Career
Shankley is known for her role as the young Alice Liddell in the film Dreamchild (1985), from a script by Dennis Potter, and Sara Crewe in the LWT version of A Little Princess (1986), based upon the novel, A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Shankley also portrayed Viki Lovejoy in seasons two and three of the television series Lovejoy.