---
name: "Kay Mellor"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kay-mellor"
fi1m_id: "kay-mellor"
imdb_id: "nm0578117"
tmdb_id: 135418
wikidata_id: "Q6380244"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "11 May 1951"
died: "15 May 2022"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T13:02:57.028949+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Kay Mellor

## Identity

Kay Mellor

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kay-mellor
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kay-mellor
- **IMDb ID:** nm0578117
- **TMDB ID:** 135418
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6380244
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Mellor, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6380244, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0578117/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/135418

Writer. Born 11 May 1951 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. Died 15 May 2022.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 11 May 1951, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
- **Died:** 15 May 2022
- **Active:** 1995–2000
- **Frequently works with:** Gaynor Faye
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Mellor, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6380244, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0578117/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/135418

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Band of Gold*](https://film.one/tv/band-of-gold.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Kay Mellor was an English writer, director, producer and occasional actress. Born in Leeds, she began her television career writing episodes for Coronation Street and Brookside before co-creating the children's drama Children's Ward.

She created and wrote the ITV series Band of Gold (1995–97), a drama about sex workers in Bradford. Her other notable series include Fat Friends (2000–05), Playing the Field (1998–2002) and The Syndicate (2012–21). She received the BAFTA Dennis Potter Award for outstanding writing for television in 1998 and was appointed OBE for services to drama in 2009.

Mellor also adapted several of her series for the stage, including Fat Friends and Band of Gold. She died in 2022.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Band of Gold* (1995), Fi1m 72, Writer, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/band-of-gold.md)

## Complete filmography (21)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *My Left Nut* (2020), series, Executive Producer
- *In the Club* (2014), series, Writer, Director, Creator
- *The Syndicate* (2012), series, Writer, Creator
- *A Passionate Woman* (2010), series, Director, Writer
- *Strictly Confidential* (2006), series, Creator
- *The Chase* (2006), series, Producer, Creator
- *Between The Sheets* (2003), series, Writer, Creator
- *Gifted* (2003), Writer
- *A Good Thief* (2002), as Rita Pickering · Writer
- *Fat Friends* (2000), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *Fanny & Elvis* (1999), Director, Writer
- *Girls' Night* (1998), Writer
- *Playing the Field* (1998), series, Creator
- *Jane Eyre* (1997), as Mrs Cooper · Writer
- *Some Kind of Life* (1995), Writer
- *Band of Gold* (1995), series, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/band-of-gold.md)
- *Just Us* (1992), series, as Jenny Holdsworth · Creator
- *Families* (1990), series, Creator
- *Children's Ward* (1989), series, Creator
- *Dramarama* (1983), series, Writer
- *All Creatures Great and Small* (1978), series, as Mrs Butterworth

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- honorary doctorate 2010: honorary doctorate (won)
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire 2009: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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