Shirley Bellinger is a fictional character played by Kathryn Erbe in the HBO series Oz.
The character first appeared in the related book OZ: Behind These Walls: The Journal of Augustus Hill.
While she keeps mostly to herself and has a shy, charming demeanor, she shows some signs of psychological instability; shortly after her arrival, she exposes herself to fellow prisoner Timmy Kirk and prostitutes herself to inmates and guards alike in return for preferential treatment.
Bellinger arrives on Death Row and comments on how "comfortable" her new home is to Warden Glynn.
Father Mukada visits Bellinger on Death Row in an effort to see her state of mind.
When her pen pal turns out to be fellow inmate Simon Adebisi, who exposes himself to her and demands fellatio, she rejects him because he is Black, sending him off with a racial slur.
As prison psychologist "Sister Pete" Reimondo examines her, Bellinger tells the nun why she killed her daughter: she saw "orbs of fire" surrounding her and even saw a plate levitate.
Furious, Bellinger tells Reimondo that the nun betrayed her and demands an abortion, or she will kill "this monster inside of me".
As her execution date nears, Bellinger's ex-husband, Zeke, visits her and offers forgiveness.
She talks to Moses Deyell and Ginzburg one last time, telling them she woke up with a crick in her neck and her final meal was a SlimFast milkshake.
As Warden Leo Glynn and Father Ray Mukada arrive, she tells Glynn that Lopresti comes into her cell every night and has sex with her (which Lopresti denies) and tells Mukada that the father of her child is Satan in the form of a man.
As she is led to the gallows, however, her survival instinct kicks in, and she violently resists her guards, begging not to be hanged.