Best known for playing Fiona Gallagher in TV's Shameless, and Elizabeth 1 in The Virgin Queen, Anne Marie Duff is an accomplished theatre actor, who has worked extensively with the Royal National Theatre and also in London's West End - Vassa, Collected Stories, King Lear and most recently the title character in Marianne Elliott's production of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan to great acclaim and for which she was nominated as Best Actress at the Laurence Oliver awards in 2008. This was her second nomination as she was also in the Best Supporting Actress category in 2000 for The Collected Stories.