Kate McGregor is an English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 actress best known for her role as shop keeper Emily Kirk

Emily Kirk

Emily Kirk was a fictional character in ITV Soap opera Emmerdale. She was played by Kate McGregor....

 in ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

's Emmerdale

Emmerdale

Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...

. She played the role from 1999–2005, at which point she took maternity leave and returned to the show in October 2006.

She left Emmerdale on 7 December 2007 after eight years with the show. However, she returned recently for a storyline involving Jonny

Jonny Foster

Jonathan "Jonny" Foster is a fictional character in the British soap opera Emmerdale played by Richard Grieve. He appeared from 2007 to 2008 and in 2009...

 and Paul

Paul Lambert (Emmerdale)

Paul Lambert is a fictional character in the British soap opera Emmerdale played by Mathew Bose. Paul appeared between 2004 and 2009. He arrives as the son of existing characters Val Lambert and Rodney Blackstock and in 2008 Paul, who is openly gay, enters into a civil partnership with Jonny...

's civil partnership.

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