Anna Friel: 'I've been to some dark places'
By Cole Moreton
00:02 20 Dec 2020, updated 00:02 20 Dec 2020
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She's never shied away from emotionally challenging roles. But there’s one thing that always keeps her grounded. Anna Friel tells Cole Moreton how being a single mother to daughter Gracie has been the making of her
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You’re in that character’s headspace more than in your own, for hour after hour. You’ve really got to live it,’ says Anna Friel, of playing Marcella, a cop with serious mental health issues, in the hit crime thriller of the same name.