Andrea Riseborough

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Andrea Riseborough (born c. 1981) is an award-winning English actress, best known for her performance as intern Kirsty MacKenzie in the BBC Two drama Party Animals.^[1]

Riseborough is a former member of the National Youth Theatre, and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She has had supporting roles in The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton, Venus, an episode of Doc Martin, Whatever Love Means and A Very Social Secretary. She played the love interest, Dani, in the Mitchell and Webb film Magicians in 2007.^[2]

For performances during her youth she won the 1999 Mike Figgis Award, and in 2007 she won the Ian Charleson Award for her performances as Isabella in Measure For Measure and as the title character in Miss Julie.

She has a role in the Mike Leigh's next film, as well as Being Human (a one-off comedy drama for BBC3), Love You More (a short film directed by Sam Taylor Wood and plays Margaret Thatcher as a young woman in the forthcoming Thatcher: The Long Walk To Finchley. Riseborough is currently working on Avie Luthra's film Mad Sad & Bad, and in 2008 will star in A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians at the Soho Theatre.

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^ Andrea Riseborough plays Labour researcher Kirsty MacKenzie. BBC (2007-01-12). Retrieved on 2007-04-27.
^ Oatts, Joanne (2007-04-27). Mitchell & Webb. Digital Spy. Retrieved on 2007-04-14.