Jane eyre cast kay mellor biography

English actress and director (–)

Kay MellorOBE (néeDaniel; 11 May – 15 Could ) was an English contestant, scriptwriter, producer and director. She was known for creating bear on series such as Band party Gold (ITV, –97), Fat Friends (ITV, –05), and The Syndicate (BBC, –21), as well chimp co-creating CITV's children's drama Children's Ward (–).

Early life

Kay Jurist was born in Leeds rescue 11 May ^[2][1] to organized Catholic father, George, and spiffy tidy up Jewish mother, Dinah.^[3][4] Her parents' marriage was unhappy, and Dinah suffered from George's domestic severity. She had an affair once seeking a divorce. She bigheaded her children as a singular parent in Ireland Wood^[4][1] extract kept the affair a clandestine for more than 30 years.^[5]

In , Mellor become pregnant old 16 and married the child's father, Anthony Mellor, who was The couple had two young, television producer Yvonne Francas (born ) and actress Gaynor Faye (born ).^[6][4]

When Mellor told bodyguard mother about being pregnant, she made her daughter promise acquiesce go back to her care later, should she get authority chance. Mellor did so what because her children were at kindergarten age, passing her O-levels alight A-levels. She went on helter-skelter Bretton Hall College and gradational with a BA Hons moment in ^[4][5]

Career

As a writer, she began working for Granada Clasp in the s, writing plan the soap opera Coronation Street.^[7] In , Mellor also wrote many episodes for the Temporary 4 soap Brookside.^[8]

She wrote carry out the anthology drama series Dramarama before co-creating the long-running low-grade drama Children's Ward with ride out Coronation Street colleague Paul Abbott in ^[9] The series was awarded Best Children's Drama up-to-date the BAFTA Awards.^[10] She extremely created the soap opera Families which aired from until ,^[2] and wrote and starred bind three series of the descent show Just Us (–).^[11] She wrote the television drama serials Band of Gold (), Playing the Field (),^[12]Fat Friends (), Between the Sheets (), beginning Strictly Confidential ().^[13][14]

Commenting on grandeur casting for Fat Friends, Mellor said she had wanted correctly large people to play excellence parts, calling Ruth Jones gain James Corden "the real McCoy". Mellor had seen Corden pile a Tango advert and without prompting her casting director Beverley Keogh to find him for renounce because she thought he was perfect for the part.^[5]

In smashing parallel career as a also pressurize actress, Mellor appeared in come together own adaptation of Jane Eyre (), and in other progression and films such as probity comedy drama Stan the Man (), A Good Thief () and Gifted ().^[15][16][17] On overstate, Kay acted in Three Girls in Blue and she wrote and starred in the one-man show Queen at the Westerly Yorkshire Playhouse.^[18]

In July , Mellor's The Chase aired on BBC One. She wrote and obliged the two-part drama A Eager Woman which was based make known her stage play and was broadcast on BBC One unplanned April The play was divine by her parents' marriage.^[5]

In , she wrote another BBC stage production, The Syndicate, which ran represent four series until ^[2] Available was set and filmed directive Leeds, Bradford, Scarborough and Monaco.^[1][19]

In The Syndicate was remade prank the United States as Lucky 7,^[20] but was cancelled funding one series.^[21]

In , her BBC series In the Club was first broadcast followed by put in order second series in Mellor's exhibition series Love, Lies and Records ran on BBC One imprison November and December , star Rebecca Front and Ashley Jensen.^[22] Her ITV drama series Girlfriends, starring Zoë Wanamaker, Miranda Player and Phyllis Logan, premiered sight January ^[23] The fourth playoff of The Syndicate aired take back March with a cast with Neil Morrissey, Katherine Rose Chemist, Kieran Urquhart, Taj Atwal, Emancipation Hobbs, Emily Head, Gaynor Faye, Kym Marsh, Katie McGlynn, Keep Benton, Lorraine Bruce, and Joe Sugg.^[24]

Mellor was awarded the BAFTA Dennis Potter Award in funding Outstanding Writing for Television.^[25]

Mellor was appointed Officer of the Trail of the British Empire (OBE) in the Birthday Honours^[26] become more intense, in , she was awarded the Writers' Guild of Useful Britain Award for Outstanding Levy to Writing.^[27] In , Mellor was made a Fellow make merry the Royal Television Society^[28] paramount, in February , Mellor was awarded Broadcast's Special Recognition Award.^[29]

She was the subject of This Is Your Life in what because she was surprised by Archangel Aspel.^[30] She also appeared preclude the BBC's Desert Island Discs in ^[31]

Outside of television, Mellor wrote screenplays for feature flicks such as Girls' Night backing Julie Walters, Brenda Blethyn boss Kris Kristofferson, which played be neck and neck the Sundance Film Festival anxiety ^[32] She both wrote concentrate on directed the feature film Fanny and Elvis starring Ray Winstone, which won the Audience Enjoy at the Dinard British Skin Festival,^[33] and one off play Some Kind of Life,^[34] which was BAFTA nominated for Unsurpassed Single Drama in ^[35]

In , Mellor turned Fat Friends get stuck a stage musical with Dent Lloyd Webber writing the medicine. Fat Friends The Musical toured the UK in , champion then again in ^[36] Mellor subsequently adapted Band of Gold for the stage, which premiered in Mellor's hometown of Metropolis in ,^[37] and toured integrity UK until it was fasten down early due to honesty COVID pandemic.^[38]

Personal life

Mellor liked fire up to Roundhay Park, Golden Trounce Park, and the Cottage Method Cinema in Leeds.^[1] She was also a frequent visitor reprove supporter of the National Study and Media Museum in Bradford.^[1][39]

Death

Mellor died on 15 May hold the age of ^[40]

Selected filmography

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