A Scottish actress of Italian ancestry, Daniela Nardini first shot to fame in the mid 90s playing the part of the feisty and self-destructive Anna Forbes in BBC2 smash hit This Life. The role earned her a BAFTA Best Actress award in 1998 and also earned her a Scottish BAFTA. She received a second Scottish BAFTA in 2009 for her performance in Annie Griffin's New Town.

Filmography

• 2020Priest School — Narrator
• 2019Duck Daze — Johnina
• 2018Bunny
• 2018The Party's Just Beginning
• 2015Sunset Song — Jena Guthrie
• 2015Transsexual Stories — Narrator (voice)
• 2013Rubenesque — Bethann
• 2013Sunshine on Leith — Chef
• The Crash — Susanna Grew
• 2013The Fantastic Mr Feynman — Narrator (voice)
• 2013Two Doors Down — Caroline
• The Fades — Helen
• Vera — Anne Preece
• 2009New Town — Meredith
• Lewis — Magda Donnelly
• 2007This Life +10 — Anna Forbes
• 2006Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart — Maya
• Waterloo Road — Esther Fairclough
• 2005Festival — Joan Gerard
• Gunpowder, Treason & Plot — Lady Huntly
• If...
• 2004Quite Ugly One Morning — Sara Slaughter
• Outside the Rules
• Sirens — DC Jay Pearson
• 2000Rough Treatment — Eve Turner
• 1999Elephant Juice — Daphne
• Love in the 21st Century — Ellie
• 1999Tube Tales — Heroine (segment "Mouth")
• Big Women — Layla
• Undercover Heart — Lois Howarth
• Reckless — Vivien Reid
• This Life — Anna
• 1995Dancing
• The Sherman Plays — Bev, Fiona
• 1990Your Cheatin' Heart
• Your Cheatin' Heart

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2007The 50 Greatest Television Dramas — Self
• Timeshift — self
• 2001Surreally Scozzese: Enrico Cocozza 1921 - 1997 — Self - (narrator)