Abigail Rhiannedd Hopkins (born 20 August 1968) is an English singer-songwriter, actress and theatre director. She is the daughter of the actor Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, KBE , best known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh actor of film, stage and television...

 and his former wife, Petronella Barker, daughter of the renowned British comic actor Eric Barker

Eric Barker

Eric Leslie Barker born in Thornton Heath, Surrey, was an English comedy actor. He is most remembered for his roles in the popular British Carry On films.-Career:...

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She had small roles in such films as Shadowlands

Shadowlands (film)

Shadowlands is a 1993 British biographical film directed by Richard Attenborough. The screenplay by William Nicholson is based on his 1985 television production and 1989 stage adaptation of the same name. The original television film began life as a script entitled I Call it Joy written for Thames...

, The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day (film)

The Remains of the Day is a 1993 Merchant Ivory film adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala from the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant, Mike Nichols and John Calley. It starred Anthony Hopkins as Stevens and Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton with James Fox,...

and Selected Exits (under the pseudonym Abigail Harrison), as well as appearing in various roles in the theatre. In 2000 she appeared in the David Starkey

David Starkey

David Starkey, CBE, FSA is a British constitutional historian, and a radio and television presenter.He was born the only child of Quaker parents, and attended Kendal Grammar School before entering Cambridge through a scholarship. There he specialised in Tudor history, writing a thesis on King...

 series Elizabeth as Catherine Parr

Catherine Parr

Catherine Parr ; 1512 – 5 September 1548) was Queen consort of England and Ireland and the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII of England. She married Henry VIII on 12 July 1543. She was the fourth commoner Henry had taken as his consort, and outlived him...

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She released her debut album, "Smile Road" (2003), through the music label Possessed Records, the follow-up album "Blue Satin Alley" (2005), "The Lighthouse Keeper" (EP, 2007) and her latest album, "The Memoirs of An Outlaw" (2008). Her music video for "I'll Be Standing By The Bus Stand" was directed by British music video director John James Fox.