Noreen Kershaw soap opera, "Coronation Street", as well as Channel 4's comedy drama, "Shameless", ITV1 soap opera "Emmerdale" and "Heartbeat" and BBC Scotland"s "River City". In 2008, she directed the feature film "Act of Grace". Noreen Kershaw Noreen Kershaw is an English television actress and director. She trained at the Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre and, at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre, originated the title role of the play "Shirley Valentine", later made famous by Pauline Collins. She was seen in the BBC television series "Life on Mars", as WPC Phyllis Dobbs, the desk officer. She had previously played the roles of Kathy Roach
Shirley Mills Grapes of Wrath" (1940), and the Shirley Temple film "Young People" (1940). She stopped making films in her early twenties, and went on to be a singer and a data processing salesperson. Mills married Mel Hanson, a minister, in 1977 who died in 1995; they had no children. Mills died in Arcadia, California, on March 31, 2010, eight days before her 84th birthday, from complications of pneumonia. Shirley Mills Shirley Olivia Mills (April 8, 1926 – March 31, 2010) was an American actress. She played the roles of the youngest daughter in "The Grapes of Wrath" and the title character