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Anna Friel of ABC’s “Pushing Daisies” was a teen star in a U.K. soap called “Brookside.” Her character, Beth, murdered her father, fell in love with another woman and died in prison — off-screen (Friel said she was done with the show, and the producers wrote her out unceremoniously).

After 13 years of little to no decent work, Friel feared “Brookside” doomed her career. Until, that is, she read for Charlotte “Chuck” Charles, the undead pixie in “Daisies.”

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Here are three things we learned about her in the U.K. edition of Esquire:

•She loves that her character Chuck can’t touch her love, the Piemaker Ned, played by Lee Pace: “It’s fantastically tantalizing. It’s the longest foreplay in history. I think it goes back to those black-and-white movies of the Forties where you would watch the entire film and be happy with just a kiss at the end of it.” Continue…

The Former Brookside Actress Has Cracked America With Her Role In This Brilliant Romantic Comedy New! Pushing Daisies Sat, Stv, 9pm

Anna Friel clearly added the Frielgood factor to this US made show that looks set to be the most successful rom-com since Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis went Moonlighting.

Only this time the romantic tension is not so much based around will they/won’t they as can they/can’t they?

Lee Pace plays leading man Ned, a pie shop owner who has a special talent - with one touch, he can make the dead live again, though a second touch sees them off for good. Ned is no Sweeney Todd, mind you. The main use for his strange gift seems to be reviving expired fruit for his pies.

But private eye Emerson Cod (Chi McBride) discovers Ned’s gift and convinces the cash-strapped pie-man to help him solve murder cases (and collect the rewards) by bringing murder victims back to life to reveal their killer.

So far so fanciful, but Ned’s life changes when he is asked to revive his childhood sweetheart Charlotte ‘Chuck’ Charles (Friel) who has been murdered on a cruise ship. Continue…

She shot to fame as Brookside’s teenage lesbian, before wowing Broadway as the stripper with a heart in Closer. In real life, she’s been playing happy families with fellow actor David Thewlis. But now Anna Friel is back in the limelight as the star of Pushing Daisies, one of the year’s hottest new TV shows.

It was when she was driving along Hollywood Boulevard recently that Anna Friel realised that she had made it.

“I looked up and I saw a huge billboard by the road. There was my face, several metres high. It made me feel very proud. Especially,” she adds with a chuckle, “as they hadn’t had to give me any Botox!”

Aged 31, she could easily pass for 10 years younger. Friel, who has lived with Thewlis for the past seven years, laughs off her sex-symbol tag. “David knows just what I look like first thing in the morning,” she grins.

She’s even held on to her strong Rochdale vowels. Friel has reportedly employed a nanny from her home town so that while she is in Hollywood, her two-year-old daughter Gracie — named after Rochdale’s other famous native, Gracie Fields — does not lose touch with the accent, either. Continue…

Anna Friel has revealed she ended her friendship with Kate Moss because she couldn’t keep up with the model’s lifestyle.

The 31-year-old actress said: “For the lifestyle Kate’s said to lead - and I don’t know whether that’s true - she looks incredible.

“I could have been sucked into it, but wouldn’t have survived. She doesn’t have to learn a page of dialogue, and you never hear her talk, do you?”

The 31-year-old, who rose to fame on soap Brookside, is currently filming Land of the Lost with Will Ferrell and will soon begin a second series of hit US show Pushing Daisies.

Friel recently claimed her American accent on Daisies was good enough to fool the show’s crew.

Brit actress Anna Friel is enjoying a spell in the limelight in the US with hit comedy Pushing Daisies.

The 31-year-old, who first shot to fame in soap Brookside, is currently filming TV adventure Land Of The Lost before beginning a second series of the comic fantasy, which debuts on ITV1 at 9pm on Saturday.

In Pushing Daisies, Friel plays Charlotte, the childhood sweetheart of Ned, the hero with the power to revive the dead.

The quirky series has attracted rave reviews in the US, but the actress warned British viewers: “If you nip out for a cup of tea, you’ll be lost.

She added: “It grows on you. It’s escapism, but you have to use your brain.”

