Known for

Acting

Born

Mar 23, 1960 (66 years old)

Place of birth

Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Cindy Shelley

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. 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 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 in 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.

Titles

Grange Hill

Series • 1978

Howards' Way

Series • 1985

The Young Ones

Series • 1982

Tenko

Series • 1981

Men Behaving Badly

Series • 1992

Bottom

Series • 1991

Smiley's People

Series • 1982

The Tripods

Series • 1984

Three of a Kind

Series • 1981