Kellie Shirley | |
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Born | Kelly Jane Shirley 11 July 1981 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 |
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.
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]
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]
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