Daniela Nardini

Daniela Nardini

Born: April 26, 1968
in Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
A Scottish actress of Italian ancestry, Daniela Nardini first shot to fame in the mid 90s playing the part of the feisty and self-destructive Anna Forbes in BBC2 smash hit This Life. The role earned her a BAFTA Best Actress award in 1998 and also earned her a Scottish BAFTA. She received a second Scottish BAFTA in 2009 for her performance in Annie Griffin's New Town.

Movies for Daniela Nardini...

Priest School
Title: Priest School
Character: Narrator
Released: April 19, 2020
Type: Movie
Documentary providing rare access to the inner workings, personnel, seminarians and history of the oldest Scottish institution abroad - Il Pontificio College Scozzese (The Scots College in Rome.)
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Duck Daze
Title: Duck Daze
Character: Johnina
Released: October 4, 2019
Type: Movie
Johnina seeks revenge on her childhood abuser and the community that enabled him, with the help of a duck.
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The Party's Just Beginning
Title: The Party's Just Beginning
Released: December 7, 2018
Type: Movie
In a bleak Inverness midwinter, Luisaidh is careening off the rails after the suicide of her best friend. She medicates her misery with joyless sex, chips and a belief in the power of positive drinking. Surrounded by bittersweet memories, she struggles to find someone to talk to or some reason to make life worthwhile at the most stressful time of the year.
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Bunny
Title: Bunny
Released: June 1, 2018
Type: Movie
An emotionally repressed and traumatised young man is challenged by disruptive outsiders to face up to his delusion, and risks losing the final bond to his dead mother.
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Sunset Song
Title: Sunset Song
Character: Jena Guthrie
Released: December 4, 2015
Type: Movie
The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
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Two Doors Down
Title: Two Doors Down
Character: Caroline
Released: December 31, 2013
Type: Movie
Comedy set in a chaotic Hogmanay party. Beth and Eric Baird's Hogmanay goes horribly wrong as family, friends and neighbours descend on their home. As they count down to the bells in traditional Scottish style, a lively evening is assured as drink flows and Beth's legendary steak pie comes out of the oven. Secrets are revealed, tempers fray, scores are settled and a gazebo is destroyed.
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Rubenesque
Title: Rubenesque
Character: Bethann
Released: November 8, 2013
Type: Movie
A cheeky tale of a female football referee whose life takes an interesting turn when, despite a lack of enthusiasm for anything other than sport, she finds herself working as a plus-size model.
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Sunshine on Leith
Title: Sunshine on Leith
Character: Chef
Released: October 3, 2013
Type: Movie
Davy and Ally have to re-learn how to live life in Edinburgh after coming home from serving in Afghanistan. Both struggle to learn to live a life outside the army and to deal with the everyday struggles of family, jobs and relationships. Sunshine on Leith is based on the sensational stage hit of the same name, featuring music by pop-folk band The Proclaimers.
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The Fantastic Mr Feynman
Title: The Fantastic Mr Feynman
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: May 12, 2013
Type: Movie
Richard Feynman is one of the most iconic, influential and inspiring scientists of the 20th century. He helped design the atomic bomb, solved the mystery of the Challenger Shuttle catastrophe and won a Nobel Prize. Now, 25 years after his death - in his own words and those of his friends and family - this is the story of the most captivating communicator in the history of science.
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Title: The Crash
Character: Susanna Grew
Released: March 5, 2013
Type: TV
Drama inspired by real events that tells the story of a fatal car crash involving a group of young friends and the devastating impact it has on the survivors and their families.
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The Crash
Title: The Crash
Character: Susanna Grew
Released: March 5, 2013
Type: Movie
Student Kate Harper returns home for the Christmas break and joins her boyfriend Tom,his brother Brian and friends Rachel,Leah,Ashley and Ethan to go to the pub in two cars. It is a rainy night and,in trying to overtake a lorry,Tom,followed by Ethan,causes a crash.
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Title: The Fades
Character: Helen
Released: September 21, 2011
Type: TV
Seventeen-year old Paul can see the spirits of the dead. When one of these restless spirits crosses back into the living world, he is forced into a fight to prevent the apocalypse.
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New Town
Title: New Town
Character: Meredith
Released: April 14, 2009
Type: Movie
Starry architects Purves and Pekkala are offered the chance to redesign a Georgian church, but when the head of Scottish Heritage falls from the church tower in a mysterious accident, it becomes a question of whether he fell or was pushed.
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Title: Lewis
Released: February 18, 2007
Type: TV
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
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The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Title: The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Character: Self
Released: February 3, 2007
Type: Movie
Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas presents a long overdue assessment of the rich heritage television drama has to offer. Channel 4 invited over 200 of Britain's top television drama professionals – writers, directors, producers and commissioners – to take part in an exclusive poll to discover what they consider the finest dramas ever produced.
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This Life +10
Title: This Life +10
Character: Anna Forbes
Released: January 2, 2007
Type: Movie
A decade on, This Life's Egg, Milly, Warren, Anna and Miles meet again at Ferdy's funeral. Egg has become a successful writer, Milly a full-time mum and Anna is still a lawyer, while Warren and Miles have pursued 'business' careers. Egg's latest book is based on the group's lives in the nineties when they shared a house. A TV production company, fronted by documentary film-maker Clare, is at the launch of Egg's book and suggests she films a reunion of the group. The reunion takes place in Miles' Mansion over a long weekend and the five old friends discover each other again.
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Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart
