Her forte is the sort of supporting parts that have much greater resonance than might at first seem evident. The new puzzles website is now live - sign up now and enjoy a 7-day free trial! In the meantime, I can imagine Henderson enjoying a break at home in Scotland – walking in the woods, singing. I’ll even give you a hug when you leave, if you like.” She’s half-joking, lips twitching. I’ve gone through all that rigmarole of security. So when we meet in Edinburgh - she lives in Fife, just across the Firth of Forth - I ask the actress upfront whether she will be meeting her maker in a crumple of malevolent mousiness beneath a bridge. “I’m saying nothing,” she says, superfluously. “It was odd going back on set but very comfortable at the same time,” she explained. order back issues and use the historic Daily Express Get a Beurer electric heated throw for just £49.99. 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People love that feel-good thing; it makes people happy.”. How will Frances's story come to a climax? These films are big scale projects.”. For such a slight frame, and at just over five foot tall (she’s now 50 but convincingly played a 14-year-old schoolgirl, ghostly Moaning Myrtle, from the age of 37, in the Harry Potter films), her laugh is large and gutsy and comes easily. Most of Henderson's scenes in Happy Valley were played out in prison. “What makes Frances interesting is that it’s not in her nature to emote or display her feelings and now she’s letting go, she’s losing control and finding it exhilarating," she said. I read a few of the Tweets to her. It was an old-fashioned night out.”. Following her unique voice, as a teenager she used to play gigs for local working men's clubs, singing songs of Abba, The Carpenters, and Barbara Streisand. Henderson plays Frances Drummond, a woman deeply infatuated by imprisoned murderer James Norton. Shirley Henderson (born 24 November 1965) is a Scottish actress. Happy Valley is a British crime drama television series that is filmed and set in The Calder Valley. Before this new film (in cinemas from Friday 30 September), she was visiting nasty piece of work Tommy Lee Royce, banged up in Sally Wainwright’s brilliant Happy Valley. She’s appeared at the National Theatre and was also cast as princess Sophie-Philippine in Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette, demonstrating that she is definitely on the A List radar even if, as she freely concedes, she doesn’t have scripts landing on her doormat every day. “It wasn’t a big fight where we’re chasing each other around the house, it was a conversation, but I didn’t want the day to end because it was a special day for us and it might never happen again.”. There was a lot in there and the layers came out as we worked on it.”. I don’t know what I was setting out to do, but it probably wasn’t terrifying,” she admits with the tiniest of smiles. Express. Most of Henderson’s scenes were played in prison, where she visited a skinhead James Norton. As always, it’s the hidden and the unexpected that appeal to her. Henderson, a personage so tiny she makes an ordinary armchair look downright Brobdingnagian in scale, looks at me with her huge eyes set in her ethereal woman-child face, saying nothing. If the name Shirley Henderson sounds vaguely  familiar but you can’t quite remember why, here are a few recent Tweets about her. “It was odd going back on set but very comfortable at the same time,” says Henderson. Judging from social media, there’s a collective hope that Frances will be tossed off the viaduct. The air is clear, the film, Ready Steady, is a family movie, her part is “maybe not lovely but not hateful - let’s call her reasonable.”. She was also cast as the ghostly pigtailed 14-year-old Moaning Myrtle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It would be invidious to draw a direct comparison between Henderson and her characters, but let’s just say I can see why she is  cast in a psychologically rich roles. “We know Happy Valley is a scary place: but what maniac would let Shirley Henderson teach in a primary school? Thanks! “At drama school, Sarah was outstanding – brilliant at comedy and a real character actress. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express. The series, ... Shirley Henderson as Frances Drummond; Ryan's teacher, and an infatuated admirer of Tommy. “Maybe that’s why they chose an adult rather than an actual 14-year-old.”. My partner and I run choirs in prisons and community choirs outside that ex-prisoners can join when they come out (libertychoir.org) – so we know that it works. See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, Henderson has appeared in all of them, playing one of Bridget’s best friends and usually mourning some sort of break-up. There’s “skin-crawlingly amazing” followed by “weird”, “creepy and unhinged” and “hateful”. A quick run-through reveals roles including Gail in Trainspotting, Isobel Sutherland in Hamish McBeth, Emmeline Fox in The Crimson Petal and the White, Jude in the Bridget Jones films, Claire Salter in the Channel 4 mini-series Southcliffe, and matron in teen flick Wild Child. Shirley Henderson plays Frances Drummond in Happy Valley, Happy Valley: Absolutely nobody saw that last twist coming, Happy Valley finale pics proves drama will come to an EXPLOSIVE end. “She’s a multifaceted character; lots of mood swings and simmering emotions,” says Henderson. See reviews & details on a wide selection of Blu-ray & DVDs, both new & used. Shirley Henderson’s Biography Born on 24 November 1965 in Fife, Scotland, Shirley is the eldest of three siblings, who has soft, raspy, squeaky, childlike voice which she is quite famous for. Save up to £497* a year -Compare Lots of Deals - Switch in Minutes. Shirley described the character as 'complex', She and