Kay Mellor was an English actress, scriptwriter, and director. She was famous for her work on TV shows like ITV British drama Fat Friends, as well as co-creating the CITV’s British children’s drama Children’s Ward.
As a writer, she started working for Granada Television in the 1980s and wrote for the soap show Coronation Street. In the year 1989, Mellor also wrote several episodes for the Channel 4 soap Brookside.
She wrote for the anthology drama series Dramarama before co-creating the long-running children’s show Children’s Ward with her Coronation Street colleague Paul Abbott in 1988.
The series won Best Children’s Drama in the 1997 BAFTA Awards. She also co-created the soap opera Families, which ran from 1990 until 1993, and wrote and starred in three series of the family show Just Us (1990-1994).
She wrote for the television drama serials including Band of Gold (1995); Playing the Field (1998) for BBC One; Fat Friends (2000); Between the Sheets (2003) and Strictly Confidential (2006) for ITV.
Born on May 11, 1951, in Leeds, United Kingdom, Kay died on May 15, 2022, at the age of 71.
Who Is Kay Mellor’s Daughter Gaynor Faye?
Kay Mrllor’s daughter, Gaynor Kay Mellor, better known as Gaynor Faye, is an English actress and writer.
She is best known for playing Judy Mallett in Coronation Street from 1995 until 1999 and Megan Macey in Emmerdale from 2012 until 2019.
Faye has played the roles of Holly Quinn in Playing the Field; Lauren Harris in Fat Friends; Georgia Lovett in Between the Sheets and Julie in Stan the Man. She has also written two episodes of Fat Friends.
Faye appeared in ITV’s Dancing on Ice in 2006. Her skating partner was Daniel Whiston. She was crowned the inaugural Dancing on Ice champion on March 4, 2006.
From 2006 to 2007, Faye starred as Anna Williams Bedford in The Chase, a television series co-written with her mother for BBC One.
She has also brought out a video based on the exercise routine she followed during Dancing on Ice.
Faye appeared in the stage adaptation of Calendar Girls alongside Lynda Bellingham at London’s Noël Coward Theatre in 2009. This was written by Juliette Towhidi and Tim Firth.
In March 2021, Faye appeared in the BBC One drama The Syndicate as Cheryl Armitage.
Faye is currently 50 years and will be 51 on August 26, 2022. She was born on August 26, 1971, in Leeds, United Kingdom.
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