Paula Forrest (born 14 July, c. 1965) an

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actress, best known for playing the role of Shelley Sutherland on the long-running Australian soap opera ''

Home and Away ''Home and Away'' (''H&A'') is an Australian television soap opera. It was created by Alan Bateman and commenced broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. Bateman came up with the concept of the show during a trip to Kangaroo Point, N ...

'' In ''Home and Away'' (1988), Forrest played the part of Shelley who was the wife of Rhys, played by Michael Beckley and mother to Dani, played by

Tammin Sursok Tammin Sursok (born 19 August 1983) is an Australian and American actress. She is best known for her roles on television as Dani Sutherland on ''Home and Away'', Colleen Carlton on ''The Young and the Restless'', and Jenna Marshall on ''Prett ...

, Jade, played by Kate Garven and Kirsty, played by

Christie Hayes Christie Ayrna Lynne Hayes is an Australian actress, known for her work on the television series ''Home and Away'' as Kirsty Phillips (née Sutherland) who she played from June 2000 to February 2005, and again from May 2008 to October 2009. Si ...

who lived in the Caravan Park and worked as a social worker. Shelley was a loveable character who fought long and hard for her family and friends alike. Until late 2002 when her world was torn apart by the discovery of her husband's affair and later on in 2003 the fact that Jade was not her real daughter and had in fact been switched at birth. Paula featured in a Home and Away special, called Home and Away: Secrets and the City. Her character made a brief return to Home and Away in 2009.Farewell Kirsty
Note : Paula Forrest is the patronym of the novel The Little Lady of the Big House, by

Jack London John Griffith London (; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors t ...

(1916).

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* Living people Australian soap opera actresses 1965 births {{Australia-tv-actor-stub