Land of the Lost's Anna Friel's acting - found

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Anna Friel                                (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

I've always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you're not limited. - Anna Friel

Anna Louise Friel is an English actress who rose to fame in the UK on soap Brookside. Her most recent role had been starring as Charlotte "Chuck" Charles, the female lead in the American television series Pushing Daisies. In the film Land of the Lost, she played a research assistant opposite Will Ferrell.

Anna Friel's education, including that of acting training began when she attended Crompton House Church of England High School, in High Crompton, Shaw and Crompton. She then attended The Oldham College in Oldham. Friel became interested in acting at an early age and received frequent praise for her work at local talent shows.

At the age of 13, Friel was hired for her first professional acting job in the Channel 4 drama serial G.B.H.  Her performance led to a series of appearances on various British television shows, including Emmerdale.

In 1992, she was added to the cast on the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside, where she gained greater exposure in the role of Beth Jordache.  Later in 1996, Friel courted further controversy when she appeared in the television film The Tribe.

In 1998 Friel starred in The Land Girls, which also starred Rachel Weisz and Catherine McCormack; All for Love with Richard E. Grant; A Midsummer Night's Dream as Hermia, opposite Christian Bale, Dominic West and Calista Flockhart; Timeline as Gerard Butler's object of affection; Me Without You opposite Michelle Williams; Goal! and Goal! 2: Living the Dream....

Friel's television work includes The Jury for the Fox and Watermelon.  In 2007 she started playing Charlotte "Chuck" Charles in Pushing Daisies, a new television series from the creator of Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls, on the American network ABC.[9] In November 2008.

Friel's film credits are many, the latest being Land of the Lost with Will Ferrell and London Boulevard.