Biography
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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Elio
2025
as Ooooo (voice)
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
2025
as Jude
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
2024
as Sarah
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
2024
as Performer of the songs
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
2022
as Agatha Christie
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
2020
as Self
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
2019
as Babu Frik (voice)
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
2019
as Margaret
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
2019
as Narrator
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
2018
as Lucille Hardy
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
2017
as Judy
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
2017
as Jennifer
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
2017
as Gail
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.

On the Road
2016
as Joe's Mum
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
2016
as Jude
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
2015
as Kate Linton
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
2015
as Imma
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
2014
as Shirley
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
2013
as Bunty
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
2013
as Suzanne
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
2013
as The Raconteur (voice)
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
2013
as Rusty Humphries
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
2012
as Karen
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
2012
as Opera House Wife
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
2011
as The Gruffalo's Child (voice)
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
2011
as Glory White
A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.

The Nutcracker
2010
as The Nutcracker (voice)
In 1920s Vienna, a young girl receives a magical doll on Christmas Eve.

Life During Wartime
2010
as Joy Jordan
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
2009
as Alice
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
2008
as Matron
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
2008
as Edythe Dubarry
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
2007
as Alice
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
2007
as Kelly
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
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
2006
as Aunt Sophie
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
2005
as Kate Minola
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
2005
as Moaning Myrtle
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
2005
as Mileva Maric
Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusio...

Yes
2005
as Cleaner
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
2005
as Susannah / Shirley Henderson
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
2005
as Charlotte
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
2005
as Kath
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
2004
as Jude
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
2003
as Alice
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
2003
as Sally
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
2003
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
2003
as Glenda Sands
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
2002
as Moaning Myrtle
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
2002
as Alice
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
2002
as Shirley
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
2002
as Ella
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
2002
as Lindsay Wilson
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
2002
as Janet Losey
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
2001
as Jude
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
2000
as Annie
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
1999
as Leonora Braham (Yum-Yum)
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Th...

Wonderland
1999
as Debbie
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
1998
as Woman in Dream (uncredited)
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
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
1996
as Gail
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
1995
as Morag
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
1992
as Mary
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
1991
as Pauline McPherson
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
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
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
N/A
as Self (archive footage)
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...