Kay Mellor
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Kay Mellor (born 1951) is an English actress, scriptwriter, and director best known for her work on several successful television drama series.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
Mellor was born in Leeds, Yorkshire to a Catholic father and a Jewish mother.[1] She attended Bretton Hall College at the University of Leeds and graduated in 1983. She still lives in Leeds and has been married to her husband Anthony since 1967. She has two daughters: actress Gaynor Faye and television producer Yvonne Francas.
[edit] Career
As a writer, she began working for Granada Television in the 1980s, writing for their hugely popular soap opera Coronation Street, the most watched programme on the ITV network. She also wrote for the antholgy drama series Dramarama, before in 1988 co-creating the long-running children's drama Children's Ward with her Coronation Street colleague Paul Abbott. She also created the soap opera Families, which aired from 1990 until 1993.
Since then she has written a host of highly-acclaimed and popular television drama serials, including Band of Gold (1995), Fat Friends (2000), Between the Sheets (2003) and Strictly Confidential (2006) for ITV; and the women's football-based Playing the Field (1998) for BBC One.
Outside of television, in 1999 she both wrote and directed the feature film Fanny and Elvis, starring Ray Winstone.
In her parallel career as a television actress, Mellor has appeared in her own adaptation of Jane Eyre (1997) and in other series such as the comedy drama Stan the Man (2002) and in Gifted (2003).
In July 2006 another of her dramas aired on BBC One, called The Chase, another programme in which her daughter, actress Gaynor Faye, has starred. Gaynor had previously starred in Fat Friends and Playing The Field.
[edit] Charity Work
Because of her own experience Kay believes so strongly in the usefulness of marriage guidance that she is now president of the charity Relate Leeds.
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