Title: Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart
Character: Maya
Released: July 26, 2006
Type: Movie
Drama about a woman who works as a personal shopper in a glamorous department store who becomes seduced by the opulent lives of her clients, with devastating consequences.
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Festival
Title: Festival
Character: Joan Gerard
Released: July 15, 2005
Type: Movie
'Festival' is a black comedy set during the annual Edinburgh Fringe festival. The film is based around both the judging of a major comedy award and the performers at one of the smaller venues. Various plot strands interweave, including the bitter relationship between a famous self-obsessed British comic and his ever-suffering assistant, an actress debuting at the festival with a one-woman show about Dorothy Wordsworth and a depressed, rich housewife who spies on the stoned Canadian theatre troupe to whom she has rented out her house
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Quite Ugly One Morning
Title: Quite Ugly One Morning
Character: Sara Slaughter
Released: September 4, 2004
Type: Movie
Investigative reporter Jack Parlabane stumbles across the aftermath of a murder scene in Edinburgh, and when he shows little sign of shock at the gruesome killing of a respected doctor, Detective Inspector McGregor suspects that he is the killer and Parlabane must clear his name.
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Title: Gunpowder, Treason & Plot
Character: Lady Huntly
Released: March 14, 2004
Type: TV
Mini series depicting the turbulent and bloody reigns of Scottish monarchs Mary, Queen of Scots and her son King James VI of Scotland who became King James I of England and foiled the Gunpowder Plot.
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Title: Sirens
Character: DC Jay Pearson
Released: October 13, 2002
Type: TV
This psychological thriller concerns Ali, a London-based female law officer simultaneously involved in a heated and clandestine relationship with her sister's beau and a city-wide police hunt for a serial rapist. When the squads close in on the boyfriend as their number one suspect, it foretells Ali's need to 'lay down her cards' by confessing her relationship to the man in question. But this may mean permanently losing all ties with her sister. Ali suddenly finds herself torn violently in two directions - but she's quickly running out of time, as new details come to light regarding the suspect's background and motivations.
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Title: Timeshift
Character: self
Released: October 10, 2002
Type: TV
Documentary series which ranges widely over Britain's social and cultural history, its narrative-led storytelling offering a richly immersive and varied window onto the past.
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Title: Outside the Rules
Released: February 17, 2002
Type: TV
A child is missing and a woman is accused of her murder and that of four other children. A forensic psychiatrist is charged with finding out the truth.
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Rough Treatment
Title: Rough Treatment
Character: Eve Turner
Released: May 28, 2000
Type: Movie
Eve Turner (Daniela Nardini) is an ambitious military officer with a brilliant career ahead of her, but when she suffers a brutal attack by two officers, her world falls apart.
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Tube Tales
Title: Tube Tales
Character: Heroine (segment "Mouth")
Released: November 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Nine short stories based on the true experiences of London Underground passengers: "Mr. Cool" (Amy Jenkins, dir.); "Horny" (Stephen Hopkins); "Grasshopper" (Menhaj Huda); "My Father the Liar" (Bob Hoskins); "Bone" (Ewan McGregor); "Mouth" (Armando Iannucci); "A Bird in the Hand" (Jude Law); "Rosebud" (Gaby Dellal); "Steal Away" (Charles McDougall)
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Elephant Juice
Title: Elephant Juice
Character: Daphne
Released: August 23, 1999
Type: Movie
The story of Billy, Will, Jules, Daphne and Dodie, a group of people who prove that there are no secrets between friends. It all comes out in the end.
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Title: Love in the 21st Century
Character: Ellie
Released: July 21, 1999
Type: TV
As sex becomes less of a taboo in the new century, relationships get more diverse, but love is still a complicated thing that tests various couples in this drama.
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Title: Undercover Heart
Character: Lois Howarth
Released: October 1, 1998
Type: TV
Undercover Heart is a 1998 BBC 1 drama series about an undercover vice squad detective, Tom Howarth (Steven Mackintosh), who goes missing while investigating the murder of a prostitute. His wife Lois (Daniela Nardini), and his best friend Matt (Lennie James), who are also detectives, set out to search for him, but end up falling in love with one another.
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Title: Big Women
Character: Layla
Released: July 2, 1998
Type: TV
Drama series centring the establishment of a feminist publishing house from the 1970s to the 1990s.
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Title: Reckless
Character: Vivien Reid
Released: February 6, 1997
Type: TV
Owen is a Junior Doctor who falls for Anna - a sophisticated and glamorous older woman. Little does he know that she is married to his boss, consultant Richard Crane.
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Title: This Life
Character: Anna Forbes
Released: March 18, 1996
Type: TV
Cult drama series about a group of aspiring young lawyers sharing a shabby house in London, charting their careers and personal lives.
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Title: Your Cheatin' Heart
Released: October 11, 1990
Type: TV
In this fondly remembered mini series John Byrne, creator of Tutti Frutti, explores the country music scene in an unsentimental portrait of Glaswegian life and culture. Local food and wine correspondent Frank McClusky falls in love with waitress Cissie Crouch. Unfortunately for him, she’s the wife of a convict, who is serving time for a crime he didn’t commit. As Frank’s life becomes more embroiled with Cissie’s he goes on a mission to track down the guilty men.
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Your Cheatin' Heart
Title: Your Cheatin' Heart
Released: October 11, 1990
Type: Movie
In this fondly remembered mini series John Byrne, creator of Tutti Frutti, explores the country music scene in an unsentimental portrait of Glaswegian life and culture. Local food and wine correspondent Frank McClusky falls in love with waitress Cissie Crouch. Unfortunately for him, she’s the wife of a convict, who is serving time for a crime he didn’t commit. As Frank’s life becomes more embroiled with Cissie’s he goes on a mission to track down the guilty men.