Shirley Henderson

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Clarissa (Mini-series) (1991): Dir. Robert Bierman
Feat. Sean Bean, Saskia Wickham, Shirley Henderson; Based on the colossal Samuel Richardson novel this series set in the 18th century reveals the trials of a young heiress in line for an arranged…
Advocates, The (1997): Feat. Ewan Stewart, Isla Blair, Rachel Weisz…; Obscure Scottish legal drama contrasting high powered lawyers with the sleazy underbelly of Edinburgh's streets, and the inevitable merging of the…
Topsy-Turvy (1999): Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall, Allan Corduner…; Rewarding biopic of Gilbert & Sullivan's ('HMS Pinafore', 'Pirates of Penzance') creative partnership that yields not so much drama as fascinating,…
Wonderland (2000): Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Shirley Henderson, Ian Hart, Gina McKee…; A sobering view of contemporary London life as three sisters, friends and relatives struggle to connect in a stressful urban world. Plot mechanics…
The Way We Live Now (2001): Dir. David Yates
Feat. David Suchet, Matthew MacFadyen, Shirley Henderson…; The rise and fall of a Jewish financer is laid bare by the masterful pen of Anthony Trollope. David Suchet broadly, if unlikeably encompasses the…
24 Hour Party People (2002): Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Steve Coogan, Andy Serkis, Paddy Considine…; A serio–comic music industry biopic about one Tony Wilson, founder of the legendary Factory record label and the Hacienda Club, that provides a…
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002): Dir. Shane Meadows
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Kathy Burke, Ricky Tomlinson…; The bittersweet dramatics of dir. Meadows (ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS) get a fresh telling in this Nottingham drama, with the added spin of some ironic…
Hypnotic (Doctor Sleep) (2002): Dir. Nick Willing
Feat. Goran Visnjic, Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson…; The smouldering Visnjic (THE DEEP END) plays a hypnotherapist who has the gift of receiving startling visualisations from the minds of his…
Villa Des Roses (2002): Dir. Frank Van Passel
Feat. Julie Delpy, Shirley Henderson, Timothy West; A visually stylish excursion to Paris on the eve of WWI, in a shabby boarding house run by an English couple (Henderson and West) into which a new…
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2003): Dir. Lone Scherfig
Feat. Adrian Rawlins, Shirley Henderson; 'Dogme' film by way of Scotland, that surveys the doings of four childlike adults, achieving a curious dual tone of whimsical drama and gallows…
Intermission (2003): Dir. John Crowley
Feat. Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney, Cillian Murphy…; Irish crime drama teeming with 'interconnected' plotlines and profane lowlife, dreaming various criminal and romantic endeavours into…
American Cousins (2003): Dir. Don Coutts
Feat. Dan Hedaya, Shirley Henderson; Appealingly down–to–earth Glaswegian gangster comedy about a sweet–natured café worker who ends up entangled with the Ukrainian…
Yes (2004): Dir. Sally Potter
Feat. Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill…; Love and politics are brilliantly and inextricably entwined in this daringly original drama that sees a middle–aged American woman fall out of…
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005): Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman…; The fourth chapter in the unfolding Harry Potter series marks a devastating plunge into raw suspense and truly epic adventure for the young wizard…
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005): Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes…; Postmodern comedy adapted from Laurence Stern's 18th century pre–post–modern novel, has dir. Winterbottom depict a few bare events in the…
Taming of the Shrew, The (Shakespeare Retold) (2005): Dir. David Richards
Feat. Shirley Henderson, Rufus Sewell, Twiggy; An updated version of Shakespeare's comedy by the makers of THE CANTERBURY TALES (2003) series, has Shirley Henderson play a bitchy and ambitious MP…
Marie Antoinette (2006): Dir. Sofia Coppola
Feat. Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis…; Girl wonder Sofia Coppola lets a fetching Kirsten Dunst eat cake (and then some) as a reluctant Queen in late–18th century Versailles, stifled…
I Really Hate My Job (2007): Dir. Oliver Parker
Feat. Neve Campbell, Shirley Henderson, Alexandra Maria Lara; Character–driven comedy focused around a group of frustrated artsy–types working at a restaurant in London's fashionable Soho district…
Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day (2008): Dir. Bharat Nalluri
Feat. Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Shirley Henderson…; Zippy "roaring 30's" comedy about an unemployed governess (McDormand) who finds a new zest for life and love after accepting a job with a frivolous,…
Wild Child (2008): Dir. Nick Moore
Feat. Emma Roberts, Aidan Quinn, Natasha Richardson…; Fluffy teen comedy focused on a pampered American highschooler shipped off to an English boarding school after maxing out daddy's credit card one too…
Life During Wartime (2009): Dir. Todd Solondz
Feat. Shirley Henderson, Michael Kenneth Williams, Allison Janney…; Dir. Todd Solondz recasts his controversial 1998 indie hit, HAPPINESS, revisiting the dysfunctional characters and their future lives in this blackly…
Meek's Cutoff (2010): Dir. Kelly Reichardt
Feat. Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Will Patton…; Another small scale triumph from dir. Kelly Reichardt, here miniaturizing the experience of early American settlers making the treacherous journey…
Gruffalo's Child, The (2011): Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Wilkinson, John Hurt…; Charming sequel sees the Gruffalo's daughter setting off into the woods to discover the 'big bad mouse' – the only thing her father is afraid…
Treasure Island (2011): Dir. Steve Barron
Feat. Eddie Izzard, Toby Regbo, Donald Sutherland…; Eddie Izzard provides plenty of scowl and swagger as the latest incarnation of Long John Silver in this gritty and imaginative adaptation Robert…

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