Shirley Henderson
Actor
Shirley Henderson is a Scottish film and television actress, best known for playing Moaning Myrtle in the "Harry Potter" movie franchise as well as Jude in several "Bridget Jones" movies. She's a graduate from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, England, UK.
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The Skywalker Legacy (2020)
As: Herself
The story lives forever in this feature-length documentary that charts the making of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Debs Gardner-Paterson
Stars: Oscar Isaac | J.J. Abrams | Adam Driver | John Boyega | Daisy Ridley
Greed (2019)
A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Steve Coogan | Shirley Henderson | Asa Butterfield | Isla Fisher | Sophie Cookson
Stan & Ollie (2018)
As: Lucille Hardy
A look at the personal and professional lives of the popular comedic duo, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
Directed by: Jon S. Baird
Stars: Danny Huston | Steve Coogan | Shirley Henderson | Nina Arianda | John C. Reilly
Never Steady, Never Still (2017)
As: Judy
A mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta's oil field work camps.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Kathleen Hepburn
Stars: Shirley Henderson | Nicholas Campbell | Jared Abrahamson | Théodore Pellerin | Mary Galloway
Okja (2017)
As: Jennifer
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Bong Joon-ho
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal | Paul Dano | Tilda Swinton | Lily Collins | Ahn Seo-hyun
T2: Trainspotting (2017)
As: Gail Houston
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Stars: Ewen Bremner | Ewan McGregor | Robert Carlyle | Anjela Nedyalkova | Jonny Lee Miller
On the Road (2016)
As: Joe's Mum
North London band Wolf Alice have had a rise to prominence that might have been bends-inducing were it not for their tightness as a group. In summer of 2015, the deliciously dark, hook-and-riff-filled sound of their debut album, My Love Is Cool, inspired the NME to crown it: "the debut of the decade". As a measure of their impact, BAFTA-winning filmmaker Michael Winterbottom joined the band ...
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Shirley Henderson | Paul Popplewell | Jamie Quinn | James McArdle | Leah Harvey
Bridget Jones's Baby (2016)
As: Jude
Breaking up with Mark Darcy leaves Bridget Jones over 40 and single again. Feeling that she has everything under control, Jones decides to focus on her career as a top news producer. Suddenly, her love life comes back from the dead when she meets a dashing and handsome American named Jack. Things couldn't be better, until Bridget discovers that she is pregnant. Now, the befuddled mom-to-be must ...
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Sharon Maguire
Stars: Colin Firth | Renée Zellweger | Patrick Dempsey | Gemma Jones | Jim Broadbent
Urban Hymn (2015)
As: Kate Linton
Set against the backdrop of the 2011 UK summer riots, Jamie, a young female offender who possesses a remarkable voice, meets a determined social worker who inspires her to use it.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Michael Caton-Jones
Stars: Steven Mackintosh | Shirley Henderson | Ian Hart | Isabella Laughland | Letitia Wright
The Tale of Tales (2015)
As: Imma
The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomonte becomes obsessed with a flea and neglects his daughter.
Runtime: 134 min.
Directed by: Matteo Garrone
Stars: Vincent Cassel | John C. Reilly | Salma Hayek | Christian Lees | Jonah Lees
Set Fire to the Stars (2014)
As: Shirley
An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Andy Goddard
Stars: Elijah Wood | Steven Mackintosh | Kelly Reilly | Shirley Henderson | Celyn Jones
Filth (2013)
As: Bunty Blades
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Jon S. Baird
Stars: Eddie Marsan | James McAvoy | Imogen Poots | Jamie Bell | Joanne Froggatt
In Secret (2013)
As: Suzanne
In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominos with an eclectic group. After she meets her husband’s alluring friend, Laurent, she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences. Based on Emile ...
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Charlie Stratton
Stars: Tom Felton | Oscar Isaac | Matt Lucas | Jessica Lange | Elizabeth Olsen
The Look of Love (2013)
As: Rusty Humphries
Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Anna Friel | Steve Coogan | Tamsin Egerton | Imogen Poots | Chris Addison
Everyday (2012)
As: Karen
This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.
