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Anna Friel Biography

Anna Louise Friel (born 12 July 1976) is an English actress. Born in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, 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, and portrayed the first lesbian kiss in a British soap opera in January 1994. She made her West End theatre debut in London in 2001 and has subsequently appeared in several productions, including in an adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's and as Yelena in a 2012 production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.

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I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.

Baby, Compact, Healthy, Lovely, Size

If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?

Beautiful, Meaningful, Oil, Place

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take.

Act, Hiding, Onstage, Take

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

Four, Onstage, Performance, Performances, Rehearsal

I was so completely anxious before I had a child, but now my biggest worry is something happening to her, so anything other than that I can handle. That's not to say I'm calm, because that would be b****cks! I wish it were the case, but it's getting better as I get older.

Case, Children, Get Better, Older, Wish, Worry

Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.

Learning, Stay Strong, Strong, Support, Thinking

People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

Board, Games, Life, Love, Love Life, Play

But Americans find me bizarre and always ask me why I eat so many carbs. I tell them I don't get full otherwise.

Americans, Ask Me, Bizarre, Carbs, Tell

I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.

Actresses, Bandaged, Looks, Making, People, Start

For me personally, everything is on a kiss.

Everything, Kiss, Kiss Me, Kissing, Personally

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

Believable, Character, Important, Stories, Story, Thing

Eating at home is important for us, because we eat out so much when we're away. When I'm at home I cook a lot and we eat pretty healthily. I'm not a massive vegetable fan - I've got better since I discovered how to undercook them.

Cook, Home, Important, Pretty, Undercook, Vegetables

Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.

Amount, Children, Goodness, Involves, Men, Vanity

I've been on sets where the turnaround is so fast and the budget so small that the actors have been asked to speed things up and save money by changing in the public toilets. There's no room for vanity at times like that. It's the best way: get on with it!

Actors, Changing, Like, Speed, Toilets, Vanity

When I'm working, it's those actors (you know who you are) who sit around moaning that their trailer isn't big enough, or how bad their facilities are. I can't be doing with any of that, I just like to get on with it.

Actors, Bigs, Enough, Facilities, Moaning, Trailer

When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

Done, Expectations, Firsts, Given, Live

Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth.

Baby, Drug, Mother, Roles, Taken

I've got the best lead man, I really love my lead man.

Lead, Love, Man, Men

I'd like to put the record straight about that. I've been labelled an irresponsible role model for young mothers, but none of it is true. I couldn't even walk for two weeks after the birth, let alone exercise. I ate very healthily all the way through my pregnancy and afterwards. I didn't do anything extreme.

Exercise, Mother, Mothers, Pregnancy, Record, Walk

The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in.

Baby, Character, Doctors, Girl, Huge

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