Kay Mellor

Kay Mellor, OBE (born 11 May 1951 as Kay Daniel) is an English actress, scriptwriter, and director best known for her work on several successful television drama series.

Kay Daniel was born in Leeds to a Catholic father, George, and a Jewish mother, Dinah. She has one older brother, Robert. Her parents divorced when she was young and she was brought by her mother.

She attended Bretton Hall College (now part of the University of Leeds) and graduated in 1983. She still resides in Leeds with her husband Anthony Mellor, who she married in 1967. The couple has two daughters: actress Gaynor Faye and television producer Yvonne Francas.

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. In 1989 Mellor also wrote seven episodes for the popular Channel 4 soap Brookside.

She also wrote for the anthology 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), Playing the Field (1998) for BBC One, Fat Friends (2000), Between the Sheets (2003) and Strictly Confidential (2006) for ITV.

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