Anna Friel (born 12 July, 1976) is an English actress born in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, in the north-west of England. Friel's acting career took off when she played the role of Beth Jordache on the British Channel 4 soap opera, Brookside; she created a piece of British television history with British TV's first pre-watershed lesbian kiss[1]. After leaving Brookside she appeared for a spell on Broadway in the play Closer. Since then, she has appeared in films such as Rogue Trader opposite Ewan McGregor, David Leland's The Land Girls, which ... starred Rachel Weisz and Catherine McCormack, All