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English actress

Date of Birth: 11 May 1951
Age at the time of death: 71 years old
Date death 15 May 2022
In the rating: #78 Actress

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Kay Mellor was an English actress, scriptwriter, producer and director. She was known for creating television series such as Band of Gold (ITV, 1995–97), Fat Friends (ITV, 2000–05), and The Syndicate (BBC, 2012–21), as well as co-creating CITV's children's dramas Children's Ward (1989–2000) and Just Us (1992–94).

Career

As a writer, she began working for Granada Television in the 1980s, writing for the soap opera Coronation Street. In 1989, Mellor also wrote many episodes for the Channel 4 soap Brookside.

She wrote for the anthology drama series Dramarama before co-creating the long-running children's drama Children's Ward with her Coronation Street colleague Paul Abbott in 1988. The series was awarded Best Children's Drama in the 1997 BAFTA Awards. She also created the soap opera Families which aired from 1990 until 1993, and wrote and starred in three series of the family show Just Us (1992–1994). She wrote the television drama serials Band of Gold (1995), Playing the Field (1998), Fat Friends (2000), Between the Sheets (2003), and Strictly Confidential (2006).

Commenting on the casting for Fat Friends, Mellor said she had wanted genuinely large people to play the parts, calling Ruth Jones and James Corden "the real McCoy". Mellor had seen Corden in a Tango advert and asked her casting director Beverley Keogh to find him for her because she thought he was perfect for the part.

In a parallel career as a television actress, Mellor appeared in her own adaptation of Jane Eyre (1997), and in other series and films such as the comedy drama Stan the Man (2002), A Good Thief (2002) and Gifted (2003). On stage, Kay acted in Three Girls in Blue and she wrote and starred in the one-woman show Queen at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.

In July 2006, Mellor's The Chase aired on BBC One. She wrote and directed the two-part drama A Passionate Woman which was based on her 1992 stage play and was broadcast on BBC One in April 2010. The play was inspired by her parents' marriage.

In 2012, she wrote another BBC drama, The Syndicate, which ran for four series until 2021. It was set and filmed in Leeds, Bradford, Scarborough and Monaco.

In 2013 The Syndicate was remade in the United States as Lucky 7, but was cancelled after one series.

In 2014, her BBC series In the Club was first broadcast followed by a second series in 2016. Mellor's drama series Love, Lies and Records ran on BBC One in November and December 2017, starring Rebecca Front and Ashley Jensen. Her ITV drama series Girlfriends, starring Zoë Wanamaker, Miranda Richardson and Phyllis Logan, premiered in January 2018. The fourth series of The Syndicate aired in March 2021 with a cast including Neil Morrissey, Katherine Rose Morley, Kieran Urquhart, Taj Atwal, Liberty Hobbs, Emily Head, Gaynor Faye, Kym Marsh, Katie McGlynn, Mark Benton, Lorraine Bruce, and Joe Sugg.

Mellor was awarded the BAFTA Dennis Potter Award in 1997 for Outstanding Writing for Television.

Mellor was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours and, in 2015, she was awarded the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Outstanding Contribution to Writing. In 2016, Mellor was made a Fellow of the Royal Television Society and, in February 2020, Mellor was awarded Broadcast's Special Recognition Award.

She was the subject of This Is Your Life in 2000 when she was surprised by Michael Aspel. She also appeared on the BBC's Desert Island Discs in 2017.

Outside of television, Mellor wrote screenplays for feature films such as Girls' Night starring Julie Walters, Brenda Blethyn and Kris Kristofferson, which played at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998. She both wrote and directed the feature film Fanny and Elvis starring Ray Winstone, which won the Audience Prize at the Dinard British Film Festival, and one off drama Some Kind of Life, which was BAFTA nominated for Best Single Drama in 1997.

