Jennifer Ellison (born May 30, 1983) is an English glamour model, who has also been an actress, a singer and a dancer. Ellison, who was born in Liverpool, is perhaps best known for playing Emily Shadwick in the television soap opera Brookside until 2003, though since then her regular photoshoots in men's magazines have kept her in the public eye.
Ellison's acting career started in 1998 with her role as Emily Shadwick O'Leary on the British soap opera, Brookside. Her stay in Brookside ended in 2003. The same year Ellison ventured into film, where she played Meg Giry, Christine Daae's friend and Madame Giry's daughter, in Joel Schumacher's adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera. Ellison has also recently appeared in an episode of the ITV legal drama The Brief. In 2007 she will appear in episodes of the British television shows New street law and Hotel Babylon.
It was announced in 2005, that Ellison was to act in the lead role in the horror film "The Cottage", Ellison was also cast as Cleopatra in a contemporary film version of the Caesar and Cleopatra story.
Ellison is currently featured in Maxim magazine's Girls of Maxim gallery
Since the age of three years old, Ellison has trained as a dancer. Her achievements in the field included world titles as well as winning the National Ballet and Modern Dance Championships two years running in 1996 and 1997. She also trained with the Royal Ballet School until she was sixteen.
Also flirted with a pop rock[1] career. Her first hit single was Baby I Don't Care, released in June 2003, which reached number six in the charts. The song was originally released by Transvision Vamp in 1989. The following year in July, after being brought back into the public eye after winning Hell's Kitchen, Ellison released her second single, Bye Bye Boy, which reached number 13 in the UK charts.
In 2004 Ellison appeared on the reality television show Hell's Kitchen, which she went on to win. In spring 2007 she will appear in the BBC reality TV show 'The Verdict', based on a fictional courtroom, alongside the likes of Jeffery Archer and Sara Payne.
