Shelley Conn
Shelley Conn | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2000-present |
Shelley Conn (born 1976 in North London), is an English actress of Anglo-Indian descent.
Early life and education
The great niece of actress Merle Oberon (Oberon's brother was Conn's grandfather), Conn trained at Bretton Hall.
She was a student at Cranbourne School, Basingstoke Hampshire, since 2004 called Cranbourne Business and Enterprise College.
Career
After drama school, Conn had a series of bit-parts in various British films, before coming to prominence in Series Five of the popular BBC One series Down to Earth. In 2001 she picked up the role of PC Miriam Da Silva in BBC1's Mersey Beat and an irregularly recurring role in Casualty - both of which starred her current boyfriend, Jonathan Kerrigan.
In 2002, Conn made her West End theatre stage debut in three plays in December 2002, after transferring from Stratford on Avon in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Jacobean Season at the Gielgud Theatre - The Island Princess, Eastward Ho! and The Roman Actor.[1]
Conn has now developed her roles between all three media (television, film and theatre), with a series of leading roles in various small budget European as well as British films; BBC character dramas such as The Innocence Project; and occasional returns to the RSC.
Conn starred as Ashika Chandiramani in the BBC series Party Animals.
In early 2008, Conn starred as Miranda Hill in The Palace, as Jessica in Mistresses and as Neela Sahjani in Trial & Retribution.
In 2009 she appeared as Claire in Dead Set.
Personal life
Conn lives in London, and is dating fellow Mersey Beat and Casualty actor Jonathan Kerrigan.[1][2]
Conn ran in the 2006 London Marathon.[3]
Filmography
- The Last Musketeer (2000), Uzma
- City Central (2000), Naz
- Maybe Baby (2000), Nurse 2
- Attachments (2000), Carrie Knowles
- Down to Earth (2000 - Series 5), Kerry Jamil
- Casualty (2000 - 2002), Daljit Ramanee (3 episodes, 2000-2002)
- Hawk (2001), Sharim Raziq
- Mersey Beat (2001), PC Miriam Da Silva
- Man and Boy (2002), Jasmin
- Possession (2002), Candi
- Second Generation (2003), Amba
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Princess Pondichéry
- Transit (2005), Asha
- L' Entente cordiale (2006), Punam
- Nina's Heavenly Delights (2006), Nina Shah
- The Innocence Project (2006), Dr Eve Walker
- Party Animals (2007), Ashika Chandiramani
- Mistresses (2008 - 2010), Jessica Fraser
- The Palace (2008), Miranda Hill
- Trial and Retribution (2008), Neela
- Raw (2008) - RTÉ Television,Tanya
- Dead Set (2008), Claire