Shirley Henderson

Shirley Henderson

Birthday:Nov 24, 1965
Place of birth:Forres, Morayshire, Scotland

Filmography

2004
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Comedy Romance Romantic Comedy Awkward Comedy
6.0

20041h 48min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: Beeban Kidron

Bridget Jones is still dating her new love, barrister Mark Darcy, for a perfect six weeks. However, while on assignment in Thailand with her disreputable ex, Daniel Cleaver, claiming to be reformed, Bridget questions if she has everything she's ever dreamed of having.

2003
Intermission

Intermission

Comedy Crime Drama Dark Comedy Organized Crime
6.8

20031h 45min

Ireland, United Kingdom

Director: John Crowley

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.

2002
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

Comedy Drama Romance Dark Comedy Tragic Drama
6.8

20021h 51min

Denmark, France

Director: Lone Scherfig

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.


24 Hour Party People

24 Hour Party People

Comedy Drama Music Satire Entertainment Industry Drama
7.3

20021h 57min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.

2001
Bridget Jones's Diary

Bridget Jones's Diary

Comedy Romance Drama Romantic Comedy Everyday Life Drama
6.8

20011h 37min

Ireland, United States

Director: Sharon Maguire

Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against expectations. As a New Year's resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. Her charming boss takes an interest in her, and she cannot stop running into a rather disagreeable acquaintance whom Bridget cannot help finding quietly attractive.

2000
The Claim

The Claim

Drama Romance Western Tragic Drama Passionate Romance
6.3

20002h

United Kingdom, Canada

Director: Michael Winterbottom

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 is evidently the man's daughter.

1999
Topsy-Turvy

Topsy-Turvy

Drama Music Comedy History
7.3

19992h 40min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: Mike Leigh

For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. But in 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater trade, their latest work, "Princess Ida", receives lukewarm press. In an effort to reconcile their creative differences and drawing inspiration from Japanese culture, they went on to create the hit opera "The Mikado", one of the duo's greatest successes.

1995
Rob Roy

Rob Roy

Adventure History Drama Action War
6.9

19952h 19min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: Michael Caton-Jones

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.