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Anna Friel

English actress

United Kingdom · b. 1976

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Born in Rochdale, Friel, 43, began acting at 13. In 1994, on Channel 4’s Brookside, she shared the first pre-watershed lesbian kiss on British TV. Her TV work includes Pushing Daisies, The Girlfriend Experience, The Street and Butterfly. In 2017 she won an international Emmy for Marcella, which returns for a third series later this year. This month, she stars in ITV’s Deep Water. She has a daughter with her former partner David Thewlis and lives in Windsor.

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Question How close have you come to death? Death & what remains read 208 other answers →
I nearly died by burst ovarian cyst in 2001. I was doing the front cover of a magazine and someone said, “Can you not pull your tummy in?” It turned out that I had been carrying two litres of blood in my stomach. I was rushed to hospital the next morning and nearly died of septicaemia. They had to give me two blood transfusions. Had it been an hour later it would have been bye bye.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2019 source ↗

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