Kay Mellor
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Kay Mellor (born 1950 in Leeds, Yorkshire, UK) is a British actress and scriptwriter, best known for her work on several successful television drama series.
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 Granada's 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 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) and Fat Friends (2000) for ITV and the women's football-based Playing the Field 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).
She still lives in Leeds and has been married to her husband Anthony since 1967. She has two daughters, the actress Gaynor Faye and television producer Yvonne Mellor.