Anna Madeley

Anna Madeley

Born: March 8, 1976
in London, England, UK
Anna Madeley is an English actress. She has been described by the British Theatre Guide's Philip Fisher as one of the United Kingdom's "brightest and most versatile young actresses". She grew up in London and started her career as a child actress. She performed for three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has appeared in three off-West End productions. She has starred in BBC TV films and on Channel 4. Anna has also done work in radio and film.

Madeley grew up in London, attending North London Collegiate School, and began her career as a child actress. She then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Madeley has performed three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company: 2001-2002; and 2003-2004. She appeared in The Roman Actor opposite Sir Antony Sher.

In 2005 she appeared in three off-West End productions (Laura Wade's Colder Than Here, as well as The Philanthropist (directed by David Grindley) and The Cosmonaut's Last Message..., both at the Donmar Warehouse), and rounded off the year starring as both Aaron and Young Alexander Ashbrook in the original Royal National Theatre production of Helen Edmundson's Coram Boy.

In 2006, Madeley starred in two BBC TV films - as the title character in The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton, and in the original drama Aftersun - and the high-profile ITV drama The Outsiders.

In 2007, Madeley appeared in Channel 4's Consent, which combined a dramatised vignette about an alleged date rape with a "real life" sequence in which lawyers and a jury made up of members of the public participated in a trial. In February 2007, Madeley played Nina in a production of The Seagull for a time, when the main actress fell ill.

She was the only cast member to reprise her role in Grindley's 2009 Broadway production of The Philanthropist.

In 2010 she appeared The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, based on a script by Jane English, and starring Maxine Peake as Anne Lister, a 19th-century industrialist who was Britain's "first modern lesbian" and who kept a detailed journal. The film was shown on the opening night at the Frameline Film Festival at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco in June 2010.

In January 2013 Madeley starred in Hammer Films' first live theatre play, a new stage adaptation of The Turn of the Screw.

In 2016, she played the role of Clarissa Eden in the Netflix series The Crown.

Movies for Anna Madeley...

