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 spent her schooldays at Newcastle upon Tyne Church High School. She 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.

In 2008 she appeared in Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky and the BBC3 pilot Being Human. She appears in the forthcoming short Love You More (directed by Sam Taylor Wood), the series The Devil's Whore and Avie Luthra's film Mad Sad & Bad and plays Margaret Thatcher as a young woman in the the BBC drama Thatcher: The Long Walk To Finchley.