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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Locked In
2023
as Nurse Nicky Mackenzie
A kindly nurse tries to unlock the secrets of a coma patient's injuries — and discovers the bitter rivalry, infidelity, betrayal and murder behind the...

Charming the Hearts of Men
2021
as Grace Gordon
A romantic drama set during the politically charged early 60s where a sophisticated woman returns to her Southern home town and discovers her options ...

Books of Blood
2020
as Mary
A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.

Sulphur & White
2020
as Joanne Tait
David is a successful city trader in London who is relentlessly focused on work. Beneath the confident facade, he is trapped by memories of the past a...

Miranda: My Such Fun Celebration
2020
as Self
Miranda Hart and the cast of her sitcom come together to celebrate the show's tenth anniversary with a music-filled, star-studded spectacular from the...

The Sea
2019
as Jenny
On a grey day, a woman sits alone on a beach and calmly watches the birds. As she sits, she is joined by various people who make up the tapestry of he...

The Cleanse
2018
as Maggie
The story of a heartbroken man who attends a spiritual retreat, only to discover that the course releases more than everyday toxins and traumatic expe...

I Am Urban
2018
as Greta
A hard living, disillusioned, ex social worker becomes the unlikely savior to an anarchic gang of joy-riding, drug taking, thieving, out of control, c...

Tomato Red
2017
as Bev Merridew
When small town drifter Sammy Barlach (Jake Weary, “Animal Kingdom”) drives into town on the search for his next cold beer and opportunity, he gets mo...

I.T.
2016
as Rose Regan
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”. Bu...

Good People
2014
as Sarah
Tom and Anna Wright, a young American couple, fall into severe debt while renovating Tom's family home in London. As the couple faces the loss of thei...

Margery Booth: The Spy in the Eagle's Nest
2014
as Margery Booth
Hitler was obsessed by this English opera singer who was working for MI6 and hiding escaped British airmen in her Berlin apartment. She sang to Britis...

The Psychopath Next Door
2013
as Eve Wright
She drops in and starts disrupting this close, cozy little community. She wants to be queen bee But there's already one. so she sets out to destroy he...

Having You
2013
as Anna
Jack has finally managed to propose to his infertile girlfriend when his life is turned upside down by the arrival of an old one-night stand that intr...

The Look of Love
2013
as Jean Raymond
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...

Metamorphosis: Titian 2012
2012
as Diana
A huntsman is punished for stumbling upon naked nymphs. A visual adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphis' telling of the ancient myth.
The Amazing Spider-Man T4 Premiere Special
2012
A TV special of the Amazing Spider-Man Premiere.

Treasure Guards
2011
as Victoria
On a dig in the remote Jordanian desert, maverick archaeologist Victoria Carter (Anna Friel) discovers an ancient scroll buried in the ruins of an old...

Limitless
2011
as Melissa
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 o...

London Boulevard
2010
as Briony Mitchel
A parolee falls for a reclusive movie star while trying to evade a ruthless gangster.

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010
as Iris
Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue wha...

Land of the Lost
2009
as Holly
On his latest expedition, has-been scientist Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into a space-time vortex alongside his crack-smart research assistant Holly a...

Theatreland
2009
as Herself
8 part series behind the scenes at the famous Theatre Royal, Haymarket, with a focus on a production Waiting for Godot featuring Ian McKellen, Patrick...

Bathory: Countess of Blood
2008
as Erzsébet Báthory
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...

Rubbish
2007
as Isobel
A man dumps the garbage of his neighbours. Little does he know that this is going to affect his relationship to a woman.

Goal II: Living the Dream
2007
as Roz Harmison
Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet - pe...

Niagara Motel
2006
as Denise
A porn producer, an alcoholic, a drug-addicted mother and others struggle to make ends meet.

Irish Jam
2006
as Maureen Duffy
Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest w...

Goal!
2005
as Roz Harmison
Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los...

Perfect Strangers
2004
as Susie Wilding
When a man and a woman swap jobs and cities temporarily, they face many problems large and small, but their phone calls develop into romance.

Timeline
2003
as Lady Claire
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century F...

Watermelon
2003
as Claire Ryan
A tangled web of deciet pitches three lovers together with the added proposition of a baby.
Fields of Gold
2002
as Lucia Merritt
A two-part conspiracy thriller starring Anna Friel. An eager young photographer and a bitter tabloid hack are sent to investigate mysterious deaths at...

Last Rumba in Rochdale
2002
Bodney Brooks, a twelve year old master of computer controlled puppetry, decides to arrange a surprise birthday party for his Gran in an attempt to ge...

Me Without You
2001
as Marina
During a long, hot summer in seventies London, young neighbors Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For Marina, troubled, fie...

The War Bride
2001
as Lily
During World War II, a Cockney woman marries a Canadian soldier and adjusts to life in Alberta.

An Everlasting Piece
2000
as Bronagh
Colin is a Catholic and George is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business ...

Sunset Strip
2000
as Tammy Franklin
A day in Hollywood, 1972, with young people looking for the 24 hours that will change their lives. Zach will open that night for a British rocker at W...

Mad Cows
1999
as Maddy
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...

Rogue Trader
1999
as Lisa Leeson
Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who--after a successful trading run--ends up accumulating $1.4 billion i...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1999
as Hermia
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 enta...

The Tribe
1998
as Lizzie
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 ...

The Land Girls
1998
as Prue (Prudence)
During World War II, the organisation "The Women's Land Army" recruited women to work on British farms while the men were off to war. Three such "land...

St. Ives
1998
as Flora Gilchrist
In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the pris...

The Stringer
1998
Vadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video camera, hoping to shoot footage that will interest...

Three Kisses and a Funeral
1995
as Self
An examination of the impact that lesbian characters have had on breaking television taboos. Actresses Anna Friel (Beth in BROOKSIDE) and Michelle Jos...
My Sister's Bones
N/A
as Sally Rafter
Kate Rafter is back to home after a horrific incident in war-torn Iraq and the death of her mother. While packing up her mother's belongings she comes...
Unforgivable
N/A
Centres around the Mitchell family, who are dealing with the devastating aftermath of an act of abuse, and the knowledge that it was perpetrated by a ...
Hear Me Roar
N/A
as Ashley Bayston
Elizabeth Bellinger became one of the few transgender people in Britain to get married in the 1980s. She kept this ceremony secret from almost everyon...
Beneath
N/A
as Sally Rafter
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 ...