Shirley HendersonFilmography

Wild Child

Actors: Emma Roberts, Natasha Richardson, Shirley Henderson, Alex Pettyfer, Aidan Quinn

Synopsis: The unhinged behavior of a Malibu princess (Emma Roberts) prompts her frustrated father to send her to an all-girls English boarding school in this teen comedy penned by Lucy Dahl (daughter of Roald Dahl and a boarding school alumni herself) and directed by Nick Moore. Poppy is a bratty Read More

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Actors: Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Lee Pace, Ciarán Hinds, Shirley Henderson

Synopsis: A late-'30s-era London governess hired to work in the home of a high-profile nightclub chanteuse gets a taste of the good life when she is assigned the task of sorting out the singer's many unseemly affairs in a period comedy starring Frances McDormand and adapted from the novel by Winifred Read More

Wedding Belles

Actors: Shirley Henderson, Shauna MacDonald, Kathleen McDermott

I Really Hate My Job

Actors: Neve Campbell, Shirley Henderson, Alexandra Maria Lara, Anna Maxwell Martin, Oana Pellea, Danny Huston

Synopsis: As the employees at a London restaurant prepare for the arrival of a high-profile Hollywood actor, it quickly becomes apparent that the five women working to make this important meal a success suffer form delusions of grandeur. In the eye of most customers they're three waitresses, a cook, and a Read More

Marie Antoinette

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Rose Byrne

Synopsis: Writer and director Sofia Coppola puts a new spin on the life and times of one of Europe's most infamous monarchs in this lavish historical drama which fuses a contemporary sensibility with painstaking recreations of the look of the 18th century. Born to Austrian nobility, Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst Read More

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

Actors: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Raymond Waring, Dylan Moran, Keeley Hawes, Gillian Anderson

Synopsis: A group of actors and filmmakers set out to adapt an "unfilmable" classic novel -- but find that their own petty concerns get in the way -- in this satirical comedy. Laurence Sterne's 18th century novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman told the story of its priggish title Read More

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes

Synopsis: Directed by Mike Newell, the fourth installment to the Harry Potter series finds Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) wondering why his legendary scar -- the famous result of a death curse gone wrong -- is aching in pain, and perhaps even causing mysterious visions. Before he can think too much about it Read More

Yes

Actors: Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill, Shirley Henderson, Sheila Hancock

Synopsis: Filmmaker Sally Potter directed this artful meditation on the dynamics of the romantic and sexual relationship. She (Joan Allen) is an intelligent and gifted genetic scientist of Irish-American heritage who feels smothered in her marriage to a British politician (Sam Neill). While dining at a Read More

NOVA: Einstein's Big Idea

Synopsis: With dramatic historical reenactments featuring Aidan McArdle (Footprints in the Snow) in the central role as Albert Einstein and Shirley Henderson (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) as his wife, Mileva Maric, NOVA: Einstein's Big Idea climbs inside the most earth-shattering discovery of the Read More

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Actors: Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones

Synopsis: Based on author Helen Fielding's sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason picks up four weeks after the original film left off, with Bridget (Renée Zellweger) emotionally satisfied at long last with Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), her barrister boyfriend. Stability in Bridget's Read More

Close Your Eyes

Actors: Goran Visnjic, Shirley Henderson, Miranda Otto, Paddy Considine, Claire Rushbrook

Synopsis: A hypnotist with psychic talents is drawn into a criminal case with bizarre implications in this thriller from Great Britain. Dr. Michael Strother (Goran Visnjic) is a psychologist and hypnotherapist who has relocated from the United States to England after an ugly incident in which a boy under Read More

Intermission

Actors: Colin Farrell, Shirley Henderson, Kelly MacDonald, Colm Meaney, Cillian Murphy

Synopsis: In the suburbs of Dublin, more than a dozen strangers find their paths colliding in sometimes violent, sometimes absurd ways in Intermission, the first feature from director John Crowley. Setting the chain of events in motion is Lehiff (Colin Farrell), a small-time crook whose most recent petty Read More

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

Actors: Jamie Sives, Adrian Rawlins, Shirley Henderson, Lisa McKinlay, Mads Mikkelsen

Synopsis: Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig, the writer and director of the 12th Dogme 95 film, 2000's critically acclaimed Italian for Beginners, presents this comedy drama starring Jamie Sives and Adrian Rawlins as brothers Wilbur and Harbour. When their mother died early in their lives, it became up Read More

The Last King

Actors: Rufus Sewell, Rupert Graves, Diana Rigg

Synopsis: When the forces of the English Revolution unseated -- and beheaded -- his father, Charles II fled to the Netherlands, only to reclaim the throne and usher in an era of prosperity years later. This BBC miniseries -- aired stateside on A&E -- focuses on those later years, as the hedonistic Charles (Rufus Sewell Read More

Dirty Filthy Love

Synopsis: (Michael Sheen) once had a successful career as an architect and a beautiful wife, Stevie (Anastasia Griffith), but suddenly his life has been thrown into disarray. Mark now finds himself incapable of climbing the stairs without following a carefully planned sequence, he washes his hands Read More

Frozen

Actors: Shirley Henderson, Roshan Seth

Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans, Kathy Burke, Shirley Henderson, Ricky Tomlinson, Finn Atkins

Synopsis: Shane Meadows directed this film, which is the third and final chapter in his Nottingham Trilogy which also includes 1999's A Room for Romeo Brass and 1997's Twentyfourseven. Starring The Full Monty's Robert Carlyle, Once Upon a Time in the Midlands is a twist on the traditional Western film Read More

