Shelley Conn Movies and Career Information

Shelley Deborah Conn (born 1976 in Barnet, Greater London), is an English actress of Anglo-Indian descent. 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, renamed Cranbourne Business and Enterprise College in 2004. Conn lives in London and dates fellow Mersey Beat and Casualty actor Jonathan Kerrigan. Conn ran in the 2006 London Marathon. 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-upon-Avon in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Jacobean Season at the Gielgud Theatre - The Island Princess, Eastward Ho! and The Roman Actor. Conn has now developed her roles between all three media (television, film and theatre), with a series of leading roles