Runtime: 106 min.
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Shirley Henderson | Peter Gunn | John Simm | Shaun Kirk | Robert Kirk
Anna Karenina (2012)
As: Opera House Wife
Trapped in a loveless marriage, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Joe Wright
Stars: Keira Knightley | Jude Law | Matthew Macfadyen | Kelly Macdonald | Aaron Taylor-Johnson
The Gruffalo's Child (2011)
As: The Gruffalo's Child (Voice)
A follow up to the 2009 animated feature and adapted from the childrens' book by Julia Donaldson and Alex Scheffler. The Gruffalo's child explores the deep dark wood in search of the big bad mouse and meets the Snake, Owl and Fox in the process. She eventually finds the mouse, who manages to outwit her like the Gruffalo before!
Runtime: 27 min.
Directed by: Uwe Heidschötter | Johannes Weiland
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter | Rob Brydon | John Hurt | Tom Wilkinson | Robbie Coltrane
The Nutcracker (2010)
As: The Nutcracker (voice)
Set in 1920's Vienna, this is the tale of a little girl, whose godfather gives her a special doll one Christmas Eve.
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Andrei Konchalovsky
Stars: Charlie Rowe | John Turturro | Elle Fanning | Frances de la Tour | Nathan Lane
Meek's Cutoff (2010)
As: Glory White
Set in 1845, this drama follows a group of settlers as they embark on a punishing journey along the Oregon Trail. When their guide leads them astray, the expedition is forced to contend with the unforgiving conditions of the high plain desert.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Kelly Reichardt
Stars: Michelle Williams | Bruce Greenwood | Will Patton | Zoe Kazan | Paul Dano
Life During Wartime (2009)
As: Joy
Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in an almost war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos. Follows Solondz's film Happiness (1998).
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Todd Solondz
Stars: Shirley Henderson | Ally Sheedy | Allison Janney | Paul Reubens | Michael Kenneth Williams
May Contain Nuts (2009)
As: Alice
Alice and David Chaplin and their children move to a gated private housing estate where status is all-important. Queen Bee Ffion, who addresses her daughter in French even in shops, sets the snobby standard and Alice is alarmed at the parents'competition to get their daughters into the fashionable Chelsea college rather than the despised local comprehensive school. Sarah McDonald even gets a job as ...
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: John Henderson
Stars: Shirley Henderson | Sophie Thompson | Elizabeth Berrington | Darren Boyd | Bebe Cave
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
As: Edythe Dubarry
Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Bharat Nalluri
Stars: Lee Pace | Ciarán Hinds | Amy Adams | Frances McDormand | Clare Clifford
Wild Child (2008)
As: Matron
Rebellious 16 year old Poppy from Mailibu is sent to an English boarding school. Realising her Father isn't coming back to rescue her she tries to get expelled.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Nick Moore
Stars: Emma Roberts | Aidan Quinn | Kimberley Nixon | Juno Temple | Alex Pettyfer
Wedding Belles (2007)
As: Kelly
A darkly humorous look at the lives and loves of four modern women, each with their own remarkable, intriguing and often tragic stories.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Philip John
Stars: Shirley Henderson | Brendan Coyle | Shauna Macdonald | Kathleen McDermott | Michelle Gomez
I Really Hate My Job (2007)
As: Alice
'Every day is another day closer to the day I'll never have to do this again.' Five women, one restaurant, one night, one birthday, one breakdown. Then the phone rings. A famous actor is coming for dinner. I Really Hate My Job is the story of an evening in a café in London's Soho.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Oliver Parker
Stars: Shirley Henderson | Alexandra Maria Lara | Oana Pellea | Neve Campbell | Anna Maxwell Martin
Marie Antoinette (2006)
As: Aunt Sophie
The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Sofia Coppola
Stars: Jason Schwartzman | Rose Byrne | Rip Torn | Kirsten Dunst | Judy Davis
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
As: Moaning Myrtle
Harry starts his fourth year at Hogwarts, competes in the treacherous Triwizard Tournament and faces the evil Lord Voldemort. Ron and Hermione help Harry manage the pressure – but Voldemort lurks, awaiting his chance to destroy Harry and all that he stands for.
