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 Birth Date: November 24, 1965
Birth Place: Kincardine, Fife, Scotland, UK
Major Honours were equally shared between On A Clear Day and Festival at the annual BAFTA Scotland Awards announced in Glasgow. The Best Actress prize went to Shirley Henderson for Frozen which will be released in the UK in January through Guerrilla Films. (Screen International)
Shirley Henderson grew up in Fife, Scotland and by the age of 13 was singing in a boxing ring between bouts after winning a local singing competition. She went on to sing in the local working men's clubs on Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons. After deciding upon acting as a career, she went to London to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
She embarked upon a stage career that included spells at the National Theatre under the direction of Peter Hall, the Royal Court, the Traverse, Hampstead, the Citizens, Shared Experience and most recently in Anna Weiss at the Whitehall Theatre under the direction of Michael Attenborough. Her first on-screen break saw her playing opposite Robert Carlyle in the popular TV series Hamish Macbeth, which led to roles in Rob Roy and Trainspotting.
In 1999 Michael Winterbottom cast Shirley in his film Wonderland. This sparked an ongoing relationship which continued with her performances in The Claim and 24 Hour Party People. She also worked with Mike Leigh, playing Leonora Braham in the acclaimed Topsy-Turvy. She then first starred as Jude in Bridget Jones's Diary. Other credits include a much lauded production of Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now for television (garnering her a nomination for a Royal Television Society Award for Best Actress); Shane Meadows' ode to spaghetti westerns, Once Upon a Time in the Midlands; Dr. Sleep with Goran Visnjic; Frank van Passel's Villa Des Roses, for which she received a British Independent Film Award nomination; Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself, for which she was awarded the Best Actress Award at the Bordeaux Film Festival in 2003; and the Scottish comedy American Cousins.
Henderson was also surprised and delighted to be cast as the tragic Moaning Myrtle in Harry Potter and the Chamber Of Secrets, a role she will reprise in Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire. She most recently starred with Colin Farrell in Intermission, spent 2 months in Prague filming the lavish BBC Production Charles II: The Power and The Passion and played pivotal roles in Sally Potter's new film Yes and in Alison Peebles' Edinburgh Festival Audience Award Winner, Afterlife.
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