Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Paterson spent three years as a quantity surveyor's apprentice,before attending the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.He made his professional acting debut in 1967, appearing alongside Leonard Rossiter in Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre. In 1970, Paterson joined the Citizen's Theatre for Youth. He remained there as an actor and assistant director until 1972, when he left to appear with Billy Connolly in The Great Northern Welly Boot Show at the Edinburgh Festival. Paterson would work with Connolly again, some years later, when he performed in Connolly's play An Me Wi' a Bad Leg Tae.

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Date of Birth 21 September 1976, London, England, UK

Height 5' 5" (1.65 m)

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Shelley Conn was born on September 21, 1976 in London, England. She is an actress, known for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), How Do You Know (2010) and Nina's Heavenly Delights (2006).

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Trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

Is of Sri Lankan descent.

She is distantly related to actress Merle Oberon.

She studied Drama at Queen Mary's College in Basingstoke.

She attended her Secondary education at Cranbourne Secondary School in Basingstoke.

She was also Head Girl of her year.