Shirley Henderson

Shirley Henderson (born 24 November 1965) is an award-winning Scottish actress.

Henderson was born in Forres, Morayshire, Scotland. She began her career as a child singing in local clubs, and then trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, getting her first big break from Leonard White when he cast her in the ITV Children's Drama Shadow of the Stone. She shot to national attention with a role in the popular BBC series, Hamish Macbeth. She has appeared in many productions at the National Theatre in London and had a prominent part in Trainspotting playing Gail, Spud's girlfriend.

She appeared in the Irish film Intermission and many British TV programmes and miniseries, as well as the films listed below. She appeared as Ursula Blake in "Love & Monsters" an episode of the long-running BBC science-fiction television series Doctor Who.

Her most notable television performances were as Marie Melmotte in The Way We Live Now (2001), as Catherine of Braganza in Charles II: The Power and the Passion (2003), and as Charlotte in Dirty Filthy Love (2004).

During the filming of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Henderson was the oldest actress (at age 37) to portray a Hogwarts student. She has also appeared in several big budget pieces, including the two Bridget Jones movies and as a French princess Sophie-Philippine in Marie Antoinette.

She appears in the films Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and Wild Child.

Filmography

• Shadow of the Stone (1987, Children's TV Drama) as Elizabeth Findlay
• Entertaining Strangers (1987, stage play) as Fanny
• The Tempest (1988, stage play) as Miranda
• The Winter's Tale (1988, stage play) as Perdita
• My Mother Said I Never Should (1989, stage play) as Rosie
• Eurydice (1990, stage play) as Eurydice
• Wish Me Luck (1990, TV series) as Sylvie
• Lions in the Street (1993, stage play) as Isobel
• Romeo and Juliet (1993, stage play) as Juliet
• The Mill on the Floss (1994, stage play) as Maggie Tulliver
• Hamish Macbeth (1995-7, TV series) as Isobel
• Rob Roy (1995) as Morag
• The Life of Stuff (1996, stage play) as Evelyn
• Trainspotting (1996) as Gail
• Shining Souls (1997, stage play) as Mandy
• The House of Bernarda Alba (1997, stage play)
• Bumping The Odds (1997, TV) as Lynette
• The Maiden Stone (1999, stage play) as Mary
• Wonderland (1999) as Debbie
• Topsy-Turvy (1999) as Leonora Braham
• Anna Weiss (1999, stage play) as Lynn
• The Claim (2000) as Annie
• Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) as Jude
• The Way We Live Now (2001, miniseries) as Marie Melmotte
• Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002) as Alice
• 24 Hour Party People (2002) as Lindsay Wilson
• Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002) as Shirley
• Doctor Sleep (2002) as Detective Janet Losey
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) as Moaning Myrtle
• Charles II: The Power and the Passion (2003, mini series) as Catherine of Braganza
• Intermission (2003) as Sally
• Dirty Filthy Love (2004, TV) as Charlotte
• Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) as Jude
• Yes (2004) as the Cleaner
• Frozen (2005) as Kath
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) as Moaning Myrtle
• Einstein's Big Idea (2005, TV) as Mileva Maric
• ShakespeaRe-Told: The Taming of the Shrew (2005, TV) as Katherine Minola
• A Cock and Bull Story (2006) as Susannah
• Marie-Antoinette (2006) as Princesse Sophie-Philippine
• Doctor Who (2006, TV series) guest starring as Ursula Blake in episode "Love & Monsters"
• I Really Hate My Job (2007) as Alice
• Wedding Belles (2007, TV movie)
• May Contain Nuts (2007, TV movie)
• Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) as Edythe Dubarry
• Wild Child (2008) as Matron

External links

• Kincardine's People
• Shirley Online
• Shirley Henderson at the Internet Movie Database

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