Kellie Shirley

British actress

Kellie Shirley
Born	Kelly Jane Shirley (1981-07-11) 11 July 1981 (age 42) Croydon, London, England
Years active	2002–present
Notable work	Kirsty in in the Long Run and Carly Wicks in EastEnders (2005–2008, 2012)
Spouse	Phil Davies
Children	3^[1]
Website	www.kellieshirley.co.uk

Kelly Jane Shirley (born 11 July 1981),^[2] known professionally as Kellie Shirley is an English actress who works in film, television, theatre and radio. She hails from Croydon via a large Northern Irish family. She has also co-presented programmes for BBC2 and Channel 5. She is probably best known for her roles as Kirsty De La Croix in Sky One returning, comedy series In the Long Run created by Idris Elba. And for the role of Carly Wicks in the BBC continuing drama EastEnders and as Kym in The Office Christmas Specials.

Career

Kellie’s recent Film work includes ‘Bull’ directed by Paul Andrew Williams and Terence Davies ‘Benediction’. She was selected by BAFTA to be part of their BAFTA Elevate cohort 2020/21 programme, supporting working-class talent and underrepresented groups progressing in their careers on screen.^[3]

As well as acting, she has written a column for Closer Magazine and co-hosted the BBC Two show Something for the Weekend with Tim Lovejoy, standing in for Amanda Hamilton who was on maternity leave.^[4]

Personal life

Kellie has twins and gave birth to a son in March 2023. She has won ‘celebrity fund raiser of the year’ (twice) for raising awareness for Mums to-be to consider donating their babies’ cord blood to the Anthony Nolan Charity to help save a strangers life who has blood cancer.

In January 2019 she ran her third London Marathon this time with other former EastEnders actors for a Dementia campaign in honour of Barbara Windsor.^[5]

Filmography

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Mabel Mercer (2002)
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon – Trish Cooper (2002)
Whacked – Waitress (2002)
The Bill – Alanah 2003- murdered prostitute 2 episodes
The Office – Christmas Special – Blind Date KYM (Contestant) (2003)
Wimbledon – Betting Shop Girl (2004)
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky – Violet (2005)
Heidi – Tinette (2005)
Too Much Too Young – Mandy (2005)
Murder City – Episode 'Wives And Lovers' as Lucy Chalmers (2006)
Coming Up (TV series) – Happy $lapz – Lisa (2006)
Venus – Royal Court Actress #1 (2006)
The Sick House – Joolz (2007)
EastEnders – Carly Wicks (2006–2008, 2012)
The Grind – Jo (2008)
Parents of the Band – Esther (2008)
Something for the Weekend – herself (2009)
Lewis – Madeleine Cotton (2009)
"Pencil Full of Lead" (music video) (2010)
Self Centred (web series) – Lydia (2010)
Girl on a Bicycle – Marta (2012)
Frank – Polly (2011)
Tangled up in Love – Bride (2011)
Run for Your Wife – Susie (2012)
RIOT (film 2012) – Louise
Everyone's Going to Die (film 2013) – Ali
Kick (film 2012) – Tracey
Shame The Devil (film 2013) – DS Clarke
The Marriage of Reason and Squalor (TV series 2015)
Doctors (TV series 2016)
Joe All Alone (TV series 2018) - Stacey
Sunday Brunch (TV 2018) - Herself
The Wright Stuff (TV 2018) - Herself
In The Long Run (TV series 2018) - Kirsty De La Croix
Ivy (Short film 2018) - Ivy
Who’s The Daddy (TV Pilot 2018) - Rachel
King of Thieves (Feature Film 2018) - Terri Robinson
Snapshots (Short film 2018) - Marie
Rock With Rudolph (Music Video) - Herself^[6]
Call The Midwife (TV series 2018–2019) - Connie
In the Long Run (TV series & Christmas Special; 2018–2020) - Kirsty De La Croix
Merry Christmas Everyone (Music Video) - Herself^[7]
Biff and Chip, series 1-3 (BBC iPlayer/CBBC) - ‘Mum’ - Mrs Robinson.
Bull (Signature Films/Tea Shop productions 2021) - Cheryl.
Benediction (Emu Films, 2021) - Millicent
Death in Paradise (BBC One 2021) - Pamela Bellman
Meet the Richardsons (ITV Studios - series 3 - 2021) - Jean
Ridley (ITV) - Denise
Doctors (BBC, 2023) – Jo McLennon

References

^ Minn, Hayley (29 September 2015). "EastEnders star Kellie Shirley gives birth to twins Pearl and Louie". OK! Magazine. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
^ "UK actors Madeline Appiah and Kellie Shirley talk about Idris Elba's comedy-series 'in the Long Run.'". 18 November 2019. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
^ "BAFTA Elevate 2019-2020 | Actors | BAFTA". 7 October 2019.
^ "BBC Two – Something for the Weekend, 14/06/2009". BBC.
^ "EastEnders stars to run marathon for Dame Barbara Windsor". BBC News. 8 January 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
^ "The Celebs - Merry Christmas Everyone". YouTube. TheCelebsVEVO. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
^ "The Celebs - Rock With Rudolph". YouTube. TheCelebsVEVO. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2018.