Anna Friel the English actress.

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.

In November 2006, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Bolton for contributions to the performing arts.

She has also been seen as the face of Pantene Pro-V Ice shine in the United Kingdom, appearing in both television advertisements and print advertising. She has also appeared in adverts on television for 3 Mobile and Virgin Atlantic Airways.

In September 2009, Friel stared in a West End adaptation of the novel Breakfast at Tiffany'sat the Theatre Royal Haymarket.

In April 2010, she was cast in the psychological thriller film The Dark Fields (now entitled Limitless and released in March 2011). In November 2010, Friel starred in London Boulevard alongside Ray Winstone, Colin Farrell, Keira Knightley and her then partner David Thewlis.

Friel appears in the video for the Manic Street Preachers' September 2010 single "(It's Not War) Just the End of Love" opposite Welsh actor Michael Sheen, with whom she co-starred in the 2003 film Timeline.^{[citation needed]}

In January 2011, Friel appeared in a episode of the BBC series Come Fly with Me as a fictionalised version of herself. In the show she is bald and has lost her wig.