Background
Kay Daniel was born in Leeds to a Catholic father and a Jewish mother.
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Kay Mellor
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She attended Bretton Hall College (now part of the University of Leeds) and graduated in 1983.
Career
She still lives in Leeds. She has been married to Anthony Mellor since 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 Independent Television network.
In 1989 Mellor also wrote seven episodes for the popular Channel 4 soap Brookside. 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 British Broadcasting Corporation One, Fat Friends (2000), Between the Sheets (2003) and Strictly Confidential (2006) for Independent 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 Manitoba (2002) and in Gifted (2003).
In July 2006 another of her dramas aired on British Broadcasting Corporation One, called The Chase.
She both wrote and directed the two-part drama A Passionate Woman, which was based on her 1992 stage play, on British Broadcasting Corporation One in April 2010. In 2012 she wrote another British Broadcasting Corporation drama, The Syndicate. This returned for a second series in 2013 and a third series is due to air in 2015.
Mellor was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.
In 2013, she wrote In The Club.
