Anna Friel
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"Anna Louise Friel" is an English actress. Born in Rochdale, she has been acting since the age of 13, appearing in a number of British television programmes. She played Beth Jordache in the Channel 4 soap Brookside which had the first lesbian kiss in a British soap opera in January 1994. She made her West End stage début in London in 2001, and has subsequently appeared on stage in several productions, including an adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's (novella)/Breakfast at Tiffany's and as Yelena in a 2012 production of Anton Chekhov/Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.

Friel made her film debut in 1998 in David Leland's The Land Girls (film)/Land Girls and has since made a number of films appearing with such notable co-stars as Christian Bale, Gerard Butler, Colin Farrell, Keira Knightley, Robert De Niro, Will Ferrell, and Rachel Weisz. Outside of film, she is probably best known in the USA for her work as Charlotte "Chuck" Charles in the American Broadcasting Company/ABC comedy series Pushing Daisies for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 2008.

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I think that sort of changed things for me, especially in America, because the cast was really great - Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christian Bale - and people started to think, 'if she's working with them she must be doing well'.

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But they do it so well.

Going back to the stage to do Lulu was really terrifying as it was such a hard part.