Jennifer Ellison was born on 30 May 1983 is an English actress, television personality, glamour model, singer and dancer. Ellison, was born in Liverpool, is perhaps best known for playing Emily Shadwick in the television soap opera Brookside until 2003 and recently made appearances in many different television shows, and as Meg Giry in the 2004 film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera. She is a former girlfriend of Steven Gerrard, the Liverpool and England footballer