Anna Friel plays the mother of a transgender child in a moving and thought-provoking drama.
From being involved in one of TV’s first lesbian kisses in Brookside, to playing a sex worker in The Street and a disturbed detective in Marcella, Anna Friel has never shied away from a tough role.
But now she’s facing one of the most emotional challenges of her career as she plays the mother of a ‘gender variant’ child in new ITV drama Butterfly.
The sensitively handled threepart series sees her play devoted mother-of-two and teaching assistant Vicky Duffy, whose 11-year-old-son, Max, reveals that he identifies as a girl.
UNDERSTANDING
Max has tried to suppress his feelings, particularly to please his father, Stephen (Emmett J Scanlan), but as he starts senior school and puberty beckons, the pain he feels at having to conform becomes too hard to bear and he announces that from now on he wants to live his life as a girl, Maxine.
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FOUL play
How football chief Luis Rubiales kissed his career goodbye....
Charm school
The wizards are back in an enchanting revival of the hit comedy
Fallen heroes
A terrorist group targets Paris in a thrilling spin-off series
Enemy within
Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell return to unravel an explosive conspiracy
When grannies go BAD...
Anita Dobson, Robert Lindsay and Sue Johnston star in a gory new series about flesh-eating pensioners
Tough JUSTICE
Sharon D Clarke is a troubleshooting cop tackling the police force's hardest cases
Living in hope
Toni O'Rourke and Colin Morgan star in a psychological drama as grieving parents pushed to the edge
Taking the HEAT
The pressure mounts on DCI Henderson and DI Ray to catch the killer
Exposure of EVIL
Kate Winslet tells the true story of intrepid war photographer Lee Miller
Life of Brian
Jacob Fortune-Lloyd plays troubled music mogul Brian Epstein in a touching biopic about The Beatles' manager