Shirley Henderson

Shirley Henderson

1965-11-24 Forres, Morayshire, Scotland 66 Credits

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Shirley Henderson (born 24 November 1965) is a Scottish actress. Her accolades include two Scottish BAFTAs, a VFCC Award and an Olivier Award, and BAFTA, BIFA, London Critics' Circle, Chlotrudis, Gotham, and Canadian Screen Award nominations. Henderson's film roles include Gail in Trainspotting (1996) and its 2017 sequel, Jude in the Bridget Jones films (2001–2025), and Moaning Myrtle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). Her other not...

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Elio

Elio

2025

as Ooooo (voice)

6.8
Acting

Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, ...

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

2025

as Jude

6.6
Acting

Bridget Jones navigates life as a widow and single mum with the help of her family, friends, and former lover, Daniel. Back to work and on the apps, s...

The Trouble with Jessica

The Trouble with Jessica

2024

as Sarah

6.2
Acting

Sarah and Tom are in terrible financial trouble. On the brink of losing everything, they’ve managed to find a buyer for their stylish London home. Whe...

Blue

Blue

2024

as Performer of the songs

Acting

After her daughter has passed away, a mother senses an ethereal poltergeist-like energy around her and wants to know if her child has come home.

See How They Run

See How They Run

2022

as Agatha Christie

6.4
Acting

In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. ...

The Skywalker Legacy

The Skywalker Legacy

2020

as Self

7.7
Acting

The story lives forever in this feature-length documentary that charts the making of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

2019

as Babu Frik (voice)

6.3
Acting

The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of gener...

Greed

Greed

2019

as Margaret

5.7
Acting

A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.

How The Earth Must See Itself

How The Earth Must See Itself

2019

as Narrator

Acting

Based on The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd and the performance project Into The Mountain by Simone Kenyon. A homage to Scotland’s Cairngorm Mountain...

Stan & Ollie

Stan & Ollie

2018

as Lucille Hardy

7.0
Acting

With their golden era long behind them, comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pres...

Never Steady, Never Still

Never Steady, Never Still

2017

as Judy

6.1
Acting

A mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity am...

Okja

Okja

2017

as Jennifer

7.4
Acting

A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.

T2 Trainspotting

T2 Trainspotting

2017

as Gail

6.9
Acting

After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.

On the Road

On the Road

2016

as Joe's Mum

4.8
Acting

North London band Wolf Alice have had a rise to prominence that might have been bends-inducing were it not for their tightness as a group. In summer o...

Bridget Jones's Baby

Bridget Jones's Baby

2016

as Jude

6.4
Acting

After breaking up with Mark Darcy five years earlier, Bridget Jones' happily-ever-after hasn't quite gone according to plan. Fortysomething and single...

Urban Hymn

Urban Hymn

2015

as Kate Linton

7.0
Acting

Set against the backdrop of the 2011 UK summer riots, Jamie, a young female offender who possesses a remarkable voice, meets a determined social worke...

Tale of Tales

Tale of Tales

2015

as Imma

6.4
Acting

The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomon...

Set Fire to the Stars

Set Fire to the Stars

2014

as Shirley

5.6
Acting

An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.

Filth

Filth

2013

as Bunty

6.9
Acting

A bigoted junkie cop suffering from borderline personality disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way in a bid to secure promoti...

In Secret

In Secret

2013

as Suzanne

6.1
Acting

In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her...

The Selkie's Lover

The Selkie's Lover

2013

as The Raconteur (voice)

Acting

A seal in water and human on land, the mythical selkie cannot return to their true home in the sea if their seal skin is stolen. In this modern adapta...

The Look of Love

The Look of Love

2013

as Rusty Humphries

5.6
Acting

Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, De...

Everyday

Everyday

2012

as Karen

5.5
Acting

This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few week...

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

2012

as Opera House Wife

6.7
Acting

In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer Vro...

The Gruffalo's Child

The Gruffalo's Child

2011

as The Gruffalo's Child (voice)

6.9
Acting

A follow up to the 2009 animated feature and adapted from the childrens' book by Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler. The Gruffalo's child explores th...

Meek's Cutoff

Meek's Cutoff

2011

as Glory White

6.5
Acting

A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.

The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker

2010

as The Nutcracker (voice)

5.0
Acting

In 1920s Vienna, a young girl receives a magical doll on Christmas Eve.

Life During Wartime

Life During Wartime

2010

as Joy Jordan

6.0
Acting

Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. Follows Solond...

May Contain: Nuts

May Contain: Nuts

2009

as Alice

8.0
Acting

When the going gets tough, the mums get tougher and will do almost anything to ensure their children get into the best school!

Wild Child

Wild Child

2008

as Matron

6.7
Acting

Sixteen-year-old Poppy has everything her unlimited credit cards can buy, and a spoiled attitude to match. After a final thoughtless prank, her exaspe...

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

2008

as Edythe Dubarry

6.8
Acting

London, England, on the eve of World War II. Guinevere Pettigrew, a strict governess who is unable to keep a job, is fired again. Lost in the hostile ...

I Really Hate My Job

I Really Hate My Job

2007

as Alice

4.0
Acting

While anticipating the arrival of a famous Hollywood star, five employees at a mediocre restaurant in London's Soho must deal with rats, arguments and...

