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    Profile of Shelley Richardson



Nationality:   N.Irish
Playing Age:   46 to 55
Location:   Armagh
Hair Colour:   Blonde
Hair Length:   Long
Eye Colour:   Green
Height:   5ft. 9inch
Body Size:   Small
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      Training:

I have trained at the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, in courses such as Page To Stage, Advanced Page To Stage and Acting For Camera. I have also trained in The Crescent Arts Centre in courses such as : Shakespeare's Soliloquay,The Monologue preparation, twelve weeks of Drama and also preparation for audition reading. Recently I attended a seminar in Galway on auditions, hosted by Maureen Hughes (casting director) and the director of " Love Hate," David McCaffrey. I recently studied in Rosie Pelan's Open University course of "Playing Shakespeare," which spring boarded me to be cast as Luciana in Barney Gadd's production of "Comedy Of Error's." I also attended "The Monologues for Audition and Performance," workshop with Rosie Pelan at the Crescent Arts Centre and on and on another occasion Accent training. Last week I went to a workshop with Rosie for Playwrights, Scripts and Style: a guide for the actor.  

                                  


      Film and TV Credits:

FILM : "Breakfast On Pluto," (Directed by Neil Jordan) I play a woman in a bomb blast scene and a dance hall scene with the stellar Cillian Murphy.

FILM: " The Secret Life Of Words,"(Directed by Isabelle Coixset) I was a traveller on a bus and I did some doubling for the main character Sarah Polley.

FILM: "Kings," I play the role of a flirty girl in a bar and a customer in a bakery.

FILM: "Mo Mowlam," I played the role of a politician and a secretary with the legend Julie Walters.

 

Channel 5/ Sky : "Sons Of Anarchy,"FX Productions. I doubled for Katy Segal in the guns scene on the Antrim coast and I also had a role as Kate, when she decides to buy a baby in Ireland with her husband but its snatched by the character Jaks.


TV:BBC Fairy Tales Trilogy (appeared in two of them.) Rapunzel: I played a spectator at a tennis match and Billy Goats Gruff: I also played a dancer in a working man's club.

TV: BBC "Hidden," I was part of the press pack at the shooting of the Prime Minister with Philip Glenister, David Suchet and Patrick Fitzsymons.

TV:BBC "The Fall.," I'm in the trailer for the psychological thriller series with Gillian Anderson, Jamie Dornan and Bronagh Waugh.

TV:BBC & RTE "Jason Byrne Hates..." comedy show. I play the role of a play girl who is part of a human glockenspiel along side Bronagh Waugh.                                         

T.V. BBC "Spotlight," a reinactment of neighbour hood wars. I'm a vicious, aggressive character who has a fight with her neighbour over something that gets blown out of all proportions. 

SHORT FILMS 

 "Mnemephobia," I played the role of an abused housewife by her menacing husband Larry Cowan.    also : "Three seconds...Me arse!" with Deviate films. It's a black comedy about a quirky housewife, who develops a strange relationship with her pet goldfish and accidentally electrocutes her husband Hugh Yeaman.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             COMMERCIALS:

 My first commercial was for (2006) LIDL, then another commercial for the (2011) Irish Tourist Board and also the (2009) Ulster Folk Park and Transport Museum.
I did a corporate video with Una Carroll for Castle Leslie in Monaghan where we acted as members of Castle Leslie's club.






            


      Theatre Credits:

At the Gaiety School of Acting I performed Debbie Isitt's "The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband,"I play a repressed house wife who takes revenge on her husband after discovering his infidelity.

I also played the role of Rosie in Henrik Ibsen's: "A Dolls House," who shares a sinister secret with her other sister's.

At Bart Players I played the role of Luciana in Shakespeare's " Comedy of Error's."

I played the role of Catherine in Joseph O'Connor's "  Red Roses And Petrol," at The Market Place Theatre, Armagh.

                   


      Special Skills: Contemporary dance , accents ,  swimming , yoga , spinning , pilates and modelling (I trained with Patricia Mencarelli) worked for Bella Freud for fittings and Elle magazine shoot, also runway shows for Brian Massey.


      Voice Credits:
My voice was used on a single by Antonina Tramonti at East West Records.It was also used for background noise (using a cockney accent) in the feature film "Kings."


      Accents: Irish ( North and Southern accent depending on dialect) , Scottish , Liverpudlian , Yorkshire , English (RP and Cockney accent) and Eastern European and American.



 

 

 



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