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name: "Shirlie Holliman"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/shirlie-kemp"
fi1m_id: "shirlie-kemp"
imdb_id: "nm2968187"
tmdb_id: 3845804
wikidata_id: "Q7498894"
roles: []
born: "18 April 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T03:24:10.782395+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Shirlie Holliman

## Identity

Shirlie Holliman

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/shirlie-kemp
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** shirlie-kemp
- **IMDb ID:** nm2968187
- **TMDB ID:** 3845804
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7498894
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirlie_Holliman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7498894, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2968187/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3845804

Actor. Born 18 April 1962 in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Born:** 18 April 1962, Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- **Also known as:** Shirlie Kemp, シャーリー・ホリマン, Shirlie
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirlie_Holliman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7498894, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2968187/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3845804

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*WHAM!*](https://film.one/film/wham.md) (75)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Shirlie Holliman, also known as Shirlie Kemp, is an English singer and actress. Born on 18 April 1962 in Bushey, Hertfordshire, she began her career as a backing singer and dancer for the pop duo Wham! in the early 1980s.

After Wham! disbanded in 1986, she formed the duo Pepsi & Shirlie with Helen DeMacque. The pair achieved UK chart success with singles including "Heartache" (1986) and "Goodbye Stranger" (1987). Holliman has made occasional acting appearances, including as a teacher in the 2008 short film *Karma Magnet*, and featured in archive footage in the 2023 documentary *WHAM!*. She has been married to musician and actor Martin Kemp since 1988.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, retropopmagazine.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *WHAM!* (2023), Fi1m 75, as Self (archive footage) — [page](https://film.one/film/wham.md)

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