Shirley Valentine was THE romantic film of the 80s, with Pauline Collins cast as the middle-aged Liverpool housewife who embarked on a cheeky holiday romance in Greece.
The likeable heroine – married to a man who totally took her for granted – found herself enslaved to her husband’s petty demands… As she prepared his chips and egg yet again, Shirley wondered what had happened to her life…
Comparing herself to how she used to be, she realised she felt stagnated and in a rut. Something many viewers could relate to. So, when her best friend won an all-expenses-paid holiday to Greece for two, Shirley didn’t look back.
The film Shirley Valentine, directed by Lewis Gilbert and written by Willy Russell, was first released in 1989. It went on to become a huge hit, even earning a few Academy Award nominations in the process.
Tom Conti played Shirley’s Greek love interest Costas (despite being half Italian and Scottish in real life). As he joins the cast of Midsomer Murders as Sebastian Cabot, ED! takes a look at where the cast of Shirley Valentine is now…
Shirley Valentine cast: Pauline Collins played Shirley Valentine
Pauline Collins portrayed the likeable leading character of Shirley Valentine. Shirley was a 42-year-old bored Liverpudlian housewife who took a holiday to Greece and met a local man who bolstered her self-confidence….
Shirley evolved and transformed herself to the point that her husband didn’
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