Shelley Conn

• Name — Shelley Conn • Birth Name — Shelley Deborah Conn • Born — 21st September 1976 • Birthplace — London, England • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 2000–present • Children — 1 • Education — Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art

Shelley Deborah Conn was born in London, England. The family moved around military bases, so growing up, she lived in Germany and Gibraltar with her parents and two older sisters, before settling back in London. Conn acted in school plays. She attended the sixth form college Queen Mary's College in Basingstoke and later the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. She is of Anglo-Indian origin.

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. The following year, Conn made her West End theatre stage debut in three plays 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 appeared television, film and theatre, with a series of leading roles in various small budget European as well as British films namely 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, she starred as Miranda Hill in The Palace, as Jessica in Mistresses and as Neela Sahjani in Trial & Retribution. That same year, Conn appeared as Claire in Dead Set. In 2010, she played Danni Prendiville in the TV series Strike Back. Conn 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, she appeared in a US TV series called The Lottery. Conn starred as Mary Sharma in the second series of the Netflix romance period drama Bridgerton based on Julia Quinn's second novel in her Bridgerton series, The Viscount Who Loved Me. The series was released in March 2022. Conn starred as Beelzebub in the second series of Good Omens, and Indira Shetty (a stand-in for Billy Butcher in-adaptation of We Gotta Go Now and The Bloody Doors Off) in the first season of The Boys spin-off series Gen V, both for Amazon Prime Video.

Conn married British actor Jonathan Kerrigan in 2011; together the couple have a son, Oscar (b. 2012). Conn ran in the 2006 London Marathon.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • The Last Musketeer — Uzma — TV movie • City Central — Naz — Episode: "No Direction Home" • Attachments — Carrie Knowles — Episode: "Just Upgraded" • —2002 — Casualty — Daljit Ramanee — 3 episodes • Hawkins — Sharim Raziq — TV movie • Mersey Beat — PC Miriam Da Silva — Recurring; 10 episodes • Man and Boy — Jasmin — TV movie • Bodily Harm — Tanika — Episode: "#1.1" • Second Generation — Amba — TV movie • Down to Earth — Kerry Jamil — Recurring; 9 episodes • Transit — Asha — TV movie • 2006 — Blue Murder — Emily Saunders — Episode: "Make Believe" • - 2007 — The Innocence Project — Dr Eve Walker — Recurring; 8 episodes • Party Animals — Ashika Chandiramani — Recurring; 8 episodes • –2010 — Mistresses — Jessica Fraser — Recurring; 16 episodes • Trial & Retribution — Neelah Sahjani — Episode: "Kill the King: Part 1" • The Palace — Miranda Hill — 4 episodes • 10 Days to War — Eesha — Episode: "A Simple Private Matter" • Raw — Tanya — 6 epsidoes • Dead Set — Claire — 3 episodes • The Persuasionists — Tamsin — Episode: "Diet Stuff" • Strike Back — Danni Prendiville — 5 episodes • Marchlands — Nisha Parekh — 5 episodes • Terra Nova — Dr. Elisabeth Shannon — 13 episodes • Silent Witness — DI Connie James — 2 episodes • Heading Out — Eve — 6 episodes • By Any Means — Jessica Jones — 6 episodes • 24: Live Another Day — Helen McCarthy — Episode: "Day 9: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m." • The Lottery — Gabrielle Westwood — Main role; 10 episodes • W1A — Azia Zamani — Episode: "#2.4" • Heartbeat — Millicent Patel — Main role; 10 episodes • Back — Annie — Episode: "#1.4" • –2020 — Liar — DI Vanessa Harmon — 11 episodes • 2018 — Sky Comedy: Sindhu Vee's Live and Let Love — Gita — Mini series • Death in Paradise — Marina Shepherd — Episode: "Muder Most Animal" • Deep State — Nicole Miller — 4 episodes • Four Weddings and a Funeral — Liz — Episode: "Hounslow" • The Rook — Danielle Wulff — 4 episodes • The Deceived — Ruth — 4 episodes • 2021 — Star Stable: Mistfall — Sigry Varanger — 2 episodes • McDonald & Dodds — Hilary O'Doyle — Episode: "We Need to Talk About Doreen" • The Irregulars — Dion Cross — Episode: "Chapter Three: Ipsissimus" • Dodo — Headmistress / Mrs Sidiqui (voice) — 7 episodes • Four Lives — Nadia Persaud — Episode: "#1.2" • 2022 — Bridgerton — Lady Mary Sheffield/Sharma — Main role (season 2); 8 episodes • 2023 — Good Omens — Beelzebub — Main role (season 2); 4 episodes • 2023 — Gen V — Indira Shetty — Main role (season 1); 8 episodes • 2024 — Alex Rider — Laura Kellner — 6 episodes • 2025 — Wisting — Detective Harriet Dunn — 1 episode • 2025 — Little Disasters — Charlotte — Main role (season 1) • TBA — Adultery — Hannah Kirkman — Post-production

Shelley Conn is recorded as actress.