Kellie Shirley

Kelly Jane Shirley (born 11 July 1981), 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.

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.

In 2024, Shirley joined the cast of the BBC drama series Casualty, playing the role of liaison nurse Sophia Peters.

Personal life
Kellie has twins and gave birth to a son in March 2023. She has won ‘celebrity fundraiser 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 stranger's 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.

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
 * 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
 * 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
 * Casualty (BBC, 2024-) - Sophia Peters