Shirl Conway (born Shirley Elizabeth Crosman, June 13, 1916 – May 7, 2007) was an American television and Broadway actress.

[1] A great-niece of actress Henrietta Crosman, Conway graduated from the University of Michigan in 1938 with a bachelor's degree in speech therapy.

[3] She played Ruth Winters in the 1955 musical comedy Plain and Fancy on Broadway, for which she won a Theatre World Award.

She also appeared on Broadway in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [4] and toured in Auntie Mame,[1] including performances in the capital cities of Australia.

[5] She played the role of Liz Thorpe in the CBS drama The Nurses[6]: 776  (which ran from 1962 to 1965) for which she was nominated for an Emmy award in 1963 for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Series.