Personal Info
Birth date
1976-07-12 (49 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Rochdale, Lancashire, England, UK
Also known as
Anna Louise Friel
Άννα Φριλ
安娜佛芮
آنا فریل
آنا فرییِل
Anna Friel
Biography
Anna Louise Friel (born 12 July 1976) is an English actress. She rose to fame in the UK as Beth Jordache on the Channel 4 soap Brookside. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anna Friel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
The Graham Norton Show
7.2
Overview:
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.Tales from the Crypt
8
Overview:
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?Pushing Daisies
7.9
Overview:
A pie-maker, with the power to bring dead people back to life, solves murder mysteries with his alive-again childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.The Girlfriend Experience
7.015
Overview:
Explore the relationships between exclusive escorts and their clients, for whom they provide far more than just sex. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide “The Girlfriend Experience”—emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price.Brookside
6.1
Overview:
The ground-breaking soap set in a housing estate on the outskirts of Liverpool.John Bishop: In Conversation with...
7
Overview:
A three series talk show. With the host in conversation with people whom he admires.Marcella
6.963
Overview:
Marcella is shocked to the core of her being when her husband Jason leaves her unexpectedly, confessing he no longer loves her. Heartbroken, Marcella returns to the Met’s Murder Squad. Ten years ago Marcella gave up her fast-tracked police career to marry and devote her life to her family. With the abrupt end to her marriage and isolated from her 13 year old daughter and 10 year old son, Marcella throws herself into work to stop herself from falling apart.Limitless
7.192
Overview:
The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.Cadfael
7.3
Overview:
Brother Cadfael is a twelfth-century Anglo-Welsh monk. A retired crusader disappointed in love, and now a herbalist in charge of the gardens of Shrewsbury Abbey, Brother Cadfael is often called on to solve murders and other crimes in and around Shrewsbury, Shropshire, in the border country where England meets Wales.Metamorphosis: Titian 2012
7
Overview:
A huntsman is punished for stumbling upon naked nymphs. A visual adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphis' telling of the ancient myth.Goal!
6.763
Overview:
Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los Angeles, he thinks it is only that—a dream. Until one day an extraordinary turn of events has him trying out for Premiership club Newcastle United.Land of the Lost
5.442
Overview:
On his latest expedition, has-been scientist Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into a space-time vortex alongside his crack-smart research assistant Holly and redneck survivalist Will into a world populated by marauding dinosaurs and painfully slow creatures called Sleestaks. With no weapons, few skills and questionable smarts, the trio must rely on their only ally, a primate named Chaka, to try to survive long enough to figure out a way back home.Bathory: Countess of Blood
5.7
Overview:
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 men’s aspirations for power and wealth.I.T.
5.417
Overview:
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. In a world where there is no privacy, and personal secrets can go viral by the click of a mouse, Mike needs to rely on his old connections to defeat a new kind of nemesis.Shooting Stars
7.6
Overview:
Shooting Stars is a British television comedy panel game broadcast on BBC Two as a pilot in 1993, then as 3 full series from 1995 to 1997, then on BBC Choice from January to December 2002 with 2 series before returning to BBC Two for another 3 series from 2008 until its cancellation in 2011. Created and hosted by double-act Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, it uses the panel show format but with the comedians' often slapstick, surreal and anarchic humour does not rely on rules in order to function, with the pair apparently ignoring existing rules or inventing new ones as and when the mood takes them.Watermelon
4.3
Overview:
A tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
7.1
Overview:
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien is an American television talk show broadcast by NBC. The show is the fifth installment of The Tonight Show, hosted by Conan O'Brien. It aired from June 1, 2009, to January 22, 2010, succeeding The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and ended when Leno returned to the role of Tonight Show host.The Amazing Spider-Man T4 Premiere Special
7.8
Overview:
A TV special of the Amazing Spider-Man Premiere.Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
6
Overview:
Jonathan Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and the house band.The Tribe
5.3
Overview:
Property developer Jamie has to evict some weird, post-modern hippies from a building. But they slowly drag him into their dark underworld of bizarre rituals and dangerous liaisons.London Boulevard
5.882
Overview:
A parolee falls for a reclusive movie star while trying to evade a ruthless gangster.The Cleanse
5.1
Overview:
