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 Thompson vs. the Aliens Shirley Thompson vs. the Aliens Shirley Thompson vs. the Aliens is a 1972 film directed by Jim Sharman and starring Jane Harders and Helmut Bakaitis. It is the first feature-length film from Sharman, who subsequently directed "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975). In 1950s Sydney, Shirley and her gang discover that aliens have attacked Australia but no one believes them. Shirley is assumed to be insane and is committed to a lunatic asylum. The film was shot on 16mm. Sharman paid for the movie with his own money. It was written as a tribute to old B movies. Sharman later