Anna Keaveney


Anna Keaveney was an English actress best known for her role as Marie Jackson in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside. She also appeared in an episode of Birds of a Feather as a Green Party election candidate.
She appeared in the films Shirley Valentine, The 51st State and in several other TV series including Ali G Indahouse, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Emmerdale, Footballer's Wives, and Peak Practice. Keaveney had a small part in Nellie in Mike Leigh's Vera Drake, and as Rose Pickering in Where the Heart Is, in 2004 and made her final film appearance as Mrs. Bain in Asylum which was released in 2005 after she had died.

Death

She died of lung cancer in 2004, aged 55.

Selected filmography