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 Valentine (film) seem recycled directly from greeting cards . . . If there is a shred of plausibility in the film, it comes from Bernard Hill's performance as Shirley Valentine's husband. He isn't a bad bloke, just a tired and indifferent one, and when he follows his wife to Greece at the end of the film there are a few moments so truthful that they show up the artifice of the rest." Shirley Valentine (film) Shirley Valentine is an award-winning 1989 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert. The screenplay by Willy Russell is based on his 1986 one-character play of