Birth Name : Anna Louise Friel
Birth Place: Rochdale, Lancashire, England
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 07/12/1976, Cancer
Height : 5' 2" (1.57 m)
Profession: Actress
Anna Louise Friel was born on July 12, 1976, in Rochdale, Lancashire. The daughter of two teachers, Anna was bitten by the acting bug at an extremely early age and found herself on the receiving end of accolades and kudos for her work at a variety of local talent shows.
When she was 13, Anna booked her first paying gig -- a role on a prestigious miniseries entitled G.B.H., opposite Monty Python's Michael Palin. This led to a series of appearances on various British television shows, including Emmerdale Farm and Medics, and it wasn't long before Anna found herself added to the cast of the long-running soap Brookside.
British TV, film, and stage actress Anna Friel first became a household name as a teenager on the serial "Brookside" (Channel 4, 1982-2003), where she enjoyed a high-profile role playing British TV's first lesbian character. She went on to appear in supporting roles in British and American film productions, including the star-studded "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1999) and "Rogue Trader" (1999) opposite Ewan McGregor, before making the leap to American series television in the courtroom drama "The Jury" (2004). However it was the debut of ABC's quirky dramedy "Pushing Daisies" (ABC, 2007-09) in the fall of 2007 that truly brought Friel international renown, earning her a Golden Globe nomination for her leading role in the season's critical fave.
Friel returned to Great Britain for her next pair of features, beginning with "Angel Makers" (2010), in which she starred as one of a farming community of World War I wives who task German POWs with replacing their husbands during wartime. In "London Boulevard" (2010), Friel appeared alongside Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley in the story of an ex-con struggling to distance himself from a violent past.
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