Cynthia Shelley (born 23 March 1960 in Barnet, Hertfordshire) is an English actress, known for her roles in two BBC television dramas of the 1980s: Alice Courtenay in Tenko and Abby Urquhart in Howards' Way.
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Shelley made her television debut playing Rhiannon, one of the party girls in The Young Ones episode "Interesting". A week later, she played the girl on the radio in the "Flood" episode of the same series.
Shelley played Alice Courtenay in the World War II-set series Tenko. Shelley appeared in nine episodes of series three[1] and appeared in Tenko Reunion the following year. From 1985 to 1990, she was a regular cast member for six series of Howards' Way in the role of Abby Urquhart/Hudson.
Shelley later made appearances The Tripods, Bottom, Men Behaving Badly, A Prince Among Men and Grange Hill.
She replaced Charlotte Long for the second series of The Tripods after Long's sudden death in a road accident.
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External links edit
- Cindy Shelley at IMDb
- http://www.zetaminor.com/cult/howards_way/howards_way_cast.htm
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/tripods/index.shtml
- http://users.bestweb.net/~foosie/tenkocst.htm Archived 13 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- http://www.sitcom.co.uk/young_ones/
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