Janine Mellor is an English actress. She is best known for playing Kelsey Phillips in BBC One

BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...

's BAFTA-winning drama Casualty

Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...

. It was announced on 12 February 2009 that she was to leave the series at the end of March, along with co-star Ivana Bašić

Ivana Bašic

Ivana Bašić is a Croatian actress who starred in the BBC medical drama Casualty as Serbian paramedic Snezana Lalovic. It was announced on February 12, 2009 that she was to leave the series at the end of March, along with co-star Janine Mellor...

.

Her parents are John and Trish, and she has an older brother, Alex.

As a child Mellor was schooled at Lepton County Primary School, King James's School at Almondbury

Almondbury

Almondbury is a district 2 miles south east of Huddersfield town centre in West Yorkshire, England. The population of Almondbury in 2001 was 7,368Almondbury appears in the Domesday Book as "Almondeberie"...

 and Greenhead College

Greenhead College

Greenhead College is a former grammar school and current sixth form college located in Huddersfield, in the English county of West Yorkshire. The current principal is Martin Rostron....

. Mellor also danced with the Kirkheaton-based Clare Doosey School of Dance. She studied at Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

 and graduated from there with an honours degree in acting.

Mellor's TV credits include Citizenship,"South Riding

South Riding

South Riding has several meanings:*South Riding , a book from 1936 by Winifred Holtby, featuring a fictional South Riding of Yorkshire*South Riding , a film from 1938 based on the novel...

" and Fat Friends

Fat Friends

Fat Friends is an ITV drama , following a group of overweight people, their laughter and pain and addresses the absurdities of dieting in our modern age. The drama looks at people and how they relate to one another and use body weight as an excuse for all sorts of failings in their relationships,...

. Her theatre credits include: The Seagull

The Seagull

The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896...

, Dancing at Lughnasa

Dancing at Lughnasa

Dancing at Lughnasa is a 1990 play by dramatist Brian Friel set in Ireland's County Donegal in August 1936 in the fictional town of Ballybeg. It is a memory play told from the point of view of the adult Michael Evans, the narrator...

, Cider with Rose, The Censor, Into the Woods

Into the Woods

Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It debuted in San Diego at the Old Globe Theatre in 1986, and premiered on Broadway in 1987. Bernadette Peters' performance as the Witch and Joanna Gleason's portrayal of the Baker's Wife brought acclaim...

, and Spoonface Steinberg.

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