Laura FraserFilmography

Florence Nightingale

Actors: Laura Fraser, Michael Pennington, Andrew Harrison, Barbara Marten

Nina's Heavenly Delights

Actors: Laura Fraser, Art Malik, Ronny Jhutti, Veena Sood, Shelley Conn

Synopsis: A woman comes to terms with her sexuality while trying to save the family business in this flavorful romantic comedy. Nina Shah (Shelley Conn) is the daughter of an Indian expatriate family who settled in Glasgow and run an Indian restaurant, the New Taj Mahal. While Nina was always close to her Read More

The Flying Scotsman

Actors: Jonny Lee Miller, Billy Boyd, Laura Fraser, Morven Christie, Steven Berkoff, Brian Cox

Synopsis: An amateur Scottish cyclist determined to become the world's fastest rider struggles against his own mental illness and the resentful hostility of sports authorities unwilling to accept his remarkable innovation in this inspirational biopic from director Douglas MacKinnon. When Briton cyclist Chris Boardman Read More

Land of the Blind

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Donald Sutherland, Tom Hollander, Mark Warren, Lara Flynn Boyle

Synopsis: The debut film by director Robert Edwards, Land of the Blind, is a political satire starring Ralph Fiennes as a military man who helps overthrow his government. He does so at the urging of a political prisoner, played by Donald Sutherland, who has been outspoken about the corruption of the current Read More

Casanova

Synopsis: As the world's greatest lover lies slowly fading on his death bed, the memories of his passionate past come flooding back in director Sheree Folkson's tale of lust and adventure in 18th Century Europe. Casanova (portrayed in his early years by David Tennant, and his dying days by Peter O'Toole) Read More

Iron Jawed Angels

Actors: Hilary Swank, Frances O'Connor, Julia Ormond, Anjelica Huston, Molly Parker

Synopsis: German filmmaker Katja von Garnier directs the HBO original movie Iron Jawed Angels, inspired by a pivotal chapter in American history. Hilary Swank plays Alice Paul, an American feminist who risked her life to fight for women's citizenship and the right to vote. She founded the separatist Read More

Conviction [TV Series]

He Knew He Was Right

Actors: Bill Nighy, Laura Fraser, Oliver Dimsdale, Christina Cole, Stephen Campbell Moore

Synopsis: When Louis and Emily Trevalyan exchanged wedding vows on a day that seemed to mark the beginning of a blissful union, little could they foresee the trials that would face them in their first year of marriage. As Anthony Trollepe slowly peels away the layers of Victorian propriety, a variety of Read More

Coney Island Baby

Actors: Karl Geary, Laura Fraser, Hugh O'Conor, Tom Hickey, Andy Nyman

Synopsis: American film producer Amy Hobby makes her feature debut as a director with the independent romantic comedy Coney Island Baby. Shot on digital video, the film takes place in a small section of Sligo, Ireland, affectionately known as Coney Island. Small time hooligan Billy Hayes (screenwriter Karl Geary Read More

Den of Lions

Actors: Stephen Dorff, Bob Hoskins, Laura Fraser

Synopsis: Den of Lions stars Stephen Dorff as an undercover agent who infiltrates the criminal empire of Darius Paskevic (Bob Hoskins), a kingpin in the Russian mafia. Complicating the agent's work is his romantic relationship with the criminal mastermind's daughter. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

16 Years of Alcohol

Actors: Kevin McKidd, Laura Fraser, Susan Lynch, Stuart Sinclair Blyth, Jim Carter

Synopsis: Scottish writer and former vocalist for the punk band the Skids, Richard Jobson makes his directorial debut with 16 Years of Alcohol, the stylized psychological drama based on his own semi-autobiographical novel. Through voice-over narration and various flashback methods, troubled young man Read More

Devil's Gate

Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?

Actors: Tom Courtenay, Stephen Fry, Michael Legge, Laura Fraser, Lulu

Synopsis: Set during the swinging disco era in decidedly unswinging Sheffield, England, this oddball comedy is both a coming-of-age story about getting funky and a supernatural mystery. Vince (Michael Legge) is a Travolta-obsessed teenager who lives with his aspiring magician brother; his randy mom, who has Read More

A Knight's Tale

Actors: Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany, Shannyn Sossamon

Synopsis: This crowd-pleasing medieval adventure tale is very loosely inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and mixes the anachronistic elements of modern-day rock music and colloquialisms with a period setting and characters. Heath Ledger stars as William Thatcher, a low-born 14th century Read More

Station Jim

Actors: Thomas Sangster, George Cole, Charlie Creed-Miles, Frank Finlay, Laura Fraser

Synopsis: After from escaping the clutches of his cruel master and making his way to a remote country railway station, a performing dog in Victorian England becomes a mascot for the local orphanage in this family friendly tale starring George Cole and Thomas Sangster. When the lonely but lovable pooch Read More