In 2017, Mellor turned Fat Friends into a stage musical with Nick Lloyd Webber writing the music. Fat Friends The Musical toured the UK in 2017, and then again in 2022. Mellor subsequently adapted Band of Gold for the stage, which premiered in Mellor's hometown of Leeds in 2019, and toured the UK until it was shut down early due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Date of Birth 11 May 1951

Age at the time of death 71 years old

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Virgo	100%
Pisces	96%
Taurus	96%
Capricorn	92%
Scorpio	88%
Libra	88%
Cancer	84%
Aries	80%
Aquarius	76%
Sagittarius	68%
Gemini	68%
Leo	64%

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Goat	96%
Snake	96%
Pig	92%
Dog	92%
Dragon	88%
Rabbit	84%
Monkey	80%
Horse	76%
Tiger	72%
Bull	72%
Rat	68%
Rooster	40%

Slavic horoscope Elk Born under the Elk sign of the Slavic horoscope, people often combine mythic memory with practical steadiness — reading cycles early and standing firm for those they call their own.

Zodiac Compatibility	%
Fox	96%
Horse	92%
Finist	92%
Aurochs	92%
Elk	88%
Virgin	84%
Lynx	84%
Bear	84%
Eagle	80%
Stork	80%
Pike	76%
Boar	76%
Wolf	76%
Raven	76%
Serpent	64%
Swan	60%

Egyptian horoscope Anubis The Egyptian sign of Anubis reflects divine patronage and a particular season of character in the ancient calendar. People born under this deity often feel motives early and carry a recognizable moral gravity.

Zodiac Compatibility	%
Set	96%
Horus	96%
Anubis	88%
Bastet	84%
Isis	84%
Geb	80%
Sekhmet	76%
Thoth	76%
Osiris	76%
Mut	64%
Nile	64%
Amun-Ra	56%

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Hawthorn	92%
Willow	88%
Holly	84%
Oak	84%
Birch	84%
Rowan	80%
Vine	76%
Hazel	76%
Ash	76%
Elder	64%
Reed	64%
Ivy	60%

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Mesha	88%
Simha	84%
Karka	84%
Mithuna	80%
Kanya	76%
Makara	64%
Dhanu	64%
Vrishchika	60%
Tula	56%
Meena	36%
Kumbha	36%

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Chamomile	96%
Lily of the valley	96%
Hydrangea	96%
Water lily	92%
Tulip	92%
Daisy	92%
Dahlia	92%
Magnolia	92%
Foxglove	92%
Purslane	88%
Orchid	84%
Freesia	84%
Aster	84%
Carnation	84%
Wild rose	84%
Violet	84%
Lily	84%
Mimosa	84%
Immortelle	84%
Gentian	84%
Lilac	80%
Delphinium	80%
Mistletoe	80%
Camellia	76%
Heather	76%
Rose	76%
Sunflower	76%
Poppy	76%
Belladonna	76%
Thistle	76%
Edelweiss	64%
Lotus	64%
Dandelion	60%
Gladiolus	56%
Peony	56%

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Zodiac Compatibility	%
Cancer — 1st decan	96%
Gemini — 3rd decan	96%
Taurus — 1st decan	96%
Aries — 2nd decan	96%
Cancer — 2nd decan	92%
Gemini — 2nd decan	92%
Gemini — 1st decan	92%
Taurus — 2nd decan	92%
Aries — 3rd decan	92%
Aries — 1st decan	92%
Taurus — 3rd decan	88%
Libra — 2nd decan	84%
Libra — 1st decan	84%
Leo — 3rd decan	84%
Leo — 2nd decan	84%
Scorpio — 2nd decan	80%
Virgo — 3rd decan	80%
Leo — 1st decan	80%
Scorpio — 1st decan	76%
Libra — 3rd decan	76%
Virgo — 2nd decan	76%
Virgo — 1st decan	76%
Cancer — 3rd decan	76%
Pisces — 2nd decan	64%
Pisces — 1st decan	64%
Capricorn — 3rd decan	64%
Capricorn — 2nd decan	64%
Sagittarius — 1st decan	64%
Scorpio — 3rd decan	64%
Aquarius — 3rd decan	60%
Capricorn — 1st decan	60%
Aquarius — 2nd decan	56%
Aquarius — 1st decan	56%
Sagittarius — 3rd decan	56%
Sagittarius — 2nd decan	56%
Pisces — 3rd decan	36%

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