American Cousins

Actors: Danny Nucci, Shirley Henderson, Gerald Lepkowski, Vincent Pastore, Dan Hedaya

Synopsis: When a deal in Kiev goes bad for American mobsters Gino (Danny Nucci) and Settimo (Dan Hedaya), they make their way to Glasgow to seek shelter from the fallout in the home of cousin Bobby (Gerald Lepkowski). A kindly stamp collector who runs a small café, Bobby believes Gino and Settimo to be a Read More

Afterlife

Actors: Lindsay Duncan, Kevin McKidd, Shirley Henderson, Paula Sage, James Laurenson

Synopsis: When journalist Kenny Brogan (Kevin McKidd) tries to jump start his career by interviewing a doctor who may be involved in an assisted suicide clinic, he doesn't realize that his rise to the top could be halted by dying family members of his own. His mother, May (Lindsay Duncan), reveals she has Read More

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Actors: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Harris

Synopsis: Youthful wizard Harry Potter returns to the screen in this, the second film adaptation of J.K. Rowling's wildly popular series of novels for young people. Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) and his friends Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) return for a second year at Read More

24 Hour Party People

Actors: Steve Coogan, Shirley Henderson, Danny Cunningham, Sean Harris, John Simm, Lennie James

Synopsis: This digital-video biopic uses the life of journalist, record mogul and club owner Tony Wilson to frame the story of the Manchester, England, music scene from the heyday of punk through the late-'80s "Madchester" era. As the founder of staunchly independent Factory Records, Wilson (Steve Coogan) Read More

Villa Des Roses

Actors: Julie Delpy, Shaun Dingwall, Harriet Walter, Shirley Henderson, Timothy West

Synopsis: Frank Van Passel's adaptation of William Elsschot's novella Villa des Roses stars Julie Delpy. Delpy is a French maid who works at a home for the poor and unfortunate. She becomes pregnant, and is forced to risk a dangerous abortion. The director employed digital effects to help create the Read More

Bridget Jones's Diary

Actors: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent

Synopsis: Based on Helen Fielding's hugely popular novel, this romantic comedy follows Bridget (Renee Zellweger), a post-feminist, thirty-something British woman who has a penchant for alcoholic binges, smoking, and an inability to control her weight. While trying to keep these things in check and also deal Read More

The Way We Live Now

Actors: David Suchet, Matthew MacFadyen, Paloma Baeza, Cheryl Campbell, Shirley Henderson

Synopsis: The six-part British miniseries The Way We Live Now was adapted from the satirical 1875 novel by Anthony Trollope. The central character was Augustus Melmotte (David Suchet), a mysterious international financier of questionable parentage. Invading the uppermost circles of Victorian society Read More

Wonderland

Actors: Shirley Henderson, Gina McKee, Molly Parker, Ian Hart, John Simm

Synopsis: The members of a British working-class family see their lives starting to come apart as the Nation prepares to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day (named for an anarchist who tried to blow up Parliament) in Michael Winterbottom's drama Wonderland. Eileen (Kika Markham) and Bill (Jack Shepherd) are a married Read More

Topsy-Turvy

Actors: Jim Broadbent, Alan Corduner, Lesley Manville, Eleanor David, Ron Cook

Synopsis: Noted for intimate character studies created in collaboration with his actors, director Mike Leigh makes a dramatic change of pace with this biography of comic opera composers W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Gilbert (Jim Broadbent) is an easily angered but otherwise emotionally remote lyricist Read More

Bumping the Odds

Actors: Shirley Henderson, Sharon Small, Joe McFadden, Garry Sweeney, Helen Lomax

Synopsis: After doing a documentary on Glasgow loan sharks, director Ron Rohrer reworked the subject into a TV drama with a screenplay by Rona Munro, who previously scripted documentary material into drama for Ken Loach's Ladybird, Ladybird (1994). In Glasgow, Lynette (Shirley Henderson) is friends with Read More

Trainspotting

Actors: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly MacDonald

Synopsis: Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with few prospects and fewer ambitions, lives in economically depressed Edinburgh. Like most of his friends, Renton is a heroin addict who loves the drug's blissful nothingness; financing his habit also provides excitement and challenges that his life Read More

Rob Roy

Actors: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, Andrew Keir

Synopsis: The 18th century Scottish legend of Robert Roy MacGregor comes to life in this stylish adaptation of the swashbuckling novel by Sir Walter Scott. Liam Neeson stars as the title character, a cattle drover and proud head of a Highlands clan who takes a one thousand pound loan from the royal Marquis Read More

Desire

Actors: Greta Scacchi, Vincent D'Onofrio, Claudine Auger

Synopsis: Greta Scacchi plays a famous feminist activist, while Vincent D'Onofrio portrays a humble Scots fisherman in this film from director Andrew Birkin. Despite the obvious ideological chasm between them, the two fall in love. The couple spend the rest of the film running away from commitment, only to Read More

Dreaming

Actors: Ewen Bremner, Mary McCusker, Michael Carter, Shirley Henderson, Billy Connolly

Synopsis: In this gentle, meandering film, a seventeen-year old Scottish lad wanders the streets of Kilmarnock daydreaming about this and that and wondering if he and his girlfriend will make out that evening. One highlight of the film is a daydream sequence in which the boy and his girlfriend are watching Read More