Anna Friel’s height of 5 feet 3 inches (160 cm) is slightly below the average height for women in the United Kingdom. She wears a shoe size 6 (US).
According to data from the Office for National Statistics, the average height for adult women in England is around 5 feet 5 inches (165 cm).
Rhys Ifans has a height of 6 feet 2 inches (188 cm), while Anna Friel stands at 5 feet 3 inches (160 cm) (Credit: Tinseltown / Shutterstock)
“I’m only 5ft 5in and I’d love to be taller – I’ve always wanted a more womanly figure. I hate the idea that you have to be 5ft 10 and a size 10 in order to look good. With the right clothes, anyone can look good,” Friel said in a 1996 interview with Daily Mirror.
Anna Friel on Acting, Motherhood, and Her Career
“I’ve always chosen incredibly different roles and things that are quite offbeat. That way you’re not limited.” – Anna Friel
“The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in.” – Anna Friel
“Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.” – Anna Friel

“I’ve never been onstage in my life.” – Anna Friel
“I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You’re bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.” – Anna Friel
“For me personally, everything is on a kiss.” – Anna Friel
“Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can’t function your brain, forget your vocabulary.” – Anna Friel
“I play a character every day of my life, and I don’t want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I’m not a spokeswoman for Anna.” – Anna Friel
“Well, it’s hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn’t work like that.” – Anna Friel

“People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.” – Anna Friel
“I’ve been onstage once for one performance with four days’ rehearsal.” – Anna Friel
“I have the most lovely, healthy bouncing baby, she was all very compact and the right size.” – Anna Friel
“For Closer, we’ve had five weeks. You go into every single word because it’s very, very concentrated dialogue.” – Anna Friel
“You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I’d never let that happen. If it does, I’ll go and live on a desert island for a year.” – Anna Friel

“We will spend more time in America, we’re going to get a place in LA as hotels aren’t great for the baby.” – Anna Friel
“Onstage, there’s no hiding; you either can or can’t act. There’s no second take.” – Anna Friel
“It’s really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.” – Anna Friel
“I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.” – Anna Friel
“David is 13 years my senior and has much more experience.” – Anna Friel
“And the most important thing – apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character – is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you’re playing a murderer or rapist.” – Anna Friel
“As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible – my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.” – Anna Friel
Anna Friel Nails the Vintage Look With a Blue Dress and Padded Shoulders
Anna Friel, the British actress, is well-known for her distinctive fashion sense.
We’ve talked about Anna and her unconventional style choices a couple of times before, but this outfit is a little different because, for a change, Anna scored a perfect hit.
In October 2013, the brunette beauty looked quite lovely yesterday as she arrived at ITV Studios with her daughter.

Anna kept her look fairly simple, donning a vintage blue knee-length dress with padded shoulders.
She styled her dress with Ray-Ban sunglasses and a braided updo.
The actress finished her look with a matching pair of Roger Vivier “Prismick” sandals — the designer’s most iconic and coveted style.

Anna’s shoes boast 4.75-inch-tall heels and blue and gray suede geometric panels.
They’re from Vivier’s Fall 2012 collection, so your chances of finding them online would be close to zero.

However, here are a few photos for you to drool over.

While this blue-gray paneled pair isn’t available, you can still get your hands on a pair of black suede “Prismick” sandals accented with gold sequins.

