Anne-Marie Duff
Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
We're lucky to have the talented actress Anne-Marie Duff (St.Joan, The Magdalene Sisters, Shameless, Bad Sisters, The Virgin Queen) as our guest today, taking Gyles back to her happy childhood in a tight-knit community in West London, where she lay in bed hearing the sounds of piano from the local pub wafting in through the windows, and heard her father singing love songs to her mother. She talks about being a shy and bookish child, sometimes feeling as if she was "on the wrong planet" and finding confidence at a drama group. She talks about her early fascination with theatre, training at the Drama Centre London, her experience playing St Joan at the National Theatre and stage fright. She talks about love, grief, and caring for her brother, Eddie, who had early onset Alzheimer's and sadly died earlier this year.
This is a fascinating, heartfelt and moving interview, full of wisdom and insight. Enjoy this - we know you will. Our thanks to Anne-Marie Duff for her time, energy and for telling her story so beautifully.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Rosebud, a conversation about people's memoriesiles Brandreth. But if I sound a bit, well, a bit hyper, it's because I'm really very thrilled |
| 0:41.0 | about today's guest. She's an actress who I have admired for so many years. I think I first saw |
| 0:48.9 | actually at the National Theatre playing Wendy and Peter Pan. I know I saw her playing Cordelia to Ian Holmes King Lear, again in the National. |
| 1:00.6 | She was so powerful in a Doll's House, the Ibsen play, playing Nora. |
| 1:06.0 | And I think that's when she had a case of stage fright that we might touch on. |
| 1:12.2 | If you know her, it could be because you discovered her on screen when she was cast in Channel |
| 1:19.0 | 4's, shameless. She is an extraordinary actress. If I listed all the things that I have admired, |
| 1:26.6 | Queen Elizabeth I in the Virgin Queen, |
| 1:29.6 | marvellous with Judy Densian, Kate Blanchette in notes on a scandal. |
| 1:35.3 | Oh, John Lennon's mother in Nowhere Boy, that was extraordinary, his dark materials, you name it. |
| 1:42.3 | Have you guessed here what I'm talking about? |
| 1:44.0 | I'm talking about Anne-Marie Duff. |
| 1:47.5 | Very special actress, very special person. |
| 1:50.8 | And I think you will find this is quite a special conversation. |
| 1:55.3 | It is Anne-Marie Duff on Rosebud. |
| 2:15.1 | Anne-Marie Duff, born 8th October 1970. |
| 2:18.0 | My first question to you is simply this. |
| 2:21.2 | What, Anne-Marie, is your very first memory? |
| 2:26.5 | Well, I guess that my first memories would be colours. |
| 2:30.1 | So I would remember the primrose yellow of my cot. |
| 2:39.1 | And I remember it was a very sort of 70s design and had a little sticker of a rose butt on it, ding, ding, ding, ding. |
| 2:45.7 | And also that we had a green glass water jug that we used throughout my childhood for every meal. |
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