Biography: ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Jennifer Lesley Ellison (born 30 May 1983, Liverpool, England) is an English actress, glamour model, television personality, dancer and singer. Ellison is perhaps best known for playing Emily Shadwick in the television soap opera Brookside until 2003, and as Meg Giry in the 2004 film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jennifer Ellison, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.