The story of a heartbroken man who attends a spiritual retreat, only to discover that the course releases more than everyday toxins and traumatic experiences.A Midsummer Night's Dream
6.4
Overview:
The lovely Hermia is to wed Demetrius, but she truly cares for Lysander. Hermia's friend, Helena, is in love with Demetrius, while other romantic entanglements abound in the woods, with married fairy rulers Titania and Oberon toying with various lovers and each other.Books of Blood
6.317
Overview:
A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.Me Without You
6.4
Overview:
During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fiercely independent, determined to try everything, Holly stays the only constant in a life of divorcing parents, experimental drugs and fashionable self-destruction. But for Holly, a friendship that has never been equal gradually starts to feel like a trap.The Look of Love
5.567
Overview:
Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.Mad Cows
3.6
Overview:
When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up in jail. Losing custody of her infant child, Maddy hatches a scheme to break out of prison with the assistance of her friend Gillian, who's avoiding the law herself for credit card fraud. Now Maddy has to find the couple who have adopted her son and avoid falling in love with selfish Alex all over again.The Saboteurs
7.222
Overview:
When the Nazis secure a heavy water plant to realize their plan to create an atomic bomb, the Norwegian Allies struggle to sabotage the operation.Beneath
NYR
Overview:
Following the unexpected death of her mother, war correspondent Kate Rafter returns from Iraq to the family home in Herne Bay. She finds herself face to face with her estranged sister and house full of buried secrets. Kate is forced to confront the past and the demons she left behind, leading her to believe that something sinister might be at play in this sleepy seaside town.Acting
TBAMy Sister's Bones as Sally Rafter
TBAHear Me Roar as Ashley Bayston
TBABeneath as Sally Rafter
TBAThe Dream Lands (1 Episode) as Jas
2025Unforgivable as Anna McKinney
2023Locked In as Nurse Nicky Mackenzie
2022Monarch (11 Episodes) as Nicolette 'Nicky' Roman
2021The Box (7 Episodes) as Detective Sharon Pici
2021The Age of Nature (3 Episodes) as Narrator
2021Charming the Hearts of Men as Grace Gordon
2021Great British Photography Challenge (1 Episode) as Self - Expert
2020Books of Blood as Mary
2020Sulphur & White as Joanne Tait
2020Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration as Self
2019Deep Water (6 Episodes) as Lisa Kallisto
2019The Sea as Jenny
2018Butterfly (3 Episodes) as Vicky Duffy
2018The Cleanse as Maggie
2018I Am Urban as Greta
2017Broken (6 Episodes) as Christina Fitzsimmons
2017Tomato Red as Bev Merridew
2016I.T. as Rose Regan
2016John Bishop: In Conversation with... (1 Episode) as Self
2016The Girlfriend Experience (14 Episodes) as Erica Myles
2016Marcella (24 Episodes) as Marcella Backland
2015American Odyssey (13 Episodes) as Odelle Ballard
2015The Saboteurs (6 Episodes) as Julie Smith
2014Good People as Sarah
2014Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest as Margery Booth
2013The Psychopath Next Door as Eve Wright
2013Having You as Anna
2013The Look of Love as Jean Raymond
2012Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 as Diana
2012The Amazing Spider-Man T4 Premiere Special as Unknown
2012Playhouse Presents (1 Episode) as Jenny
2012Public Enemies (3 Episodes) as Paula Radnor
2011Without You (3 Episodes) as Ellie Manning
2011Neverland (2 Episodes) as Captain Elizabeth Bonny
2011Treasure Guards as Victoria
2011Limitless as Melissa
2010Come Fly with Me (1 Episode) as Herself
2010London Boulevard as Briony Mitchel
2010You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger as Iris
20097 Days on the Breadline (3 Episodes) as Unknown
2009Land of the Lost as Holly
2009The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (1 Episode) as Self
2009Theatreland as Herself
2008Bathory: Countess of Blood as Erzsébet Báthory
2007Pushing Daisies (22 Episodes) as Charlotte Charles
2007Rubbish as Isobel
2007The Graham Norton Show (1 Episode) as Self
2007Goal II: Living the Dream as Roz Harmison
2006The Street (6 Episodes) as Dee
2006Niagara Motel as Denise
2006Irish Jam as Maureen Duffy
2005Goal! as Roz Harmison
2004Perfect Strangers as Susie Wilding
2004The Jury (10 Episodes) as Megan Delaney
2003Timeline as Lady Claire
2003Watermelon as Claire Ryan
2002Fields of Gold as Lucia Merritt
2002Fields of Gold (2 Episodes) as Unknown
2002Last Rumba in Rochdale as Unknown
2001Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (1 Episode) as Self
2001Me Without You as Marina
2001The War Bride as Lily
2000An Everlasting Piece as Bronagh
2000Sunset Strip as Tammy Franklin
2000Lum the Invader Girl (2 Episodes) as Lum the Invader (voice)
1999Mad Cows as Maddy
1999Rogue Trader as Lisa Leeson
1999A Midsummer Night's Dream as Hermia
1998The Tribe as Lizzie
1998The Land Girls as Prue (Prudence)
1998Our Mutual Friend (4 Episodes) as Bella Harmon / Bella Wilfer
1998St. Ives as Flora Gilchrist
1998The Stringer as Unknown
1996Clive Anderson All Talk (1 Episode) as Self
1995Three Kisses and a Funeral as Self
1994Cadfael (1 Episode) as Sioned
1993Shooting Stars (1 Episode) as Self
1991G.B.H. (7 Episodes) as Susan Nelson
1989Tales from the Crypt (1 Episode) as Angelica / Leah
1982Brookside (70 Episodes) as beth jordache