Anna Friel was forced to have her teeth fixed for her role in US TV show ‘Pushing Daisies’.

The 31-year-old was encouraged to improve her appearance for the part after the show’s producer noticed her teeth were discoloured and crooked.

Friel was upset by comments at first but went on to book a whitening treatment and have an orthodontic brace fitted in a bid to improve her smile.

She says: “When I first started filming ‘Pushing Daisies’, my agent and the producer told me I needed to have my teeth whitened.

“I’m very good at brushing them. So I refused . Everyone just shrugged and told me they’d do a test film.

“When I saw it, I couldn’t believe what I looked like on screen. I’m not kidding, compared to everyone else my teeth looked green. I was horribly embarrassed.”

Anna Friel talks to Benji Wilson about coming back from the dead in the new US drama to come to ITV1, Pushing Daisies

For ITV1 to spend millions of pounds on quite the most bizarre US import of the year, and then to slap it right in the middle of prime time, is a significant gamble: Pushing Daisies is Marmite television. It’s part fairy-tale romance, part comedy, part detective drama – an other-worldly mix that means viewers will either love it or hate it. But, at a time when American TV is awash with cops, doctors, nerds and heroes, it has the winning virtue of at least being an entirely new idea.

It tells the story of Ned (Lee Pace), a pie-maker who learns as a boy that he can bring dead bodies back to life with a single touch. But it gets more complicated. If Ned ever touches a person again once he’s resuscitated them, they’ll die once more – this time for good. And if within 60 seconds of resuscitating someone he hasn’t touched them again, sending them back to the hereafter, someone else in close proximity will die instead. Continue…

Anna Friel is positively glowing, even though she’s just stepped off a nightmarish 16-hour flight.It’s not her artfully applied make-up that’s causing the effect, however, nor is it the fact she’s basking in the phenomenal success of her new American TV show, Pushing Daisies, which starts here next week.

No, it seems the secret of her glow is purely down to her adopting a full-on, high-maintenance Hollywood lifestyle.

When we ask her to explain what she means, Anna pauses. This is not going to be a short answer.

You can tell because she has opened her eyes very wide. She is standing up, to make her point. Continue…

She shot to fame as Brookside’s teenage lesbian, before wowing Broadway as the stripper with a heart in Closer. In real life, she’s been playing happy families with fellow actor David Thewlis. But now Anna Friel is back in the limelight as the star of Pushing Daisies, one of the year’s hottest new TV shows.

It was when she was driving along Hollywood Boulevard the other day that Anna Friel realised that she really had made it big. “I looked up and I saw a huge billboard by the road. There was my face, several metres high. It made me feel very proud. Especially,” she adds with a chuckle, “as they hadn’t had to give me any Botox!” Continue…

We’ve heard a lot about former Brookside star Anna Friel’s latest hit series, Pushing Daisies, though her fans on this side of the Pond will be desperate to see what all the fuss is about.

There’s still a wait until it airs on ITV1, but in the meantime, she’s been talking about why her other half and that of co-star Lee Pace think the show is the bees’ knees.

Pace plays Ned, a man who has the ability to bring back the dead with a single brush of the finger, but if he touches them again, they stay dead for ever. When he reanimated his childhood sweetheart, Chuck (Friel), he knew he could never touch her again.

Anna explained to The Sun: “It’s the perfect role for any jealous girlfriend or boyfriend - they’ve got nothing to worry about! ‘Ok, you’re going to work today, but you’re not going to be touching, are you? Shame!’

“It’s a mad, visual fairy-tale world, it’s driven strongly by a love story. Chuck and Ned just long to be together, and long to be able to have sex but they’re never going to be able to.”

She added: “It’s not like on Brookside and you’re like, ‘So who’s she kissing this week then?’ The imagination can run wild, they come up with the most genius things.”

So, what does she like about her alter ego, Chuck?

“I liked the idea of playing a character that was absolutely fearless,” she said.

“She’s had a chance to look at life for a second time and she looks at life with big wide eyes and true joy, every single minute.

“And she completely loves Ned, totally and utterly in love. It’s a good old romantic story.”