Joy Winstanley Shelton (3 June 1922 – 28 January 2000) was an English actress who performed in films, radio and television.

[3] She appeared in a number of British films in the 1940s and '50s, including two by Sidney Gilliat: Millions Like Us (1943), which traced the wartime life of an ordinary London family, and Waterloo Road (1945), in which she was fought over by John Mills and Stewart Granger.

Shelton was a radio personality and played the part of Joan Carr in The Adventures of PC 49 for the BBC.

In 1944, Shelton married the actor Sydney Tafler;[4] the couple's marriage lasted until he died in 1979 and they had three children, Jennifer, Jeremy and Jonathan.

Jennifer Tafler acted as a child and appeared with both her parents in the film Emergency Call (1952), directed by Shelton's brother-in-law, Lewis Gilbert.