Runtime: 157 min.
Directed by: Mike Newell
Stars: Ralph Fiennes | Michael Gambon | Rupert Grint | Daniel Radcliffe | Emma Watson
Einstein's Big Idea (2005)
As: Mileva Maric
Albert Einstein's greatest contributions to humanity....
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Gary Johnstone
Stars: Julian Rhind-Tutt | Shirley Henderson | Aidan McArdle | Anton Lesser | Andrew Callaway
A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
As: Susannah / herself
Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Rob Brydon | Steve Coogan | Shirley Henderson | Raymond Waring | Keeley Hawes
Dirty Filthy Love (2005)
As: Charlotte
A man's life falls apart as a result of his affliction with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Syndrome in this touching and funny tale.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Adrian Shergold
Stars: Shirley Henderson | Michael Sheen | Claudie Blakley | Anastasia Griffith | Adrian Bower
Frozen (2005)
As: Kath
It's two years since the mysterious disappearance of Kath Swarbrick's older sister Annie, but Kath remains haunted by a need to know what happened. When police investigations wind down, Kath continues the search herself. She gets nowhere until she steals some CCTV footage of her sister on her final day. Visiting the spot where Annie was filmed, Kath becomes convinced she has found a portal to another ...
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Juliet McKoen
Stars: Shirley Henderson | Roshan Seth | Ger Ryan | Ralf Little | Richard Armitage
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
As: Jude
Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy. Apart from discovering that he's a conservative voter, she has to deal with a new boss, a strange contractor and the worst vacation of her life.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Beeban Kidron
Stars: Colin Firth | Renée Zellweger | Gemma Jones | Hugh Grant | Jim Broadbent
Yes (2004)
As: Cleaner
She is a scientist. He is a Lebanese doctor. They meet at a banquet and fall into a carefree, passionate relationship. But difficulties abound because of his heritage and her loveless marriage. She flies to Havana to sort things out on the beach and in the cabarets. She sends him a ticket, but harbors no illusions that He will join her in this Caribbean melting pot.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Sally Potter
Stars: Shirley Henderson | Simon Abkarian | Sam Neill | Joan Allen | Stephanie Leonidas
American Cousins (2003)
As: Alice
Two American mafiosi, Gino and Settimo, take refuge in the Glasgow cafe owned by their Scottish/Italian cousin, but he isn't the tough guy they'd expected. Gino and Settimo try to repay Roberto's hospitality by chasing off a debt collector who wants his property, but their strong arm tactics alarm him and he realises they aren't the PR consultants they claimed to be.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Don Coutts
Stars: Danny Nucci | Shirley Henderson | Vincent Pastore | Gerald Lepkowski | Eva Coutts
Intermission (2003)
As: Sally
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: John Crowley
Stars: Cillian Murphy | Colin Farrell | Colm Meaney | Brían F. O'Byrne | Kelly Macdonald
AfterLife (2003)
High-flying journalist Kenny Brogan (Kevin McKidd) is working on the story that could make his career when he is told his mother is terminally ill. With his father no longer in the picture, this means that the responsibility for looking after his Down's Syndrome sister Roberta (Paula Sage) falls to him. Conflicted by career aspirations and the difficulties in caring for his sister, Kenny at first begins to ...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Alison Peebles
Stars: Shirley Henderson | Kevin McKidd | Lindsay Duncan | James Laurenson | Paula Sage
Fishy (2003)
As: Glenda Sands
Glenda, an unemployed misfit, falls in love with Freddie, her goldfish. As her search for work flounders, her love for Freddie deepens and she feels her place is at his side…
Runtime: 10 min.