The Last Front
Title: The Last Front
Character: Brigitte Janssens
Released: February 7, 2024
Type: Movie
In the war-struck country of Belgium, one man puts up a last fight.
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Title: Secret Invasion
Character: Pamela Lawton
Released: June 21, 2023
Type: TV
Nick Fury and Talos discover a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls who have been infiltrating Earth for years.
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Title: Anatomy of a Scandal
Character: Ellie Frisk
Released: April 15, 2022
Type: TV
Sophie's privileged life as the wife of powerful politician James unravels when scandalous secrets surface — and he stands accused of a shocking crime.
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Title: All Creatures Great & Small
Character: Mrs Hall
Released: September 1, 2020
Type: TV
The heartwarming and humorous adventures of a young country vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. A remake of the 1978 series.
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Sitting in Limbo
Title: Sitting in Limbo
Character: Amelia Gentleman
Released: June 8, 2020
Type: Movie
Anthony Bryan and his personal struggle to be accepted as a British Citizen during the Windrush immigration scandal.
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Title: Deadwater Fell
Character: Kate Kendrick
Released: January 10, 2020
Type: TV
When a seemingly perfect and happy family is murdered by someone they knew and trusted, cracks appear on the surface of a supposedly idyllic community.
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National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
Title: National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
Character: Dr. Martha Gotterling
Released: September 1, 2019
Type: Movie
An African country teeters on the edge of civil war. A society prepares to drive out its colonial present and claim an independent future. Racial tensions boil over. Tshembe, returned home from England for his father’s funeral, finds himself in the eye of the storm.
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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Title: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Character: Marie Stahlbaum
Released: October 26, 2018
Type: Movie
When Clara’s mother leaves her a mysterious gift, she embarks on a journey to four secret realms—where she discovers her greatest strength could change the world.
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The Little Stranger
Title: The Little Stranger
Character: Anne Granger
Released: August 30, 2018
Type: Movie
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?
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The Child in Time
Title: The Child in Time
Character: Rachel Murray
Released: July 5, 2018
Type: Movie
A successful writer of children's books, Stephen Lewis is confronted with the unthinkable—he loses his only child, four-year-old Kate, in a supermarket. In one horrifying moment that replays itself over the years that follow, Stephen realises his daughter is gone. Kate's absence sets Stephen and his wife on diverging paths as both struggle with an all-consuming grief.
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Title: Patrick Melrose
Character: Mary Melrose
Released: May 12, 2018
Type: TV
A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.
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The Mercy
Title: The Mercy
Character: Sara Milburn
Released: February 9, 2018
Type: Movie
In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover.
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Title: The Crown
Character: Clarissa Eden
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: TV
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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The Ones Below
Title: The Ones Below
Character: Abi
Released: March 11, 2016
Type: Movie
A young affluent couple expecting their first child hits it off with the new couple that moves in downstairs, until a dinner party between them ends in a shocking accident.
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We Are Happy
Title: We Are Happy
Character: Sarah
Released: October 29, 2015
Type: Movie
Sarah and Paul had the perfect marriage, until their best friends turned up.
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Title: Code of a Killer
Character: Sue Jeffreys
Released: April 6, 2015
Type: TV
Based on the extraordinary true story of Alec Jeffreys' discovery of DNA fingerprinting and its first use by Detective Chief Superintendent David Baker in catching a double murderer.
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The Crucible
Title: The Crucible
Character: Elizabeth Proctor
Released: December 4, 2014
Type: Movie
Richard Armitage stars in Yael Farber's powerful production of Arthur Miller's timeless witch hunt parable.
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Title: Crossing Lines
Character: Anne Schutte
Released: August 22, 2013
Type: TV
Through globalization, many countries have been opened and barriers removed to ensure easy trade, travel and cultural diversity. However, this openness has given opportunities to criminals looking to exploit the system and ultimately threaten our global safety. As Europe has become a "safe house" for criminals eluding law enforcers, a special kind of law enforcement team is needed to handle specific ongoing crimes on a global level. "Crossing Lines" is the story of one such team, made up of five international cops, headed by Captain Daniel. The team - comprised of individuals who have little in common - must learn to live and work under the most dangerous and potentially deadly conditions. Housed in an unused storage section underneath the ICC, this mismatched team faces bureaucratic, jurisdictional and cultural obstacles while traversing continents in pursuit of justice.
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One Wrong Word
Title: One Wrong Word
Character: Victoria
Released: February 14, 2013
Type: Movie
Novelist Tony faces the most difficult obstacle yet to publishing his magnum opus: his publishers.
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Title: Utopia
Character: Anya Levchenko
Released: January 15, 2013
Type: TV
The Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of strangers find themselves in possession of an original manuscript, their lives suddenly and brutally implode.
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Title: Secret State
Character: Gina Hayes
Released: November 7, 2012
Type: TV
Secret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business and the banks.
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Strawberry Fields
Title: Strawberry Fields
Character: Gillian
Released: July 6, 2012
Type: Movie
Strawberry Fields is the story of two sisters who both like the same man but in different ways and is a bold and inventive melodrama that offers a distinctively refreshing spin on a complex story of lust, rivalry and liberation. A seemingly carefree woman is seen cycling through narrow lanes before reaching a strawberry farm where she takes on a job, living in a shabby caravan, starting to develop friendships with her co-workers and in particular one rugged farmhand, Kev. Although aloof and mysterious its not until a dazzling woman appears in the strawberry fields that we discover who she was running away from her sister, Emily. Emily is eccentric to the point of dangerous and its not long before the two sisters form a battle of wills with Kev caught in the crossfire (http://forum.movie-list.com).
