Shirley Corrigan
- Actress
Lovely, leggy, and captivating blonde stunner Shirley Corrigan was born
on a yacht on the way to Sweden. She has a brother and a sister.
Corrigan's parents separated when she was very young, so she was sent
to a children's home in St. Albans, England, and raised by a foster
parent named Mrs. King. Shirley began acting on stage at age 9. At age
16 she studied poetry, drama, and coral singing as well as joined an
amateur dramatics company. Corrigan was chosen to be a member of the
traveling theatre company The Marlowes of Cambridge University in
England. She then got a contract with the British Council to perform in
a production of "Three Sisters" by Anton Chekhov and was featured in a
production of "The Sound of Music" that was performed throughout
Europe. Shirley was selected by theatre director George Strehier to act
in his revised version of "Threepenny Opera" at the Piccolo Theatre in
Milan, Italy. Corrigan then turned to psychodrama in Brazil and studied
with Augusto Boal in The Theatre of the Oppressed. This led to Shirley
going to Calcutta, where she spent five years studying the condition of
cerebral palsy in children alongside Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa
encouraged Corrigan to go back to Rome, Italy and continue pursuing her
acting career. Throughout the 1970's Shirley acted primarily in both
horror movies -- she's perhaps best known to fright film fans as Regine
in "The Devil's Nightmare" and as Paul Naschy's wife in "Dr. Jekyll and
the Wolfman" -- and soft-core sex comedies (she played the titular
character in the bawdy romp "Around the World with Fanny Hill").
Outside of acting, Shirley was also a model who was featured in print
ads and on the covers of numerous magazines that include "Vogue." In
the early 1980's Corrigan quit acting and got a job as a PA for a
petroleum company in Rome, Italy. She was almost killed by an obsessive
stalker in a car accident. Following this unfortunate event, Shirley
took a course in tourism and briefly worked as an International guide.
She now resides in South London, England, where she continues to act on
stage and works with children preparing them for prep school.
