joys and horrors of female friendship are explored in writer/director Sandra Goldbacher's Me Without You. Bold, brash, and fashionable Marina (played by Anna Popplewell as a child, and Anna Friel as a teen and adult) comes from a broken home. Her mother, Linda (Trudie Styler, who executive Read More

11/23/01
Love and War

Synopsis: A deeply spiritual war bride attempts to adjust to the slower pace of rural life after relocating from lively London to her new husband's remote farm in Canada in a soulful tale of wartime relationships based on actual events and starring Anna Friel. Upon arrival at her new husband Charlie's Read More

2001
The War Bride

Actors: Anna Friel, Brenda Fricker, Aden Young, Loren Dean, Julie Cox

Synopsis: Anna Friel and Aden Young star in this romantic drama set against the backdrop of World War II, and following a wide-eyed London girl who falls for a Canadian soldier. The year is 1943, and as war wages across Europe, vivacious young Lily becomes smitten with rugged Canadian Charlie. The couple Read More

2001
An Everlasting Piece

Actors: Barry McEvoy, Brian F. O'Byrne, Anna Friel, Billy Connolly

Synopsis: Director Barry Levinson attempts to repeat the success of several recent, low-budget British imports such as The Full Monty (1997), Waking Ned Devine (1998), and Saving Grace (2000) with this comedy about a pair of prison barbers trying to make a success of a hairpiece business in Northern Read More

12/25/00
Sunset Strip

Actors: Anna Friel, Simon Baker, Nick Stahl, Rory Cochrane, Adam Goldberg

Synopsis: The days when glam rock at its shaggiest ruled L.A.'s Sunset Strip come alive in this comedy set in 1972. On one day, a number of young artists, musicians, and seekers of fame and fortune find their lives intersecting in the sometimes sleazy heart of California's hipster community, including Read More

8/18/00
Robert Louis Stevenson's St. Ives

Actors: Jean-Marc Barr

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, this film version of St. Ives is a romantic costume adventure set during the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The dashing Jacques St. Ives (Jean Marc Barr) is an officer in the French army who slips and literally falls into the hands of the Read More

2000
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Actors: Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Stanley Tucci, Calista Flockhart, Anna Friel, Christian Bale, Dominic West, David Strathairn, Sophie Marceau

Synopsis: With William Shakespeare now a hot commodity at the box office (and his body of work conveniently out of copyright), the usual trickle of film adaptations of the Bard's work is becoming a small flood, and director Michael Hoffman has assembled a cast of leading stage and screen actors for this Read More

5/14/99
The Land Girls

Actors: Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel, Steven Mackintosh, Tom Georgeson

Synopsis: David Leland (Wish You Were Here) directed this adaptation of Angela Huth's novel about the British Women's Land Army (aka "land girls"), a WW II regiment which recruited women to work on farms during the war. The volunteer "land girls," from all walks of life, were dispatched across the British Read More

6/12/98
The Stringer

Actors: Sergei Bodrov Jr., Anna Friel, Vladimir Ilyin, Robert Knepper, Anna Kamenkova

Synopsis: This drama from British TV documentarian Paul Pawlikowski was filmed in Russia, Poland, and the UK. Young TV news cameraman Vadik (Sergei Bodrov Jr. of Prisoner of the Mountain and The Brother) roams post-Cold War Russia shooting footage he can sell to Western news outlets. A romance gets underway Read More

1998
The Tribe

Actors: Joely Richardson, Jeremy Northam, Anna Friel

Synopsis: In this psychological drama, a real estate developer buys an old house in London, only to discover a group of bohemian squatters happen to be living there. While the developer intends to evict them, he soon finds himself intrigued by their lifestyle of free love and drug-fueled philosophical Read More

1998
Mad Cows

Actors: Anna Friel, Joanna Lumley, Anna Massey, Phyllida Law, Greg Wise

Synopsis: Mad Cows is a slapstick comedy about sex and the singles scene. Single and confused Maddy has just had a baby. The first day that she goes out with her baby, she gets arrested at Harrods for shoplifting. While in detention at the Holloway Prison's Mother and Baby Unit, she smuggles Jack out in her Read More

1998
Rogue Trader

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Anna Friel, Yves Beneyton, Betsy Brantley, Caroline Langrishe

Synopsis: Based on the tell-all autobiography by Nick Leeson, Rogue Trader tells the true story of how one man managed to bring down England's best respected merchant bank. Ewan McGregor plays Leeson, an ambitious young man from North London who is hired by the Barings Brothers Bank and sent to Indonesia to Read More

1998
St. Ives

Synopsis: Jacques St. Ives (Jean Marc Barr) is a much-envied officer in Napoleon's army who requests a demotion in rank so as to avoid a number of duels from fellow officers, who may challenge only those of an equal rank. To his shock, Jacques is demoted to the rank of private by a furious commander and is Read More

1998
Our Mutual Friend

Actors: Paul McGann, Keeley Hawes, Anna Friel, Steven Mackintosh

Synopsis: One of several British miniseries adaptations of Charles Dickens' novel Our Mutual Friend, this four-part version debuted over the BBC in 1998. The production's generous running time (total: six hours), enabled scenarist Sandy Welch to include virtually every important detail in this complex Read More

1998
Cadfael: A Morbid Taste for Bones

Synopsis: In acquiescence to the wish of the Prior of Shrewsbury Abbey to have the bones of St. Winifred on display, a group of monks trek to Wales to dig up her remains. The monks are met with great hostility that escalates when a man opposed to their excavation is found dead. The monks are held under Read More

1996
G.B.H.

1991
Brookside

1982