Acting
Shirley Ellis
Acting
Biography
Shirley Ellis is a South African producer, director, actress, teacher, trainer, mentor, coach and workshop facilitator best known in television for her starring role as Malherbe in the SABC2 thriller series Arsenaal, in 2002. She currently runs interactive workshops to equip people with key life skills to understand and cope with stress. Ellis graduated with a BA Degree and Performer's Diploma in Speech and Drama: bilingual, from the University of Cape Town in 1984. Originally from Bellville, Western Cape she now resides in Simon's Town.
Television & Series (1)
Torings (Towers) is a South African period drama television series created by Paul C. Venter as a sequel to his series Konings which continues to tell the story of the fierce and often bloody struggle between the Groenewald and Roodt families for control of the Superspaar company, placed in the context of the larger political post-Apartheid struggle in South Africa. The Konings/Torings saga is the story of the fierce and often bloody struggle between Dolf Groenewald (Dawid Minnaar) and Herman Roodt (Albert Maritz) for control of the Superspaar company, placed in the context of the larger political post-Apartheid struggle in South Africa. The eternal feud between the Groenewalds and Roodts becomes fiercer as Dolf recovers from his stroke and from the beginning is a threat for the Roodts