Kelly Wenham
Birthday: Born in 1983-11-28 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Kelly Wenham (born 28 November 1983) is an English actress, director, screenwriter and comedian. Wenham was born in Stockport. Her early career was spent in modelling, before answering a casting call for a bit part in Always and Everyone. Following this she entered drama school, but quit three months later after being cast in a regular role in Where the Heart Is, as Jess Buckley, a role she kept for three years. In 2003 Wenham appeared in Will Young's music video “Leave Right Now”. After leaving Where the Heart Is, she appeared in Coronation Street as barmaid Danielle Spencer. Wenham also appeared in 'Waterloo Road' series 6 episode 14 as union rep leader Anna. In 2004 she was cast in a leading role as Julie Priestly in Steel River Blues, though the programme lasted only one series. Wenham has also made one-off appearances in Life on Mars, Holby City, Wild At Heart, Heartbeat and Dead Set. Kelly provided the voice for Syrenne in the 2012 British and American releases of The Last Story on the Wii. She also appeared in the fifth series of the BBC fantasy series Merlin as Queen Mab. She starred in the 2013 film Dracula: The Dark Prince as Dracula's love interest, Alina, and in Jeremy Woodings film The Magnificent Eleven with Josh O'Connor, Joseph Millson, Robert Vaughn und Sean Pertwee. She also created and portrayed Clare Fist, an ambitious, but seemingly dimwitted journalist and social commentator in her online series Clare Fist's London, which aired on YouTube from 2 June 2015 to 6 September 2015. In 2017 Kelly starred alongside Danny Morgan, Michael Socha and Georgia Groome in Double Date, a British horror comedy She also starred in Abigail Blackmores film Tales from the Lodge in 2019 with Mackenzie Crook, Dustin Demri-Burns, Laura Fraser, Sophie Thompson and Johnny Vegas. In 2020 she played a small guest role in the Ben Whishaw thriller Surge by Oscar winner Aneil Karia.
TV Credits
Life on Mars
Character: Joni
A detective chief inspector from 2006 is investigating a serial killer when he is knocked over by a speeding car. Waking up, he finds himself mysteriously transported back in time to 1973. Initially struggling to come to terms with his situation, he has to come to terms with the old-fashioned technology and attitude of the day, while figuring out how he came to be trapped in the past....
The Royal
Character: Anna
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles....
Entitled
Character: Elizabeth
Gabe, an American widower, must get to know his British wife's estranged family in their crumbling gothic mansion in the English countryside. They compete for his affections - and his newly inherited fortune....
Heartbeat
Character: Diana Hill
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines....
Steel River Blues
Character: Probationary Firefighter Julie Priestley
Steel River Blues is a British television drama serial first broadcast in September 2004 on ITV. based on the working and private lives of a group of firefighters in Middlesbrough. Critics were quick to dub the new drama "Middlesbrough's Burning" or "Teesside's Burning", after the popular fire-fighting drama that preceded it, London's Burning, yet there were very few similarities between the two, apart from them being about the business of firefighting. Like its predecessor, Steel River Blues w...
Merlin
Character: Queen Mab
The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot....
Dead Set
Character: Chloe
Zombies are rampaging throughout Britain. Blissfully unaware of gory events outside, the Big Brother housemates are in for the ultimate eviction night......
Always and Everyone
Character: Tamara
Always and Everyone was a British television drama that ran from 1999 to 2002. It dramatised the hectic everyday lives of the doctors and nurses running the Accident and Emergency department of the large, busy city hospital, St. Victor's. The series has never been released commercially on VHS or DVD....
Movie Credits
A Kind of Kidnapping
Character: Maggie
A young, broke couple kidnap a sleazy politician who decides he can spin the story to his own advantage....
Dracula: The Dark Prince
Character: Alina / Erzebet
In his search for the Lightbringer, Dracula crosses paths with a beautiful crusader named Alina who bears a remarkable resemblance to his murdered bride. One look at her and Dracula is immediately smitten. Could Alina be the reincarnation of his long-dead love? Dracula has Alina kidnapped and brought to his castle where the Beast must now try to win his Beauty's heart....
Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge
Character: Rhona Anders
A young man, Kazuya Mishima, wakes up alone in an unfamiliar hotel room without any recollection of who he is or how he got there. He is tormented by flashes of his past and by the face of an ominous stranger. The next thing he knows, Kazuya is ambushed and kidnapped by an underground crime organization and, soon after, turned into a ruthless assassin. During a mission to assassinate a man named Brian Fury, Kazuya finds that his target harbors clues to his true identity. With the help of Fury a...
Surge
Character: Ellie
A man goes on a bold and reckless journey of self-liberation through London. After he robs a bank he releases a wilder version of himself, ultimately experiencing what it feels like to be alive....
Double Date
Character: Kitty
Meet innocent Jim, terrified of girls, and on a reluctant quest to prove his manhood the night before he turns 30. He and his cocky friend Alex think they’ve hit the jackpot when they meet the beautiful siblings Kitty and Lulu, who seem up for anything on a wild party-fuelled night. But little do they know that the femmes fatales want to make Jim lose much more than just his virginity… Getting laid has never been so bloody difficult....
Darkness Comes
Character: Suze
When Eddie Bowen hooks up with the sexually aggressive Suze Phillips he thinks it's his lucky night. It's not. He's drugged and trapped within a specially-prepared room. So begins an ordeal that threatens to break not just his body but also his mind. The psychotic Suze uses Eddie's flesh and blood to carry out a ritual that changes the very room itself. The light is dying and the darkness is coming alive. There's something in the shadows, something that's coming for Eddie. Can he escape in time?...
Tales from the Lodge
Character: Miki
Tales From The Lodge is a fresh take on the portmanteau horror-comedy genre. An isolated lodge somewhere in England. Five old university pals, now nudging 40, gather for a weekend to scatter the ashes of their friend, Jonesy, who drowned himself in the lake three years earlier. They settle in for a fun evening, entertaining each other with stories of murders, ghosts, zombies and possessions, but as day turns to night, the gang become aware of another horror story unfolding around them - And this...