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A Fantastic Fear of Everything
Title: A Fantastic Fear of Everything
Character: WPC Taser
Released: June 7, 2012
Type: Movie
Jack is a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his big break rapidly turns into his big breakdown, as Jack is forced to confront his worst demons; among them his love life, his laundry and the origin of all fear.
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Words of the Titanic
Title: Words of the Titanic
Character: Reader
Released: April 15, 2012
Type: Movie
Readings from the diaries, accounts and letters of its passengers and crew tell the story of the Titanic, which sank 100 years ago today on its maiden voyage. The cast includes Richard E Grant, Roger Allam, Anna Madeley, James Wilby and Claudie Blakley, alongside relatives of those who were on board. Charles Dance narrates.
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The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Title: The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
Character: Mariana Belcombe
Released: March 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A lesbian in the 1800s who keeps a detailed account of her life written in coded diaries attempts to live independently while juggling an affair with a married woman.
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Affinity
Title: Affinity
Character: Margaret
Released: December 28, 2008
Type: Movie
A grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troubles and be a guiding figure in the lives of the female prisoners. Of all her friendships with prisoners, she is most fascinated by Selina - a medium.
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Title: The Children
Character: Polly
Released: September 1, 2008
Type: TV
An eight-year-old girl is found murdered on the patio of her home. Any one of the adults who care for her could have killed her, but which one?
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Brideshead Revisited
Title: Brideshead Revisited
Character: Celia
Released: July 25, 2008
Type: Movie
Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
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In Bruges
Title: In Bruges
Character: Denise
Released: February 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.
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Title: Sense and Sensibility
Character: Lucy Steele
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: TV
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love?
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Title: The Old Curiosity Shop
Character: Betsy Qulip
Released: December 26, 2007
Type: Movie
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
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Title: Lewis
Character: Anne Sadikov
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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Consent
Title: Consent
Character: Rebecca 'Becky' Palmer
Released: January 21, 2007
Type: Movie
Work colleagues Becky and Steve get drunk at a work party at an up-market hotel and end up having sex. She claims it was rape; he claims it was consensual. A mock trial follows in which a jury of ordinary people, real barristers, solicitors, and a judge hear the resulting case.
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The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
Title: The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton
Character: Isabella Beeton
Released: October 16, 2006
Type: Movie
In 19th century Victorian England, Mrs. Isabella Beeton produced what became an essential book for housewives of the day. She was married at a relatively young age to Sam Beeton, a publisher of books and magazines on a variety of subjects. Not someone to sit at home in the traditional role of a housewife, Mrs. Beeton started work in her husband's business, initially as an editor correcting English but then writing some of the columns herself. It as at this point that she developed an idea for a cookbook and Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management was born. Her life was not an easy one however. The publishing business went bankrupt, she lost two children at a young age and had several miscarriages. She died at the age of 28.
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The Outsiders
Title: The Outsiders
Character: Erica Chapman
Released: October 3, 2006
Type: Movie
The mysterious Nathan Hyde is lured out of hiding by the glamorous Erica, a reluctant employee of a global organisation known as The Establishment. Hyde's particular skills are required to recover a priceless Rubens painting stolen from the Catholic Church, but his assistance is only secured when his daughter's safety is assured.
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Aftersun
Title: Aftersun
Character: Esther
Released: September 8, 2006
Type: Movie
Jim and Sue married young and 20 years later find themselves on holiday in Spain - an anniversary present from their children - with very little to say to each other
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Stoned
Title: Stoned
Character: Stones' Receptionist
Released: November 18, 2005
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band.
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Title: Hustle
Character: Jennifer Hughes
Released: February 24, 2004
Type: TV
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
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Title: The Royal
Character: Nurse Samantha Beaumont
Released: January 19, 2003
Type: TV
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
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Title: Waking the Dead
Character: Anna Vaspovic
Released: June 18, 2001
Type: TV
A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.
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Guest House Paradiso
Title: Guest House Paradiso
Character: Saucy Wood Nymph
Released: December 3, 1999
Type: Movie
Richie and Eddie are in charge of the worst hotel in the UK, Guest House Paradiso, neighbouring a nuclear power plant. The illegal immigrant chef has fled and all the guests have gone. But when a famous Italian filmstar, Gina Carbonara, who is in hiding from a fiance she doesn't want to marry, arrives at the hotel, things get very interesting!
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Back Home
Title: Back Home
Character: School Girl
Released: July 23, 1989
Type: Movie
During World War II, young Rusty was sent to America for safety. It's now five years later and the spunky redhead returns to her native England. From the family she hardly remembers to snobby classmates and rule-filled boarding schools, Rusty must adapt to a whole new way of life.
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Title: Agatha Christie's Poirot
Character: Barbara Franklin
Released: January 8, 1989
Type: TV
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
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Vindicta
Title: Vindicta
Character: Eliza Svoboda
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In just one moment 19-year-old Hannah's world shatters when her parents are murdered in front of her. After fleeing, she seeks refuge with family friends before becoming the embodiment of rage and revenge towards those responsible for destroying her life. An unexpected connection with a handsome young Nazi Officer generates a moment of respite, but she is consumed by vengeance at any cost, no matter what or when. The story is inspired by the true events of women who helped defeat the Nazis during WWII.