She began training as an actress at Oldham Theatre Workshop. Twitter: annafriel. Instagram: annafriel. Anna also once dated Darren Day - and he even proposed. After suffering from a ruptured ovarian cyst and being diagnosed with endometriosis in , Anna was told it was unlikely she would ever have children.
However, the actress gave birth to daughter Gracie Ellen Mary Friel with previous partner David Thewlis, on 9 July , which makes Gracie 14 at the time of writing. Des Friel Birth Father. Julie Friel Birth Mother. Dated dated from until Joseph Cross.
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Relationship relationship began about Aug until Mar Darren Day. Gracie has taken a few small child-acting roles over the years, most recently with her mother in the short The Sea, but Friel says her daughter has no interest in it as a career.
It is interesting that Friel is open to it, given she started acting herself at the age of 13 and shot to fame in her late teens on Brookside, not least for enjoying the first pre-watershed lesbian kiss on British TV in For her, that early start in an acting career is not something she regrets and it is perhaps for that reason she wouldn't steer Gracie away from performing.
It has got to the stage that if she reads with me in preparation for auditions, I'm thinking, 'Oh God, you might be better off going for it instead. She says acting looks too repetitive and that it's like you're a child and you never gain the rank of an adult. She says everyone talks to actors like they're a year-old. I think she's spent too much time on sets. You'll see her guitars around everywhere," continues Friel, twisting on the sofa to gesture to the room behind her.
Friel doesn't complain about the constraints of these Covid times, except to mention that another project - a Scandi-noir drama, set in Chicago but to be filmed in Stockholm - has been postponed several times. She has also talked about how a four-year romantic relationship fell apart in the first weeks of the first lockdown.
Still, today, she's upbeat about the enforced standstill. I tried to eat as much from the garden as possible, and planted lots of herbs. I don't like waste, so I started making my own stock. And I don't eat much meat, but when I do I like to use all of it, so I've turned my Aga into a cauldron-boiling centre.
She then throws in that she cold-presses turmeric and freezes it in ice-cube bags, thawing out cubes to make turmeric tea before bed. Oh, and that if you put wrist weights on while taking your daily walk - she does five miles a day - you get toning benefit too. It would be so easy at this point to slip into Covid exercise-and-eating chat, as Friel beckons towards the Aga, mimes her wrist-weight power-walking and laughs at her turmeric tea, but it's not a Zoom wine date, I remember in time.
Still, she is irresistibly friendly, and asks how things are in Dublin, getting almost misty-eyed about the many times she has worked here. Just to chat and say, 'How was your day? Her maternal grandmother lives in Rochdale and she hasn't seen her in some time, she continues.
But the normal life, to ever believe it will ever get back to where it was, is a difficult thing to imagine now, don't you think? When we speak, she is anticipating her return to work, on the Scandi-Noir Swedish-American production, in these first months of She admits that it seems strange to look forward to, but says that friends of hers working on Peaky Blinders and Line of Duty are already back on set and have offered reassurance.
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