Directed by: Déva Palmier
Stars: Shirley Henderson | Anne Lacey
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002)
As: Alice
The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Lone Scherfig
Stars: Shirley Henderson | Mads Mikkelsen | Jamie Sives | Adrian Rawlins | Lisa McKinlay
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
As: Myrtle Warren
Ignoring threats to his life, Harry returns to Hogwarts to investigate – aided by Ron and Hermione – a mysterious series of attacks.
Runtime: 161 min.
Directed by: Chris Columbus
Stars: Richard Harris | Rupert Grint | Alan Rickman | Daniel Radcliffe | Emma Watson
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)
As: Shirley
Dek, a decent but somewhat dull man, enjoys a happy existence with beloved girlfriend Shirley. They live together with her 12-year-old, Marlene: her daughter by the delinquent Jimmy, who flew the coop years ago and hasn't been heard from since. Dek loves Shirley so much that he proposes to her on national television.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Shane Meadows
Stars: Shirley Henderson | Rhys Ifans | Ricky Tomlinson | Kathy Burke | Robert Carlyle
Villa Des Roses (2002)
As: Ella
In 1913, a young woman starts work as a maid in a seedy Parisian boarding house full of eccentrics. When she falls in love with one of the guests, she must choose between her son and her new romance.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Frank van Passel
Stars: Shirley Henderson | Harriet Walter | Shaun Dingwall | Julie Delpy | Timothy West
24 Hour Party People (2002)
As: Lindsay Wilson
In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Lennie James | Steve Coogan | Shirley Henderson | Paddy Considine | Sean Harris
Doctor Sleep (2002)
As: Janet Losey
While treating a policewoman for smoking, hypnotherapist Michael Strother has a telepathic vision of a young girl floating beneath the surface of a stream. The escaped victim of a ritualistic serial killer, the girl has become mute, and Michael is called upon by Scotland Yard to unlock the secrets she holds in order to catch a man who believes he has discovered the key to immortality.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Nick Willing
Stars: Miranda Otto | Shirley Henderson | Paddy Considine | Corin Redgrave | Goran Visnjic
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
As: Jude
A chaotic Bridget Jones meets a snobbish lawyer, and he soon enters her world of imperfections.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Sharon Maguire
Stars: Colin Firth | Renée Zellweger | Gemma Jones | Hugh Grant | Jim Broadbent
The Claim (2000)
As: Annie
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his crew scouts the town as a location for a new railroad line and a young woman suddenly appears in the town and ...
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Peter Mullan | Milla Jovovich | Sarah Polley | Nastassja Kinski | Wes Bentley
Topsy-Turvy (1999)
As: Leonora Braham (Yum-Yum)
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.
Runtime: 154 min.
Directed by: Mike Leigh
Stars: Allan Corduner | Dexter Fletcher | Shirley Henderson | Timothy Spall | Jim Broadbent
Wonderland (1999)
As: Debbie
There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair salon after hours; her son spends part of the weekend with her ex, a man with a hair-trigger temper. Molly is expecting her first baby and its father acts as if the ...
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Shirley Henderson | Molly Parker | Ian Hart | Gina McKee | John Simm
Bumping the Odds (1997)
The first of three contemporary love stories showing in the Love Bites 1997 season. A working-class Scotswoman tries to save her deeply indebted friend from Glasgow’s inner city loan sharks.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Rob Rohrer
Stars: Shirley Henderson | Sharon Small | Joseph McFadden
Trainspotting (1996)
As: Gail Houston
Mark Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Stars: Ewen Bremner | Ewan McGregor | Robert Carlyle | Jonny Lee Miller | Kelly Macdonald
Rob Roy (1995)
As: Morag
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.
Runtime: 139 min.
Directed by: Michael Caton-Jones
Stars: John Hurt | Tim Roth | Liam Neeson | Jessica Lange | Eric Stoltz
Desire (1992)
As: Mary
A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple man. They begin a torrid affair despite the differences in their lifestyles. He asks her to marry him but she refuses, and they continue their separate lives but also continue their affair through the years, loving each other despite their differences.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Andrew Birkin
Stars: Greta Scacchi | Vincent D'Onofrio | Hanns Zischler | Barbara Jones | Anaïs Jeanneret