Main content | Search | Section navigation menu | Site-wide navigation menu

Main menu

 
 
 

Shirley Henderson

Actor

 
Clarissa (Mini-series)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, TheAdvocates, 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-TurvyTopsy-Turvy (1999) Aro Favourite
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,…
WonderlandWonderland (2000) Recommended
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 NowThe 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 People24 Hour Party People (2002) Recommended
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 MidlandsOnce 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…
HypnoticHypnotic (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 RosesVilla Des Roses (2002) Recommended
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 HimselfWilbur 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…
IntermissionIntermission (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 CousinsAmerican Cousins (2003)
Dir. Don Coutts
Feat. Dan Hedaya, Shirley Henderson
Appealingly down–to–earth Glaswegian gangster comedy about a sweet–natured cafĂ© worker who ends up entangled with the Ukrainian…
YesYes (2004) Aro Favourite
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 FireHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) Recommended
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 StoryTristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005) Recommended
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)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 AntoinetteMarie Antoinette (2006) Recommended
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 JobI 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 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 ChildWild 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 WartimeLife 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 CutoffMeek's Cutoff (2010) Aro Favourite
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, TheGruffalo'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 IslandTreasure 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…
Crimson Petal and the White, The (TV Mini-Series)Crimson Petal and the White, The (TV Mini-Series) (2011)
Dir. Marc Munden
Feat. Romola Garai, Chris O'Dowd, Amanda Blake
An intensely realised adaption of Michel Faber's novel about an aspiring novelist (Romola Garai) who is unable to free herself from a life as a…
Look of Love, TheLook of Love, The (2013)
Dir. Michael Winterbottom
Feat. Steve Coogan, Imogen Poots, Anna Friel
Steve Coogan plays Paul Raymond, the controversial entrepreneur who became Britain's richest man, in this steamy biopic from prolific dir. Michael…
FilthFilth (2013)
Dir. Jon S. Baird
Feat. Jamie Bell, Imogen Poots, James McAvoy
James McAvoy plays a self–destructing copper whose corruption and bigotry manifest in a spiral of sex, drugs and violence. From an Irving Welsh…
Set Fire to the StarsSet Fire to the Stars (2014)
Dir. Andy Goddard
Feat. Elijah Wood, Celyn Jones, Kelly Reilly
Well–mounted drama in which an aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week–long retreat to…
Tale of TalesTale of Tales (2015) Aro Favourite
Dir. Matteo Garrone
Feat. Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones
Wonderfully imaginative, cohesive portmanteau film comprised of three unusual, somewhat grotesque fairy tales featuring sea monsters, lustful kings…
Stan and OllieStan and Ollie (2018) Recommended
Dir. Jon S. Baird
Feat. Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson
Delightful biopic based on the later years of the lives of the comedy double act Laurel and Hardy, focusing on the duo's personal relationship while…
ABC Murders, The (TV Mini-series)ABC Murders, The (TV Mini-series) (2018)
Dir. Alex Gabassi
Feat. John Malkovich, Andrew Buchan, Eamon Farren
Three–part adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel with John Malkovich refreshing as retired detective Hercule Poirot who is here targeted by a…

Results Page   | 1 |    Paginate

Display
Display
Order
Order