Shelley Conn

Shelley Conn
Born	(1976-09-21) 21 September 1976 London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2000–present
Spouse(s)	Jonathan Kerrigan
Children	Oscar (b. 2012)

Shelley Conn (born 21 September 1976) is a British actress of mixed heritage including British, Portuguese, Burmese and Indian. She was born to Anglo-Indian parents.

Early life and education

Conn was born in London, England. She is related to actress Merle Oberon (Oberon was cousin to Conn's grandfather).

She attended Queen Mary's College in Basingstoke and Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Conn trained at Bretton Hall. She was a student at Cranbourne School, Basingstoke Hampshire.

Career

After drama school, Conn had a series of small roles in various British films, before coming to prominence when she starred as Ashika Chandiramani in the BBC series Party Animals.

In 2001, she picked up the role of PC Miriam Da Silva in BBC1's Mersey Beat and an irregularly recurring role in Casualty.

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 theater), 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 joined Series Five of the popular BBC One series Down to Earth in 2004.

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.

In 2010 she played Danni Prendiville in the TV series Strike Back.

She was chosen by Steven Spielberg to be one of the leads in the $150 million TV series Terra Nova, which premiered on 26 September 2011.

In 2014, Conn will appear in a US TV series called The Lottery.

Personal life

Conn lives in London. She ran in the 2006 London Marathon.

Conn married her boyfriend of over a decade, actor Jonathan Kerrigan around 2011. They have a son named Oscar, born in April 2012.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1986	For Love Alone	Leo's girlfriend	Film debut
2000	The Last Musketeer	Uzma
2000	City Central	Naz
2000	Maybe Baby	Nurse 2
2000	Attachments	Carrie Knowles
2000	Down to Earth	Kerry Jamil	Series 5
2000–2002	Casualty	Daljit Ramanee	3 episodes
2001	Hawk	Sharim Raziq
2001	Mersey Beat	PC Miriam Da Silva
2002	Man and Boy	Jasmin
2002	Possession	Candi
2003	Second Generation	Amba
2005	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Princess Pondichéry
2005	Transit	Asha
2006	L' Entente cordiale	Punam
2006	Nina's Heavenly Delights	Nina Shah
2006	The Innocence Project	Dr Eve Walker
2007	Party Animals	Ashika Chandiramani
2008–2010	Mistresses	Jessica Fraser
2008	The Palace	Miranda Hill
2008	Trial & Retribution	Neela
2008	Raw	RTÉ Television, Tanya
2008	Dead Set	Claire
2010	Marchlands	Nisha
2010	How Do You Know	Terry
2010	Strike Back	Danni Prendiville
2011	Terra Nova	Elisabeth Shannon	13 episodes
2012	Silent Witness	DI Connie James	2 episodes
2013	Heading Out	Eve
2013	By Any Means	Jessica Jones
2014	The Lottery	Gabrielle Westwood
2014	24: Live Another Day	MPS Chief Inspector Helen McCarthy	1 Episode
2015	W1A	News Anchor	1 Episode

External links

• Shelley Conn at the Internet Movie Database