Kevin & Perry Go Large

Actors: Kathy Burke, Rhys Ifans, Laura Fraser, James Fleet

Synopsis: Beavis and Butthead, prepare to meet your English counterparts! Kevin (Harry Enfield) and Perry (Kathy Burke) are two 15-year-old boys whose desperation to lose their virginity is so great that it inspires a sort of awe. In the rare moments when they're not thinking about girls, Kevin dreams of Read More

Forgive And Forget

Actors: John Simm, Laura Fraser, Maurice Roeves, Ger Ryan

Synopsis: Aisling Walsh directs this drama about coming out in working-class England. South Londoners David (Steven John Shepherd) and Theo (John Simm) are best mates: they grew up together, they both work in the same construction crew, and they spend much of their free time getting plastered. The problem Read More

Titus

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming, Harry J. Lennix, Colm Feore, Angus MacFadyen, James Frain

Synopsis: One of William Shakespeare's lesser-known plays, Titus Andronicus was staged in New York by award-winning theatrical director Julie Taymor in an acclaimed 1995 production, before her widely praised Broadway version of The Lion King. Taymor revisits that production for her first motion picture Read More

Virtual Sexuality

Actors: Laura Fraser, Rupert Penry-Jones, Luke DeLacey, Kieran O'Brien, Marcelle Duprey

Synopsis: A woman looking for the man of her dreams turns to a computer with unexpected results in the British comedy Virtual Sexuality. Justine (Laura Fraser) is 17 year old and a virgin, a situation she's none too happy about. She has her eye on Alex (Kieran O'Brien), one of her classmates, and has been Read More

A Christmas Carol

Actors: Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Joel Grey, Ian McNeice, Saskia Reeves

Synopsis: Patrick Stewart stars as Ebeneezer Scrooge in this made-for-TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic holiday fable. Scrooge is a skinflint businessman who loathes the Christmas season and begrudges having to give time off to his best employee, Bob Cratchit (Richard E. Grant). On Christmas Eve Read More

Cousin Bette

Actors: Jessica Lange, Elisabeth Shue, Bob Hoskins, Hugh Laurie, Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis: Acclaimed theater director Des McAnuff made his feature-film directorial debut with this period comedy-drama adapted from Honore de Balzac's novel La Cousine Bette (1846) about a jealous and bitter spinster who attempts to destroy the romance between her niece and a Polish sculptor. In Paris of Read More

Divorcing Jack

Actors: David Thewlis, Rachel Griffiths, Robert Lindsay, Jason Isaacs, Laura Fraser

Synopsis: On the eve of near-future Northern Ireland's first general election, well-marketed reformer Michael Brinn (Robert Lindsay), a shoo-in for prime minister, has newspaper columnist Dan Starkey's dander up. Working the election beat alongside visiting Boston Globe writer Charles Parker (Richard Gant) Read More

The Match

Actors: Max Beesley, Isla Blair, James Cosmo, Samantha Fox

Synopsis: The first film by {$Mick Davis), The Match is a contemporary romantic comedy set in the idyllic village of Inverdoune nestling in the Scottish Highlands. Wullie Smith is the shy milkman who carries the physical and emotional scars of a childhood tragedy and who is in love with Rosemary, the Read More

Left Luggage

Actors: Laura Fraser, Isabella Rossellini, Maximilian Schell, Jeroen Krabbé, Marianne Sägebrecht

Synopsis: Actor Jeroen Krabbe made his directorial debut with this Dutch-Belgian-U.S. drama examining anti-Semitic attitudes in 1972 Antwerp. Free-spirited 20-year-old student Chaja (Laura Fraser) has a long-haired revolutionary lover and sometimes visits her parents (Maximilian Schell, Marianne Read More

The Investigator

Actors: Helen Baxendale, Laura Fraser, Katrina Levon, Sean Gilder, Christopher Fulford

Synopsis: This fact-based British drama tells the story of real-life Sgt. Caroline Meagher (Helen Baxendale) in a flashback to 1978, a time when Meagher realized she was a lesbian and began a secret affair with a Scottish woman, eventually attracting suspicion while running a Northern Ireland military base. Read More

The Man in the Iron Mask

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu, Gabriel Byrne

Synopsis: Oscar-nominated Randall Wallace (Braveheart) made his directorial debut with this adaptation of the 1848 classic by Alexandre Dumas (1802-70), featuring Leonardo DiCaprio in a dual role. Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis (Jeremy Irons), Athos (John Malkovich), and Porthos (Gerard Depardieu Read More

NeverWhere

Synopsis: Originally aired in 1996, NeverWhere is a six-part BBC fantasy miniseries written by comic book author Neil Gaiman (The Sandman). The story follows businessman Richard Mayhew (Gary Bakewell), who gets trapped in the dark underground world of London Below after he helps Lady Door (Laura Fraser). Read More

Small Faces

Actors: Clare Higgins, Iain Robertson, Joseph McFadden, Laura Fraser

Synopsis: Scottish filmmaker Gillies MacKinnon directed and co-wrote (with brother Billy MacKinnon) this semi-autobiographical drama set in the working class Glasgow of 1968. Thirteen-year-old Lex Maclean (Iain Robertson) is torn between his brothers, his only male role models. Alan (Joseph McFadden) is an Read More