Biography
Shelley Thompson is a Canadian actress best known for her character Barbara Lahey on the hit Canadian mockumentary program Trailer Park Boys. Born in Calgary, Alberta, Shelley trained at RADA in London, and worked for many years in the UK.
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Paper
2024
as Michelle
Follow interweaving stories about the vicious cycle of debt and desperation: a widow who has fallen behind on life’s expenses, a professional debt col...

To the Moon
2024
as Janet
An ensemble comedy about love, choreographed dance, kitchen safety, stranger danger, planetary physics, and the idea that it’s never too late in life ...

Christmas Island
2023
as Donna Leblanc
When a snowstorm diverts Kate's first private flight bound for Switzerland, to Christmas Island in Nova Scotia, she must team up with an air traffic c...

The Good House
2022
as Nancy
Hildy Good, a wry New England realtor and descendant of the Salem witches who loves her wine and loves her secrets. Her compartmentalized life starts ...

Halloween Party
2020
as Dr. Barbara Macail
A college student unwittingly releases terrifying entities from her school's past via a Halloween-themed computer meme.

I Am Syd Stone
2020
as Marsha
While shooting a film in a small town, a famous actor puts his personal life and career in jeopardy by starting an intense affair with another man.

Disco Apocalypse
2020
Inspired by her late son, a mother attempts to come out to her two grown daughters, with unexpected results.

Splinters
2018
as Nancy
Thom Fitzgerald explores interconnections of sexual identity, family, and small-town Nova Scotia life in this intimate drama about a young woman reass...

Season for Love
2018
as Jo Dawson
When a talented chef returns to her Texas hometown, she winds up entering the town's famous BBQ cook off and gets more than she bargained for when the...

The Child Remains
2017
as Monica
An expectant couple's intimate weekend turns to terror as they discover their secluded country inn is a haunted maternity home where infants and mothe...

Bunker 6
2013
as Mary
In an alternate timeline where the atomic bombs go off in 1962, young Grace enters a whole new sheltered existence. 10 years later, the nuclear bunker...

There Are Monsters
2013
as Lynn
A crew of student filmmakers embark on a road trip when they discover odd events and people acting strangely around them. Soon, they realise that sini...

Trailer Park Boys: Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys
2008
as Barb Lahey
"Say goodnight to the bad guys" picks up where "A Sh*t river runs through it" left off. it's a year after the events of A.S.R.R.T.I and Ricky, Julian,...

Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
2006
as Barb Lahey
The boys get arrested for robbing an ATM machine and spend 18 months in jail, upon release they decide to pull off "The Big Dirty", a plan to steal a ...

More Sex & the Single Mom
2005
as Alycia
Single, divorced lawyer Jess Gradwell returns in this sequel as she tries to raise her new three-year-old son, Jake, while dealing with her teenage da...

Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111
2000
as Wilma Vandervelt
A sensitive and realistic portrayal of the families' grief after the devastating crash of Swissair flight 111, in which all 229 passengers and crew we...

When Innocence Is Lost
1997
as Diane
When Erica French opts to keep the baby she conceived in high school, she never dreamed that one day she would be fighting for custody against the chi...

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
1993
as (voice)
Captain New Eyes travels back in time and feeds dinosaurs his Brain Grain cereal, which makes them intelligent and non-violent. They agree to go to th...

Just Like a Woman
1992
as Eleanor Tilson
Gerald is a smart, young, high-flying American banker. Everything is great until his wife finds another woman's underwear in their bedroom and subsequ...

Labyrinth
1986
as Stepmother
When Sarah is forced to babysit her half-brother Toby, she inadvertently summons the Goblin King and he whisks Toby away to his castle at the centre o...

The Holcroft Covenant
1985
as Executive Secretary
A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past—but his son has to search the world to find it.

Morons from Outer Space
1985
as Nurse Purse
The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. Dur...