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Anna Friel writes love letters to boyfriend David Thewlis to let him know how much she’s missing him.

The British actress - who has won critical acclaim in the US with her new TV drama ‘Pushing Daisies’ - is currently living in Los Angeles with the couple’s two-year-old daughter, Gracie, while ‘Harry Potter’ star David stays in Britain, and Anna is determined to keep the romance alive.

She said: “I think the element of surprise is the most romantic thing. And I still love writing letters. I know there’s email and everything but I like letters, and I like flowers of course - just like every other girl.

“I’ve been known to write love letters to David. I’m an old-fashioned girl. I like the old school way of doing things.”
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Anna Friel has admitted that she is concerned over the public’s current obsession with body image.

The actress expressed her disappointment at the way women with curves are currently treated in the media, TV and film industries.

Friel, who found fame on Channel 4’s Brookside, once vented her anger at a movie producer who advised her to eat less.

“I told him he could have me or a model without a brain,” Anna explained in an interview with Hot TV magazine. “The obsession with weight today is just incredible. Curves have gone out of the window and I don’t understand it.”
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Sexy Anna Friel is living the American dream as Britain’s hottest property in the States. Anna, 31, has been pulling in huge audiences for Pushing Daisies – despite baffling fans with her “funny” British accent.

But Anna, who is married to Harry Potter star David Thewlis, 45, laughs at any talk of her being a sex symbol.

She said: “I don’t like posed sexy. Quirkiness is sexy to me.” Pushing Daisies is about a pie-maker called Ned who brings people back from the dead with a touch.

Anna plays his sweetheart Chuck, who he revives after she is murdered. But the pair can never touch again as it would kill Chuck. So they have to find ingenious ways to kiss, cuddle – and even have sex.

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.”

Sadly, “Pushing Daises” won’t return until fall, but selected episodes can be seen on www.abc

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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…

Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth lends her voice to an evening to benefit Alveolar Capillary Displaysia (ACD) April 12.

Entitled Kristin Chenoweth, This One’s Personal: A Concert to Stop ACD, the fundraiser will be held at the Helen Mills Event Space in Manhattan. Show time at the 140-seat venue is 8 PM.

The evening is produced by NiCole Robinson (”The West Wing,” “All My Children”) and her husband Craig Snyder, who lost their seven-week-old son Lincoln to ACD this past summer. Actress Robinson told Playbill.com, “Kristin Chenoweth is one of my best friends. We worked together on ‘The West Wing,’ and she has vowed to sing until enough money is raised to pay for the science that will isolate this gene and end ACD so that no other baby has to die in the unspeakable way her little friend Lincoln did. [Robinson and Snyder] have created the 3 Angels Fund for ACD Research, and we will have our first benefit this April 12 with all proceeds going directly to fund science.” 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.”