Sarah Lancashire were in the same class at drama school, Shirley plays Jude in the Bridget Jones films, Alison Garrs appearing to shoot her son Daryl, Throwback snaps show James Norton as gawky Cambridge student, Happy Valley series 2, episode 5 review: A non-stop adrenaline ride, Harry Potter star Matthew Lewis: Happy Valley is more challenging role. On arriving at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she was shocked to be told that she needed to be more tactile. If she hadn’t done drama – “the careers lady suggested it”– she would have gone to art school. I think I’ve been in at least four. She’s terrifying.”, Of course she is. Happy Valley (TV Series 2014– ) Shirley Henderson as Frances Drummond She is wearing a striped Breton top, skinny children’s jeans and carrying a smart Orla Keily bag; she could pass as my daughter. I n the 2009 ITV comedy drama May Contain Nuts, Henderson effortlessly played a … “She’s a complex person and that’s what drew me to the part. As a teenager she sang locally and performed in school drama clubs. As she does so, I can’t help whispering sinisterly in her ear: “When you do watch it, make sure you invite round a friend, Shirley, because you really are terrifying.”. “Oh, I loved it, it was just gorgeous,” she says. A straight-up love story doesn’t appeal unless there was a twist; I could be the cuckolded wife or the shadowy lover perhaps.”. “I get enough work, the right sort of work and I think any more might overwhelm me,” she says. Restrained, undemonstrative, happy keeping her own counsel and content with her own company, Henderson’s still waters run deep. But natural justice (albeit of a violently unnatural sort) will surely prevail? When Henderson sings in the film she looks radiant and happy – I wonder if she enjoyed it or was she just acting? If she were just a one-dimensional monster we wouldn’t be so involved, we wouldn’t care so much.". Other recent projects include Tale of Tales, a mannered, which is to say frightening, triptych of fairytales for grown ups. Born in Forres, Moray, Henderson could only afford the train fare to attend a single audition for drama school and fortunately was accepted. We will have to wait for the reappearance of the sad, sinister Francis Drummond. Sign in to manage your newsletter preferences. Shirley played the serially heartbroken Jude in the first two Bridget Jones movies and will be back for the forthcoming third, but described the shooting process as "hard work". “It was catching up with old friends and a lot of fun, but hard work. “Every song has something about it that gives me a wee shiver… the warmth and the depth, it just goes through your body. Shirley Henderson, Actress: Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker. “There’s a joy at the age everyone’s at now – all in our 40s and 50s. Our best wishes for a productive day. She relishes her breaks between projects – “I like having resting periods because your brain needs to rest and let it all go” – but they don’t seem to come too often. The Happy Valley star may be back in the nick, but this time she's escaping through song. I love singing – it’s just something I find myself doing as I go about my day.”, As a young girl, she sang in choirs at church and at school and, by her teens, Henderson was singing solos in working men’s clubs and in a boxing ring. Amazon.ca - Buy Happy Valley - Series 1 & 2 at a low price; free shipping on qualified orders. She still draws and paints and sculpts for her own pleasure. A source told The Sun that "lots of exciting plans" are in the pipeline for a storyline that will see Catherine continuing to deal with grief over her dead daughter. Henderson was a low-key presence but the nation is in no doubt that Tuesday night’s denouement will be monstrous, unspeakable. The new Bridget Jones is in cinemas now, with Henderson’s reprise of Bridget’s best friend, Jude. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism. Because she’s been filming she hasn’t seen any of the series yet, but is saving them all up. Waif-like, breathy, cringingly vulnerable but implacably dangerous, Henderson’s portrayal of Frances Drummond, a woman deeply infatuated by imprisoned murderer James Norton, makes horribly uncomfortable viewing in the second season of this gripping, grisly BBC series starring Sarah Lancashire. Her other films include Topsy-Turvy (1999), Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002), Frozen (2005), Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008), Anna Karenina (2012), and the Netflix film Okja (2017). Frances's back story has been shrouded in mystery, which Shirley hinted was one of the best things about her. She never talks about her personal life, doesn’t schmooze with Scotland’s showbiz set and engages in solitary pursuits such as gardening and walking or reading to relax. If she were just a one-dimensional monster we wouldn’t be so involved, we wouldn’t care so much.”. She’s currently filming in Canada off and on, up by the snowy Rocky Mountains. Shirley Henderson is in prison again, which is an irresistible invitation to say she has “previous”. She looks astonished, then thoughtful, then amused. Not yet released but widely anticipated is the latest Bridget Jones film, Bridget Jones’s Baby. Or can you one day just pull yourself up and say, ‘I can re-choose – I can do something different.’ ”. Henderson as Isobel in Isobel Sutherland in Hamish McBeth. Sometimes it’s just a series of gates and they frisk you, but with some of them it’s the alsatian dogs that come and check you to make sure you’re not up to anything.”, Urban Hymn starts with the London riots of 2011, with two young women – Jamie (Letitia Wright) and Leanne (Isabella Laughland) – joining in the pillaging.

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