Wedding Belles

Wedding Belles

2007

as Kelly

5.8
Acting

A darkly humorous look at the lives and loves of four modern women, each with their own remarkable, intriguing and often tragic stories.

Ma Boy

2006

Acting

Puffins mate for life, but are humans capable of the same. wonders troubled teenager Isla, who is stuck in the confines of a small seaside cottage wit...

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette

2006

as Aunt Sophie

6.7
Acting

The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19...

The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew

2005

as Kate Minola

8.0
Acting

A young harridan MP marries a title in order to advance towards her goal of becoming party leader.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

2005

as Moaning Myrtle

7.8
Acting

When Harry Potter's name emerges from the Goblet of Fire, he becomes a competitor in a grueling battle for glory among three wizarding schools—the Tri...

Einstein's Big Idea

Einstein's Big Idea

2005

as Mileva Maric

7.2
Acting

Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusio...

Yes

Yes

2005

as Cleaner

5.8
Acting

She is a scientist. He is a Lebanese doctor. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship. But difficulties abound because...

A Cock and Bull Story

A Cock and Bull Story

2005

as Susannah / Shirley Henderson

6.2
Acting

Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opin...

Dirty Filthy Love

Dirty Filthy Love

2005

as Charlotte

6.7
Acting

A man's life falls apart as a result of his affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome in this touching and funny tale.

Frozen

Frozen

2005

as Kath

5.7
Acting

It's two years since the mysterious disappearance of Kath Swarbrick's older sister Annie, but Kath remains haunted by a need to know what happened. Wh...

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

2004

as Jude

6.2
Acting

Bridget Jones is working as a TV host and still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. But Bridget is jealous of the time...

American Cousins

American Cousins

2003

as Alice

5.3
Acting

Two American mafiosi, Gino and Settimo, take refuge in the Glasgow cafe owned by their Scottish/Italian cousin, but he isn't the tough guy they'd expe...

Intermission

Intermission

2003

as Sally

6.2
Acting

A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and gr...

AfterLife

AfterLife

2003

4.0
Acting

High-flying journalist Kenny Brogan (Kevin McKidd) is working on the story that could make his career when he is told his mother is terminally ill. Wi...

Fishy

Fishy

2003

as Glenda Sands

Acting

An unemployed misfit falls in love with Freddie, her goldfish and as her search for work flounders her love for Freddie deepens and she feels her plac...

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

2002

as Moaning Myrtle

7.7
Acting

Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger aw...

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

2002

as Alice

6.6
Acting

The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their f...

Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

2002

as Shirley

6.2
Acting

Dek, a decent but somewhat dull man, enjoys a happy existence with beloved girlfriend Shirley. They live together with her 12-year-old, Marlene: her d...

Villa Des Roses

Villa Des Roses

2002

as Ella

5.3
Acting

In 1913, a young woman starts work as a maid in a seedy Parisian boarding house full of eccentrics. When she falls in love with one of the guests, she...

24 Hour Party People

24 Hour Party People

2002

as Lindsay Wilson

7.0
Acting

Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changi...

Doctor Sleep

Doctor Sleep

2002

as Janet Losey

5.1
Acting

While treating a policewoman for smoking, hypnotherapist Michael Strother has a telepathic vision of a young girl floating beneath the surface of a st...

Bridget Jones's Diary

Bridget Jones's Diary

2001

as Jude

6.7
Acting

Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her various imperfections. As a New Year's r...

The Claim

The Claim

2000

as Annie

6.0
Acting

A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who ...

Topsy-Turvy

Topsy-Turvy

1999

as Leonora Braham (Yum-Yum)

6.6
Acting

After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Th...

Wonderland

Wonderland

1999

as Debbie

6.6
Acting

There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, p...

Speak Like a Child

Speak Like a Child

1998

as Woman in Dream (uncredited)

4.0
Acting

Speak Like a Child, the feature film debut of documentary director John Akomfrah, explores the intense friendship that evolves between three troubled ...

Bumping the Odds

1997

Acting

The first of three contemporary love stories showing in the Love Bites 1997 season. A working-class Scotswoman tries to save her deeply indebted frie...

Trainspotting

Trainspotting

1996

as Gail

8.0
Acting

Hilarious but harrowing, the film charts the disintegration of the friendship between Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, Tommy and Begbie as they proceed seeming...

Rob Roy

Rob Roy

1995

as Morag

6.7
Acting

In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy ...

Salt on Our Skin

Salt on Our Skin

1992

as Mary

5.2
Acting

A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple man. They...

Dreaming

Dreaming

1991

as Pauline McPherson

Acting

Unemployed Ayrshire teenager Sammy Nelson is a dreamer, using his vivid imagination to conjure up a gallery of heroes. But far from simply providing a...

I Swear

N/A

Acting

John Davidson, diagnosed with Tourette's at 15 and targeted as insane by his peers, struggled with a condition few had witnessed. Campaigning for Tour...

Glenrothan

N/A

Acting

After 35 years in Chicago, Donal reluctantly returns to the Scottish Highlands to make amends with his estranged older brother, Sandy. Sandy needs Don...

Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life

Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life

N/A

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

Explores Caton-Jones' rise from his humble roots in the working class mining village of Broxburn, West Lothian to the dizzy heights of Hollywood, wher...